Help with New Student Research Project

[ezhARCHone]

Good day all.
I am new to the platform, software and field of acoustic research and would appreciate as much help as possible because I have very little time remaining to do the research in.

I am currently studying the effects of physical obstructions (such as buildings and their materials) on outdoor sound propagation, with the objective to reduce the impact of sound from a public square on its surrounding building occupants.

So it would be useful to understand how sound behaves in the environment, and what variables (in terms of the building and their materials) I can manipulate through design. (Since I am doing an Architectural Degree, my research needs to translate in to physical design elements from design principles established through the findings).

If anyone can help me setup this type of prject in I-SIMPA and to let me know what type of data I need to start gathering, what literature I need to be aware of and how to implement this project in a easy and managible way. Since the focus is not purely on the acoustics but rather physical design derived from it, I can't spend too much time learning about acoustics.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards.

[UMRAE Official]

Dear student

In order to simulate noise propagation in an urban environment, I suggest you to consider another free tool NoiseModelling (http://noise-planet.org/noisemodelling.html), instead of I-Simpa. This tool is a plugin of a GIS software (OrbisGIS, http://orbisgis.org/).

You will find some examples of uses of NoiseModelling here:

https://github.com/Ifsttar/NoiseModelling/wiki

In order to understand sound propagation, I suggest you to read some books, like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Sound-Environment-Jian-Kang/dp/0415358574

Best regards.