Flanking sound transmission in wood-framed construction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper presents results from the first phase of a project to characterize flanking sound transmission at wall/floor junctions in wood-framed constructions suitable for multifamily residential buildings. This phase of the study focused on the junction between a wood joist floor and a separating wall with two rows of 38×89-mm studs. The objective of the study was to identify details that simultaneously provide good noise control and fire resistance. This paper presents the experimental approach and key results from the acoustical measurements. In addition to comparing how five common fire control solutions for the floor/wall junction affect the airborne and impact sound transmission, several generic retrofit modifications to reduce the structural noise transmission were tested. Parameters studied included the floor-joist orientation (parallel or perpendicular to the separating party wall), and the type of subfloor (plywood or oriented strand board). The study has shown that suitable details can provide both adequate fire resistance and noise control. The technical approach provides a framework for extending beyond established laboratory measurement procedures, to predict performance in actual buildings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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