Journal
APPLIED ACOUSTICS
Volume 175, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2020.107846
Keywords
Open-plan office; Measurement uncertainty; Reproducibility; Repeatability; Room acoustics; Round robin test
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- Academy of Finland [314788]
- Turku University of Applied Sciences Ltd.
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [314788, 314788] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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This study aimed to evaluate the precision of ISO 3382-2 and ISO 3382-3 in open-plan offices, with results showing that the measurement uncertainty of ISO CD 3382-3:2020 is smaller than that of ISO 3382-3:2012. The experiments revealed reproducibility standard deviations for ISO 3382-3:2012 ranging from 0.5 dB to 18%, while for ISO CD 3382-3:2020, the standard deviations ranged from 0.3 dB to 16%.
International standards ISO 3382-2 and ISO 3382-3 are increasingly applied to determine the room acoustic conditions in open-plan offices because attention to noise control in such workplaces has increased. The precision of those standards in open-plan offices has not been published. The purpose of this study was to determine the precision of ISO 3382-2:2008 and ISO 3382-3:2012 in an open-plan office following the instructions of ISO 5725 standard. Furthermore, the results were analyzed in the light of ISO CD 3382-3:2020 involving improvements related to uncertainty. An accuracy experiment (a.k.a Round-Robin test, inter-laboratory test, intercomparison test) was arranged where nine independent participants conducted the measurements in the same open-plan office. For ISO 3382-3:2012, the reproducibility standard deviations were 0.5 dB, 1.3 dB, 1.3 dB, and 18% for spatial decay rate of speech (D-2,D-S), A-weighted SPL of speech at 4 m distance (L-p,(A, S,4m)), A-weighted SPL of background noise (L-p,L-A,L-B), and distraction distance (r(D)). The corresponding values for ISO CD 3382-3:2020 were 0.3 dB, 1.1 dB, 0.6 dB, and 16%, respectively. The reproducibility standard deviations for reverberation time were 4.5-16% within 1/1-octave bands 125-8000 Hz. The measurement uncertainty of ISO CD 3382-3:2020 is smaller than that of ISO 3382-3:2012. The values depended mainly on between-laboratory differences while within-laboratory differences had only a marginal impact. The results can be used in the development of the standards. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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