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1. at 37 To report or not to renos QU Uem 39 File 41 nn A EAA E N A AA 41 Outdoor NOISE sen 42 Requirements asian dando 43 Classification scheme siia ES eeveveceasermeadsamnnsnewasunanedsansseaeniaaes 47 De fal FMT AC CN lal few n 48 e tr O ono A e 49 EXPO TO OG CO Naa RT T ita 49 ODR misma iii ds 50 Program settings 92 S1 dor imss aiii ricas 52 Boi mms iS 54 Working modes 56 Drawing 98 21 07 59 Pc 62 DXF Templates sano 65 LO ras 67 Materials 70 8 ro aa as 70 O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Index 5 Xonio A c 82 JUMCHONS ar ubi dimisi E Hen mU EDD Rn MIN IMMINENT EIN M 83 SIB seriei E A 84 Wall Junctions MR TEES 85 USerSOlUONS ET RUE 87 ey PA Pu o O m 89 SONGGUAEION assi AAA 90 Chapter VIII Uses 93 Chapter IX Fa ades 97 Chapter X 3D Model 100 Chapter XI Results 103 NE 277 103 ME SCIIqo M c 112 SEE crc A tarsancuasaun cause suaasasanscussesncsuacyoussussteserauasencestaucseieshessteanieesssnusrass 114 A REDO NN tcc
2. NU 115 Cover c P 117 A oo UN ERO NIME VIE UNIES o N 118 Compliance State Men tiara 119 B ding SESUSIIES NA rc Aaa 120 R cords eE E E SEE EE EE e Eee SEES EEEE EEEE EARS 122 ACUSA Und o io 129 Quantities ainia aiii da 130 Chapter XII Keys 133 Chapter XIII SQL Quick Install 135 1 System Reduir a crne m I 135 2 Installing Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2 cssccssssssssssssssssssscsssesssssssssessssssssesssssssessssssssssssssssssessnsssasecs 135 3 Configuring the SOL Server InstancCe miosina sancancranninadia P vba x bu FEE n kRU PR FN EH bu KRUE C pyA S VERS RUND FRU UFU RR CEN URN UNI SN CE 137 A Setting up the databases dio 138 Chapter XIV FAQ 141 1 Why SONarchitect does not allow to draw what WaNt ccccssscssssssssssssssssssssssessssssessessssssesessessesssssessssenss 141 2 Some materials are missing in the building Aescription cccsscssccsssscsssssssssssssssesssssssssessesssessecsesseeeeesess 142 3 How can model the junction WaNt ccccsccsssccsesscsssccscsscssscsonsssssscsonesconacsonsssonsesonsnscesaconenscesacsonscoesacsonsssesacce 142 4 What do represent the lines of the ArawiNng ssccssssccssssssssssssssssssssssssssssesssssesssssesssssessssssessssessssesesssssessees 142 5 Canlcalculate the insulation of a tilted roof ccsssccsscssssssesssccsscccsssesssc
3. There are 4 other tabs for entering data 3 1 1 Outdoor noise Data related toenvironmental incident noise levels outside the building Diurnal noise index of the most exposed facade as reflected in the map of environmental noise Failing that but having a zoning of environmental sound you must specify the acoustic areatype 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 3 1 2 Default mat incnenumg mosa preccora kve 11 208 in 13 ncrava bands N 9 Cust mL1 2m one third octave vakjes Save nosse spectrum spectrum D ffusion factor Small and uniform rooms diffuse field in front of a reflecting su Outdoor noise So you can choose the default incidentoutdoor noise levels by choosing among these three options Predefined spectrum shape noise White Pink or Brown Define the level L1 2m dBA The level according to the placement area Acustom level defined by the user just inserting the one third octave values You can save or load a custom level in one third octave The file is a sns SONarchitect Noise Spectrum In addition specify the noise index Ld for roofs in the Roof tab next to the Facade tab in the same way than the Facade incident noise but it also allows the disabling for calculating airborne noise in roofs You can also choose the diffusion factor According to the UNE 12354 4 Cd is defined as the level difference between the acoustic pressure level i
4. Mg Recinto 634 5 CP3 V Recinto 635 5 DP3 OD Recinto 636 5 EP4 UY Recinto 637 5 EP4 DP Recinto 638 59CP3 V Recinto 639 5 EP 4 GD Recinto 640 5 FP4 Wy Recinto 641 5 FP4 E y desde el recinto 519 4 FP4 E m desde el recinto 763 6 FP4 d ES desde el exterior S 1 Fachada 1 E 4 vian MN BB Muro z PO ventana QE Recinto 634 59CP3 Wy Recinto 635 5 DP3 Qe Recinto 636 5 EP4 UY Recinto 637 E EP4 QN Recinto 638 59CP3 qe Recinto 639 5 EP4 Qe Recinto 640 5 FP4 WB Recinto 641 5 FP4 y desde el recinto 519 49FP4 y desde el recinto 763 6 FP4 Ei desde el exterior sys desde el recinto 640 5 PP4 y desde el recinto 762 60FP4 me h Ruido de Impacto por arista 1 E 2 Ruido de Impacto por arista 2 y desde el recinto 643 5 FP4 y desde el recinto 765 60FP4 y desde el recinto 637 5 EP4 y desde el recinto 759 amp EP4 y desde el recinto 649 E FP47 y desde el recinto 771 60FP4 y desde el recinto 658 S FP4 desde el recinto 780 6 FP4 desde el recinto 659 portal 4 y desde el recinto 781 portal 4 hy desde el recinto 661 S FP4 y desde el recinto 783 amp FP4 L nT w L nT w Results 13 Calculations are done But now we want to check the acoustic quality of the building Since we have all the results let us see how the acoustic values are distributed inside the building Let us see how insulated is our building For that purpose just press th
5. Custom noise In Custom noise you can load a sns file with the spectrum data This file can be created in the Outdoor noise tab be ad 63Hz T30 1 3 oct 63Hz T30 mf 2012 Sound of Numbers S L For airborne noise insulation The sixth column displays the comparison operator for each type of requirement For impact noise insulation and reverberation time For Level indoor noise Threshold value Requirement Modifier arar errr z Modifier Choose the direction of the calculation horizontal vertical or both 3 1 3 Classification schemes SONarchitect has included nine schemes of acoustic quality classification Choose the country and you will assign the range values for airborne and impact sound insulation between different units and within the same dwelling 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 48 User Manual Project configuration General Outdoor Requirements Classes Default mat 3 1 4 DK Denmark Class Denotations A B C D Airborne Sound 4 puc 503150 63 Airborne Sound Insulation B w 50 2150 58 Insulation n Os Rw gt 5S internally in Dwellings D Rw gt 50 Dwellings gen Sound Un w C1 50 2500 lt 43 Sound nsulation l nw CL 50 2500 lt 48 nsulation between Cs Una lt Sa internally in Dwellings nw lt 58 Dwellings Reference Norm DS 490 2007 Ta Gere Schemes dialog Once you have selected the scheme the PDF report w
6. GS Suspended ceiling 3 Floating floor 4 Ln w CI dB 48 0 dB thickness mm 245 mm m kg m 503 kg m E Wall lining 3 Catalog SON Catalog Descriptor Wood roof mineral wool Wood roof contrete mineral wool Wood roof suspended ceiling Wood roof cellulose suspended ceiling Wood roof sand insulation Wood roof concrete insulation 210 58 Wooden roof suspended ceiling 340 62 Wood roof suspended ceiling mineral wool concrete 1315 62 Tile roof Foam wood 230 35 Roof slab floating floor and suspended ceiling assignment The specification of virtual slabs can be tedious if you have many floors and you need to define for instance a gap for a lift To specify virtual slabs for repetitions of a given plan VELUM L4 A you can use or V in the keyboard Just press V with the slab s you want to virtualize selected Pressing V again restores the slab s Note that with the 2D virtualizing tool only internal repetitions of plans are virtualized ie the slabs between repetitions of the current plan but not the first or the last slab Thus in single instance plans those producing a single floor the 2D virtualization tool has no practical effect on the building model And if you are modeling a patio you will have to resort to the virtualizing tool in 3D to virtualize the top slab 2012 Sound of Numbers S L User Manual Facade and walls For walls a
7. su XE E el ee ee LF wf aa aes E There are some shortcuts to ease the task of assigning materials When you click inside a room all the walls are selected or if in Wall lining mode all the inner linings By clicking j L3 a or pressing F facade all the outer walls of the plan will be selected If in Wall lining mode all facade inner linings will be selected By clicking or pressing I inner all the inner walls will be selected or the inner linings if in Wall lining mode When all the wall linings of a room are selected by clicking inside the room in the wall 2012 Sound of Numbers S L oc User Manual lining mode a common area for instance you can change the selection to the neighbor linings just by clicking C or pressing C complementary This way you can quickly assign a common solution to every inner lining of all rooms adjacent to a common area which for our experience saves a lot of time C also works when only a few linings are selected Finally if you select some walls in Wall mode and then switch to Wall linings mode the selection will carry to the linings i e all the linings of the previously selected walls will be selected Remember that for multiple selection you can use SHIFT and pick or drag with the right mouse button either to the leftor to the right depending whether you want strictly inclusive selection or partial inclusive selection E WHE 20039
8. 0 H 31 E Wy Room 3 Distributor amp GP Room 5 Stairs m Room 16 Bath 0 amp wy Room 17 Bath 094 E UY Room 18 Distributor T30 Reverberation Time T30 0 83s 0 80s ey from room 45 Office 3 G Airborne noise DnT w c S0dBA 45 dBA So 1 Wall DnT w C 50 dBA a Path Rij w 63 dB J Path2 Rij w 54 dB 4 Path 3 Rij w 63 dB a Path4 Rij w 60 dB 4 Paths Rij w 44 dB a Path Rij w 60 dB 4 Path Rij w 59 dB 4 Paths Rij w 79 dB a Path 9 Rij w 79 dB 4 Path 10 Rij w 88 dB J Path 11 Rij w 44 dB J Path 12 Rij w 60 dB 4 Path 13 Rij w 59 dB Ready Inspect the transmission paths to experience how building geometry 100 General SONarchitect really understands the 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 36 User Manual Let us go forth Browse for the Floor 3 gt Room 38 Office 32B gt from room 39 Double click node from room 39 and a summary of the acoustic insulation will be displayed showing the airborne and impactsound insulation between the rooms 5n 10 a 63 125 2 ik xz e ik a Show airborne noise transmission through Sai i Show impact noise transmission through Edge 1 iv SONarchitect EN ISO 12354 Sound of Numbers S L www sonarchitect com Notice that someinformation is missing in the Demo version all in all it is a demo isn t it It goes without saying th
9. 09 User Manual i 3521 Libraries conference and class rooms Restaurants Hoy endosires E Example Different use unit 2012 Sound of Numbers S L d 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Facades Facades dis ia According to the method for calculating airborne sound insulation in walls roofs and floors in contact with the outside ISO EN 12354 3 a factor ALfs Improvement of insulation or difference in levels of the shape of the facade is needed SONarchitect allows editing both the exterior noise level and the facade shape factor in the desired exterior walls The incident noise can be totally customized 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 98 User Manual i Facade Outdoor sound pressure level Project default sound pressure level L1 2m dBA Nose spectrum Pink Moise L1 2m dBA 60 Custom L 1 2m one third octave values C Not exposed facade incoming nose pressure level LL 2m dB i 1 3 octava bands a sn s5 su e an E x Heaght of the sight line of the facade lt L5m c0 3 hs Level difference due lo the facade shape ALfs dB 1 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 3D Model 100 User Manual 10 3D Model At any moment during the drawing you can inspect a 3D model of the building The user can verify that the building model is consistent with the specifications and can also define virtual slabs Virtual slabs allow the removal of horizontal separ
10. 16 8 mm ES Door 3 2mm wooden fibre board 33mm middle position 3 2mm wooden fibre board 39mm With those four buttons on the left you can e Inspect the datasheet of the material Y e Select the material in the drawing A e Unassign the elements with that material It deletes the material from the project list s e Replace this material with the selected one in the database You must first choose a cm EM solution in the database and then select the replaced one in the material list With the New button i the user can create a new custom constructive solution To delete a solution from the database press button and after confirmation it will be removed from the database permanently You can press Escfor closing this window 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 82 User Manual 7 2 Absorption It is possible to assign materials with known absorption levels to the walls floor or ceiling on thecurrent plan This is relevant to thecomputation ofreverberation times When selecting the Absorption in the Materials type the user interface is adapted to facilitate the selection of the element to modify When assigning finishings to wall linings follow the selection mechanisms for wall linings and when assigning to floorsor ceilings follow the selection method for slabs For the current version the calculation of DnTw doesn t consider the assigned absorption SONarchitect places the calculation in the safe side an
11. 33 dB Same unit any 37 55dB 58 dB E Habitable 4 SE OriTw HC 100 3 150 gt 50 dBA Different unit otherwise 12 63 39dBA 59 dBA common Area 7 d A UnTw 4CI 50 2500 lt 50 dB Different unit otherwise 1 110 39dB 77dB A Stairs 1 6 J Untw Cl 50 2500 lt 50 dB Different unit Common Area installations and elevators J Untw cl 50 2500 lt 50 dB Different unit Stairs ES Libraries conference and dass rooms DnTw C 50 3150 gt 55 dBA Different unit Installations and elevators 50 dBA 50 dBA Bx Restaurants J UnTw Cl 50 2500 lt 45 dB Different unit Installations and elevators Bl Noisy endosures j A UnTw C1 50 2500 lt 50 dB Different unit Libraries conference and das J UnTw C1 50 2500 lt 45 dB Different unit Restaurants DnTw C 50 3150 gt 55 dBA Different unit Noisy enclosures 56 dBA 56 dBA J LnTw 4CI 50 2500 lt 45 dB Different unit Noisy enclosures 38 a 41 42 DnTw C 100 3150 dBA Statistics 11 3 Auralization Now you can hear your building Press the Auralisation 3D button and load the 3D environment The blue room is the source and the green room is the receiver 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results 15 11 4 It s time to plug in your headphones Select asound file from the built in tracks or you can even load your own file The source is placed on the sourceroom blue v Castor s HRTF v No interpolation v Volume Select also a HRTF model within t
12. 653 5 DP3 QE Recinto 654 5 BP3 E E EE RI RTI EA ee REL RET En EH E E El E El El Eel EE E Enclosure a amp ll Planta 5 Gs WB Recinto 629 S CP3 Ge EE Recinto 630 5 CP3 me WP Recinto 631 Secs amp WE Recinto 632 S DP3 amp QE Recinto 633 5 DP3 e TE Recinto 634 E CP3 T Recinto 635 50DP3 E UY Recinto 636 5 EP4 GEB Recinto 637 5 EP4 Ge EB Recinto 638 5 CP3 Ee GP Recinto 639 S EP4 me Recinto 640 5 FP4 ER Recinto 641 5 FP4 El 8 y desde el recinto 519 40FP4 Lo Bye tip desde el recinto 763 6 FP4 M B ANI desde el exterior a y desde el recinto 640 E FP4 a y desde el recinto 762 6 FP4 a desde el recinto 643 59FP4 wy desde el recinto 765 69FP4 a y desde el recinto 637 5 EP4 a y desde el recinto 759 6 EP4 a y desde el recinto 649 5 FP4 p Ey desde el recinto 771 60FP4 a y desde el recinto 658 5 FP4 a y desde el recinto 780 6 FP4 E y desde el recinto 659 portal 4 Room against room O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results ge neun uas per Mg Recinto 634 59CP3 GP Recinto 635 5 DP3 UY Recinto 636 5 EP4 s UY Recinto 637 5 EP4 TE Recinto 638 59CP3 a E Recinto 639 5 EP4 amp WB Recinto 640 5 FP4 cB Recinto 641 5 FP4 EN SV desde el recinto 519 4 FP4 ES Sy desde el recinto 763 6
13. Double wall Mass flanking kg m 110 0 Internal Loss Factor 0 02 Lining Critical frequency Hz 140 00 Base m 12 5mm gypsum wallboard A 12 5mm gypsum wallboard 40mm mineral fibre board 14mm of air E 12 5mm gypsum wallboard New Material Data Dialog The input data are e The descriptor of the new solution 2012 Sound of Numbers S L User Manual e The type slab roof wall e The subtype classification You can add new ones just editting the subtypes list clicking the button on the right S which opens a tool where you can create erase or edit a subtype subtype edition tool AL El Double wall on elastic bands E Drywall EN Single leaf Subtype edition list e The color customizable post at any time with which it wants to represent By clicking on the color box opens a dialog where you can choose between many of them e The material characteristics data thickness mass e Check lightweight if it s a light construction solution e On elastic bands will include a elastic band below and avobe the wall automatically e Check double wallfor entering the data of the wall as a flank e The lining and the base in case it is a mixed solution e The frequency values for Airborne Noise and impact noise where available you must select the frequency range first It automatically calculates thecorrection factor e The layers You can specify the material layers th
