One thing to be aware of: The meter's broadband value may come from a (broadband) RMS detector, and not the summation of the 1/3-oct bands. Sometimes the RMS detector operates on a slightly broader freq.
range, which would lead to a higher level.
Make sure to check out the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown. It has fantastic presentations on a lot of medium to advanced math topic. I find it really worthwhile!
Adding to GregLocock's comment, I suggest reading this nice paper by B&K, which compares different methods:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bksv.com/doc/bv0044.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwj9yLj2hMHjAhUBPVAKHY0pAF4QFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3B8rY8z8pzzN3uDnV-vxUD
I fully support the idea of empirical testing. However, keep in mind that there is quite a lot of analytical expressions available for sound transmission loss, even for multi-layer panels. See eg Beranek's classic text books. And, if you don't want to implement these, I recommend commercial...
... Also: The way I see it traditional modal analysis works best with "deterministic", controlable measureable excitation. On the contrary, OMA methods work best in situations with stochastic excitation, random in both time and space. Hence the alternative name Ambient Modal Analysis. So, what...
... but if the system is naturally like this then there is little that can be done (e.g. resonance of a structural element in water, such as vibration of a rudder of a boat while fully immersed in a body of water.
Eatfood, are you familiar with Operational Modal Analysis (OMA), aka Ambient...
Amenuensis,
Using your mobility and velocity based approach, wouldn't you miss the energy corresponding to rotation around the three axes? I wonder in which cases this might still be a fair approximation?
Check out FEMtools: www.femtools.com
Not exactly freeware nor cheep, but some call it state of the art of validating/correlating/updating FE models from measurement data.
May I add a word of caution: Noise from a night club is probably due to music, and might have a strong low-frequency content. Precise measurement of low-frequency noise/intensity (say, below 100 Hz) is not an easy task in outdoor conditions...
Hi ghazwansaud
Also, try googling the paper "Computation of Rayleigh Damping Coefficients for Large Systems" by Chowdhury and Dasgupta. I havn't had to use it myself, but I guess it might be helpful to you.
Rob45, just a comment: Modal analysis covers a wide range of different algorithms. Some are more appropriate for certain conditions than others. As an example, frequency domain based algorithms/methods may tend to exaggerate the damping ratio estimate for low frequencies (and or low damping...
Thank you all for your input.
70AARCUDA, could you give me a hint as to where to look for military/NASA medical test publications? Tried nasa.gov but got kind of lost...
Hi all
Can anyone direct me to statistical descriptions of common excitation frequencies for walking, running, dancing, etc.? I'm think of eg. mean frequency with standard deviation for each activity.
Would be very useful if you have a building deck with natural frequencies known from mobility...
