masterThesis
Simulação computacional para avaliação da qualidade acústica do auditório da escola de música da UFRN
Fecha
2017-12-01Registro en:
ALVES, Jair da Silva. Simulação computacional para avaliação da qualidade acústica do auditório da escola de música da UFRN. 2017. 110f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia Mecânica) - Centro de Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.
Autor
Alves, Jair da Silva
Resumen
In a room used mainly for musical presentations, the intelligibility levels of musical
information and other acoustic aspects allow the analysis of the quality of the sounds received
by the listeners and, consequently, allows an evaluation of room's acoustic characteristics.
This analysis is performed by the evaluation of objective parameters, which can be obtained
by measurement and computational simulation techniques. With the advancement of
technology and the development of research related to architectural acoustics over the years,
several software for evaluating acoustic room quality were developed, making them essential
tools for predicting the behavior of sound in different types of halls. The aim of this study is
to evaluate, through computer measurement and simulation, parameters that are able to
represent the acoustic behavior of the Onofre Lopes Auditorium (AOL) of the School of
Music of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (EMUFRN), in order to propose
general guidelines to optimize its acoustic characteristics. These room's acoustic parameters
were obtained by measuring it impulse response. Through the construction of a threedimensional
digital model of the auditorium, the acoustic characteristics of the materials that
covers its internal surfaces, as well electroacoustic characteristics of the sound sources present
in this space were modeled with the aid of computer simulation software. After the validation
of the model, by comparing Reverberation Time (RT) results obtained in the measurements
and simulations, the acoustic parameters Early Decay Time (EDT), Clarity (C80), Definition
(D50), Center Time (Ts) and Speech Transmission Index (STI) were simulated and evaluated
according to the values recommended in the literature. As a result of this research, the values
collected in the measurements and simulations pointed out that the AOL is a space that has
inadequate acoustic characteristics to speech and may be considered inefficient when used for
music. Thus, some acoustic conditioning guidelines were simulated to improve the acoustic
temporal response to the use of the auditorium as a multipurpose hall.