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Germany Deutsche Gesellschaft f iir Akustik , Oldenburg
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India: Acoustical Society of Indi a (Observer), Ban galore
Italy: Associazione Italiana di Acoustica, Roma
Japan: Acoustical Society ofJapan , Tokyo
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Korea : Acoustical Society ofKorea , Seo ul
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Norway: Acoustica l Soc iety ofNorway, Trondheim
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Russia: East-European Acoustical Association, St. Petersburg
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President's Column
Will Noise Regulations Ever Work?
ore than a year has passed since
the magical date of 1992 December 31 when the European Community
was supposed to "come together."
Fears were expressed that perhaps barriers would be erected to prevent the
entry into the European internal market
of goods produced by external manufacturers. As noted by Dr. K. Brinkmann elsewhere in this issue (see page
45), the date came and passed and a
"Fortress Europe" on the economic
front did not come into existence. Indeed, the high-level governmental discussions of recent months would make
it appear that Europe and the rest of the
world are moving towards a breaking
down of international trade barriers.
One wonders if, in the long run,
trade barriers or internal regulations
pertaining to manufactured goods can
be made effective. In this news magazine, the reader will find reports (see,
for example, Vol. 1, p. 190) on the
failure of the regulations issued by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) in the 1970s to control the noise
of the most objectionable sources.
This raises the question: will noise
regulations ever work? Certainly not by
using the EPA regulatory procedures as
the model. But if the regulations were
to be properly formulated?
When the EPA attempted to set upper
limits on the noise emissions of products,
the first thing done by the manufacturers
of the targeted products was to obtain
estimates of the costs of compliance. For
most products so identified, the manufacturers went to lawyers for advice rather
than to design or noise control engineers.
The regulations were so poorly conceived that it was cheaper for manufacturers to hire lawyers to avoid
compliance than to work on technical
solutions in order to achieve compliance.
Much of the USD 100 million wasted by
the EPA in the 1970s was spent in com-
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batting the lawyers of the manufacturers. By the time the EPA
effort was discontinued in the
early 1980s, not a single case had
been won in court, and the net
benefit to the public of the EPA's
decade-long struggle to regulate
noise sources was naught.
A noted lawyer, K. Conboy, commenting in the 1993-12-26 issue of the New
York TImes on... "the degree of litigiousness in America that is simply unheard of
in the rest of the world," writes: "We have
seen the creation of a vast and complex
network of rules, regulations, statutes and
entitlements that have provided a
Dionysian feast of revenues for even the
least gifted of our profession."
It is vitally important for the success
of any regulation that it be considered
to be in the vital interest of the public.
In today's world, the media is the
shaperofpublic opinion. The American
media expresses only an occasional interest in environmental noise. But in
some other geographical areas, the
noise problem receives greater attention in the press and on television. For
noise regulations to be effective, it is
imperative that they be strongly supported by the public. Politicians, after
all, are responsive to the real or imagined needs of their constituents.
At least in America, engineers have
played only a minor role in the development of noise standards. Up to now,
it has been the lawyers and the bureaucrats who have been crafting the noise
regulations from a knowledge base that
has been largely devoid of an understanding of the fundamentals of acoustics. Successful noise regulations will
only come about when engineers and
designers are able to play an enhanced
role in their development in the future.
- William W Lang
President,lnternationallNeE
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Development of Noise Policy
in the European Community
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elegates to INTER-NOISE 93 in
Leuven, Belgium are well aware
that there is intense activity on noise
issues in the European Community
(EC). A special session on European
Noise Policy at the congress showed
that there is great interest in this subject.
In the Community, about 80 percent of
the population lives in cities and towns,
and the urban areas are thus the places
where noise problems most affect the
quality of life of citizens. Demographic
trends, including population, household
size, and space occupancy, point towards
ever increasing noise problems in urban
areas. Responsibility for the quality of the
urban environment and for undertaking
necessary remedial or improvement
measures will be a matter for competent
authorities, primarily local authorities.
Transport and industry, are the key
activities which impact the quality of
the urban environment and which also
stand to gain significantly from more
rational planning and sustainable management of urban areas.
Future noise activities of the Commission of the European Communities
in the area of environmental protection
are contained in the 5th Environmental
Action Program which was approved by
the Commission and adopted by the
Council in 1993 February. The objective
of the noise activities is that no person
should be exposed to noise levels which
endanger health and the quality of life.
Taking the definition of health as defmed by the World Health Organization
(WHO), it is the responsibility of the
scientific community of physicians,
physiologists, psychologists, sociolo-
• the proportion of the population at
present exposed to levels between 55-65
should not increase;
• the proportion of the population
presently exposed to levels less than 55
should not increase.
