Building Materials Composition Influence to Sound Transmission Loss (STL) Reduction

Abstract

The development of the airport always causes the noise impact to the surrounding environment.1Housing close to the airport will be annoyed by the aircraft noise, especially if the building is not added by absorber building materials. Housing lay out towards the runways as noise sources is also an aspect that should be considered. This research resulted building models equipped by simple material compositions that had capability in reducing the airport noise optimally. The decrease of the noise level found out from the research is caused by the value of Sound Transmission Loss (STL) of the building materials composition. The models of housing are laid out with a number of specific orientation angles towards the runway and resulted values of the highest noise level reduction.