Absorption/Reflection Coefficient Lookup (Acoustic Materials) implementation

Binding contract

This record describes what an executable surface must bind and validate. It does not claim that a public calculator, package, or production route is deployed.

Record owner

Guth Instruments

Lifecycle

verified-clean

Evidence ID

t7-091

Effect

Computation or source lookup only

Input and validation requirements

The specification supplies no actual published data table, so coefficient values cannot be independently verified from the instrument specification. The lookup also has exposed hazards at unsupported or extreme frequency inputs and at ambiguous unit/convention text unless validation and explicit unit normalization are implemented.

Required corrections

No binding erratum is attached to this unique-name record. Implementers must still preserve the declared units, domain, and failure behavior.

Inspectable interface fixture

The sample below is evidence for interface and validation tests, not a production implementation.

{
  "inputs": {
    "material": "ideal rigid wall",
    "frequency_band_hz": 1000
  },
  "expected_outputs": {
    "absorption_coefficient_alpha": 0
  },
  "reference_data": {
    "material": "ideal rigid wall",
    "frequency_band_hz": 1000,
    "absorption_coefficient_alpha": 0,
    "source_convention": "widely tabulated standard value; ideal perfectly reflective boundary reference, octave-band convention"
  },
  "working": "1. Match the material key: ideal rigid wall. 2. Match the exact octave-band key: 1000 Hz. 3. Retrieve α = 0.00. 4. No interpolation or unit conversion is performed. This is the canonical zero-absorption reference entry."
}

Other records

Sources and evidence

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• VERIFIED_LEDGER.json
• evidence-tranche7/tranche7-results.json