These EC targets for the year 2000
are very ambitious; however it appears
gists, and acousticians to define a state
It appears that the EC has the opportu-
ofcomplete physical, mental, and social
well being in terms of noise impact. The
EC actions to be undertaken up to the
year 2000 are very important. In the
program it is shown that the Commis-
nity to make important progress before
the end of the century, and we all want
the plan to succeed.
-Andre Cops
European Editor
sion is willing to fight noise for
the EC residents most affected by
noise at all levels of legislation
and administration, namely the
EC, the European Environmental
Agency (EEA), the Member
States (MS), and the Local
Authorities (LAs).
Actions to be taken are:
• inventory of exposure levels in the
EC (by 1994);
• noise abatement program to be set
up (by 1995);
• further reduction of noise emissions (cars, trucks, aircraft, cranes,
mowers, etc. (by 1995);
• standardization of noise measurements and ratings continuous efforts);
• measures to influence behavior,
such as driving cars, flight procedures,
industrial processes operating at night
time (continuous efforts);
• measures related to infrastructure
and physical planning, such as better zoning around airports, industrial areas, main
roads, and railways (continuous efforts).
• EC noise targets up to the year 2000
are, for night-time exposures in equivalent
A-weighted sound levels, the following:
the exposure of the population to
noise levels in excess of 65 should be
eliminated;
Noise/News International
1994 March
Member Society Profile
The Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
T
he Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
promotes the advancement of the science and technology of acoustics in all its
disciplines and the exchange of ideas in
relation thereto. It was founded on April
15, 1936, by 15 members. By 1993, the
membership had reached 4,203, including 3,697 Members, 22 Honorary Fellows, 37 Life Members, and 447 Student
Members. Members are drawn from
varying backgrounds and have varying
interests. In addition to these individual
member , the Society is supported by 228
Sustaining Members and 221 Special
Members. There are three Regional
Chapters: Kan ai, Tohoku, and Tokai.
Each year in the spring and fall, the
Society holds a three-day national meeting
in different cities in Japan. The meeting
covers a wide range of topics. In addition to
the regular e sion , several special sessions are organized with invited lectures
and contributed papers. In total, roughly
500 papers are presented and I ,000 people
participate in each meeting.
ASJ publishes the Journal of the
Acoustical Society of Japan (in Japanese)
monthly, and the Journa\ of the Acoustical
Society of Japan(E) (in English) bimonthly. These journals include technical
papers and review papers. The Society
publishes text books and reference books
for students, professors, and researchers
to promote acoustics by the dissemination of information on various topics.
The Society has eight technical committees: Architectural Acoustics, Electroacoustics, Musical Acoustics, oise and
Vibration, Psychological and Physiological
Acoustic, Speech, Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics, and Acoustical Chemistry.
Each committee holds a meeting with paper
presentations almost every month at various places in Japan. ASJ periodically offers
This is the fifth in a series of articles 011
the history and activities of the Member
Societies of InternationaIINCE.- Ed.
1994 March
fundamental training courses as well as
continuing education in various areas,
such as psychological measurement and
signal processing.
The Society has hosted or sponsored a
number of international conferences including the 6th ICA in 1968, INTEROISE 75 in 1975, the ASA-ASJ Joint
Meeting in 1978 and 1988, the Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Acoustics in
198\ and 1983, WESTPRAC since 1982,
the China-Japan Joint Symposium on
Acoustics in \985, ICASSP in 1986, and
the International Symposium on Active
Control of Sound and Vibration in 1991,
the Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on
Acoustics in Commemoration of the 10th
Anniversary of the Acoustical Society of
Korea in 1991. The following future
events are also planned: INTER- OISE
94 and ICSLP 94, both in Yokohama in
1994, and the ASA-ASJ Joint Meeting in
Hawaii in 1996. The events held in Japan
give acousticians from other countries the
opportunity to visit Japan, to the mutual
benefit of all involved.
ASJ presents several awards. The
Prize for Distinguished Achievement in
Acoustics is given to, at most, two persons a year for outstanding scientific
achievements in acoustics. The Sato Prize
is awarded for, at most, two outstanding
papers appearing in the Journal of ASJ
(either the Japanese or English editions)
every year to commemorate Dr. Kozi
Sato, a founding member. The Awaya
Prize is given to six (or fewer) promising
young re earchers every year for outstanding presentations given at the ASJ
meetings, to commemorate Dr. Kiyoshi
Awaya. The Prize for Outstanding Technological Development in Acoustics is
given to about three groups or persons a
year.
An Executive Council Meeting is held
every month. For more information on
the ASJ, contact the Secretariat at the
address on page 62.
