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Aircraft Noise traces the origins of this problem to the introduction of the jet engine into the airline fleet in the late 1950s and describes the legal restrictions now placed on the industry. It explains the derivation of the special noise units and assessment scales now used around the world; noise exposure modeling and forecasting; the major sources of aircraft noise and their control; and noise measurement and prediction, including contours. Finally, it offers a forecast for the future and recommends changes to the established legal structures to aid control of the problem into the next century. In addition to reviewing the sociological aspects, Smith offers a broad understanding of the problem of aircraft noise and its control. The book should appeal to a variety of people including professional engineers, local and national government officers, the air transport business community, lawyers, students, community leaders and those who live near airports. ... Read more

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Good Review
This is a good overall review of aircraft noise.It is focused on commercial jet aircraft, but it does coverprop and helicopters to a smaller extent.It does not cover in any great detail airport area noise, it focuses on the aircraft and the noise it generates.It was published in 1989 so it is a little out of date, some regulations have been updated since then. ... Read more

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Excellent general reference
This text was used in an undergrad and graduate level university noise control course I was enrolled in.Despite the title, the discussion is not limited to industrial applications.Basic concepts are very well coveredin an easy-to-understand (yet not oversimplified) manner.I have not yetfound a better general reference for this topic. ... Read more

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Study on the legislation of noise pollution, chiefly in Indian context, in comparison to other countries. ... Read more

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In recent years there has been growing public awareness of, and concern about, the adverse effects of noise, which has resulted in a substantial strengthening of statutory control. This book has been written to provide a single, complete source of reference for employers and employees, developers, planners, architects, lawyers and local government officers whose work is likely to bring them into contact with noise problems. It presents the law in a straightforward manner and gives practical advice on its enforcement and compliance. Since the previous edition was published in 1995, there have been many amendments to the legislation which are taken fully into account in this new edition, as are the implications of the various controls emanating from the European Union. ... Read more

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NO DEAF EAR HERE!
A contrasting book in the Shaw & Sons local authority series is Penn's `Noise Control' now in its third edition.

This is a timely piece as the Labour Government unwrapped another in a long line of its criminal justice bills just off the Queen's Speech printer. To me this is a great book and compulsory reading for any would-be planning objector: how often is it that local planning committees have to defer applications because of a lack of proper evidence on noise levels from objectors?

Very often unfortunately, and with the extension of licensing powers given to elected councillors the matter has incurred greater interest as not just entertainment licences but our elected council tax spenders now consider liquor licence applications (instead of magistrates) and we are now seeing the results.

`Noise Control' by Penn is clearly the foremost publication on the law and practice of noise on the environment and human health. As an Environmental Health Officer, he will have heard the difficult messages from the public but he does not turn a deaf ear to them, fortunately. His new chapter on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (I.P.P.C.) is particularly welcome at this time.

Whilst the confrontation on aircraft noise continues inevitably to hum away in the background like a bad vibration, chapter 8 should be required reading to MPs and members of HACAN Clear Skies and its sometimes grubby successors (Plane Stupid) who parade their views strongly with other pressure groups.

It's my experience that elected members, nationally and locally, often have considerably insufficient knowledge of noise issues and if Chris Penn does anything, he wakes us up from our slumbers on this most serious of residential issues. Penn gives chapter 9 over to the increasing relevance and importance of the planning process which is so often misunderstood by the protesting public.

Do look at the end of the book (page 459) for the `Forms and Records Relating to Noise Control' which Shaw & Sons publish - they will be of great use to those dealing with summary proceedings concerning noise which will not go.
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The phenomena associated with noise pollution and control are surveyed in this detailed reference source. The up-to-date content is presented with the greatest possible scientific accuracy emphasizing practical rather than mathematical aspects. ... Read more

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Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. By the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western Europe and North America had formed to fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles, and gramophones, with campaigns featuring conferences, exhibitions, and "silence weeks." And, as Karin Bijsterveld points out in Mechanical Sound, public discussion of noise has never died down and continues today. In this book, Bijsterveld examines the persistence of noise on the public agenda, looking at four episodes of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise, traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and gramophones, and aircraft noise. She also looks at a twentieth-century counterpoint to complaints about noise: the celebration of mechanical sound in avant-garde music composed between the two world wars.

