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A method to predict reverberation time in concert hall preliminary design stage

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dc.contributor.advisor Augenbroe, Godfried
dc.contributor.author Zhang, Yan en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Vidakovic, Brani
dc.contributor.committeeMember Kirkegaard, Larry
dc.contributor.committeeMember Xiang, Ning
dc.contributor.committeeMember Choudhary, Ruchi
dc.contributor.committeeMember Berthelot, Yves
dc.contributor.department Architecture en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2006-01-18T22:11:44Z
dc.date.available 2006-01-18T22:11:44Z
dc.date.issued 2005-10-04 en_US
dc.description.abstract A historical review is performed to study the impact of acoustical knowledge on concert hall developments. It shows that although acoustics developed from myth to real science, there is still a gap between its fast growing knowledge and relatively slow applications to improve designs. Architectural acoustics research and education shall help populating the tacit knowledge and experience of acousticians to reduce the gap between design and knowledge. The established paradigm in this field is to identify the performance goals of concert halls, recognize the available design information in different stages, and establish models to link them together. Placed in this general picture, this thesis focuses on providing design support for preliminary stage. It develops a model to link accessible design features with the most important acoustics performance index, reverberation time. A literature review on exiting reverberation time prediction methods shows that they are based on either too demanding or over-simplified for this stage. This study intends to develop a model that makes maximum use of available information and improves prediction accuracy in comparison with existing simplified methods. Through literature survey and data analysis, three factors (geometrical shape, non-uniform material distribution and scattering effect) are recognized as significant for reverberation time prediction. This thesis developed a simplified model taking these factors into consideration and calibrated this model with empirical data through Bayesian statistical method. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7452
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Bayesian method en_US
dc.subject Auditorium
dc.subject Concert hall
dc.subject Preliminary design
dc.subject Reverberation time
dc.subject.lcsh Reverberation time en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Music-halls Design and construction en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Architectural acoustics en_US
dc.title A method to predict reverberation time in concert hall preliminary design stage en_US
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dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Augenbroe, Godfried
local.contributor.corporatename College of Design
local.contributor.corporatename School of Architecture
local.relation.ispartofseries Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Architecture
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