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Stc concrete block wall.
8 concrete block hollow core no wall finish.
Within a dwelling an internal wall with a stc rating of 45 will usually muffle television telephone ringing and conversation in an adjoining room.
Estimated stc ratings for cmu walls wall thickness in.
Stc ratings are determined by laboratory tests of a.
A stc rating of 55 is required for inter tenancy walls.
Stc ratings for masonry cmu walls is based on weight of the block and whether the cells are filled or not and what material it is filled with.
A wall floor or roof.
8 concrete block hollow core painted 2 coats 2 sides.
These tests have indicated a direct relationship between wall weight and the resulting stc heavier concrete masonry walls have higher stc ratings.
Many sound transmission loss tests have been per formed on various concrete masonry walls.
In general the stl of a concrete masonry wall increases with increasing frequency of the sound.
8 concrete block wall painted with 1 2 drywall on independent steel stud walls each side insulation in cavities stc prediction edit there are several commercially available software which predict the stc ratings of partitions using a combination of theoretical models and empirically derived lab data.
The higher the rating the greater the degree of noise reduction.