ISO/IEC GUM applied to estimation of sound power measurement uncertainties

Authors

  • Stephen E. Keith Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Product Safety Directorate, Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau, Acoustics Division, 775 Brookfield Rd., 6301B, Ottawa, ON K1A 1C1, Canada

Keywords:

Sensitivity analysis, Standards, Tropical engineering, Combined standard uncertainties, Environmental, Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in measurements, ISO/IEC, Measurement points, Measurement standards, Partial coefficients, Planar measurements, Sensitivity coefficients, Sound levels, Sound powers, Sound pressures, TO estimations, Worst cases

Abstract

The methods to implement ISO/IEC Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM) and the ISO engineering grade sound power standard are provided. The sound sensitivity coefficients are partial coefficients of the sound power and the combined standard uncertainty is the summation in quadrature of all uncertainty contributions to the sound power. Each uncertainty contribution is calculated from the measurement standard deviation and the sensitivity coefficient. ISO also puts a limit on a decibel range of the measures sound levels and this range is equal to the number of measurement points. Sound pressure obtained on an very large planar measurement surface very close to a very large piston can give a good estimate of sound power. It is shown that when the environmental correction is zero, the worst case sensitivity coefficient is 1, with the resulting worst case sensitivity contribution of 2.3 dB.

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Published

2008-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Keith SE. ISO/IEC GUM applied to estimation of sound power measurement uncertainties. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2008 Sep. 1 [cited 2026 Apr. 29];36(3):90-1. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2052

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 3 (2008)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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