Abstract
The behaviour of a person walking as a source of impact sound or walking sound is not yet fully
understood. Especially for lightweight structures the coupling between the human body and the floor
will determine the power flow into the floor, and therefore the mobility of both source and receiver
has to be considered and the contact history must be integrated in the model. This is complicated
by the fact that nonlinearities occur at different stages in the system either on the source or receiver
side. ot only lightweight structures but also soft floor coverings would benefit from an accurate model of
a person walking. In the future such a model would enable us to obtain a correct ranking between
the subjective noise caused by a person walking and the objective parameters used to measure
impact sound or walking sound.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ACOUSTICS |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
| Event | 19th International Congress on Acoustics - Madrid, Spain Duration: 2 Sept 2007 → 7 Sept 2007 Conference number: 19 |
Conference
| Conference | 19th International Congress on Acoustics |
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| Number | 19 |
| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Madrid |
| Period | 02/09/2007 → 07/09/2007 |