14. France Guide Qualitel 2000 Netherlands NEN 1070 1999 Lithuania STR 2 01 07 2003 And since SONarchitect has the result of every enclosure inside the building in can classify the entire building regarding the maximum insulation value the minimum the average You can see this classification in the General record or you can have the entire building histograms Just active the checkbox for this purpose in the Report dialog and the report will include a resume of the acoustic quality of the building That is represented by several histograms 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 130 User Manual Sound insulation histograms reru FEMRE ES Pe BL e ae rri ei rum Thid ars LT 5 de Mep Piia E oH 43 d mart ALIAS E wi H 5B E HW PV E NH Histograms 11 4 7 Quantities Finally the last data in thereport is the quantities description It is very useful to have a resume of all the materials used in the project with their characteristics and measurements since the construction factor is very important for the acousticperformance of the building The building director will thank you O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results 131 Bill of quantitios Mawes sme spore ibo 123850 23 44 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Keys Keys 133 12 Keys Here we summarize all the shortcut keys used in SONarchitect ISO Select the entire facade of the building Select the complementary linings of a set of lini
15. PDF file Here you can see theinformation of both rooms the graphic and the data in one third octave band octaves and range of frequencies On the right you can also experience with AURALIZATION You can press Escfor closing 2012 Sound of Numbers S L a E Fi Sound transm Mn E Acoustic Insulation Report From room 20 1 to room 22 1 Source Room Receiving Room Hame Name Unit Unit Type Protected Type Protected Floor Floor 1 Room ID Humber Room ID Number 22 Volume m Volume m 30 33 R w 48 dB lt 50 dB il 1 You may see 3 little icons on the top right corner y Export the result sheet to an XML file E Add the result to a record into the PDF report Gerenate a PDFreport with this result Airborne and impact SONarchitect identifies each one of the contributions for airborne noise represented by 3 when fulfilling and otherwise and impact noise and You have the global result in the same line You can also display the graphic result clicking the button Graphic 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 106 User Manual Double click and you will also have a more detailed description in a dialog box Sound transmission through element as Airborne Noise insulation result inspection Separating element Area m2 Demo gt Normalised lewel difference Dn Receiving room Volume m Demo DnT w G Ctr 95 3
16. Rij w 69 dB a Path 11 Rij w 86 dB J Path 12 Rij w 77 dB a Path 13 Rij w 78 dB amp from room 1 Box 1 09D G y from room 8 Box 3 0 C G from room 9 Elevator G y from room 10 Box 6 0 B G from room 6 Box 5 0 B E y from room 7 Box 4 0 C G y from room 11 Box 11 094 G y from room 12 Box 7 0 B G y from room 14 Box 9 0 4 E UY Room 5 Stairs E UY Room 16 Bath 09A E Y Room 17 Bath 09A a MN Daam 12 Dicke ber iv a Normalised level difference DnT dB in one third octave bands 55 E 45 E 35 25 zm zza MARKS Ready 100 General SONarchitect plots the Normalized Levels Difference DnT dB in the bar graph It shows a quite low airborne insulation for the lower frequencies The 3D model shows the transmission path By therepresentation it becomes evident that it corresponds to the direct transmission and that the sound insulation problem is due to the door which presents a fair low sound insulation To experience another example of complex geometry just browse till Floor 2 Room 30 Common Area fromroom 9 elevator 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started Mz BB au P E o 0 erre Case Parameter Calculation Limit Y RUU 22 LONCE eb s Room 30 Common Area E T36 Reverberation Time T30 0 58s 0 80s G y from room 29 Office 2 B amp from room 28 Office 2 from roo
17. Type Unit i Be a ARE A 7 e R dE R AR dB amp Mixed facade 1 ag Wall 63 eo E EN El Mix wall 1 40 i None 1 a E Floating floor 4 i l a fe Peete ee g SS Suspended ceiling 3 eect 88 ba E DRw C Ctr dB 10 1 1 dB E Wall lining 3 thickness mm 315 mm E Door 15 im kg m 216 kg m EM e Window DAR m Catalog eia sim Descriptor 115 ceramic brick both sides 15 PB 48 MW 10 C Mixed Doors Windows Ventilation and Blinds For assigning these solutions the interface is the same as for Facade and walls The only difference is that instead of using colors to identify the assignment for holes it is being used different symbols on the segment um A Doors Windows 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 80 User Manual s B Blind over window Ventilation You can assign Windows Blinds Doors and Ventilation from the SONarchitect catalog to the wall that is currently selected Double click over that wall and a list of all openings in the currently selected wall will be displayed You can assign more than one door window or blind to a wall The symbols for doors windows blinds or ventilations only represent the presence of such elements in a wall but not their numbers or their actual positions or sizes to avoid vidual cluttering especially in small walls The specifics about their types sizes or numbers can be
18. amp Floor nner oN 2 22 MARKS Ready 100 General The distributor is displayed Here you have a good example of the kind of arbitrary O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 33 geometries that SONarchitect tackles with ease Notice that it is red as it does not meet several requirements If the Distributor node in the Result Tree is unfolded all the calculation results can be seen according to the different requirements First appears the reverberation timerequirement you can click it to see thereverberation time with frequency in the bar graphs Further down there is a set of nodes with the insulation results from rooms adjacent to the distributor Click on node from room 2 Box 2 09D and expand it YY SONarchitect ISO Demo Version Demo project QuE a y e PA SSRs BOR 5 OR 0 a Results Crta JC stats Case Parameter Calculation Limit Outdoor noise map all Floor 0 Y Room 3 Distributor T3 Reverberation Time T30 0 58s 0 80s from room 2 Box 2 0D a Airborne noise orn DnT w c 46 de 50 dB4 1 Wall DnT w c 46 dBA 4 Pathi Rij w 38 dB a Path2 Rij w 57 de J Path3 Rij w 68 dB a Path4 Rij w 69 dB a Paths Rij w 78 dB a Path 6 Rij w 78 dB J Path Rij w 86 de a Paths Rij w 69 de a Path Rij w 79 de J Path 10 Rij w 69 dB a Path 11 Rij w 86 dB a Path 12 Rij w 77 dB 4 Path 13 Rij 78 dB Wr from room
19. any slabs between adjacent floors with different plans S cR lac om n8 4 doe ts EMALIT I 3 3 o LI BT HEE Walls Select now Walls in the material list The plan scheme changes to show the vertical elements of the building in the color of the corresponding default solution you have chosen at the beginning of the project Now select Wall lining The representation changes to show the wall linings of the building When in light gray no linings have been assigned yet You may want to assign some or change the walls materials To do that just select the walls or linings browse the catalog and press Assign Browse the different Subtypes and Catalogs through the lists in the Right Panel If you are using the Demo version you will see only a few materials available but enough to play with the toy building 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 23 AECE AAA o 4Eaiercee E T hh E E Mi L uh aa Zi ik je ih ra rl E ih at m m e bJ LI m El n w fuam F mm E HEA pa oe pea m E F i mI a A A i ms wn E emu i a i N mi A A GP uk ru E DERN Da ut iF tann a ie da i EUA mma in A ee E ti im TER Term be ni H Bei ri DA re DE IRR 1E E id ea ls pin au La INE Nah oa Hie cat am LUNES a SEDE d Ue Hu r u LLL LI d WEA AZ Vu wi T go Q PA Lido iria DEM HL Tum rame B Poko ENT oe ne A j ET za ge Fer He 140234 4 0 Fae I B JTNMI IOOO IE p 4 4 m
20. color should change to yellow As identifier you may write something like Bathroom Select both rooms and specify use unit A by typing A in the Use unit text box The A letter appears in brackets next to each room identifier and the line between the rooms is now thinner as they belong to the same use unit Finally select thethird room and assign to it a Stairs use Its color should change to dark gray Name it Stairs or similar The result should look like the figure below 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 20 User Manual Bid z cee ime Cyro o 8 DUERME Ml le pen nm ieu DX mo Go to theroom in the Attic plan Assign it aProtected use and name it Bedroom Use A as unit identifier FI CIOSCXOD UM ICOO0 PG GE ET 1 pamm Rum Hus Malus ba HL um O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 21 2 4 Slabs It is time to specify the materials Go back to the dwellings plan Press the Materials mode button and the Materials Catalog will be shown There you can select and assign all the materials for your building elements and linings First we will select Slab in the first material list The rooms color will change to the color of the default slab solution you chose at the beginning of the project Move the mouse over the rooms and you will see the material name in the status bar If you want to change the slab material select theroom or rooms locate the material in the catal
21. dilation joints common in large buildings To do that select the Slab Junctions tool A You will see that arrows appear inside the contour of each room pointing towards it They mark whether there is or not an elastic interface between the slab and the wall they are pointing to As before with Wall junctions solid arrow means that there is an elastic interface while open means there is not 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 28 User Manual Seah Ded ee hii bibh cee 2 7 Windows doors Let us provide some sunlight to the prospective dwellers by adding some windows and doors Press again the button in the tool bar browsing the Window type Select for instance the wall between the bedroom and the stairs Select Door in the material list browse the catalog for the door you want and click or press Enter A dialog will ask you for the surface area of thedoor Of course you should insert an area which is less than the wall surface area A symbolic representation of a door is displayed in the selected wall or walls The symbol just indicates thatthere is adoor in the wall not the exact position of the door in the wall nor its characteristics For the computation of ISO 12354 the location of the openings in the walls is not relevant So keep in mind that the doors and windows you can see in the 2D and 3D representations of your buildings are just mere indicators of presence Do not expect that the 3D view of the f
22. fastened Some materials are missing in the building description This warning appears when you press Calculate button and one or more of the constructive solutions of the building are unassigned The first empty material element is highlighted in the drawing All the elements except linings must be assigned Also the roofs even if the floor of that roof is not the last one SONarchitect verifies this for avoiding user errors when patios appear How can model the junction want SONarchitect ISO computes all the acoustic insulation levels according to EN ISO 12354 The sound transmission between flanks is determined by the vibration reduction index of the junction This Kij coefficient is calculated by means of the models in thenorm SONarchitect only identifies the topology and materials in the junction and whether there is an elastic junction or not and calculates the Kij coefficient You can see some of the junctions examples in the Junctions section What do represent the lines of the drawing You could also make this question as which are the real dimensions of the walls slabs These lines are representing the midlines of every vertical partition wall or facade When you are drawing over a DXF template you can see the drawing of a wall with its real O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L thickness You must place the SONarchitect ISO line in the middle of both lines that configure the real wall 14 5 Can I calculate
23. with over 30 000 calculation results a ie ILI rE 62 88 E T EFAA zm m a aub Pus ees mal Bii a TENET zu di Rear an iocus cox RES GT med mam mi Tall 449445 E Him EMI ED EMG mu S ome o ow UG GRUB LE DEW NEM O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 39 27288 amI i m Hoe A ral 2 10 To report or not to report With SONarchitect Professional you can print a PDF file with all the results in the Result 4 Tree just by pressing the Report button J in the results toolbar You can configure the sections you want to include in your report select the acoustic records of interest or let SONarchitect to chose the critical results for you To justify the complete acoustic performance of an entire building to your local government or administration you do not need to deliver all the records of your building For large buildings as the displayed above this would result in reports well over 30 000 pages long To justify the compliance of an entire building it is enough toreport the worst case records and theinformation proving that the records you are delivering are precisely the worst And that can be easily done through the histogram Just by including the building histogram a record is shown to be the worst case for a g
24. 1 Box 1 0 D from room 8 Box 3 0 C ly from room 9 Elevator from room 10 Box 6 0 B y from room 6 Box 5 0 B from room 7 Box 4 0 C from room 11 Box 11 09A from room 12 Box 7 0 B Y from room 14 Box 9 09A UY Room 5 Stairs Y Room 16 Bath 04 wy Room 17 Bath 0 4 Room 18 Distributor z 2imimeimimi C o o QM 2 22 Ready T 100 General T ot A __ Now you are displaying the acoustic insulation between Box 2 the transmitting room always in blue and the distributor receiving room red or green By browsing through the child nodes you can inspect every transmission path between the rooms At first glance a transmission path in red stands out This is the result that SONarchitect has determined to be thedominant transmission path Click it 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 09 User Manual ONa EA AMATA T TAT E DO PAIIYJ 10684502 00 HT 1 C Result Case Parameter Calculati Limit amp A outd map a Floor 0 Room 3 Distributor T3 Reverberation Time T30 0 58s 0 80s from room 2 Box 2 09D E Airborne noise DnT w4 C 46 dBA 50dBA O 1 Wall DnT 4C 4605A a Pathi Rij w 38 dB a Path2 Rij w 57 dB J Path3 Rij w 68 dB a Path4 Rij w 69 dB ye Paths Rij w 78 de J Path Rij w 78 dB Se Path Rij w 86 dB JA Paths Rij w 69 dB Se Path9 Rij w 79 dB a Path 10
25. 10 X v NU e eo A Y o A i L e w 1 L rx A N Y Show transmission through Separating element Of course you can also print it clicking the tiny icon on the top right corner Outdoor noise emission When you have defined arequirement with an indoor noise level in a type of enclosure the outdoor noise levels will be calculated These results are being grouped in the branch of the result tree called Outdoor noise map If you press in the main point the global outdoor noise map will be displayed Browse the tree and you will find the outdoor noise map of every noisy enclosure and even the emission of every individual facade 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results 107 3 Cas Des BO va d pEEs60c23239S909h3H Pra Transmission paths Into every result you can unfold all the transmission paths of that result It is a very valuable information for easily identifying the acoustic insulation troubles Because of the big amount of transmission paths it is hard to point the one to change That is why besides presenting the calculations you will have a color code for helping you to decide 4 This transmission path should be changed 4 t is possible that acting in this transmission path you might solve the problem 4 t is no necessary to change this transmission path it helps the result to fulfill the requirements For greater insight the user can inspect the con
26. 9 4 07 FR 3 4B el Oe s i A E ar eL a met in adiu 1 ma el m ry de i nal er mm ENS Pra Lio ai unm LX ira F key Facade O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 25 ja HB je CAR Ole TAE Id A A A vee eke ee m fl I key Interior walls Ja HH SaNa quete I Mu 1060 lt a 4 ee os D TATE EATE LEE el j ma pus Vinculi l epn a a Fey Hear r E EE poni pmi jum mal erg it m mn Lam m PS HQ Room selection 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 26 User Manual aaa tar tac IG 2 6 aj T oF Le C key Complementary selection Elastic junctions Junction configuration used to be tedious and confusing in ISO 12354 calculations But with SONarchitect this is no longer the case SONarchitect really understands the geometry of your building It knowswhether a junction is T or X shaped It knows the materials meeting at any junction in the building so it knowswhether the elements are heavy or light double or single massif light facade and so on SONarchitect has but also understands all that information and it will make the right choice of the adequate Kij vibration reduction index for you Regrettably still a bit is required from the user SONarchitect currently cannot read you mind so if you want to use elastic bands in your design you need to tell it where you want them To solve this we at SON have devised a really
