Title:
Development and validation of a
laminate flooring system sound quality
test method
Development and validation of a
laminate flooring system sound quality
test method
dc.contributor.advisor | Cunefare, Kenneth A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, James Harris | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Qu, Jianmin | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Ryherd, Erica | |
dc.contributor.department | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-08-26T17:43:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-08-26T17:43:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-05-19 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Laminate flooring manufacturers have received negative feedback from customers on the sound quality of laminate flooring installations. Customers express a preference for the sound of traditional hardwood floors over that of laminate flooring composites. Consumers notice a difference between the sounds created by a footfall between laminate flooring and hardwood flooring. They perceive the laminate flooring sound of a footfall to be annoying and associate it to the flooring being of a lower quality. No objective test procedure exists to validate the marketing claims of the performance of these products. The objective of the work in this thesis is to develop a test method that evaluates the human perception of the sound quality of footfall noise on laminate flooring composites. | en_US |
dc.description.degree | M.S. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29660 | |
dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.subject | Impact | en_US |
dc.subject | Flooring | en_US |
dc.subject | Laminate | en_US |
dc.subject | Sound quality | en_US |
dc.subject | Psychoacoustics | en_US |
dc.subject | Acoustics | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Floor coverings Noise | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Flooring, Plastic Noise | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Auditory perception | |
dc.title | Development and validation of a laminate flooring system sound quality test method | en_US |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
local.contributor.corporatename | George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering | |
local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
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relation.isOrgUnitOfPublication | 7c022d60-21d5-497c-b552-95e489a06569 |
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