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International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJMET)
Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2018, pp. 612–623, Article ID: IJMET_09_05_067
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COMPARISON OF SOUND INSULATION
PERFORMANCE ON TWO DIFFERENT TYPES
OF VOIDED SLAB SYSTEMS
Inkwan Paik and Seunguk Na
Architectural Engineering Department, College of Architecture,
Dankook University, South Korea
Sung-Ho Yun
Kwangjang Structure Co., LTD., South Korea
ABSTRACT
There are several merits of a voided slab system such as economic efficiency,
usability, and environmental friendliness. In particular, it has been proven that a
voided slab system is beneficial in lowering the noise propagation and noise
complaints between floors in apartment housings. One of the most commonly
generated noise issues amongst residents in apartments in South Korea is the
interlayer noise propagation complaints between upstairs and downstairs neighbours.
As a result, it has been gradually more studies focused on solutions for reducing the
interlayer noise problems in apartment housings. In this research, the sound
insulation performances of two types of voided slab systems were tested. Floor impact
sound would generate interlayer noises and it would generate uncomfortable living
environment in apartment housings. The test results of VDS and the post tension
applied voided slab system were completely satisfactory of the minimum requirements
of heavyweight floor impact sound insulation. On the other hand, the lightweight floor
impact insulation performance for VDS was attained grade 1, while the post tension
applied voided slab system was over grade 4. Comparing with the test results of both
voided slab systems, the existence of floor insulator would have an influence on the
propagation of lightweight floor impact sound in the voided slab systems. Comparing
between VDS and the post tension applied voided slab system, VDS showed superb
performance over the post tension applied voided slab system. For the heavyweight
floor impact sound insulation, both voided slab systems reached similar level of floor
impact sound insulation performance. However, the lightweight floor impact sound
insulation performance for the VDS was superior to the post tension method applied
voided slab system. The reason for this result is considered that the installation of
insulator might have a significant element for lightweight floor impact sound
insulation.
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Key words: Voided slab systems, sound insulation performance, heavyweight floor
impact noise, lightweight floor impact noise
Cite this Article: Inkwan Paik and Seunguk Na and Sung-Ho Yun, Comparison of
Sound Insulation Performance on Two Different Types of Voided Slab Systems,
International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, 9(5), 2018,
pp. 612–623.
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1. INTRODUCTION
There are a number of studies and approaches have been proposed to satisfy requirements of
large-sized and long-span structures in recent years [1-4]. One of the effective methods to
enhance the capability of long-span and large-scaled structures or buildings is a voided slab
system or hollo-core slab system. It is one of the newly proposed construction methods to
improve the load resistance by effectively utilising the moment of inertia in a concrete slab.
There are several merits of a voided slab system such as economic efficiency, usability, and
environmental friendliness[4-8]. On the other hand, it also has disadvantages that construction
difficulties of voided slabs systems on site are higher than normal reinforced concreted slabs
despite the quantity of concrete and reinforcing bars is reduced. Additionally, extra
construction costs would be incurred for the economic aspect, when the voided slab part is not
properly installed or skilled workers would not work for the installation[1, 3, 9, 10].
In South Korea, there are several examples to install voided slab systems to commercial
buildings and warehouses. Moreover, the systems have since been gradually applied to long-
span structures and large-sized buildings such as underground parking structures, office
buildings, and religious facilities. In recent years, it is being researched the usability and
compatibility of the voided slab systems to apartment housings, which occupies the majority
of domestic dwelling types in South Korea, for solving social issues such as noise complaints
and floor impact noises caused by footsteps[3, 7, 11-15].
As mentioned, a voided slab system has an advantage of serviceability which would be
useful for apartment dwellings. In particular, it has been proven that a voided slab system is
beneficial in lowering the noise propagation and noise complaints between floors in apartment
housings in Japan. Noise insulation from indoor and outdoor-generated noises in apartment
housings is a significant factor in improving the quality of life and comfort of residents. One
of the most commonly generated noise issues amongst residents in apartments in South Korea
is the interlayer noise propagation complaints between upstairs and downstairs neighbours. As
a result, it has been gradually more studies focused on solutions for reducing the interlayer
noise problems in apartment housings[2, 5, 10, 11, 16].
