A new method for the estimation of the reverberation time from measured room impulse responses with application to Italian opera houses

De Cesaris, Simona (2014) A new method for the estimation of the reverberation time from measured room impulse responses with application to Italian opera houses, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Ingegneria energetica, nucleare e del controllo ambientale, 26 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6410.
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Abstract

The Schroeder's backward integration method is the most used method to extract the decay curve of an acoustic impulse response and to calculate the reverberation time from this curve. In the literature the limits and the possible improvements of this method are widely discussed. In this work a new method is proposed for the evaluation of the energy decay curve. The new method has been implemented in a Matlab toolbox. Its performance has been tested versus the most accredited literature method. The values of EDT and reverberation time extracted from the energy decay curves calculated with both methods have been compared in terms of the values themselves and in terms of their statistical representativeness. The main case study consists of nine Italian historical theatres in which acoustical measurements were performed. The comparison of the two extraction methods has also been applied to a critical case, i.e. the structural impulse responses of some building elements. The comparison underlines that both methods return a comparable value of the T30. Decreasing the range of evaluation, they reveal increasing differences; in particular, the main differences are in the first part of the decay, where the EDT is evaluated. This is a consequence of the fact that the new method returns a “locally" defined energy decay curve, whereas the Schroeder's method accumulates energy from the tail to the beginning of the impulse response. Another characteristic of the new method for the energy decay extraction curve is its independence on the background noise estimation. Finally, a statistical analysis is performed on the T30 and EDT values calculated from the impulse responses measurements in the Italian historical theatres. The aim of this evaluation is to know whether a subset of measurements could be considered representative for a complete characterization of these opera houses.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
De Cesaris, Simona
Supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Ingegneria industriale
Ciclo
26
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
Acoustics Reverberation time EDT Energy decay curve Italian historical theatres Normality tests
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DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6410
Data di discussione
7 Maggio 2014
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