@article{SalandinArnoldKornadt,
  author    = {Salandin, Andrea and Arnold, J{\"o}rg and Kornadt, Oliver},
  title     = {Noise in an intensive care unit},
  series = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  volume    = {2011},
  journal   = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  number    = {130 (6)},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3264},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170713-32649},
  pages     = {3754 -- 3760},
  abstract  = {Patients and staff in hospitals are exposed to a complex sound environment with rather high noise levels. In intensive care units, the main noise sources are hospital staff on duty and medical equipment, which generates both operating noise and acoustic alarms. Although noise in most cases is produced during activities for the purpose of saving life, noise can induce significant changes in the depth and quality of sleep and negatively affect health in general. Results of a survey of hospital staff are presented as well as measurements in two German hospital wards: a standard two-bed room and a special Intermediate Care Unit (IMC-Unit), each in a different Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Sound pressure data were collected over a 48 hour period and converted into different levels (LAFeq, LAFmax, LAFmin, LAF 5\%), as well as a rating level LAr, which is used to take tonality and impulsiveness into account. An analysis of the survey and the measured data, together with a comparison of thresholds of national and international regulations and standards describe the acoustic situation and its likely noise effects on staff and patients.},
  subject      = {L{\"a}rm},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VogelArnoldVoelkeretal.,
  author    = {Vogel, Albert and Arnold, J{\"o}rg and Voelker, Conrad and Kornadt, Oliver},
  title     = {Data for sound pressure level prediction in lightweight constructions caused by structure-borne sound sources and their uncertainties},
  series = {Data in Brief},
  volume    = {2023},
  journal   = {Data in Brief},
  number    = {Volume 48, June 2023, article 109292},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.dib.2023.109292},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230719-64114},
  pages     = {1 -- 16},
  abstract  = {When predicting sound pressure levels induced by structure-borne sound sources and describing the sound propagation path through the building structure as exactly as possible, it is necessary to characterize the vibration behavior of the structure-borne sound sources. In this investigation, the characterization of structure-borne sound sources was performed using the two-stage method (TSM) described in EN 15657. Four different structure-borne sound sources were characterized and subsequently installed in a lightweight test stand. The resulting sound pressure levels in an adjacent receiving room were measured. In the second step, sound pressure levels were predicted according to EN 12354-5 based on the parameters of the structure-borne sound sources. Subsequently, the predicted and the measured sound pressure levels were compared to obtain reliable statements on the achievable accuracy when using source quantities determined by TSM with this prediction method.},
  subject      = {Bauakustik},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{DokhanchiArnoldVogeletal.,
  author    = {Dokhanchi, Najmeh Sadat and Arnold, J{\"o}rg and Vogel, Albert and V{\"o}lker, Conrad},
  title     = {Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography: Optimal Positioning of Transceiver and Maximal Sound-Ray Coverage of the Room},
  series = {Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2019},
  booktitle = {Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2019},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3877},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190408-38778},
  pages     = {4},
  abstract  = {Acoustic travel-time tomography (ATOM) determines the distribution of the temperature in a propagation medium by measuring the travel-time of acoustic signals between transmitters and receivers. To employ ATOM for indoor climate measurements, the impulse responses have been measured in the climate chamber lab of the Bauhaus-University Weimar and compared with the theoretical results of its image source model (ISM). A challenging task is distinguishing the reflections of interest in the reflectogram when the sound rays have similar travel-times. This paper presents a numerical method to address this problem by finding optimal positions of transmitter and receiver, since they have a direct impact on the distribution of travel times. These optimal positions have the minimum number of simultaneous arrival time within a threshold level. Moreover, for the tomographic reconstruction, when some of the voxels remain empty of sound-rays, it leads to inaccurate determination of the air temperature within those voxels. Based on the presented numerical method, the number of empty tomographic voxels are minimized to ensure the best sound-ray coverage of the room. Subsequently, a spatial temperature distribution is estimated by simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT). The experimental set-up in the climate chamber verifies the simulation results.},
  subject      = {Bauphysik},
  language  = {en}
}