To reduce the interlayer noise matters, it is necessary to evaluate the level of impact sound
insulation performance from slabs. It has been reported that voided formers used in voided
slab systems have an excellent performance for sound insulation against floor impact sound.
In this study, two types of voided slab systems are evaluated and compared the sound
insulation performance for the countermeasure of interlayer noise problems.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Voided slab or hollow core slab systems have been used for many years in the field of civil
engineering in South Korea when long span structures such as bridges and dams are
frequently constructed. However, the application of voided slab systems in the architecture,
engineering and construction (AEC) industry occurred later in South Korea than in Europe or
Japan. Although it is later than other countries, the design and application of voided slab
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systems are now being carried out in the construction of various long-span structures and
large facilities.
Research of voided slab systems conducted in South Korea has focused on developing
anchoring methods and devices to anchor void formers to reinforcing bars in concrete slab. In
addition, variety of studies have suggested the use of new void formers to meet both optimum
void ratio and structural capacity [7, 11, 17]. Most of studies regarding anchoring materials
are the use of reinforcing bars which fix the anchoring materials to the lower reinforcement of
the slab. The use of anchoring materials would prevent buoyancy which occurs during the
placement and curing of concrete as well as the movement of void formers by workers during
reinforcement works.
Another research theme of the voided slabs could be categrised into the development of
new shapes of void formers. Since void formers distribute stress depending upon the shape of
them, it is important to design the optimal void formers with appropriate hollowness ratio.
Chung et al. [16] analysed various shapes of void formers and suggested spherical shapes of
void formers for optimal hollowness with structural performance. Joo et al. [3] applied deck
plates to the voided slab system as a means of an anchoring material. They indicated that the
utilisation of deck plates would produce both excellent structural and fixing performance in
the concrete slab. While various researchers have studied the anchoring void formers with the
concrete slabs, various researchers have investigated the structural stability of the voided slabs
which would be vulnerable to shear force since the effective cross-sectional area is reduced.
Research of voided slab systems in South Korea is summarised in Table 1.
Table 1 Studies on the voided slabs in South Korea
Author Year Title
Chung et al. [17] 2013 Experimental study on the bond characteristics of
deformed bar embedded in donut type biaxial hollow slab
Lee et al. [13] 2011 Experimental evaluation on punching shear of two-way
void slab-to-column connection with TVS lightweight ball
Joo et al. [3] 2011 Structural performance test on installation method of void
former for void slab using deck plate
Chung et al. [16] 2009 An analytical study of hollow slabs with optimal hollow
spherical shapes
The development of voided slab systems in South Korea has rapidly increased since the
mid of 2000s. In particular, a voided slab system has been proven that it would significantly
reduce the interlayer and impact noises occurring in apartment dwellings. In addition, a
considerable amount of research on the voided slab systems has been carried out in Europe
and Japan since the 1900s [18-20]. The main research themes conducted in Europe and Japan
have been similar to the topics in South Korea, which are the development of anchoring
materials and fining the optimal hollowness ratio for the structural performance. BubbleDeck
Technology in Denmark and Cobiax Technologies AG in Switzerland have developed a
voided slab system that reduces the amount of concrete required by applying spherical or
elliptical plastic balls as lightweight void formers into one- and two-way slabs [21, 22].
Cobiax AG developed cages for fixing spherical or elliptical shaped void formers to
reinforcing bars to slabs [22].
In Japan, voided slab systems have been widely used in apartment houses in order to
reduce the interlayer noises. As a Japanese study, Sekisui Plastics Co., Ltd., focused on the
development of voided slabs using half precast concrete in the 1980s. The company has been
researching new technologies to prevent the detachment of void formers from slabs in recent
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years. Moreover, various other companies in Japan are trying to develop new materials to fix
void former materials to a slab to secure their reliability and durability.