27. 9613 2 15 C 80 rel humidity Atmospheric conditions 4 2 Updates Q You will access to SONarchitect updates just clicking the Check for Updates Button SONarchitect ISO update manager n Press the button for connecting to the update server Update window Click Check for updates and you will download the latest update if available from our servers 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Chapter V Working modes 86 User Manual 5 Working modes SONarchitect ISO has six working modes We have classified all the tools and group them Each mode concerns a stage of the project according to its functionality inorder to make it faster y oy my Drawing 3D model Let us take adeeper study of these stages in the following chapters H m Fa ades 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Drawing 58 User Manual 6 Drawing xl py After setting up the project you can proceed to create the different floors This is the first stage the drawing mode In SONarchitect a building consists of plans and floors A plan is each of the different floor plans which by repetition lead to the different floors of the building This makes it possible to build a 10 floor building from for example 3 plans ground floor plan present only once becomes floor 0 a dwellings plan repeated 8 times giving floors 1 to 8 and an attic plan present only once becoming floor 9 In the Professional version of SONarchitect a
28. A A c 1 A Wall elastic Object Complementary junctions absorption o lining selection c selection f Catalog Constructive solutions are assigned just by browsing the materials in the catalog database There are two main catalogs SON Catalog and User Catalog e The SON Catalog contains all the built in materials in the Sound of Numbers Database e The User Catalog will contain the materials you are creating and inserting You can also view the materials from the databases of several manufaturers just browsing the list O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials 3 GO wall A BSW Mix wall 7 Rw C Ctr d e or 27 Ln er 148 c They are displayed in a tree of types Click any type and you will see all the materials on that category Browse the tree and find the materials you want to assign classified by subtypes You can order the list by Descriptor Mass and Insulation value just clicking on the title row 2012 Sound of Numbers S L User Manual LET e oo le GP secs y m Ao Roof 31 i s a T Facade 38 53 e Mixed facade 3 x E Wall 131 i ik in oe a Mix wall 7 Relic da 61 2 8 de a Flaating loce 23 Ln w t dB 51 1 dB d thickness mm 205 mm a ine 7 588 kg m E i Wall bung 13 Catalog SON Catalog 67 58 52 B Hoto box order floating foor suspended ce
29. EE Mame him R De Dwellings 3 00 4 DE General 3 00 1 T Tracing plans Name Plan List The Plan list contains all the necessary tools to manage the plans and floors of your project You can place it wherever you may need To hide the tab just click the button Plan list again or in the X button in the top right corner To draw in a given plan just select it in the list Its name appears in the status bar You can create a new plan and edit copy or delete the current plan Clicking on new plant LS opens a dialog box where you can edit the name of the plant to be set up as well as its height and the number of consecutive repetitions of the plant to make way for floors You can change any of these securities at any time O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L New plan Mame New Height m Hepetitions 3 0 1 Cancel New plan The copy plant button E creates a copy of the selected plant currently adding an apostrophe to the name Similarly with a plant selected from the list clicking the edit button b plant you access a dialog box where you can change its name height and number of consecutive repetitions For editing the properties of other plants you can use the Upper and Lower buttons without leaving the dialog Lower Mame Ground Height m Hepetitians 3 00 1 Cancel Edit plan With the buttons plant up LI and plant down you can modify the order of plant in the building The bui
30. FP4 ee 3E desde el exterior C p Fachada 1 D2m nT Atr E ge via o Rij A 1 a vial Rij A e J Via 2 Rij A CE Rij e ge viat Rij A PRE Rij A L ge Via 6 Rij A 4 Ge via Rij A og via Rij A og via Rij z J Via 10 Rij A c ge viall Rij ge Via 12 Rij B Sy desde el recinto 640 S FP4 ge Sy desde el recinto 762 6 FP4 Direct facade rr eee ge i UY Recinto 634 59CP3 UY Recinto 635 5 DP3 YY Recinto 636 S EP4 GP Recinto 637 E EP4 UY Recinto 638 59CP3 UY Recinto 639 5 EP4 E YY Recinto 640 5 FP4 MY Recinto 641 E FP4 Ej desde el recinto 519 49FP4 6 desde el recinto 763 60FP4 5E desde el exterior E El ER ER El o Fachada 1 D2m nT Atr 39 dBAtr E y vian Rij 35 5 dBA 0 BB Muro Rm A 38 0 dBA 0 D ventana Rey A 375dB eut Vial RijA 72 6 dBA o ge az Rij 65 6 dBA oo ge W a3 Ri A 72 6 dBA e J M a Rij 50 2 dBA dt V as Ri A 43 1 dBA o gr Wiad Rij 50 2 dBA c gh Wa Rijj 53 6 dBA ACE RijA 65 6 dBA AE Rij A 53 6 dBA ge Via 10 Rij 50 2 dBA Lo ge vall Rij 43 1 dBA Ge Via 12 Rij 50 2 dBA 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 112 User Manual eta mil Hil mH Mr i 3 6 m HUS Ln LL jme mii p 4 roc 3 1 MEH HHE L Bire a BEI ep A i por 2 TA Tp ca ae La 11 2 Statistics 2012 Sound of Numbers S L
31. H Different unit installations and elevabiDnT DoTw C 50 3150 Different unit Iretallations and elecatiL nT LATH 50 2500 1 Different unit Libraries conference arDnT DnTw C 50 3150 Different unit Libraries conference arUnT UnTw C1 100 2500 21 Different unit Restaurants OnT DnTw C 50 3150 Fa Different unit Restaurants LAT Uintw Cl 50 2500 Oh Different unit Noisy endosures OnT DnTw C 50 5000 P Different unit Hoy endosures LnT UnTw4cI 50 2500 NEM Lat cias es Pd Puts OF A is EA EA k 5 28 288 B b H CUTE v IA LA V A A LA PLA ZA ZP E a 1 Requirements creation You must create as many room types as you need erase move or copy with the managing tools Trait EP Double click the room type and you must also choose a color for every room type in order to identify them in the plan Change the name of the room type double click on the name and add a brief description You can assign a Medium Reverberation Time Tm f to that room also in that dialog Room Type Mame Protected Description Bedrooms and living rooms Tmf max s 0 50 O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L For each room you can add as many requirements as you might need a row per requirement Manage them with the same tools create erase move and copy Double click in each column for editing it The first column indicates the Reverberation time requirementtype Indoor sound pressure level From column speci
32. Noisy enclosures 93 O Okey 133 Odeon 49 Open 41 50 Options 52 Orthogonal 62 Outdoor noise 42 p P 115 Pan 62 68 Partition 70 PDF 115 Perpendicular 62 Print 115 Project Material List Q Quantities 130 R Rkey 62 133 Record list 115 Records 122 Redo 59 Regulation 43 Remote Database Replace all 80 Report 115 Restaurants 93 Results 103 Reverberation time Roof 70 74 S Save 41 49 Scale 65 Scroll wheel 62 Search 80 Select 62 63 Selection 63 Server 135 Settings 52 Shift key 62 133 Slab 70 74 slab junctions 84 64 80 135 82 Small flanking elements 41 Small slabs 41 SONequation 90 SONmultilayer 89 Spacebar key 133 SQL 135 SQLserver 52 Start 9 Stick 59 Supr 63 Suspended ceiling 74 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 186 User Manual Ta Template 65 U Undo 59 Update 54 User solutions 87 Uses 93 Vy Vkey 133 Ventilation 70 79 View plant 59 Virtual slab 62 100 W Wall 76 wall junctions 85 Window 70 Windows 79 X X key 62 133 XML result export 103 Z Zoom 67 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Thank you for choosing SONarchitect ISO The Sound of Numbers S L team
33. User Manual E C PT 4 e F En p p ae n a B z e i i a a pr oe i architect ISO A SOUND OF O NUMBERS O 20 Welcome SONarchitect ISO the ultimate software for the computation of the acoustic insulation in the entire building In this document we will try to guide you through your first trip with SONarchitect ISO After that you will be able to develop an acoustic project of an entire real building User Manual O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L All rights reserved SONarchitect ISO crew Julio Mart n Herrero Geometric engine and graphical interface Alfonso Rodr guez Molares Acoustic engine C stor Rodr guez Fern ndez Graphic design and documentation SOUND OF NUMBERS 4 User Manual Index Chapter Chapter Il O ON Oo C DB W N _ Chapter III 1 Chapter IV 1 2 Chapter V Chapter VI 1 2 3 4 Chapter VII 1 Intro Getting started 9 c nando 10 INSCTNE OL RUNS ass 13 USCIS Nc B 17 cr nc 5 21 WAS Mr NS 22 Jta bred ns ies 26 MINING WS ADO iia o cctecees sacicenecccoscsasichasiaaascuseceneexceegaciewencseeccsseceseaucssscsusileassceunieeeesteeestessasevenseccuscceanssenies 28 ECCS HOCK M c 29 aided lr AA
34. a panel with the results will be shown In case some element is missing a required constructive solution SONarchitect will generate a warning and it will highlight the undefined element Warning Do not alarm if SONarchitect asks for a Roof solution in a plant that has no roof this is a measure for avoiding user errors when designing Patios The results are classified in a treeordered by floors You can also find a specific calculation inserting some keywords in the area on thetop of the results window and clicking the button Filter 11 1 Result tree Floors Each floor is represented by the icon ll in case every room fulfill the requirements or amp it any of them do not When selection a floor it is represented in 3D highlighting the fulfillment of every contained room Enclosures Inside each one of the floors you can find the results of every enclosures in that floor They are represented by Y if theroom fulfill the requirements Y otherwise 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 104 User Manual Insulation There are two kinds of insulation e Insulation between rooms represented by when fulfilling Y when do not e Facade or roof insulation represented by when it fulfills the requirements or m otherwise Double click and a dialog will show all the details of that insulation Click the first icon on the top right corner and add it to the Print list records or directly click the second icon and print the record to a
35. about the acoustic performance or underperformance of the building including airborne sound insulation between rooms ISO 12354 1 impact sound insulation between rooms ISO 12354 2 airborne sound insulation against outdoor sound ISO 12354 3 transmission of indoor sound to the outside ISO 12354 4 and sound absorption in enclosed spaces ISO 12354 6 At first SONarchitect displays the outdoor noise map which appears at the top of the tree resulting from the sound transmission of all rooms defined as noisy enclosures in the Project Configuration Form where you can change the indoor noise level of any room and the requirements You can browse the individual contributions of every room and separator by clicking the results tree When an element contribution is clicked the equivalent acoustic power of the element Ly dB is displayed in the bar graph below the Results Tree O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 31 E 77 E i i d E oo IX Room emission 2 MEM Bu PDD e rum Gum Ss eum ma de ee mm be 0 BD uix 3 WE tease mi AS ima Ey taz a n m LU m P DT a Ld C Fj i F Li ak Wall emission Now click the Floor nodes in the Results Tree let s take a bigger real building so we can show you all the different topologies clearer 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 32 User Manual ISO Demo Version Demo SPAI e 1684502 0 Result Ca
36. acade of your model will look like the real building SONarchitect is an advanced acoustic computation tool not a photorealistic 3D renderer To check the characteristics of any openings in a given wall you have to select the wall go to the 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started za openings tab and inspect the list at the bottom of the panel There you can also delete any unwanted windows ducts and doors It may be of great convenience to insert a door between Bedroom and Bathroom to get relief in critical moments Try also to put some windows and ventilation ducts Notice that you can insert windows in all facade elements in one strike just by selecting all facade elements with the F key IPS 5 LE ur TEENS z MM LaL EXT YH 240032328 44 T43C6 1 JE LLwIDDO O hi E a L je I ad od ber ejm el ca nme cmr m m Ti D Mudo mimin TE m IET dra 2 8 Let s rock Just press 2 and our toy building project would be solved in a fraction of a second Let s see all the results in thattoy building requirements have to be configured 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 30 User Manual Total building emission On the left part of the screen a 3D model of the building appears currently displaying the outdoor noise map calculation as per ISO 12354 4 The tree on the right is the Results Tree This is noordinary tree but a powerful analysis tool You can browse every detail
37. al Loss Factor 0 015 Waves speed m s 2600 Element thickness mm 120 Mass per unit area kg m 210 00 Critical frequency Hz 209 49 Fundamental frequency Hz SONequation interface You can select a model within this list of references e M J Crocker and A J Price Sound Transmission Using Statistical Energy Analysis Journal ofSound amp Vibration 1969 9 3 469 486 e EN ISO 12354 1 2000 Building acoustics Estimation of acoustic performance in buildings from theperformance of elements Airborne sound insulation between rooms Appendix B e S Ljunggren Airborne sound insulation of thick walls Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 89 5 1991 e A Brekke Calculation method for the transmission loss of single double and triple partitions Applied Acoustics 14 1981 225 240 e A London Transmission of reverberant Sound through Double Walls Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 22 2 1950 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Uses 8 Uses The designer needs to differentiate the various units of use typically dwellings within the building and the type of use of the different enclosures This is donethrough the Uses tab A unit is a set of enclosures it may contain just a unique room which correspond to a single dwelling or organizational unit Thus the different dwellings in a residential plan are different units and for instance a corridor to access the different dwellings m
38. all internal walls and 3 or f in thekeyboard to select all facade walls 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Lining Materials O e a C sab 24 f Roof 31 a Qf Facade 33 P Mixed fa ade 1 Wall 63 o ez Floating floor 4 Suspended ceiling 3 9 Wall lining 3 Descriptor Gypsum Glasswool Brick Board Glasswool Brick Gypsum glasswool brick Brick Glasswool Gypsum Mineralwool Brick Gypsum Glasswool Brick Porous concrete 250mm Concrete brick 200mm Brick 250mm Concrete Double Brick Mineralwool E 60mm gypsum building board 80mm gypsum building board Facade and walls 1 2x Board Cavity and Insulation Board Air Glasswool Board Gypsum Materials dh Facade hem Type Unit so so 70 so so 40 30 z0 O S 125 250 50 kk X Rw C Ctr dB 57 2 7 dB thickness mm 162 mm m kg m 7 62 kg m Catalog SON Catalog Solid gypsum Air Insulation Board Soli gypsum Gypsum Glasswool Brick Gypsum Gypsum Mineralwool Brick Mineralwool Board 256 Gypsum board 3 insulating layers 58 219 66 231 68 68 90 74 250 57 293 57 384 57 297 58 212 62 250 43 350 51 350 55 370 60 450 64 60 34 86 37 65 41 When working with Wall linings segments on each side of the walls represent the linings of each face You can select all interior linings by clicking inside a
39. arm To Fies ips TH EA e em Ea AO ee Pte in cen 13A HT Vo Urgence TR AP Incem EI AP Lo rg mgr ro rro LA DR T Pros 117 ET En once 1 PE To fro soy 178 AE da rose 1706 AE Wa a bs a eu roam s a B ro a ITTC 5A ue rum RO Cn T Er qam Fh CENT opem ER CET lo res qam 1 LUSIT Mn caen ER HT de uds puer TTE CAPIT Mop E To Hypes pm A EIS s roe EIE PI bo rpm ume TER CES e rz RI DIS M em non Wa L from sac 178 DA e roam S8 pa em mo m E 2i H rpm so Pa AE de o 10 Cans p WP eo te rum a nm rose ON E pOWP ede BS E Pr DISSE moa D Dew OW e em 03 LEN DL L DEL EI d i O i i MA Gee dz Pe TN a Lo Fe i N one ucc b WE R ue p ee As you can see there are several sections for including in thereport O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 11 4 1 Results 117 e Cover page e Index e Requirements e Fulfillment statement e Building statistics e Calculation records e Acoustic classification e Quantities Click on the Logo and you will be able to load your own company logo for the report You can also choose the characteristics of the Records to include in thereport Between any section you can also include a blank cover with its title just checking Include section cover pages in General options Cover When the cover checkbox is active the first page of the report will be a customized cover that will contain the view of the building in themoment of generating thereport 2012 Sound
