Architectural Acoustics Handbook

• Provides a state-of-the art tool for undergraduate and graduate students studying architectural acoustics, professors, research scientists who teach architectural acoustics and conduct relevant research in education/research institutions, acoustic consultants, engineers, and recording professionals
• Offers clearly written contributions from recognized, world-renowned scientists, professors, and practitioners
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Dr. Ning Xiang earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) in Bochum, Germany. Dr. Xiang was then employed as a project manager and R&D engineer for Head Acoustics, Inc. in Germany and subsequently joined the Fraunhofer-Institute for Building Physics, Stuttgart, as a Research Scientist. From 1998 until 2003, he was a Research Scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi. Currently, Dr. Xiang is Full Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics, School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has published three books and more than 300 publications in proceedings and peer-reviewed journals. In 2014, he received the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal from the ASA. He served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Signal Processing in Acoustics of the ASA from 2012 to 2015, and he has been serving an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) for over a decade. He is also an Editorial Board member of ASA-Press.

PART I: ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS ESSENTIALS Chapter 1 - Computational Modeling of Room Acoustics I: Wave-based Modeling By U. Peter Svensson, Jonathan Botts, and Lauri Savioja Chapter 2 - Computational Modeling of Room Acoustics II: Geometrical Acoustics By U. Peter Svensson, Samuel Siltanen, Lauri Savioja, and Ning Xiang Chapter 3 - Acoustics in Long Rooms By Jian Kang Chapter 4 - Acoustics in Coupled Volume Systems By Ning Xiang Chapter 5 - Advanced Measurements Techniques/Methods in Architectural Acoustics By Wolfgang Ahnert and Stefan Feistel Chapter 6 - Room-Acoustic Energy Decay Analysis By Ning Xiang Chapter 7 - Sound Insulation in Buildings By Carl Hopkins Chapter 8 - Auditory Perception in Rooms By Jonas Braasch and Jens Blauert Chapter 9 - Auralization By Michael Vorländer Chapter 10 - Room-related Sound Representation using Loudspeakers By Jens Blauert and Rudolf Rabenstein Chapter 11 - Environmental Acoustics By Jian Kang PART II: ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS PRACTICE Chapter 12 - Sound System Design and Room Acoustics By Wolfgang Ahnert Chapter 13 - Noise Control in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems  By Douglas Sturz Chapter 14 - Acoustical Design of Worship Spaces By Ewart Wetherill Chapter 15 - Performing Arts Spaces Prologue Section I: Music Performance Spaces, Ronald McKay Section II: Dramatic Arts Spaces, David Conant Section III: Music Instruction Spaces, K. Anthony Hoover

“Ning Xiang has brought together a distinguished group of contributors in this comprehensive book on architectural acoustics… the book rewards the careful reader with a theoretical understanding of the practical applications of architectural acoustics and important perspectives on the practice of getting a good-sounding building built.”

—Evelyn Way, Stages Consultants, Chicago, Illinois in J. Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 67, No. 6, 2019 June