3. RESEARCH METHODS
3.1. Test materials
In this research, two types of voided slab systems, which are the void deck slab (VDS) system
and voided slab system with combination of post-tension method were used. The VDS system
is a voided slab system that utilises T-shaped deck plates in order to anchor void formers
secure between the deck plates web (See Figure 1). The voided slab system with post-tension
method uses paper tubes for void former materials which would be able to materialise long-
span structures (See Figure 2). Moreover, both methods are environmental friendly since the
use of concrete in the slabs can be lowered by inserting void formers in the slabs.
3.2. Test overview
Evaluating sound insulation performance would be one of the significant factors for residents
in apartment housings to provide more comfortable residential environment. Moreover, an
interlayer noise issue has become one of social issues since apartments are the typical
dwelling type in South Korea. Mock-up tests of the floor impact sound were conducted to
evaluate the sound insulation performance for application to apartment housings.
Table 2 Concrete mix design of the mock-up specimens
Design
strength
(MPa)
W/C
(%)
S/a
(%)
Unit content (kg/m3) Air
content
(%) Water Cement
Fine
aggregate
Coarse
aggregate Admixture
24 49.4 47.5 162 328 882 993 1.64 3.5
The insulation performance of two types of voided slab systems, which are the void deck
slab (VDS) system and voided slab system with combination of post-tension method were
evaluated through mock-up tests. The mock-up test specimens were built in compliance with
the standard apartment housing floor plan in South Korea. The concrete and reinforcing bars
applied to both specimens had a compressive strength of 24 MPa and tensile strength of 400
MPa. The floor of the mock-up specimens was finished with lightweight porous concrete, side
insulation, and finishing mortar, as commonly applied to apartment housings in South Korea
according to the standard floor finishing and structures for interlayer noise prevention. The
only difference between the VDS and the voided slab system with post tension method was
that the VDS system applied floor insulators for the floor finishing works. The properties of
the concrete used in the mock-up test specimens are summaried in Table 2. Additionally, the
floor plan of the test specimens is depicted in Figure 4 ~ 5.
(a) Schematic view of VDS (b) Cross-section view of VDS
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Figure 1 Details of the void formers used in VDS
(a) Cross-section view of post tension method
applied voided slab system
(b) Detail of the voide former of post tension
method applied voided slab system
Figure 2 Details of the void formers used in the post tension method applied voided slab
3.3. Test methodology
The sound insulation performance of the standard lightweight impact source and heavy
impact source was tested based on Korea Standard to evaluate the sound insulation
performance of the voided slab systems. The mock-up tests were conducted in accordance
with KS F 2810-1:2001 (Field measurement of impact sound insulation of floors-Part 1:
Method using standard light weight source) [23] and KS F 2810-2:2012 (Field measurement
of impact sound insulation of floors-Part 2: Method using standard heavy impact source) [24].
The frequency range of the lightweight impact sound was 125, 250, 500, 100, and 200 Hz,
and the heavy impact sound frequency was measured using a 1/1 octave band of 63, 125, 250,
and 500 Hz, respectively.
(a) Floor impact noise source (bang machine) (b) Light floor impact noise source
(c) FFT analyser and amplifier (d) Non-directional microphone
Figure 3 Test equipment
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(a) Cross-sectional plan
(b) Reinforcement plan
Figure 4 Details of the VDS mock-up specimen
The background noise was measured for each frequency level before obtaining the noise
data to calibrate the effect of the background noise. When the level difference between the
background and measured noise was 6 to 15 dB, the acquired data were compensated through
the following expression.
⁄
The floor impact noise level L of the sound receiving room, which indicates the floor
impact sound isolation performance of the floor structure to be measured, was obtained
according to the formula for each measured frequency.
∑
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Here, is the maximum sound pressure level measured at point j, and m represents
the number of measurement points.
In the case of a lightweight impact sound level, the sound absorption area of the receiver
room was corrected through the following equation after the level of the normalised floor
impact sound ( was measured.
Here, is 10 m2, A is equal to
, A is the area of absorption (m
2), V is the volume of
the receiver room, and T is the reverberation time.
