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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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