40. assign uses to our toy building Press is the Type Units mode and a panel will appear on the right This This could be an example of Uses definition T Tzu jin Roe apr dt Select the first plan General in the plans list By right clicking and dragging select both rooms You can also do multiselection by picking while holding SHIFT Assign a use otherwise it will appear in light grey Assign Common use By selecting the rooms one at a time assign a suitable identifier in the Enclosure identifier text box such as Entrance for instance Notice that the identifier is shown inside the rooms Common area rooms do not need use unit identifier By default they are always different from any other use unit although you can modify this behaviorthrough the Project Configuration form O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started KO Motera 0 Porc bi EEEEEREREIEIULL Br i LS PHH 1450934 MaM wrocee Pom n s ananu n bhn am om aim GEO Rus mm rm BE DI De Go now to the dwellings plan Select the biggest room right bottom one and assign a Protected use by clicking the Protected button The room color changes to green which is the color of protected rooms as you can see in the corresponding button As identifier you may write something like Bedroom Now select the left room and assign a Habitable use The
41. at a full license entitles you to have all fields full of insightful information If you click the tiny file icon in the top right corner of the summary a PDF file will be generated with a record of all the needed information related to the acoustic insulation between theroom 2 record pdf Foxit Reader 3 0 PDF1 4 Elle Edit View Language Document Tools He eSlick ebook Reader S BABS gt 1001321 8 e e Ol x d IT me Advanced Window Help By double clicking node Wall 1 or by selecting it in the summary combo box an airborne sound insulation summary will appear The same occurs with the Slab 1 and the impact sound insulation O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 2 9 Getting started rj Sound transmission through element tj Sound transmission through element Impact Noise insulation result inspection Airborne Noise insulation result inspection Separating element Area m7 Demo Edge length m Demol Receiving room Volume m Demo Receiving room Volume m Demo JA p A dk c x 2 Show transmission through Separating element x i 77 A m 2 pum 0 Show transmission through Separating element mI You can always click the tiny file icon in the top right corner to generate a PDF document of the specific result Finally if you double click one of the transmission path nodes a r
42. at compose this constructive solution Manage this layers as usual with the layer tools re E new erase move and copy Insert the name and thickness of each layer You can also select a pattern representing that layer on the automatic drawing Double click on the first column and choose a pattern from the library with cavity is a blank patter that represents an air cavity You can also double click on the image if you prefer to load a BMP from your computer 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials 89 7 5 ck range 50 5uuu ri r Su m i Airborne Noise Pattern selection m All Horizontal Oblique right M ET left Concrete layer With cavity Solid brick Hollow brick vertical Concrete forms Plasterboard Glass Rubber Fibre board Polystyrene Wood Mame Finally you can also create your own solutions with the SONmultilayer engine ff and the SONequation module SONmultilayer Clicking in the SONmultilayer button ff inside the New Material Data dialog you will be able to calculate the acoustic insulation Sound reduction index R value of your customized solution Based on the Transfer Matrix Method you can calculate the acoustic insulation of your Multilayer solution just inserting the characteristics of each one of the layers Manage all the layers with the tools for that purpose ret 7 EP Select a layer and specify the Type of media Solid medium Porous medium and Acoustic
43. ators in the building model allowing the definition of high ceilings elevator shafts and facilities courtyards etc Virtualize SONarchitect has three navigation modes on the three dimensional model of the building With these three tools the user can move the camera rotate the model and rotate the camera Separate floors Shift To activate or deactivate a virtual slab in the 3D model of the building use the Virtualize tool R to left click inside a slab to remove it ie virtualize it You can de virtualize again the slab by left clicking it again To facilitate access to the different floors clicking or pressing Shift and using the scroll wheel or using the up and down arrows in the keyboard you can highlight one particular floor to make the virtualizations Note that the 3D virtual slab tool works on an individual basis for each slab at each floor even in the case of repetitions of the same plan If you wish to define virtual slabs for all occurrences of a plan it is more convenient to use the 2D Virtual slab tool O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L A pe 34488 090422284 H OK E A Bm L x See 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results 11 Results After modeling the building you can obtain all the acoustic insulation results according to ISO EN 12354 parts 1 2 3 4 and 5 This is the Results mode toolbar EL JN E F E Clicking the Results button in a matter of seconds
44. ay constitute a unit in this case a single enclosure unit When different enclosures are assigned the same unit the lines between different rooms of the same unitbecome thin and pale and the lines separating rooms of the same unit from those of other units become thick and dark To assign a given room to a given unit just select the room or rooms and input the unit identifier in the corresponding list box If the unit identifier already exists it can be directly selected from the list If it did not exist it will be automatically added to the list so it can be later selected for further rooms Typically the dwellings in a residential plan are assigned door letters such as A B C etc Non residential units such as corridors or access halls are assigned literal descriptors such as Back corridor or General hall In the result tree units will be identified by the unit identifier and also the floor number such as 1 A 3 C or 2 Back corridor Additionally an identifier can be assigned to each room just for the purpose of helping the designer tointerpret the results and recognize specific enclosures in the results tree A label will appear within the enclosure in the plan for easy identification Note that small enclosures this label may not appear in the plan to avoid visual clutter You can choose among all the different uses you have created in the Requirements configuration stage O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L
45. building can have as many different plans and as many repetitions as needed The distinction between plans and floors allows not having to draw and manage as many plans as floors has the building SONarchitect allows theimport of a DXF file as atemplate to draw plans from a CAD project An intelligent cleaning of the DXF file before using it as a template is recommended to improve its value as a template for drawing and to reduce the likelihood of operator errors Note that the acoustic calculation as per the ISO standard requires a simple model of the building to ensure the acoustic significance of the results You can also use plansimported from other SONarchitect projects as templates for your project The figure below shows SONarchitect s initial screen 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Project EJ Properties Fara DRAWING TOOLBAR ee Ws de ias m HH eov xasa amp e xo1 4 EHMWau erceG9 E PRI T CCS ca E Ponts Template Initial desktop Undo Redo V im During the drawing you can undo or redo an action by pressing these buttons You can also undo an action using thecommand Control Z on thekeyboard 6 1 Floors rud a gt SONarchitect computes every encounter between two neighbouring enclosures in the entire building To do this you have the possibility of drawing floor plans for the building floors 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 60 User Manual Plan list ri
46. cessesssscesscesssscssesceesceessesessecessccesssees 143 Glossary 144 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Intro 1 Intro SONarchitect ISO Welcome to SONarchitect ISO v2 2 the ultimate software tool for computing sound insulation according ISO EN 12354 parts 1 2 3 4 and 6 in the entire building 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Chapter Getting started Getting started 9 2 Getting started Here you can learn the first steps with SONarchitect ISO Double click the icon in your desktop to run SONarchitect ISO SONarchibecE If you have a Professional or Educational version of SONarchitect ISO ensure that the security hardlock is connected to a USB port of your PC If you have the Demo version you do not need the hardlock to run theprogram Hardlock You can check the Help Manual by pressing the F1 key or the Help button e and you will find some additionalinformation Let us help you create your first SONarchitect ISO project After launching SONarchitect ISO press New project in the toolbar You may notice that SONarchitect has not a menu bar All the SONarchitect functions are accessed via the buttons in the toolbar Let us draw our first building Insert someinformation in the New Project dialog box such as project name Building Code requirements or the default materials for roofs floors and walls 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 10 User Manual Project configuration A amp Gene
47. chitect status bar so you have a better location of the project quer IB 250 Dwellings Zoom in the status bar Move Y In 2D mode you can move around the plan by clicking anywhere on the desktop and dragging as long as the Move button on the toolbar is activated Alternatively to allow moving the plan without releasing the current tool you cantemporary enter Move mode by holding down Ctrl or even holding down the center button of the Mouse El Additionally you can use the Keyboard farrows LLL thereby facilitating simultaneous drawing and moving 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Chapter Materials User Manual 7 1 Materials The geometric structure of the building defined we can assign the constructive solutions Clicking on the tool Materials a range of tools appears on the right side for managing the inclusion in the model building of all the elements necessary for the insulation computation We can access the SONarchitect catalog of constructive solutions to identify those materials that correspond to each element of the building materials openings finishings In the Solutions tab in Materials section the user can assign the desired constructive solutions to the elements You can also create your own solutions and add them to the database by inserting therequired data This is the toolbar of the Materials mode Slab elastic Virtual slab Interior walls Catalog junctions selection i
48. d computes DnTw with an alpha coefficient of 0 001 in all the surfaces of the room You can also insert an object with a certain volume within the enclosure Select Absorption in Floor and click amp or press O key and enter the volume This Object will have the alpha coefficient of the floor so always insert it after assigning the floor absorption otherwise it will disappear Press Delete if you want to unassign the alpha coefficient to the surface If there is an Object on the floor you are pressing delete it will be also deleted 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials 83 7 3 Junctions Linoleum farm te on concrete Fibergass spray F Slotted wooden wal panel with acoustic ved 30 mm Slotted wooden wal panel with acoustic veil 25 mm Mineral wool painted 40 mm Mineral wool painted 58 mm Sprayed cellulose 19 mm Concrete block coarse Acoustic cring thes Fiberglass 2 no cavity Sprayed cellulose 38 mm Sotted wooden osing panel with acoustic ved 25 mm Slotted wooden ceiling panel with acoustic ved 40 mm Perforated wenden wall nana with anm ahir well 25 men UR GR gui d F3 Gx 3 a C3 Gm ks 0 02 0 42 0 37 0 29 0 55 0 45 0 49 0 33 0 77 0 57 0 42 0 11 0 19 0 03 0 56 0 64 0 29 0 37 n 25 T O ur One of the mosttroubled in the design of acoustic insulation of a building are the junctions 2012 So
49. disabled In the test installation a unique service was created configured to start automatically with the system startup Provide credentials in the fields at the bottom of the page For security purposes do not use a blank password Use the Database Engine Configuration Account Provisioning page to specify 8 Security Mode Select Windows Authentication or Mixed Mode Authentication If you select Mixed Mode Authentication you must provide a password for the built in SQL Server system administrator account sa account 8 SQL Server Administrators You must specify at least one system administrator To add the account under which SQL Server Setup is running click Add Current User To add or remove accounts from the list of system administrators click Add or Remove and then edit the list of users groups or computers that will have administrator privileges for the instance of SQL Server Use the Database Engine Configuration Data Directories page to specify nondefault installation directories To install to default directories click Next The System Configuration Checker will run one more set of rules to validate your computer configuration with the SQL Server features that you have specified The Ready to Install page shows a tree view of installation options that were specified during Setup To continue click Install Configuring the SQL Server Instance The configuration tools shortcuts are located at Start gt All Program
50. e name and authentication method and if needed the user and the password Click the Connect button If the connection is successful on the left panel called Object Explorer appears a selectable tree with the following sections Databases Security Server Objects Replication and Management On the Databases category a list of available databases is shown Left click on Databases and select New Database to create a new one On the Security category new users can be created Logins new server roles and credentials To create a new user right click on Logins set name and password and grant access to the database 13 4 Setting up the database The database isov2 used remotely by SONArchitect must be created and initialized manually For this purpose the file isov2 sql is supplied into the SONarchitect pendrive This file is a SQL script which creates and sets up the remote database To execute this script follow the next steps in the SQL Server Management Studio O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L SQL Quick Install 139 1 Edit isov2 qql and change the path to yourcurrent system 2 Select File gt New gt Query with Current connection or press Ctrl N On the right panel appears a texteditor where a SQL script can be edited 3 Open the SQL script sov2 sql selecting File gt Open gt File and selecting the desired script The source code of the script appears in the editor 4 Select Query gt Execute or pre
51. e the 2DSolids will get surfaces on theirs bottom 2 explode everything the surfaces will be exploded to areas 3 explode everything again and the areas will be exploded to lines Note that once the template is imported the user only needs to draw the basic lines of the plan ie those that define the enclosures The template management is performed in thebottom of the Plant Management panel 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 66 User Manual I Tracing plans Name DE Planta baja DE castillete amp planta 1 Ga sotano Tracing plans section in the Plans tab Through the new template button F specific layers can be loaded from a DXF file click All button to select all or unselect all clicking None Each layer is a template Different templates can be used together or separately If you want to delete some of the imported templates you only need to click the delete template button The figure shows the dialog for importing a DXF file that allows choosing the layers toimport and add as templates It isimportant to note that SONarchitect works in METERS To suit this unit theimport dialog permits to specify the scale of theimported template and the unit You can also choose the coordinate system in order to locate the DXF model within SONarchitect drawing zone Indeed when the DXF drawing is not centered SONarchitect automatically relocate it when it is more than 2km away from the origin O 2012 Sound of Numbe