3.4. Measurement location of the sound
The floor impact sound was measured 0.75m away from the all, and four points including the
centre of the floor were chosen as the measuring point in the mock-up test specimens.
Microphones were used to gather the lightweight and heavyweight impact sound data at a
height of 1.2m from the floor and at a distance of 0.75m from the wall. Figure X and Y
indicate the floor plan of the mock-up test buildings, sound source and receptions points.
(a) Cross-sectional plan
(b) Reinforcement plan
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Sound source Receiver points
(a) VDS
(b) Post tension method applied voided slab system
Figure 6 Sound source and receiver points
3.5. Method of evaluating the insulation performance for standard lightweight
and heavyweight impact sources
The collected data were examined based on KS F 2863-1:2002 (Rating of floor impact sound
insulation for impact source in buildings and building element – Part 1: Floor impact sound
insulation against standard light impact source) and KS F 2863-2:2007 (Field measurement of
floor impact insulation of buildings – Part 2: Method using standard heavy impact sources)
which uses the inverse a normalised curve (See Figure X).
Figure 7 The inverse a normalised curve
In addition, the rating criteria of the floor noise insulation performance for lightweight and
heavyweight sound sources are indicated in Table X. As shown in Table X, the minimum
requirement for sound insulation of the floor impact noise is 58 dB for lightweight impact
sound and 50 dB for heavyweight sound source.
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4. RESULTS OF THE MOCK-UP TESTS
4.1. Sound insulation performance
The test results of light and heavy impact floor sounds insulation are summarised in Table 4
and 5. The test results of lightweight floor impact noise indicate that the single number
quantity of all thee for the VDS was 32, 28, and 29 dB respectively. The single number
quantity for the post tension method applied voided slab system was 66, 67, and 66 dB
respectively. According to the standard level of floor impact sound insulation (see Table 3),
the lightweight floor impact sound insulation performance for the VDS reached grade 1 in all
areas of the mock up specimen. The lightweight floor impact sound insulation performance
for the VDS was completely satisfied the minimum requirements of sound isolation. On the
other hand, the lightweight floor impact sound insolation performance for the voided slab
system with post tension method was over 58 dB which was reached over the grade 4 (see
Table 4). Despite the lightweight floor impact sound insulation performance was over the
minimum requirements, the important aspect for sound insulation in the apartment housings
in South Korea is the heavyweight floor impact sound isolation rather than lightweight floor
impact noises.
Table 3 Standard level of floor impact sound insulation (unit: dB)
Grade
Inverse A normalised floor impact
sound level
(Lightweight floor impact noise)
Inverse A normalised floor impact
sound level
(Heavyweight floor impact noise)
1
2
3
4
Table 4 Lightweight floor impact noise insulation performance
Loc. 125 Hz 250 Hz 500 Hz 1000 Hz 2000 Hz
Single
number
quantity
VDS PTV VDS PTV VDS PTV VDS PTV VDS PTV VDS PTV
1 46.0 58.5 31.9 61.3 30.7 64.0 32.5 65.7 31.6 69.0 32 66
2 46.6 59.0 30.6 61.3 27.5 63.6 26.3 66.3 25.4 69.3 28 67
3 49.1 59.1 33.5 62.2 27.9 63.5 25.6 65.6 25.4 67.9 29 66
In addition, the single number quantity of heavyweight floor impact sound insulation
performance tests for the VDS was measured 44, 45 and 43 dB respectively (see Table 5). All
the test results of the single number quantity of heavyweight floor impact sound insulation for
the voided slab system with post tension was 48 dB (see Table 5). The first two experiments
for the VDS specimen were attained grade 2 and the final test was reached grade 1 in the
mock up tests. For the voided slab system with post tension method, all the tests results were
reached grade 4 which is appropriate to apply this system for heavyweight impact sound
insulation for the apartment housings. The results of heavy floor impact sound insulation for
both voided slab systems in this study were acceptable level. As a result of this study, it is
considered that the application of VDS and post-tension applied voided deck system would be
satisfactory for apartment housings to prevent interlayer noise insulation.
