A Study on the Effects of Absorptive Treatments for the Highway Noise Barriers

도로교통소음의 방음벽 흡음효과에 관한 연구

  • 김재석 (경일 대학교 측지공학과) ;
  • 루이스칸 (University of Lousivelle 토목공학과) ;
  • 김갑수 (영남대학교 도시공학과)
  • Published : 1998.02.01

Abstract

To mitigate excessive noise from highways, and high speed rail road, it is often necessary to construct a noise barrier. Absorptive barroer attenuation solution is obtained for the problem of diffration of a plane wave sound source by a semi-infinite plane. A finite region in the vicinity of the edge has an highly absorbing boundary condition ; the remaining portion of the half plane is rigid. The problem which is solved is a mathematical model for a hard barrier with an absorbing edge. If the wavelength of the sound is much smaller than the length scale associated with the barrier, the diffraction process is governed to all intents and purpose by the solution to a standard problem of diffraction by a semi-infinite hard plane with an absorbent edge. It is concluded that the absorbing material that comprises the edge need only be of the order of a wavelength long to have approximately the same effect, on the sound attenuation in the shadow side of the barrier. Traffic noise is composed of thousands of sources with varying frequency content. To simplify noise predictions when barriers are present, an effective frequency of 550Hz may be used to represent all vehicles. The wavelength of sound at f=550Hz for traffic noise is about 2 feet. According to the above conclusion, an absorptive highway noise barrier is only needed to cover to cover approximately a 2 foot length of absorbing material. It would be more economical to cover only the region in the immediate vicinity of the edge with highly sound obsorbent material.

자동차의 폭발적인 증가와 아울러 경부고속전철시대를 맞이함으로 인하여 소음공해는 큰 사회적 문제로 대두되고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 소음공해에 대한 해결책의 일환으로 효율적인 방음벽을 연구 하는데 그 목적이 있다. 방음벽의 연구는 먼저 반사형 방음벽과 흡음형 방음벽에 대한 소음저감효과 를 산정한 다음, 흡음재료를 사용함으로서 감소되는 소음저감 효과를 산정하는데 큰 의의가 있다. 본 연구결과에 의하면 방음벽의 높이에 비하여 음의 파장이 대체로 짧을 때는 방음벽의 상단부분에 흡음재를 설치하면 방음벽 전체에 흡음재를 설치한 것과 같은 효과가 있다는 결론을 얻었다. 도로교통소음은 평균주파수가 550Hz 이므로 이때 파장은 60cm 정도이다. 방음벽 높이를 4m로 설치했을 때 방음벽 상단에서 60cm 정도만 흡음재를 사용하면 4m전체의 방음벽에 흡음재를 사용한 것과 같은 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 흡음재를 사용한 소음저감의 효과는 점음원이고 수음자의 위치가 $135^{\circ}$ 일 때 평균 8dB(A)정도이고, 선음원일때는 평균 3dB(A)정도의 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다 이러한 흡음형의 방음벽은 경제적일 뿐만 아니라 방음벽의 높이를 최소한 1m이상 줄일 수 있으므로 국토를 고도로 이용해야 되는 우리 나라의 여건에 대단히 효과적인 방음벽이라 사료된다.

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