TY - JOUR AU - Salissou, Yacoubou AU - Panneton, Raymond AU - Doutres, Olivier PY - 2011/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Three-microphone two-cavity method for measuring sound transmission loss in a modified impedance tube JF - Canadian Acoustics JA - Canadian Acoustics VL - 39 IS - 3 SE - Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada DO - UR - https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2388 SP - 16-17 AB - The normal incidence sound transmission loss (nSTL) is an important indicator to assess the sound insulation property of acoustic materials. The apparatus consists of a finite length rigid walled impedance tube with circularly shaped and uniform inner cross-section. The tube features a loudspeaker at one end and a movable piston at the other end. The loudspeaker is used to generate a plane wave field in the impedance tube. There are two microphones flush mounted upstream the test sample and one microphone flush mounted on the rigid end. Next, a 20-mm thick step discontinuity seeing as a non-symmetrical sample is tested and compared to the standard 4M2L method and 3M-TMTC method. One can note that similar results are obtained between the 3M2L and 4M2L methods, however 4M2L is noisier compared to 3M2L. ER -