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Table 5 Heavyweight floor impact noise insulation performance
Loc. 63 Hz 125 Hz 250 Hz 500 Hz Single number
quantity
VDS PTV VDS PTV VDS PTV VDS PTV VDS PTV
1 74.3 77.3 51.1 61.7 33.0 53.9 28.8 45.7 44 48
2 75.5 76.4 50.0 61.4 31.9 53.8 27.3 48.2 45 48
3 73.7 74.2 52.2 62.9 32.1 54.3 25.9 45.4 43 48
4.2. Comparison of the insulation performance
The test results show that the overall heavyweight and lightweight floor impact sound
insulation performance of VDS is superior to the post tension method applied voided slab
system. According to results of the single number quantity, the sound insulation performance
for heavyweight sound insulation performance of both VDS and the post tension method
applied voided slab system indicate similar level of sound insulation level. However, the
overall heavyweight impact sound insulation performance for VDS showed more excellent
about 6.7 % and 11.6 % at two measurement locations except measurement location 1.
In addition, the sound insulation performance of VDS for the lightweight floor impact
showed more outstanding compared to the post tension method applied voided slab system.
Based on the single number quantity of the lightweight floor impact sound, VDS showed the
noise level of about 30 dB which reached the grade 1 (see Table X). On the other hand, the
tested values of the post tension applied voided slab system marked about 67 dB. According
to the test results, the lightweight floor impact sound insulation performance for VDS seems
approximately twice better than the post tension applied voided slab system.
Analysing the data of sound insulation performance, 30 mm insulator for VDS was
applied before the floor finishing materials were installed. It is considered that the application
of insulator significantly influences the lightweight floor impact sound insulation
performance. However, it seems that the influence of insulators towards heavyweight floor
impact sound was relatively insignificant compared to the heavyweight floor impact sound
insulation performance. Based on the results of this study, both voided slab methods would be
effective to insulate heavyweight floor impact sound which is pointed out as one of the main
causes for the interlayer noises propagation issues. Despite of such an advantageous
heavyweight floor impact sound insulation performance, it is reported that the discomfort and
annoyance in the apartment housings would be caused by continuous exposure of lightweight
floor impact sound. Thus, it is considered that when applying the voided slab systems
suggested in this study for sound insulation in the apartment housings, installation of
insulators before finishing the floors in the apartment housings would be beneficial to insulate
both heavyweight and lightweight floor impact sound.
5. CONCLUSION
In this research, the sound insulation performance of two types of voided slab systems were
tested. Floor impact sound would generate interlayer noises and it would generate
uncomfortable living environment in apartment housings. The test results of VDS and the post
tension applied voided slab system were completely satisfactory of the minimum
requirements of heavyweight floor impact sound insulation. On the other hand, the
lightweight floor impact insulation performance for VDS was attained grade 1, while the post
tension applied voided slab system was over grade 4. Comparing with the test results of both
voided slab systems, the existence of floor insulator would have an influence on the
propagation of lightweight floor impact sound in the voided slab systems.
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Comparing between VDS and the post tension applied voided slab system, VDS showed
superb performance over the post tension applied voided slab system. For the heavyweight
floor impact sound insulation, both voided slab systems reached similar level of floor impact
sound insulation performance. However, the lightweight floor impact sound insulation
performance for the VDS was superior to the post tension method applied voided slab system.
The reason for this result is considered that the installation of insulator might have a
significant element for lightweight floor impact sound insulation.
Based on the test results, the floor impact sound insulation of both voided slab systems in
this study satisfy the sound insulation performance and regulations for apartment housings in
South Korea. Considering the results of this research, voided slab systems to be applied in
apartment housings might be a useful countermeasure to reduce disputes and discomfort
caused by interlayer floor noise issues. Therefore, it is expected that the application of VDS
and post tension method applied voided slab systems would be beneficial and useful in
preventing interlayer noise issues in apartment dwelling in South Korea.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
"This work was supported by the Technology development Program(C0513195) funded by
the Ministry of SMEs and Startups(MSS, Korea)”
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