Bijsterveld argues that the rise of noise from new technology combined with overlapping noise regulations created what she calls a "paradox of control." Experts and politicians promised to control some noise, but left other noise problems up to citizens. Aircraft noise, for example, measured in formulas understandable only by specialists, was subject to public regulation; the sounds of noisy neighborhoods were the responsibility of residents themselves. In addition, Bijsterveld notes, the spatial character of antinoise interventions that impose zones and draw maps, despite the ability of sound to cross borders and boundaries, has helped keep noise a public problem. We have tried to create islands of silence, she writes, yet we have left a sea of sounds to be fiercely discussed. ... Read more

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The series entitled Advances in Noise Research has developed from the European Commission Concerted Action Programme on Protection Against Noise (PAN). These books report the latest research and developments in the area of noise and its auditory and non-auditory effects on health. This second volume in the series focuses on protection against noise and covers the problem of noise worldwide, the issues relating to leisure noise, European databank, and hearing conservation. The global problem of noise induced hearing loss is persented together with the development of the WHO program on Prevention of Deafness and Hearing Impairment. ... Read more

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This dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the terminology of noise and noise control thus filling a major communications gap among health and safety professionals, labour and management representatives, scientists, and engineers who must deal with this growing environmental problem.

Users of this dictionary will find a large number of key concepts indiverse disciplines such as the physiology of the ear, audiometry, acoustics, sound level measurements, architecture, noise standards, urban planning, industrial safety, building and construction. It includes many useful features, namely definitions, synonyms and spelling variants, bibliographic sources, and extensive cross-referencing of keywords, as well as a separate listing of acronyms and abbreviations,and French and German indexes.

The major value of this dictionary is thus twofold. As a dictionary it contains features that language specialists have come to expect:definitions and bibliographic sources. As a technical dictionary it brings order and coherence to a seemingly chaotic multitude of terms and expressions from a broad spectrum of scientific, technical and medical disciplines.

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Silence has played a crucial role in human history in important areas of our existence such as religion and the arts. Yet we live in an increasingly noisy society in which silence is under perpetual assault from the 24/7 lifestyle. The business world cynically exploits noise as part of its marketing strategy; the military deploys noise as a weapon. Without question, noise is a political issue on a global scale.

This book mounts a strong argument for silence, arguing that we need more rather than less of it in our lives. The alternative is an environment scarred even further by noise, so often the forgotten pollutant. Stuart Sim explores why silence matters, where it matters - in religion, health, the arts, thought - and why we'll suffer if space is not made for it. The confrontation between the politics of noise and the politics of silence is an issue on which we cannot stay neutral. A defence of silence is a defence of our humanity, as well as of a beleaguered environment.

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*An in-depth analysis of one of the main cultural conflicts of our time: noise versus silence.
*Appeals across the reading spectrum, from the academic to the general reader.
*Explores the critical role played by silence in cultural history and its continuing relevance to us now.
*Provides a critique of the marketing strategies of the business world from a new perspective.
*Puts the conflict between noise and silence in our world into sharp political focus.
*Demonstrates why and where silence matters in our lives, and why we should seek to protect it.

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This text covers the acoustical theory necessary to the practice of noise control. Example problems are used throughout to relate the basic laws of acoustics to practical applications. The book illustrates the uses of personal computers to evaluate noise problems and noise control techniques. Interpretation of data from measurements and theoretical predictions are emphasized, and alternative noise control techniques are examined. Real-world problems and case studies are used. Special features of this book are PC use integrated with noise control theory and practice; vector sound intensity and modal analysis; prediction methods for environmental impact, industrial noise, transportation noise; up-to-date OSHA, EPA and transportation noise standards and methods ... Read more

