TY - JOUR A1 - Salandin, Andrea A1 - Arnold, Jörg A1 - Kornadt, Oliver T1 - Noise in an intensive care unit JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - 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. KW - Lärm KW - Messung KW - Akustik KW - Intensivstation KW - Arbeitsplatz KW - noise KW - intensive care unit KW - acoustical measurement KW - Lärm KW - Intensivstation Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170713-32649 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3655884 N1 - Copyright 2011 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 130, 3754 (2011) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3655884. VL - 2011 IS - 130 (6) SP - 3754 EP - 3760 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vogel, Albert A1 - Arnold, Jörg A1 - Voelker, Conrad A1 - Kornadt, Oliver T1 - Data for sound pressure level prediction in lightweight constructions caused by structure-borne sound sources and their uncertainties JF - Data in Brief N2 - 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. KW - Bauakustik KW - Körperschall KW - building acoustics KW - structure-borne sound KW - sound pressure level prediction KW - structure-borne sound sources KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2023 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230719-64114 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923004110?via%3Dihub VL - 2023 IS - Volume 48, June 2023, article 109292 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dokhanchi, Najmeh Sadat A1 - Arnold, Jörg A1 - Vogel, Albert A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography: Optimal Positioning of Transceiver and Maximal Sound-Ray Coverage of the Room T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2019 N2 - 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. KW - Bauphysik KW - Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography KW - Bauklimatik KW - Akustische Tomographie Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190408-38778 UR - https://www.dega-akustik.de/publikationen/online-proceedings/ N1 - This conference paper has been submitted to the DAGA 2019. Thus, the original paper first is published in the "Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2019" ER -