52. e Product Key page select an option button to indicate that you are installing a free edition of SQL Server Express edition On the License Terms page read the license agreement and then select the check box to accept the license terms and conditions To help improve SQL Server you can also enable the feature usage option and send reports to Microsoft The System Configuration Checker verifies the system state of your computer before Setup continues On the Feature Role page select SQL Server Feature Installation On the Feature Selection page select the components for your installation By default select all the features O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 13 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 SQL Quick Install 137 On the Instance Configuration page specify whether to install a default instance or a named instance By default select first choice Fora default instance the instance name and instance ID would be MSSQLSERVER The default instance root directory is C Program Files Microsoft SQL Server 1001 The Disk Space Requirements page calculates the required disk space for the features that you specify On the Server Configuration Service Accounts page specify login accounts for SQL Server services You can assign the same login account to all SQL Server services or you can configure each service account individually You can also specify whether services start automatically are started manually or are
53. e Statistics button and you will have a matrix where you can see graphically the distribution of those acoustic values You can select the room type with the number of rooms that fulfill the requirements or not Ok NOk and the requirement with the number of calculations belonging to that room type and value and their compliance It displays the histogram where each column contains the number of calculations compliant non compliant couples of enclosures or facades from which the acoustic insulation levels have been calculated Click for instance in a box inside the row Habitable with the column Different unit and you will have the statistics of all the insulation values between Habitable enclosures and enclosures in a different use unit Then you can also click in any bar of the histogram green compliant range red non compliant range and immediately all the enclosures with a encounter within that category are located in the 3D model of the building So in theroom type region only the rooms are computed In the requirements region all the calculations are computed one room has more than one calculation when it has more than one adjacent room Clicking on the top right corner button you print areport of the building statistics 2012 Sound of Numbers S L ma User Manual Building statistics and histograms Requirements compliance Room Type Requirements Requirement From ok Nok Min Max i 2 DnTw gt
54. e with the X axis For example when drawing a line input 4 5a35 to draw a line of 4 5 meters at an angle of 35 degrees with the X axis Perpendicular Perpendicularities are controlled by means of the Ortho features e Global Ortho When the user draws a line while clicking this button or pressing Ctrl SONarchitect limits the drawing angles to 0 90 180 and 270 e Local Ortho gt When the line being drawn stems from an earlier line the base line is highlighted in orange as the current reference line If you click this button or hold down Shift the current line is limited to 0 90 180 and 270 with respect to the reference line When several lines converge at the starting point only one is the reference at a given time in orange To switch the local Ortho reference in clockwise order just repeatedly press R To Ortho reference or Normal By clicking it or pressing X you switch on and off the Normal mode Normal appears in the status bar when enabled When active a blue dotted indicator line appears indicating that the line that is being drawn is perpendicular to the indicator with respect to a reference point start or end points of any previous line That is when the dotted line appears pointing at a previous nodal point of the drawing terminating thecurrent line right there ensures that a subsequent line from the end point to the reference point would form an angle of 90 degrees Thi
55. easy to use procedure that will save you lots of time but you have to take a second to understand it Let us try it in our toy building 7 In the Materials mode select the Wall Junction tool in the toolbar You will see a change in the drawingrepresentation some arrows are displayed There are four arrows per line Two of them are pointing to the line ends These mark whether there is or not an elastic interface in the extreme of the wall they point to If the arrow is solid it means that there is an elastic band in that side of the wall whilst if the arrow is open it means that no elastic band is inserted which is the default The other two arrows at the center of the line point upwards and downwards The upwards arrow marks whether there is an elastic band O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started between the wall and the ceiling hence up whilst the downwards arrow marks whether there is an elastic band between the wall and the floor guess what To change the arrows state just click inside them They will switch between solid and open In bigger plans than our toy building you may need to use the mouse wheel to zoom and move around the plan Note that zooming in is always focused at the cursor whereas zooming out centers the drawing Hold CTRL and drag to move the drawing area YA 2032323284 ATA305 I F iFa erge You may also need to insert elastic junctions into the slab which is of great use to model da the
56. eport of the specific transmission path will be displayed with information about the materials of the flanking elements Transmission path 3 Flanking transmisi n through the path 4 A Separating element Area m7 Demo Receiving room Volume m luction index Rij dB in one third octave bands Source element Area m7 Demo Edge length m Receiving element Area m2 Demo m 500 5 ik ax Receiving room coovering POL Y f NE 4 SALA a 125 250 Source room coovering Source room base element Receiving room base element YL AT CI M AT YL R dB RE de AC Noni AR qa E e2548 abies Name 2x12 5 mm PB 48mm MW Name Prestressed concrete 200mm with top Name 50mm concrete on 30mm mineral woc Subtype Drywall Subtype Hollow core slab Subtype Plasterborad layer Catalog SON Catalog Catalog SON Catalog Catalog SON Catalog ARw mp kg m Rw C Cr 6362 mTkafm 7 87 00 Rw C Cu 55 2 5 m kgim 402 00 ARw 8 mi kg m 150 00 Again some information is missing in the Demo version and PDF generation is not allowed Do not you feel as wanting a license Call us With the licensed version if you are not satisfied with the results you just go back to 2D and change the design materials junctions or uses as many times and as far as you want Then in a matter of seconds you will get the new results This iterative process unfeasible with most of appl
57. fies whether the adjacent enclosure is in the 3 same unit or in a Mysia is different one Select outdoor if the requirementis for facades and roofs Room type column identifies the type of the adjacent room forthe requirement ibi i l Protected The window displays rea all the room types Common Area you have created allj Stairs Installations and elevators other types selection Libraries conference and dass rooms with no Restaurants Noisy endosures From room type speficications Otherwise or even any adjacent room type with Any Airborne sound insulation parameter Param column se ee selects the acoustic Apparent sound reduction index R parameters for the Sound reduction index R Received sound pressure level L2 nT calculation for ERY Normalized level difference Dn type ofrequirement BB33 Standardized level difference DnT Tmf max 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 46 User Manual contes impact noise b el Un BB33 Standardized impact noise level L iT Tmf max Frequency evaluation I DnTw DnTw 4C 100 3150 DnTw H 50 3150 DriTw H 100 5000 DnTw 0 50 5000 Dn Tw Ctr 100 3150 I DnTw 4Ctr 50 3150 DnTw 4cCtr 100 5000 Dn Tw Ctr 50 5000 DnT 1 1 oct 63 Hz Frequency evaluation Frequency column contains the Untw cl 100 2500 L nTw C1 50 2500 evaluation of the frequency domain depending on the type of requirement des Noise Brown Moise
58. fluid and enter the physical data for the calculation Some material characteristics can be selected from the Material Built in database 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 90 User Manual SONMultiLayer Computation of the acoustic performance of multilayered media JA Mineral wool d Plasterboard Type of media Solid medium Porous medium Solid medium Mame Plasterboard Material Built in Database Plasterboard Young Modulus GPa 1 713 Density kg m 875 00 Poisson ratio 0 20 Internal Loss Factor 0 063 Thickness mm 15 0 55 Acoustic fluid SONmultilayer Interface 50 15 35 2 3J Press the button Compute and the Sound reduction index in one third octave band will be displayed Press OK and it will be included in your solution 7 6 SONequation Now you can calculate your own solutions from the researched formulas in the literature Choose the tyeof element and a model Enter therequired physical characteristics of your solution and the modeled Sound reduction index will be displayed O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials a Acoustic calculation of the elements acoustic performance Type of element Sound reduction index RIdB in one third octave bands Single panel 5 Double panel 5 Lightwall Wall lining Floating floor Suspended ceiling Select Model Cremer 1940 Single Partition Material Built in Database Calcium Sulfate Layer Density kg m 1750 Intern
59. found in the openings list at the lower part of the Openings panel Note that for ventilations the equivalent area is specified in square centimetres Press delete to unassign those openings Assignment For all these solutions after describing graphically how to access to allocation mechanism you simply need to click on the button Y to the desired constructive solution selected in the catalog The element is represented by the color belonging to the constructive solution and also if you move the mouse cursor over it the solution assigned is displayed in the status bar If you want to select all the elements having the same constructive solution you Q simply select the solution in the database and click on the Show button BE Sandwich mineral wool 90 44 Multilayer wooden facade 115 45 Bl sandwich mineral wool 110 n a v Elie FO a rin ET If you want toremove this assignment press Delete when you are in the desired type of O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials 80 solution For checking all the solutions that you have assigned to your project click the Project material list button B A list with the materials type descriptor and acoustic parameters appears with some options Project material List Ceramic brick Gypsum Mineralwool Brick Mineralwool Board Concrete slab Insulation Wood roof contrete mineral wool E Window insulating window with Argon gas 4
60. he 56 built in models our staff Choose the one that matches your hearing sense Play adjust the volume and listen it in the source room for a better performance the use of a good pair of headphones is highly recommended Then with the mouse click and drag and the arrow keys just take a walk around Navigate through the environment and feel the different noise levels 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Since the purpose of projecting with SONarchitect is obtaining a document were all the calculations are justified you can generate a customized PDF file The user can decide the content of this report In the dialog it is possible to choose the sections the user wants to add Repot Creator d 5 3 m Ba From room 39 3 to room 40 Office 315 Report dialog For an easier location and edition of the results included in the report you can select them from the result tree amp Just press the icon F in the record dialog or press the key P when selecting the desired result it turns blue and it is automatically added to the reports list D WP ius dr D I AAA i Y u nx oa uL EC Suas SF ie LE B WB nee Eu E e NB ee Bu okw p WE Se fo oc P Wy tee Hn D su cni on D A Sa n UL i mj I e a P UE h mp A AA p dub tr pm hFE b m te md T io m eee iP oH io we denm pm jum cn e WP sein n D WP me ee i MO un cmm o e oum nc ome oo oum al Eae O Bin yl vegana Eeri D
61. hen you have previously created your limits load a lim file that may contain your desired requirements O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Program settings 53 Program Settings NN General Settings Remote User Database Atmospheric conditions Default requirements file MP vaMP Ga Load requirements file e Decide where the database is located Choose whether the database is a Local User Data Base or it belongs to a SQL server Just enter the connection data for accessing the Remote SQL Data Base and click Connect See the SQL Server Quick Install Guide Program Settings as General Settings Remote User Database Atmospheric conditions Local User Data Base Remote User Data Base SOL Server connection Username Password Server Hostname Database locator e Specify the atmospheric conditions that might affect to the acoustic parameters calculation Some attenuation coefficients are listed in order to choose the most suitable for your project conditions You can specify the Temperature Relative Humidity and Atmospheric Pressure according to ISO 9613 1 or choose among the six predefined conditions according to ISO 9613 2 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 54 User Manual 4 rona stan General Settings Remote User Database Atmospheric conditions Specific cond ISO 9613 1 Temperature 9C B Relative Humidity 95 80 22 Atmospheric Pressure kPa 100000 Predefined cond ISO
62. hich appear in a lighter shade under the current plan Select R Click this button or press S in the keyboard for choosing Select tool When we hover over a line it turns orange indicating that you can select it You select lines by clicking on them and they turn red Subsequent clicking deselects selected lines Holding down Control temporarily activates the Move tool which allows dragging the drawing Multiselection is possible by holding down Shift while clicking Multiselection can also be performed by dragging with the rightbutton e f you drag from left to right the lines entirely contained in the box are selected e Conversely if you drag from right to left lines partially or totally contained in the box are selected Click in any empty region of the drawing or press Esc for unselect all p To delete the selected segments simply press Delete or the Eraser button for that purpose Delete Dimensions 55a45 2 ioe 100 General Dimensions in the status bar 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 64 User Manual By pressing the Dimensions button in the lower bar all lines in the current plan are annotated To specify a precise length for a line during drawing you can enter the exact length in meters in the lower left box and then press Enter to draw the line If the length is followed by the a letter and an angle in degrees the line is drawn with the specified length and at the specified angl
63. i a Building statistics And we add some histograms afterwards describing the statistical distribuition of the different analyzed sound insulation values 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 122 User Manual sound insulation histograms Eerd o Bc eDRUEGE 0 Ern Seen ii Histograms 11 4 5 Records With the record options you can manage the way the results are disposed in the reports First of all you can select how many reports you wish to print You can print all of them just the selection you have done pressing P when being over the desired record or just the worst cases Check the one you prefer It is not evident to select the worst cases from the beginning That is why SONarchitect selects automatically the minimum and worst cases in order to justify the compliance of the project O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results Record selechon list E From room 39 19 tn room 40 Office 333 E Report dialog Now you can select whether printing a general record 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 124 User Manual Sound insulation according to EN ISO 12354 Airborne and impact sound insulation calculation record EC ge oreet EN 50 12384 bu E DAI HOERELTLI DOES NOTMEET THE REQUIREMENT MEETS THE REQUIREMENT General report O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results Sound insulati
64. ications is fast and easy with SONarchitect increasing your productivity and allowing you to optimize your designs in practical time Histograms SONarchitect can compute the whole building acoustic performance in a matter of seconds and it allows you to see and browse the results in an intuitive and comfortable way letting you to improve and optimize the acoustic design of your projects But can it do even more In Sound Of Numbers we love numbers and statistics is a smart way of dealing with numbers In fact the whole ISO 12354 computation process comes from Statistical Energy 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 38 User Manual Analysis What about performing statistics with the statistics What if we compute the statistics of the acoustic insulation of the entire building Could we estimate the probability distribution of the acoustic insulation Yes we can You can see the statistics of your building just by pressing T in the Results toolbar The matrix shows every combination of pairings of types of rooms in the building Clicking any matrix cell will show the corresponding histogram of acoustic insulation results Furthermore you can click any histogram bar and all rooms within the corresponding levels will appear in the 3D view Thus you can localize and also visually inspect the set of the worst best average in between performing rooms quickly and easily But let us show some of the histograms of real sized building projects