Noise/News International
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People
Lawrence Receives Australian Standards
Award
Anita Lawrence
Professor Anita Lawrence of
Australia has been presented
with one of eight inaugural
standards awards by Standards Australia. The award
was for her work as a member of Standards Australia's
Council and its Executive
Board, the Multitechnics
Standards Policy Board, and
as Chairman of the Environment, Consumer and General
Standards Advisory Committee. She is also a member
of many technical commit-
tees in several areas of acoustics.
Professor Lawrence has had a significant impact on acoustics
in Australia. She taught acoustics for over 30 years, and before
that worked as an architect on banks, hotels and private houses
with several consultants. She established the Master of Science
(Acoustics) course in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia-which was one
of the first, if not the first, formal acoustics course in Australia.
Numerous Ph.D. and Masters degree students owe most of their
acoustical training to Professor Lawrence, and they are now to
be found in universities, government establishments, and industry throughout Australia as well as overseas.
Professor Lawrence is the author of many papers, has contributed chapters to architectural science handbooks, and has
written three books, including Acoustics and the Built Environment, a practical handbook on acoustics for physical planners,
architects, services engineers, and builders. She currently serves
as Asia-Pacific Editor for this magazine.
Bernhard is Named Herrick Laboratories
Director
Robert J. Bernhard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, has been
named Director of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at the
University. The appointment was effective in 1994 January.
Professor Bernhard is also serving as the 1994 President of
INCE/USA. He served as a member of the INCE/USA Board of
Directors from 1989 to 1991, and as INCE/USA Vice President
for Technical Activities from 1990 to 1992.
Professor Bernhard received his BSME in 1973 and his Ph.D.
in Engineering Mechanics in 1982 from Iowa State University,
and his MSME in 1976 from the University of Maryland. He
was previously employed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1973-1977), and Iowa State University (1977-1982). He
joined the faculty of the School of Mechanical Engineering at
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Purdue in 1982 as an Assistant
Professor. He was promoted
to Associate Professor in
1987 and to Professor in
1991.
He is internationally
known for his research on
noise and vibration control of
machinery as well as for contributions in the areas of computer aided modeling and
design for noise reduction and
active noise control. He has
advised more than 30 advanced degree thesis students Robert J. Bernhard
and has more than 100 research publications.
The Herrick Laboratories are internationally known for engineering research in the areas of noise and vibration control and
heating, ventilating, and airconditioning equipment. Research
at the laboratories is funded primarily by U.S. and international
corporations. In its 35 years of existence, the Laboratories have
graduated more than 450 advanced engineering students. Professor Bernhard succeeds Professor Raymond Cohen who has
been the Director since 1972. Professor Cohen was 1990 President of INCE/USA.
Professor Bernhard is a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers,
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the
Acoustical Society of America.
Richard J. Peppin Receives Waterfall Award
Richard J. Peppin, founder and president of Scantek, Inc., has
received the Wallace Waterfall award from the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). The award was presented
at the fall 1993 meeting of ASTM Committee E-33. The Wallace
Waterfall Award is presented by Committee E-33 on Environmental Acoustics for outstanding contributions to standardization in acoustics. Mr. Peppin received the award .. .for his
distinguished contribution to the development, preparation, and
acceptance of standards in acoustics.
Richard 1. Peppin has been active in INCE/USA affairs since
1979. He served as a director of INCE/USA for nine years,
1980-1982,1986-1988, and 1991-1993. He was the secretary of
INCE/USA from 1979 to 1984, the vice president for external
affairs from 1985-1987, and vice president for membership
from 1990 to 1991. He served as chairman of ASTM E-33.04
on Applications of Acoustical Materials, and has headed several
ASTM Task Groups including Impedance Tubes and Community Noise. In addition to his contributions to the development
of ASTM standards, he has been a regular contributor to the
standards programs of several other professional socities.
NoiselNews International
1994 March
Feature
The NOISE-CON 94 Technical Program
OISE-CON 94, the 1994 National Conference
on Noise Control Engineering, will be held at
the Bahia Mar Resort and Yachting Center in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, USA on 1994 May 01-04. The
Conference is being sponsored by INCE/USA in
cooperation with the Florida Atlantic University and
the IBM Corporation. The Announcement and Call
for Papers appeared on pages 155-158 of Volume 1
of this magazine, and an invitation to participate
appeared on pages 213-216 of the same volume. The
latter article included registration information for
the conference.
One hundred and eighty one abstracts have been
received and accepted for presentation at NOISECON 94. The papers have tentatively been assigned
to 36 different topic areas in noise control engineering; the technical sessions will be arranged when the
authors have returned their contributions to the Conference Proceedings. Active noise control will be
one of the highlights of NOISE-CON 94, with 28
papers currently scheduled for presentation.