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In occupational safety and health acts, ordinances, regulations, directives, standards and guidelines, A-weighted sound exposures, varying in level and duration, are traditionally converted to an 8-hour-average sound level by applying the 3-dB exchange rate. Under the prerequisite that the energy equivalent rating level does not exceed 85 dB(A)/8 h, even impulse noise exposures of up to 140 dB are declared harmless. Indeed, the mutual settlement of level and duration based on the concept of energy equivalence is correct as far as sound energy or physical dose is concerned. However, between this principle and work physiological and work psychological, i.e. ergonomics paradigms, some decisive discrepancies do exist, and the dose maxim cannot be accepted from an ergonomics point of view. People react to exposures according to human characteristics rather than 'function' according to the laws of physics as they apply to inert matter. This has been demonstrated by a series of new experimental approaches, in which temporary threshold shifts and their restitution associated with various energy equivalent noise exposures have been measured. Also the impact of various types of loud music has been investigated. In addition to the conventionally determined maximum threshold shift, TTS2, and the time it takes to reach the resting hearing level again, the area under the restitution curve, i.e. the integrated restitution temporary threshold shifts, indicate the total physiological costs the hearing has to pay for a preceding sound exposure. Quite different statistically significant physiological responses to equally rated and legally tolerated sound exposures (94 dB(A)/1 h / 85 dB(A)/8 h) have repeatedly been measured. These refute the concept of energy-equivalence along virtually all dimensions, for example, substantially underestimating the risk of impulse noise, legalizing the 'filling' of resting periods with noise, ignoring the fact that short-term, high continuous noise is even quite favourable for the hearing, or prognosticating drastic losses in attenuation after short time periods of not wearing hearing protective devices, making them sound worse than they are. This book is an attempt to increase the transparency in existing evaluation methods and - in the interest of pertinent disclosure of risks associated with common procedures - to work towards the elimination of unacceptable simplifications and dangerously erroneous assessments.

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This study first describes the nature of sound to give the reader a basis for understanding the principles and techniques for its measurement and to analyze sound and noise. Subjective and psychological aspects are then considered, including such questions as: what are the annoying features of noise? How is noise rated? How much noise is needed to cause deafness? The final and most important section deals with the control of noise. Traditional methods and more recent developments, such as active control, are included. The subject matter keeps in mind the regulations and legal requirements that have made noise an important issue. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Building and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A total of 14,235 noise levels measurements were utilized in developing statistical models that have the capability to predict different noise levels including: equivalent, maximum, or minimum noise level in terms of parameters affecting each level. Different parameters expected to have an effect on noise levels were collected. These parameters included traffic volume, composition of traffic, traffic speed, horn using effect, number of lanes, width of lanes, approach width, road slope, and pavement surface texture. The parameters affecting each noise level were selected based on simple correlation matrices, scatter plots, and statistical t-test. Different forms of models were evaluated for each noise level. The best model describing the relationship between each noise level and parameters affecting it are presented in this paper. The reliability of the nonlinear developed models were judged based on coefficient of multiple determination (R^2), the significance of each variable at @a-level of 0.05, and the standard error of the estimates. While the reliability of linear developed models were judged based on the general linear regression tests represented by F-value and t-value in addition to the coefficient of multiple determination (R^2), the significance of each variable at @a-level of 0.05, and the standard error of the estimates. Based on the analysis of the collected data, three groups of models were developed. The first group of models predicts the equivalent noise level in terms of traffic volume, traffic speed, distance, heavy vehicles and British Pendulum Number (BPN). The second group presents models that describe the relationships between maximum noise levels, heavy vehicles and use of horn. While, the third group presents minimum noise level prediction models in terms of BPN and lane width. A verification of the developed models was performed by comparing the predictive noise levels with those measured at different sites. Results of this verification indicated that the developed models were found to have good prediction capability. ... Read more

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This book provides information on noise control technology, materials and systems for industrial, commercial and institutional use. Strategies are provided for reducing vibration, silencing, meeting acoustical standards in offices, and more. Numerous guidelines and worksheets are provided to save time and reduce paperwork. Contributions by many highly respected noise specialists keep professionals on top of assessment and control methods in the field. This book should be of interest to acoustic consultants and engineers; environmental engineers; and industrial health and safety managers; manufacture noise control professionals. ... Read more