65. ill contain the classification statement Default materials As most projects use mainly a small subset of building solutions you can define some to be assigned by default as you draw You can specify default solutions for e Slabs e Walls e Wall lining e Roofs e Floating floors e Suspended ceilings e Ceiling absorption e Wall absorption e Floor absorption Just click the button to the right of each category Lj thus accessing the SONarchitect catalog of constructive elements O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 3 2 3 3 Project configuration NN E General Outdoor Requirements Classes Default mat Load defaults Slab Concrete slab floating floor Fl wall Wall lining Roof Floating floor Suspended ceiling Ceiling absorption Wall absorption HEHHEHE E ES Floor absorption Default materials You may Save the starting preferences to use them in other projects Save El El The SONarchitect ISO file extension is sdw The file with the desired name is created using the tool Save or Save As Auto saving For your security SONarchitect has an auto saving feature by which your project is automatically saved at regular intervals with extension bup If you want to access the contents of a backup file for instance in case of a hardware crash simply change the extension to sdw Additionally the user can always use thetool Save As to make a copy of the current project to an
66. imilar plans from imported templates it is recommended to use the magnet and snap to the template only in the first floor drawing the other plans using the magnet to the previous plans having the template only as a visual guide Thus it is guaranteed a correct correspondence among plans without fake encounters even in the common case that the templates has light deviations among them 2012 Sound of Numbers S L wa User Manual 14 2 14 3 14 4 Smart drawing is one of the keys that make possible to successfully apply the ISO 12354 to real buildings We have to constrain the coincidence of walls from one floor to the others otherwise the method in ISO 12354 cannot be applied If you try to draw a wall which is slightly tilted respect to a wall in the lower floor we will snap the upper wall to be perfectly coincident with the lower In the same way we do not allow very small walls which may pervert the ISO 12354 computation method just recall the influence of wall area in R so that we do not allow to draw lines of less than 20 cm This two measures which both have higher priority than the ortho lock lead to a natural simplification of the building design which corresponds with a proper specification of the acoustical design according to ISO 12354 At the beginning you may be a little puzzled about this behaviour of the drawing pen But as soon as you get used to its obstinate way the design process is greatly enhanced and
67. ine in the lower part of the screen To do that click and release the left mouse button to start the line and then move the mouse to O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started n the right To get a perfectlyhorizontal line press Ortho Global tool N or CTRL key while moving the mouse The text box at the lower left corner shows the real world length in meters of the line that you are currently drawing If you want to specify a given length for your line just write it the numbers you type will appear in the text box and press ENTER When using only the keyboard as you have to release CTRL to enter the length you can lock the drawing tool by pressing the space bar before releasing the CTRL key Thus you ensure that no accidental mouse displacement can spoil the horizontality of the line Pressing the space bar again unlocks the drawing in case you change your mind Try with 10 meters Now move the mouse upwards You will see that by default you are drawing a new line beginning at the end of the one you just finished If you would not want another line now you would press ESC But we will draw now a perfect vertical line so press again the CTRL key Lock the drawing tool with the space bar type 5 and press ENTER to get a 5 m line Mir ea Hele AnA AMAT gt gt m FMauwerooceo ta We want to close a rectangle in a right angle so click or press the X key to enable Normal detection When Normal detec
68. ing 56 A Hollow box girder wooden floating oar 255 58 50 Hollow box grirder floating Foor 310 53 68 I 54 37 88 205 x 72 Wood lab fosting foor 255 54 Bt BBB wood sab foating floor suspended ceiling 523 50 50 BBB ood slab posting foor suspended calling 301 71 37 Bl wood slab gypsum Posting floor ES 53 53 il oc stab insulation floating floor 270 53 52 Mil Viood slab insulation floating floor 270 63 52 Wood slab sand floating floor 0 53 60 XT Em PQ Browse the You can even connect this catalog to a remote SQL database Configure the conection 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials 2 sam setting clicking orin the Program settings You have the posibility of importing bigammount of data batch using an XML file click the button i and load a XML file from yourcomputer previously exported from SONarchitect ISO or created according to the Material Exchange Format v2 0 Or you can also export a material solution to a XML file pressing the button As seen in the figure the solutions are identified by a schematic drawing a descriptor and acoustic and physical data that characterize them Moreover each color has a customizable solution that can be visually located in the drawing Initially the elements that are not assigned to any constructive solution are displayed in grey Ifyou want to see in more detail the characteristics of constructive solutions provided in the database
69. iven configuration if it belongs to the extreme bar in the histogram At the same time the histogram also shows the overall acoustic performance of the building beyond the insulation level of the worst cases So luckily reports can be kept about 20 30 pages long 2012 Sound of Numbers S L File 3 File After starting SONarchitect you can open a previous project or start a new one In the toolbar you have the New and Open buttons SONarchitect ISO file type is SDW Save as 3 1 New u Pressing the Newbutton on the toolbar you start a new project The dialog Project Properties allows you to enter information necessary to start with your project On the first tab Project SONarchitect asks you to enter information identifying the project and the name or reference Both the Software licence owner and the organization are given by your license SONarchitect In case someone else in your company is using SONarchitect you can specify an Author name Insert a Project title and a reference that will be included in the PDF report Also the Author name and the Organisation will be included You may optionally define an initial drawing area by specifying the X and Y spans in meters to better adapt the drawing area to your project since the beginning In any case the drawing area will be automatically adapted to your drawing anytime you save your project and it grows on demand while you draw Now you have fou
70. lding is constructed by stacking plans and their repetitions in the order they appear in the list the upper floors above and the lower floors below We recommend that you set the proper order of your plans in the list from the very first to avoid unnecessary relocations of plans at a late stage which could bypass the mechanisms that control the coherence between plans active during your drawing of the plans thus making it possible the emergence of microflanks which would unnecessarily entangle the results Finally to delete the selected plant just click the Remove plantbutton To exploit the high correlation between different plans that usually exists in a building you can use other plans as atemplate represented in light gray To show or hide other than thecurrent plants just click the icon on the left Y in color when the plant is visible and grayed out otherwise 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 62 User Manual 6 2 The little magnet icon on the left controls whether the drawing tool snaps to the elements of the plan to allow a perfect match between floors If this effect is not desired just click on the icon itself and it will turn gray deactivating the feature The status bar shows which element of a line is trapping the drawing cursor Draw For drawing we have the following tools Erase Local Ortho Delete Shift Global Ortho Reference Control perpendicular x Use the Draw tool to
71. ll the tricks that will allow you to work with SONarchitect at cheetah speed But for the moment let us continue at snail pace Once you have the outer contour of the building in Dwellings draw an inner separating line from one corner to the opposite as shown in the figure below HH An 3 888 kite b gt Pina wer oe oe P E ds Now click on the center point of the diagonal separator This time click Ortho Local button gt or press SHIFT while moving the mouse With the SHIFT key you force the line being drawn to be normal to the line at the starting point if any It is a local ortho mode Remember that by pressing CTRL global ortho you force horizontal or vertical lines press CTRL and see the difference Now using SHIFT draw a line from the center point of the diagonal line to the top line as shown in the figure Now Dwellings has three rooms Note that you can see the General plan in light gray which allows you to ensure proper matching of elements between adjacent floors with different floor plans 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 15 i HE 0033847770 I Maerocee Now let us create the last plan the attic different from the dwellings plan This time we will do it faster Open the Plans list by pressing button Select the dwellings plan and copy it by pressing En A new plan appears in the plans list with the same name with an apostrophe added at the end Double click on
72. m 31 Coffee room amp from room 34 Office C from room 9 Elevator 3 Airborne noise DnT w c Sides 50dBA 1 Wall DnT w C 54 dBA a Path 1 Rij w 48 dB 4A Path2 Rij w 64 dB a Path 3 Rij w 61 db a Path Rij w 64 dB a Paths Rij w 55 dB 4 Path Rij w 56 dB 3 a Path Rij w 51 dB 4 Paths Rij w 64 dB a Path 9 Rij w 61 dB 4 Path 10 Rij w 64 dB a Path 11 Rij w 51 dB 9 2 Wall DnT w 4 C 54 dBA a Path 1 Rij w 48 dB a Path2 Rij w 64 dB a Path3 Rij w 61 dB 4 Path Rij w 64 dB a Paths Rij w 60 dB a Path Rij w 50 dB a Path Rij w 62 de a Paths Rij w 64 dB 4 Path9 Rij w 61 dB J Path 10 Rij w 64 dB 4 Path 11 OR w 51 dB iv Normalised Fm difference OnT dB i in one third oct octave IND Ready 1009 General There you will see how slab virtualization allows SONarchitect to deal with multiple floor rooms and to rightly compute all the flanking transmission paths between rooms You will also see another interesting example in Floor 0 gt Room 18 Distributor gt Room 45 Office 32G ISO Demo Version Demo project De BOA Vike ges H a 3 Results 2 22 MARKS amp y from room 54 Office 49G amp Floor 1 E all Floor 2 amp 4 Floor 3 amp 4 Floor 4 amp Foos amp 4 Floor 6 Case Parameter Calculation Limit Outdoor noise map 4 Floor
73. mber of segments for avoiding the insertion of several walls in the model with a insignificant length that only would make a more complex analysis of the results or any modification SONarchitect can compute the acoustical behaviour of thousands of encounters in seconds But this is not the problem but what the engineer would do when dealing with hundreds of microwalls for checking or modifying with low fidelity results because of their dimensions Any curved wall with three or four segments gives enough precision to the calculation bigger thanrequired by thenorm without complicating the result tree and its handling As well as with the curves SONarchitect supervises the drawing of too small walls the creation of microenclosures without constructive sense the false encounters and the concordance among plans This can require an adaptation period to SONarchitect drawing method Now the engineer has to make a general approach of how and what to draw from a realistic plan of the building for making an easier analysis of the results and handling and what is more important the precision of those results avoiding tricky drawings that might result mistaken and compute a different building than desired Due to the restrictions for the flexibility must be limited even with the automatic supervision it is highly recommended to pay special attention to the project coherence during the drawing for avoiding computation surprises In particular drawing s
74. n a point 1 or 2 m away from the the interior face of the facade and the intensity level that comes perpendiculary into contact with that element It is influenced by the diffusion of the sound field inside the room and the absorption of the interior of the facade segment Those 5 options you have in SONarchitect are contained in the Annex B of the 12354 4 Requirements SONarchitect ISO follows the ISO EN 12354 with no specific legislation directives You can 2012 Sound of Numbers S L a User Manual establish and customize limits for acoustic insulation according to any specific local Building Code or your quality criteria Just input the limits depending on the type of rooms and SONarchitect ISO will threshold the results according to those limits You can save or load this configuration from a specific file Classes Default mat Save limits configuration Load limits configuration Roomtype PF T T Requirements e244 0 Protected From Room type Param Frequency Req Hadi tebe Oh Same nit Any DnT DroTw C 50 3150 33 dB Common Area H Different unit Otherwise DnT DOnTw4C 50 3150 Stars 2 Different unit Otherwise LnT LaTe 100 2500 installatons and elevators 41 Different unit Common Area DnT DnTw4c 50 3150 Libraries conference and dass rooms A Different unit Common Area Unto Lin we I 100 2500 Restaurants 21 Different unit Stairs DnT OnTwt 50 3150 Noy enclosures Different unit Stairs LAT Lintw Cl 50 2500
75. n enclosure or individually In addition you can select a complementary set of the linings selected at any time When one or more linings are selected clicking C or pressing C the linings of the other face of the walls are selected 2012 Sound of Numbers S L User Manual Materials diy Facade bem Type Unit A E _ AR dB 2 Facade 33 7 E Mixed facade 1 Wall 63 p Mix wall 1 E E e Floating floor 4 63 125 250 0 ix zx eg Suspended ceiling 3 DRw C Ctr dB 10 1 1 dB Wall lining 3 E thickness mm 70 mm EE Door 15 3 FA Window 35 Catalog SON Catalog Descriptor DRw dB 15mm Plasterboard 48mm mineral wool 10mm cavity 48 mm Mineral wool 15mm plasterboard 3 _ _ _ _ _ _ SSF MES 50mm ceramic hollow brick on elastic bands 48mm Mineral wool 10 Lining Mixed Partition and Mixed Facade Mixed Facadetype and Mixed Partition are displayed as a merge of the walls or facades and linings This kind of solutions assign both linings and wall at the same time To inspect what materials have been assigned pass the cursor over the element and you can see the solution descriptor in the status bar The database catalog displays two color for each solution representing the linings and the wall materials O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials Materials ta Facade fa
76. nd facades the segments are represented as shown in the figure Here you can select segment by segment When you pass over them they turn orange and when selected they are shown in red If you want to select all wallsaround an enclosure just click inside of it Multiselection works as usual 2D Virtual slab Materials ti Facade hw Type Unit O e ES Slab 24 BD Roof 31 a Q Facade 33 TE P Mixed fa ade 1 E E Wall 63 a A mx wai o lu E e Floating floor 4 Ln w Cl dB E Suspended ceiling 3 thickness mm m kg m BP vae co _ e Descriptor Concrete slab floating floor Concrete slab floating floor Concrete slab floating floor I Contrete insulating board L Concrete slab floating floor L Concrete slab Insulation L Concrete slab floating floor Concrete slab floating floor Wood slab Wood slab floating floor suspended ceiling Wood slab gypsum floating floor L Wood slab floating floor Wood slab insulation floating floor Wood slab insulation floating floor Wood slab floating floor suspended ceiling Hard wood Hard wood floating floor Wood slab sand floating floor Hollow box girder 583858388 R dB Ln dB 63 15 250 SO kk 2k 60 2 7 dB 49 1 dB 240 mm 506 kg m SON Catalog There are two multiselection shortcuts or i in the keyboard to select
