The Acoustics Group 2013

The Acoustics Group has expanded and we are continuing applied research, focusing on speech, architectural and environmental acoustics. We all wish the old researchers all the best, and the new ones - the best of luck.

Royal Society Host an Acoustics Workshop

The Royal Society hosted an Holistic Acoustics Meeting organised by the Institute of Acoustics on the 28th January 2013. The workshop aimed to raise awareness of new noise reduction techniques founded on holistic and sustainable acoustics. Dr Luis Gomez attended the meeting, along with IOA President Prof. Bridget Shield.

Three papers submitted to ICA congress

Three papers were successfully submitted to the International Congress on Acoustics to be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2013. The first paper entitled, "Straw bale sound insulation- Blowing away the chaff", will be presented by Dr Stephen Dance. The second paper is on, "Vocal stress and acoustics in schools", and will be presented by Nick Durup. The final paper is entitled, "Urban wind turbines- a Pilot Study", the paper will be presented by Ben Dymock

Intern visits the Acoustics Group

On the 16th January 2013, Elena Vercellone visited our laboratory. Elena is from Politecico di Torino and is studying Architecture with a specialism in Acoustics. She will be working with us on vocal stress as part of her Masters dissertation. Now, we are looking forward to March.

Nick awarded CEng status

On the 11th January 2013, PhD candidate Nick Durup was awarded Chartered Engineer status through the Institute of Acoustics programme. Nick works for Sharps Redmore Acoustics Consultants and is researching vocal stress amongst teachers.

Abstract submitted to ISRA conference

An abstract for the International Symposium on Room Acoustics 2013 conference has been accepted. Peter Mapp will be presenting a paper entitled, "Bass Sound Quality Index - the development of a new objective measure". The symposium runs from 9-11th June 2013 in the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Sounds like fun!

New CATT-Acoustic Software

On 11th January 2013 the Acoustic Group computer modelling software package, CATT-Acoustics v8, was upgraded to CATT-Acoustics v9. The room acoustic simulations will be able to model schools, underground stations and auditoria more quickly thanks to parallel processing. It will be used with SU2CATT and Google Sketchup to build the models. The paxckage is supported by Adrian James Acoustics. Let's hope it's easy to use.

JASA Paper Submitted

On the 6th January 2013 a paper entitled, "Using the speech transmission index to model the benefit of a sound-field amplification system in various room types". The paper was written by Bradford Backus, Stephen Dance and PhD student, Lorenzo Morales. Let's hope the reviewers like it!