Plasterboard 12 mm Round, No Insulation, No MLV

The same perforated board with and without its scrim backing.

Tests

2

Effect of Scrim

Rw range

3–7dB

spread 4 dB

Highest Rw

7dB

Scrim

Largest ΔRw vs first

+4dB

Scrim

Sound reduction index

R′ from the 2270, re-referenced to the 0.9216 m² specimen area (−0.35 dB). Grey lines: reference bounds.

Single-number ratings

Open in explorer
VariesTestRwCCtrΔRw vs firstΔRw vs openMean R
No ScrimProject072
3
00ref.+33.0
ScrimProject003
7
00+4+78.3

Rw, C and Ctr per ISO 717-1 over 100–3150 Hz. ΔRw fits the reference curve to the band-by-band difference curve, which is not the same number as subtracting two separately rounded Rw values. Mean R is the arithmetic mean over the 16 rating bands.