77. ng Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2 Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Management Tools from http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyID2967225eb 207b 4950 91df eeb5f35a80ee amp displaylang en The SQL Server Installation Wizard installs the following components 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 136 User Manual Database Engine Analysis Services Reporting Services Integration Services Replication Management tools Connectivity components Sample databases samples and SQL Server Books Online The installation follows the next steps 1 Double click on the downloaded executable Click OK to install the prerequisites NET Framework 3 5 SP1 and Windows Installer 4 5 are required When the prerequisites are installed the Installation Wizard runs the SQL Server Installation Center To create a new installation click New Installation or Add Features to an Existing Installation The System Configuration Checker runs a discovery operation on your computer To continue click OK If Setup detects SQL Server 2008 on the machine you will see a warning about the automatic upgrade of shared components to SQL Server 2008 R2 On the Language Selection page you can specify the language for your instance of SOL Server if you are installing on a localized operating system and the installation media includes language packs for both English and the language corresponding to the operating system On th
78. ngs Go to materials assignment and select the element implied on the selected transmission path Insert an obiect with a certain volume for Reverberation time control Rotate the reference line for perpendicular drawing Perpendicular guide Multiselection Localortho Separate Floors in 3D together with scroll wheel Pan Global ortho Delete material assignment Lock line for perpendicular with dimensions Unselect lines Esc Closes windows 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Chapter SQL Quick Install SQL Quick Install 135 13 SQL Quick Install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Quick Installation Guide b SONarchitect ISO 13 1 System Requirements Before installing Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 the server machine must have the next configuration and software Windows XP Service Pack 2 This installation procedure was tested on this operating system For installations in other operating systems please visit Microsoft SQL Server Solution Center http support microsoft com ph 2855 Windows Installer 4 5 http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyID 5a58b56f 60b6 4412 95b9 54d056d6f9f4 amp displaylang en Net Framework 3 5 SP1 http www microsoft com downloads details aspx Familyld 333325FD AE52 4E35 B531 508D977D32A6 amp displaylang es Windows PowerShell 1 0 http www microsoft com windowsserver2003 technologies management powershell download mspx 13 2 Installi
79. of Numbers S L ION User Manual Building Acoustic Report according to EM ISO 12354 1 2 3 4 6 11 4 2 Requirements You have entered the requirements for your project based in the building code of your country or region You can now add asummary of these limits in thereport O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Building code ui nta E OEA E 1232 2244 areas Sere dd CHO ae O IAE TE A Gn eee a ee et Requirements 11 4 3 Compliance statement The first and most important information in the project is its fulfillment with the requirements SONarchitect summarizes the compliance in a diagnosis sheet 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 120 User Manual Sh Project compliance statement KA DAdD C dr EO 1233 7 T 344 B oom ho mmm d Mireia pinera j Pb OO PAT A AA c j EA nba PE A E PA MEDIA a ERA E E 2 g ar Ed ca o ae feos Ta CA O O A EF O O EE TAE TA IURIS A E A Ss E E A E SS Pa RA o ee Gat RT da rd MTE e a E di Fulfillment sheet 11 4 4 Building statistics SONarchitect computes all the sound insulation values in the entire building So we have all the data for presenting the general statistics of the whole building First we can classify the rooms in types describing its compliance 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results 121 Building General Statistics E E mucme ee n THU As E E m ea ee ECT FEET FEES I E m AL EE CD og ENS IE 5 om m nd EN
80. og and press the Assign button The configurable colors in the material list provide visual feedback in the modified slabs For the Stairs enclosure we are going to manage a slightly more refined situation Let us imagine that we have a lightweight stair in the room such that the enclosure is connected from floor to floor It is a unique enclosure 18 m high To get it we just need to select the Fra d 27 Stairs room and click the Virtual2D button or press the V key V for Virtual Thus you virtualize the inner slabs in a series of repetitions i e you remove them from the building connecting adjacent volumes between floors stemming from repetitions of the given plan Note that by using the Vritual2D button or the V key you virtualize the slabs only between plan repetitions For other slabs you must use the corresponding tool in the 3D view of the building HH 400328 4 0 FRE I T rT rir tis IIT mm uda a 5 T ip I EE Wb EXE P aan mud EE Pu m a og ander Lo i mmm 3 Fey umb t me em i bin j ha LEEEFEEEEETTI HIE I S I LA if i E v T do IRE M AS item ihis ia fee Er ih don Fein 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 22 User Manual 2 5 Thus for instance if you want to design an inner courtyard you also need to virtualize the roof in the last floor repetition and you must use the 3D virtualization tool in the 3D mode 3 You also need this tool to virtualize
81. on according to EN ISO 12354 Avtamaaniimoacteaundcsuabon cacu tion mcond a lr a S General report with classification adding all the implied elements in that record 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 126 User Manual Sound insulation according to EN 150 12354 Aah eT A Cl eric a om Tet d G msomi ho Ammon m zo B b o dnb e wn WE Wa mb eb E eb Fe e y DA CA aw d wb s we wm m ue M Lm ECN me s me i Lamm p s ee or even adding all the transmission paths 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Results 127 oou i i Jl RT ET IHE a MERA E PEA FOSA MEN EA O ae rra rman ni Dr pm Pa E Pam g Pa on Fam a Fee B Fam j Fan F Fam d bat h e pee o ae m E Bemad ee he a eae ee ee 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 128 User Manual Sound insulation according to EN IS 12354 1 E Hi DI H E H a LJ H e mee pee ms i a i em me om ee 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 11 4 6 Acoustic quality Beyond the fulfillment SONarchitect allows to clasify the sound insulation of each enclosure in the quality levels A B C D E described in the European countries standards Denmark DS 490 2001 Norwey NS 8175 2005 Sweden SS 25267 2004 Finland SFS 5907 2004 Iceland IST 45 2003 Germany VDI 4100 1994
82. other file We recommend that you use a sequential numbering of filenames for your more complex projects so you can always go back to an earlier stage of your project in case you encounter any problems during thedevelopment of your project Export to Odeon SONarchitect ISO is connected to theroom acoustics software Odeon Press Save as button l as and choose Odeon Parametric File Par among the Type of files 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 50 User Manual Odeon Parametric File Par Las All Then you will be able to load the SONarchitect ISO 3D model of the building in Odeon 3 4 Open E With the Open button you can load an SDW file For better accessibility the arrow on the right displays a list of recent projects 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Chapter IV Program settings 52 User Manual 4 1 Programsettings SONarchitect computes sound insulation according to EN ISO 12354 It must be fed with some user data e Geometry e Materials e Uses e Atmospheric conditions The geometry is input in the drawing stage but the user can configure SONarchitect where the materials uses and atmospheric conditions come from This will be the default configuration In addition you will have your SONarchitect licence always up to date using the Updates application Options Click the Program Settings button i little button near the status bar 213 ELLO Er e W
83. r considerations for the calculations e Consider different unitfor rooms on different floors If you check this point adjacent rooms located in different floors will be considered as different units See requirements section e Donotcompute outdoor map Disables the visualization of theoutdoor noise map 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 42 User Manual e Do not consider flanking elements minor than X m Very small flanking elements can over estimate the sound insulation between two rooms according to EN ISO 12354 The engineer can decide the area of the smallest flanking elements to appear in the calculations e Donotcompute impact sound insulation from slabs minor than X m The method of the EN ISO 12354 mightunder estimate impact sound insulation for very small slabs You can limit the calculation for avoiding small slabs impact sound insulation in the results Project configuro iii le General Outdoor Requirements Software License owner C stor Rodriguez Fern ndez Organisation Sound of Numbers Author C stor Rodriguez Fern ndez Project ttle New Project Reference Init draw area X ais m 25 V Consider different unit for rooms on different floors Do not compute outdoor noise map Bo nat consider Ranking elements minor than 0 00 Do net compute impact sound insulation from sabe minor han 0 00 You can edit the data in the Project Properties dialog at any time by clicking the Properties at button
84. ral Outdoor Requirements Chas Software License owner C stor Rodriguez Fern ndez Organisation Sound of Numbers Author C stor Rodriguez Fern ndez Project tile New Project Reference Initial draw area X axis m 23 Y axis m V Consider different unit for rooms on different floors Do not compute outdoor noise map Do not consider flanking elements minor than 0 00 De not compute impact sound insulation from sabe minor than 0 00 You may save the default material set to use them as defaults in other projects By now it does not matter what you choose since this is a toy project Press OK and SONarchitect will ask you for the first plan details name height and repetitions You can change these at any time later By now let us call General the first plan 3 m high and just one repetition Then you will access the drawing canvas and tools Let us start 2 1 Drawing Find the Plans button and press it A panel will appear on the left with the Plan list and Tracing imported templates plans Here you can create new plans copy them to create similar floors change their order in the building etc Buildings in SONarchitect are composed by floors which are created from repetitions of plans We will begin by drawing a firstfloor that we have called General 3 m high and which will 1F appear in the building only once The drawing mode must be active Click Select the Pen tool and draw an horizontal l
85. rs S L 6 4 Layer selection DXF Units Millime ters DXF Scale 1 1 d 30 MOB mobles DXF Coordinate System Y 50 PROJF Origin X m 2 397973 58 Y m 4568602 61 I 34DIVF 31 MOB sanitaris UCSX X m 2 0 9712838 Y m 0 237923 MI 47 URB N W 11ESTR G UICSY X m 0 2379236 Y m 0 9712838 El 37 DIV PUN I 34 DIV FF 44 PAV Rotation angle 15 7545225 W DEFPOINTS 60 SUP UTIL Jl 61 SUP CONSTR SONarchitect works with the International System Vl 63 NOPLOT units vl 32 MOB F DXF import Templates with the icon active are appear in light grey in the drawing area allowing the taking of references The inclusion of a template is functionally analogous to therepresentation of different plans under thecurrent plan Thus the Pen tool snaps to the templates This feature is activated and deactivated by the magnet icon to the left of each template in the list The status bar indicates the kind of snap in action Ortho and Normals also work with active templates Zoom aaa e The Zoom permits pan and zoom the view of the current plane in both 2D and 3D Additionally for convenience you can increase or decrease the zoom using the mouse gt Scroll wheel zoom 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 68 User Manual To retrieve the overview of the building both 2D and 3D there is also the Fit to window tool a The 2D zoom percentage is indicated at all times in SONar
86. s gt Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 In this folder the Configuration Tools are located the SQL Server Installation Center and the SQL Server Configuration Manager Using the SQL Server Configuration Manager the services the network configuration and the client can be configured 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 138 User Manual 1 Execute the SQL Server Configuration Manager Select SQL Server Services on the left panel On the right panel appearsa list of services and their status Select the SQL Server service MSSQLSERVER and double click On the new window the service can be configured Select the Service tab and set Start Mode to Automatic Select SQL Server Network Configuration Protocols for MSSQLSERVER on the left panel On the right panel appears the available protocols and their status Enable TCP IP double clicking on it and setting the correct parameters for your network configuration Select SQL Native Client 10 0 Configuration Client Protocols on the left panel On the right panel appears the available protocols and their status Enable TCP IP as in step 6 Using the SQL Server Installation Center operations such as new instances installation maintenance repairing or removing tasks can be performed In the same folder is located the SQL Server Management Studio a GUI application to configure easily the SOL Server 1 2 Execute the SQL Server Management Studio Set the server typ
87. s tool allows drawing parallelograms but hasfurther potential Lock For a comfortable and safe usage of the input box the drawing cursor can be locked with Spacebar With the cursor locked you can release Ctrl or Shift without losing the Ortho mode currently in use This prevents involuntary movements of the mouse from spoiling the orthogonality of a line when specifying a length Just remember not to release Ctrl or Shift before pressing the space bar so that the locking enters with the intended mode still O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L active 6 3 DXF Templates The robustness of the acoustic modeling an inherent need of the calculation method Thus double walls pillars or downspouts must be assimilated to two dimensional elements characterized by adequate acoustic values requiring the intervention of the designer Smart cleaning of DXF files is recommended toremove all superfluous elements without any significance from the standpoint of ISO acoustic calculation Plants furniture decoration symbols names etc It is alsorecommended to delete the design elements outside the area occupied by the building compass rose scale frame etc SONarchitect adapts the drawing surface to the templates when these are greater than thecurrent drawing Is also highly recommended to explode all the lines within the DXF Specially if you are using some AutoCAD objects like 2DSolids 1 mark everything and use command _convtosurfac
88. se Parameter Calculation Limit c amp amp outd map E 4 Floor 0 E Wy Room 3 Distributor E UY Room 5 Stairs Room 16 Bath 0 4 amp YY Room 17 Bath 094 E Room 18 Distributor o 21021219 19 19 RS RRRRR nant won Ready 100 General All rooms in floor O are displayed The horizontal elements of the floor are shown in red or green Rooms in green meet all the requirements while rooms in red fail one or more requirements The requirements are configured in the Project Configuration Form with different requirements depending on the uses of the receiving and transmitting rooms Let us click the first room displayed under floor O which is Room 3 Distributor Distributor being the identifier chosen for theroom by the designer C BA33 EEO 90 Result Case Parameter Calculation Limit amp A outd map amp Fooro Room 3 Distributor T3 Reverberation Time T30 0 58s 0 80s Y from room 2 Box 2 00D amp from room 1 Box 1 09D from room 8 Box 3 0 C G y from room 9 Elevator G from room 10 Box 6 0 B G Y from room 6 Box 5 0 B G from room 7 Box 4 0 C G Y from room 11 Box 11 09A from room 12 Box 7 0 B G from room 14 Box 9 09A H UY Room 5 Stairs E UY Room 16 Bath 0A amp Y Room 17 Bath 094 E UY Room 18 Distributor c amp i Foor E Floor S Floor amp Floor S Floor
89. ss F5 or the button Execute of the main toolbar The SQL script is executed and the database is created At this point the SQL server and the database are available to be used 2012 Sound of Numbers S L FAQ 14 14 1 FAQ Here we are answering somecommon questions about SONarchitect ISO Why SONarchitect does not allow to draw what want SONarchitect is not a drawingtool SONarchitect is a acoustic software for helping you in the acoustic desing of your projects With this purpose SONarchitect continuously overviews your drawing and corrects automatically any situation that might unnecessary complicate the acoustic analysis of the building The engineer that uses SONarchitect must be always aware that for the UNE ISO 12354 computation method is not only unnecessary to draw an exact copy of the building plans but also counterproductive It is necessary to simplify the plans of the building until achieve a simple model that has complete acoustic sense Thus for instance SONarchitect does not provide tools for drawing arcs or circumferences because the norm does not reflect curve walls That is why it is necessary to approximate any curve of the plan to a polyline Actually this always happens while working with computers for example AutoCAD To get a visual result as much similar to a curve as possible is the purpose in AutoCAD in the other hand SONarchitect and the ISO 12354 should approximate the surface with the minimum nu
