NOISE ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS ACCORDING TO ISO 11654 STANDARD
A wall in a common room is normally reverberant, that is, it does not have acoustic absorption properties and its weighted acoustic absorption coefficient is practically
αw 0.
On the contrary, a 100% absorbing material has a coefficient
αw 1.00.
The coefficients are measured by means of a reverberation room.
Coefficients
αs measures the frequency-dependent sound absorption in a reverberation room, it is used to measure the practical sound absorption coefficient
αp.
αp is the practical acoustic absorption coefficient and it is frequency-related.
αw measures the weighted sound absorption regardless of frequency with classes going from
A (maximum absorption) to
F (reflection) to which the following indicators in brackets are also attributed:
- (
L) if the material is efficient in the low frequency range, e.g.
αw =
0.60 (
L)
- (
M) if the material is efficient in the mid-frequency range, e.g.
αw =
0.70 (
M)
- (
H) if the material is efficient in the high frequency range, e.g.
αw =
0.85 (
H)
Combinations are possible, e.g.
αw =
0.70 (
MH) or
αw =
0.60 (
LM).