Che Din, Nazli and Abd Jalil, Nurul Amira and Ahmad, Yahaya and Othman, Rosniza and Otsuru, Toru (2013) Measurement of the acoustical performance of traditional vernacular mosques in Malaysia. In: Inter Noise 2013, 15-18 Sep 2013, Innsbruck, Austria. (Submitted)
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Abstract
Mosques are worship places used for activities performed by Muslim e.g. prayer, speech and Quran recitations. All activities in the mosques are important acoustical interests for satisfactory speech intelligibility i.e. verbal communication. Unfortunately, recent architectural styles or restoration works were given very little attention about acoustical considerations. In this research, the acoustical performance of five selected traditional vernacular mosques in Malaysia, built between 1728 - 1830, have been investigated as a preliminary study. The acoustic parameters such as reverberation time (RT), clarity (C50) and speech transmission index (ST!) were measured. Measurement of the influence of the operating facilities in the mosques on their acoustic quality was also carried out. The PC-based measuring system (dBBati32) with sound level meter (OldB Solo Metravib) as analyzer was utilized. Data collected reveals initial findings that the operating facilities in the mosques resulting higher rating of noise criteria which is reducing the performance of speech intelligibility.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mosque. Acoustic quality, Measurement |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TH Building construction |
| Divisions: | Faculty of the Built Environment |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Mohd Samsul Ismail |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2014 03:19 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2019 04:20 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/11403 |
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