90. struction solutions dimensions and all the characteristics of the elements implied in the noise reduction index in a given transmission path just by double clicking the corresponding node in the tree A dialog see figure appears You can find the basis element and the linings at both sides of the transmission path 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 108 User Manual Source element Ares m 645 Separating element Ansa mA Receiing Herment Arta mi nd Edge length m 3 14 E ml Ei x n l E a x al ac hup 000 Tibe husos coss ad ETOCS Saee Lao rear Basa sacras core MUN DAD ov caemaet gea Cae HIN Crd Rec Sr Eri ES LEA Seed oi F gen A ee Transmission path inspection You can print areport of this transmission path clicking the icon on the top right corner To inmediatley address any possible problem with a troublesome transmission path just press G and SONarchitect will Go to the 2D view and will select the weak element for you Openings When the direct path has some opening into its structure you can inspect the results corresponding to all the openings just by clicking the appropriate node in the tree BEA wall B B B poor MC Window P FF Blind 9998 Ventilation Microenclosures During the design process some tiny enclosures may by unconsciously generated by the O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L designer microenclosures which would constitute irreal flanks witho
91. th the attic plan selected in the plans list go to the drawing area and delete the four rightmost lines keeping only the room on the left Use the selection tool R You can select lines one by one by left clicking or by dragging with the right button of the mouse If you drag towards the right all the lines partially included in the selection box will be selected If you drag towards the left all the lines completely included in the selection box will be selected Select the four rightmost lines as in the figure and press DEL to delete them or press the rubber button in the toolbar SONarchitect ISO Professional New Project il p E 3 z T 1 88 21901904 4 97 gt 1 Abu ex See Plan list 8 Ratt Name him R Gea 300 1 Dwellings 300 4 General 3 00 1 m Tracing plans T d Name p We have drawn atoy building You can press the 3D button at any time to see the structure of your building This is the 3D mode Play with the 3D navigation tools which will be very useful when browsing the calculation results There are tools to drag or rotate the camera and to orbit around the 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 2 3 Getting started model You can move forwards or backwards with the mouse wheel By pressing CTRL while moving your mouse you can translate the camera without changing your 3D navigation tool If you lose sight of the building while flyingaround it just click the restore
92. the insulation of a tilted roof The EN ISO 12354 only model horizontal slabs and roofs You mustapproximate your roof to ahorizontal one Use the virtual slab tool where needed 2012 Sound of Numbers S L MO User Manual Glossary 9 2D virtual slab 75 3 3D 100 3D virtual slab 100 A Absorption 82 Acoustic classification 129 Acoustic quality 129 Activities 93 Angle 63 Arrange plants 59 Arrows 62 Asterisk 108 Atmospheric conditions 52 53 B Balcony 97 Bedrooms 93 Blind 70 Blinds 79 C Ckey 133 Catalog 70 Classrooms 93 Common use 93 Complementary 70 Compliance 119 Control key 62 133 Custom solutions 87 D Database 52 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Default Coverings 47 Default solutions 48 Delete 63 Delete key 133 Diffusion factor 43 Dimension 62 Dimensions 63 Door 70 Doors 79 Draw 62 E Edit plant 59 Enter key 133 Erase 62 63 Erase all 80 Error Materials unassigned 70 Export 49 Es Fkey 133 Facade 70 76 97 File type 41 Floating floor 74 Gs G 108 Gkey 133 Geometry 141 H Halls 93 Hand 68 Hide plant 59 key 133 Import DXF 65 Instalations 93 Interior 70 J Junctions 83 _L Legislation 43 Limits 43 Line 62 Lining 77 Livingrooms 93 Lock 64 Magnet 59 Marks 63 Measurement 63 Microenclosures 108 Mixed facade 78 Mixed partition 78 Move 68 Multilayer 89 N New 41 New plant 59
93. the new plan and change its name to Attic or the like Change the repetitions number to 1 Press OK to go back to the plans list Now press the small button with an upwards arrow LI to move the new plan to the top of the list above the dwellings plan The order of the floors in the building is given by the order in the plans list You can change it at any moment as well as the repetitions of each plan but it is a good advice that you draw your plans in the order they will appear in the building to ensure proper matching between corresponding elements in adjacent floors with different floor plans At some point SONarchitect will ask you to save the project SONarchitect does not feel at ease if you have not saved your project for a while since you started Once you have saved it the first time for your safety a backup copy of your project will be automatically saved every few minutes with bup extension You can see it in your working directory However 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 16 User Manual do not rely on the backup mechanism to protect your work Remember to save your project from time to time and it is always safer in big projects to save new versions of your project with different file names as you progress Save your project with the name Toy project or something similar The drawing canvas will resize from the initial default dimensions to your current building dimensions Wi
94. tion is enabled the label Normal appears in the status bar Check it Now to draw the upper side of the rectangle press CTRL while moving your mouse to the left If Normal detection is enabled a dashed blue line will appear when you come close to the zone where the line should end to form a right angle The blue dashed line means that your line would end at a point where a normal the blue dashed line from a previous line end would meet your line When you see the blue dashed line click to draw the line 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 12 User Manual Finally click the right mouse button to automatically close the polyline By right clicking you will close the polyline as long as the polyline starting point remains unconnected If it has been modified by the drawing supervision rules which prevents geometrical artifacts without architectural sense and manages the matching between plans and rooms the polyline will not be automatically closed If the starting point is not free right clicking just ends the drawingpretty much as the ESC key IB sONarchitect ISO Professional New Projed i 1248 2004122804 x4 195 HMR LSICO0O Now we have a perfect rectangle Move the mouse over the bottom line of our rectangle You will see that the cursor sticks to the line and to its singular points center and both ends Draw a line from the center of the bottom line to the center of the top line You do not need to press CTRL
95. to ensure verticality in this case as with two perfectly matching lines from center to center verticality is guaranteed You have just created you first two rooms O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Getting started 13 2 EE 1 4 023280 k FT H IBu wroceou 2 2 Inserting plans Press the Plansbutton in the toolbar and create a new plan by pressing T The new plan will source four floors of dwellings of our toy building so name it Dwellings or similar and specify 4 repetitions in the New plant dialog Note that all plans have a small icon with an eye This allows you to make visible or invisible the different plans to use them as guides for other plans Thecurrent plan the plan that you are editing is the one selected in the Plans list and it is shown in solid black lines in the drawing area while the rest of visible plans are shown in light gray The current plan name is shown in the status bar Ensure that the current plan is Dwellings and that the first floor plan General is visible Use the Pen tool to draw in Dwellings an outer contour matching that of the General plan Note that this could also be done by copying the General plan using the button LH in the plan list and then deleting the inner vertical line in the new plan selecting it after clicking 9 R and delete it pressing Delete in the keyboard or clicking With time you will 2012 Sound of Numbers S L ow User Manual learn a
96. trace the lines representing the vertical divisions of the building The lines you are drawing represent the mid line of each wall or facade SONarchitect actively helps you in this task Optional keyboard input allows accurate drawing Lines Left click or press L in the keyboard to begin drawing a line at a given spot in the drawing area End the line by right clicking if you donot want to continue a polyline or left clicking if you want to begin another line from the endpoint If a polyline or sequence of chained lines was started at a free nodal point right clicking will automatically close the polygon Conversely if the polylines started at a previous line right clicking just terminates thecurrent line If youterminated a line with the leftbutton but you did not really want to continue drawing simply press Esc To draw a line linked to a previously drawn line a snap indicator appears under the cursor that changes color depending on the kind of reference It is green when the cursor is on the line but at no characteristic point This allows you to be sure that the line you draw will start 2012 Sound of Numbers S L from the original line effectively dividing the original wall It changes to orange when the cursor is above the midpoint of the base line or any of its ends The snapping mechanism works also with DXF templates and other plans as long as the magnet is on for the corresponding template layer or plan w
97. und of Numbers S L 84 User Manual 7 3 1 The meetings between floors and partitions or between partitions have different geometries and compositions that determine their vibrational reduction rates SONarchitect has managed to do this work almost transparent to the user identifying characteristics of the joint automatically The unique feature of the board that has to be determined by the user is its elasticity For this purpose there are two tools Wall Junctions Slab Junctions Slab Junctions X A Pressing the Slab junction button in the 2D drawing the lines turn green and settling at the midpoint of each line two triangles pointing to each side of the line If the triangle is white or empty means that the union is rigid Clicking within these triangles they fill symbolizing the junction is elastic To redefine a junction click again and the triangle empties rigid junction again It is something similar at the junctions in walls Slab Junctions How does it model the junctions Check this examples O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials 85 7 3 2 Wall Junctions P Following slab junctions functionality pressing the Wall junction button drawing 2D lines become green and slab becomes putting green lines and settling this time in the beginning and end of the line pointing to the ends that determine the elasticity of the side junctions and at the midpoint two triangles pointing vertically upwards and down
98. ut any acoustic meaning During the drawing SONarchitect supervises the design to try to minimize the risk of microflanks However if they appear anyway SONarchitect detects them and notifies their presence in the result tree adding an asterisk to the affected results Concerning the geometry every time any result is selected in the tree the corresponding element is displayed in the 3D model of the building It is featured in green if it fulfills the requirements in red if it does not The emitter enclosure or flank is always represented in blue Caso Par metro 2 a A Planta o ST E amp Planta 1 LLO t ali Planta 2 ia A E l Planta 3 Lor LPS i m Planta 4 del Planta 5 Aim E E Planta amp b B amp Planta 2 gm dd Planta 8 Floors 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Caso Par metro E iil Planta 5 m Recinto 629 5 CP3 QE Recinto 630 E CP3 H WE Recinto 631 59CP3 UY Recinto 632 5 DP3 QN Recinto 633 5 DP3 V Recinto 634 5 CP3 UY Recinto 635 5 DP3 OD Recinto 636 E EP4 QN Recinto 637 5 EP4 OD Recinto 638 59CP3 UY Recinto 639 5 EP4 UY Recinto 640 5 FP4 Mp Recinto 641 5 FP4 UY Recinto 642 E DP3 WE Recinto 643 E FP4 UY Recinto 644 5 CP3 UY Recinto 645 5 BP3 UY Recinto 646 5 EP4 UY Recinto 647 Portal 3 OD Recinto 648 5 CP3 QN Recinto 649 5 FP4 OD Recinto 650 5 DP3 UY Recinto 651 5 DP3 UY Recinto 652 5 EP4 UY Recinto
99. view button Mi co Ls irc in aeo PR js V 3 6 8 S HG xK UMMIwIIO Use units Before assigning materials let us assign uses and use units Each room in SONarchitect has an Identifier a Use and a Use unit The Identifier is just the room name with no implications in the calculation that you may chose at your will but allows you to better identify the rooms in the results The Use let you define the type of room In SONarchitect you can define as many uses as you want in the Requirement settings The uses let you configure any Building Coderequirementsthrough the Project Configuration Form There you can change therequired parameters and quantities which are defined from a given Use to another Use Do not try to completely understand the requirement configuration now It will be clearer when we get to the results section Besides the Use aroom has also a Use unit identifier which identifies all the rooms that belong to the same dwelling habitation unit or in general Use unit Thus in a dwelling you have rooms with different Uses but with the same Use unit The Use unit identifier can be as simple as aletter SONarchitect distinguishes Use units in different floors so you can use the same letters for any floors You can configure this behavior through the Project Configuration form for specific multiple floor Use units such as duplex apartments 2012 Sound of Numbers S L 8 User Manual Let us
100. wards which determine whether upper and lower junctions are stiff or not If the triangle is white or empty the union is rigid Clicking within these triangles and coloured symbolizes that they are elastic To redefine a jointreturn as rigid it is enough to click on the triangle to be white again 2012 Sound of Numbers S L A a A V Wall Junctions This might help Let us see some examples of the behaviour of this tool Yi 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials 7 4 User solutions SONarchitect adapting the work of all engineers enables the user to enter their own custom construction solutions if these are not included in either the catalog or belong to any of the manufacturers included in the database If the user wants to include a new solution only needs to select the type and subtype of T also editable with the button Be careful when you edit a material it will not change the assigned materials in the project custom material and click the New button on the tab of materials These solutions are You will find them in the User catalog New Material Data Descriptor bx Gypsum Mineral wool Air 2x Gypsum 1 3 octave bands extended range 50 5000 Hz Y 16 30 Type Color EJ Airborne Noise Subtype Drywall y a Sound reduction index R dE in one third octave bands thickness mm 104 0 Y Lightweight Mass total kg m 110 0 On elastic bands F
101. you can simply double click and get a detailed datasheet 2012 Sound of Numbers S L User Manual View Mater Data NN O O OO OOOO O Material datasheet Descriptor Subtype Floating paving Catalog SON Catalog Color 8 Type Roof Mass kg m 303 thickness mm 245 Layers ER 60mm concrete a NS 0 2mm membrane Light element 2mm floor board On elastic bands Bii 160mm concrete pavement Double wal in one third octave bands Airborne Noise Impact Noise Hz amp 1 f Ind Sound reduction index R dB in one third octave bands 30 m O NUMBERS Material extended information Double click the image in the bottom right corner and you get the information about the source of the data Press Escfor closing Depending on the type of solution that the user wants to assign the elements that can be selected are clearly represented in the drawing Roof slab floating floor and suspended ceiling When selecting any of these items you can only select enclosures ie polygons When you O 2012 Sound of Numbers S L Materials pass the cursor over they stand out in orange and when selected are shown in red You can select multiple elements by pressing Shift and left clicking or right cliking and dragging the cursor Materials e a EJ Slab 24 amp ff Roof 31 gi t2 Facade 33 e G Mixed facade 1 ag Wall 63 BRR ABBA BS 63 15 250 SO k zx a Mix wall 1 l Rw C Ctr dB 62 2 7 dB E g

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