The article reflecting the paper from Price and Crocker1 is out now. I nice reminder regarding the still ongoing and challenging discussion about how to correctly model double walls in SEA.
The examples from the paper are presented as pyva example. In the low- and mid-frequency range the subsystems are strongly coupled. This strong coupling is addresses by various double wall connectors that may lead to multiple consideration of the indirect paths. However, this paper initiated this discussion and one all SEA assumption are fulfilled the double wall result comply well with the SEA predictions.
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The paper can be downloaded here2 or from this link. Copyright 2026 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America.
- A.J. Price, and M.J. Crocker; Sound Transmission through Double Panels Using Statistical Energy Analysis, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 47, 683–693, (1970) ↩︎
- Alexander Peiffer; The launch of statistical energy analysis simulation of double panels. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 February 2026; 159 (2): R3–R4. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042351 ↩︎