Cosimo Marinosci

Possible correlation between acoustic and thermal performances of building structures

Most European standards required high performance values for sound and thermal insulation in building structures, according to Directive EEC 89/106. Sound transmission and heat transfer in structures have different physical and analytical approach and specific parameters of performance (i.e. sound transmission loss or thermal transmittance) are not directly correlated each others; many kind of structures have also different behaviour depending on mechanical properties of materials, numbers of layers of materials, etc. The aim of this work is to analyse possible correlation between sound transmission performances and thermal properties values in order to evaluated common trends related to physical properties of the various building components, like for example density or surface mass.