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Jan 9, 2011 13:38
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French term

local de réception

French to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering
This is about impact sound pressure level ratings.

"Niveau de pression acoustique Le correspondant à une valeur de référence de la durée de réverbération du local de réception."
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 reception room
3 space

Discussion

B D Finch (asker) Jan 9, 2011:
@Bourth I was just a bit thrown by the difference you were stressing between recording and perception. The place where the noise has to be below a certain level is not necessarily what one might call a "room", i.e. it might be the Mall or an area open to the Mall.
Bourth (X) Jan 9, 2011:
@Barbara But they must be envisioning noise as a potential nuisance. Otherwise why raise the issue?
Tony M Jan 9, 2011:
Hear, hear, Alex! Yes, B. but Alex's comments are equally applicable in either case; it's just a question of knowing from your context if local = room-space, or a physical measurement position on the structure... your surrounding information about the measurement methods and results expected ought to make this clear, I hope!
B D Finch (asker) Jan 9, 2011:
@Bourth This is about setting standards for the design of a new shopping centre, not the perception of current noise that might be a nuisance.
Bourth (X) Jan 9, 2011:
I'd double check that "reception site" does not refer to a location in the structure where the vibration of the noise is recorded, rather than the room (air) where the actual (acoustic) noise is perceived.
B D Finch (asker) Jan 9, 2011:
Found it Reception site

". An impulse response is represented by a change with time in a waveform of a sound pressure measured at a sound reception site when a pulse ..."
www.freepatentsonline.com/6747678.html


"the sound pressure level at the given reception site is calculated (the .... The results of field tests demonstrated that this method of determining the ..."
www.akin.ru/Docs/Rao/Ses20/AA1.PDF

Proposed translations

+1
2 hrs

reception room

I suspect this is about structural transmission of noise rather than air-borne transmission, which is probably why Tony wasn't immediately struck by a term since I believe his experience is in the world of the theatre and performance.

Here we're talking about how much noise the lady asleep downstairs hears when you clomp about on your parquet floor above her in your Dr Scholls.

l_ impact sound pressure. A equivalent absorption area ln the RECEPTION ROOM in m2, determined from the measurement of the reverberation time and the volume ...
www.kaindl.com/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/61.44.pdf

Approach to predict the normalized impact sound pressure level ..... situations in which the emission room is subjacent to the RECEPTION ROOM ...
www.spacustica.pt/internoise2010/pdfs/BookProg_4_final.pdf

For building applications using a 01dB PC based measurement system, the following set of components is required to carry out a measurement. For example, the isolation of air born noise, shock reception levels, equipment noise or reverberation time measurements. The list below is not exhaustive and may vary from application to application.
This chapter deals with spectra measurements, such as the ones listed below :
􀂃 Standard spectrum
􀂃 Emitted noise
􀂃 Received airborne noise
􀂃 Received impact noise
􀂃 Background noise
􀂃 Simultaneous emission and reception
Per frequency band :
DnT = D + 10 lg (T / T0) (dB)
T : RT RECEPTION ROOM
T0 : Reference RT value

Volume of RECEPTION ROOM

http://www.acoustic1.co.uk/equipment/environment/docs/gb_dBB...
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M : Yes, it's the lack of context, to explain that it is structure-borne... so we are indeed talking about sound transmission, in which case 'reception' of course makes sense.
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space

I'm relatively familiar with acoustics terminology in EN, but I can't think of a term that would equate to this.

If we assume right from the outset that it isn't referring to some particular room within your building, then I think we would just talk about 'the reverberation time of the space (being tested, of course)' (or under consideration, etc.)

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-01-09 16:07:38 GMT)
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Normally, reverb. time measurement are made with the sound being emitted and measured in (more or less) the same place — reception at a distance is more applicable to sound transmission measurements.

The detail in your context is not sufficient to be quite clear: are they in fact talking about an SPL in one place having a bearing on the rvereb. time in another place, for example? It all sounds a little backwards to me, without more context to work from.

Just a word of caution: beware of that ref. you've found, as I see it comes from an original RU site. The term is not implausible, but you really do need to be sure it is actually applicable in your specific context.
Note from asker:
As this is about acoustic design for a shopping centre, this is specifically the place where the noise readings would be taken, as opposed to where the noise would be emitted from. I thought that there must be a generally used term for this.
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