The 36 subject areas to be covered at NOISECON 94 are:
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Road Transportation Noise
Noise Control of Rotating Machines
Airport Noise Modeling
Transportation Noise
Road Transportation Noise
Environmental Noise
Experimental and Computational Methods in
Noise Control
Machinery Noise Control
Noise Control of Rotating Machines
Structure-borne Noise Techniques
Numerical and Analytical Analyses of Noise and
Vibration Systems
Experimental and Measurement Analysis
Noise Control in Buildings
Structural Intensity and SEA
Experimental and Computational Methods ill
Noise Control
Active Noise and Vibration Control
Active Control Algorithms and Implementation
Active Control Applications
Active-Passive Noise Control
Active Control Applications
Structure-borne Noise Techniques
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• Numerical and Analytical Analyses of Noise and
Vibration Systems
• Structure-borne Noise Techniques
• Structural Intensity and SEA
• Numerical and Analytical Analyses of Noise and
Vibration Systems
• Control of HVAC Noise
• Insulation for Control of Interior Noise
• Offshore Platform and Shipboard Noise Control
• Noise Control in Buildings
• Sound Quality: Criteria and Parameter Estimation
• Airport Noise Modeling
• Criteria for Room Acoustics
• Experimental Facilities for Noise and Vibration
Measurements
• Experimental and Computational Methods in
Noise Control
• Numerical and Analytical Analyses of Noise and
Vibration Systems
• Noise Standards
The titles of the abstracts received have been
organized according to the INCE Classification of
Subjects (See the feature article elsewhere in this
issue.- Ed.), and are listed below.
Further information on NOISE-CON 94 can be
obtained from the Conference Secretariat, Susan
Fish, Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida
Atlantic University, 500 NW 20th Street, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA. Telephone: + 1 407 367
3430; FAX: + 1 407 367 3885. e-mail:
fish@oe.fau.edu.
EMISSION: NOISE SOURCES (Noise
Generation and Control)
Acoustical and Fluid Dynamic Similarity for Air-Moving
Device Measurements on the ANSI Test Plenum. The
Contribution to the Overall Noise Level of the Vibration
of an Open Grid Bridge Deck • New Explanations for
Modulation Sidebands in Gear Vibro-Acoustic Spectra.
A Systematic Case Study to Improve Sound Quality of an
Automotive Climate Control System. Control of Tones
by Periodic Tip Lift Variation in Ducted Turbomachinery
• Active Noise Control of Enclosed Axial-Flow Fans.
Method for Characterizing Aerodynamic Sources of
Sound with Applications to Computer Cooling Fans •
Controlling Computer Fan Noise Emissions. Determination of Noise Sources in a Forward-Curved Centrifugal
Blower Using Flow Visualization Methods. Electromagnetic Noise Problems ofthe Series Fractional Horse Power
Motors. Influence of Helicopter Flight Profile on Ground
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Noise. Transmission Loss Characteristics of Aircraft
Sidewall Systems to Control Cabin Interior Noise. Distance Effects of Vehicle Noise. Tire Noise Resulting from
an Open Grid Bridge Deck. Comparison of Innovative
Approaches for Noise Pollution Evaluation • Transfer
Function Techniques for Automotive Interior Noise due to
the Induction System. Assessing Human Perception of
Aerodynamic Automotive Noise. A State Space Acoustic
Finite Element Analysis for Estimating Vehicle Interior
Noise Level. Synchronous Tone Ventilation Noise in
Automotive Alternators. Community Noise Impact ofthe
Conversion from Conventional Diesel-Powered Trains to
High-Speed Electric Trains on the Northeast Corridor.
Psychoacoustic Tests on Tramway Noise. Design Modifications for Suppression of Radiated Noise from a Fiber
Crimping Machine. Noise Suppressor of Industrial Gas
Ejecting Device • Determination of the Hydroacoustic
Transfer Matrix and Sources of a Pump. An Experimental
Method. On the Noise of Percussion Drill Steel Rod.
In-the-Hole Percussion Drilling Tools for Percussion Drill
Noise Control
PHYSICAL PHENOMENA
Noise Generation in the Collapse of a Localized Density
Pertubation in a Stratified Fluid • Sound Radiation and
Scattering By Localized Vortices. Acoustical Resonance
in Turbomachines • Experimental Study of the Pressure
Field Beneath the A-Pillar Vortex ofa Road Vehicle Model
• Empirical Refinements to Boundary Layer Transition
Noise Models. Effect ofWeak Periodic Pressure Gradient
on Streamwise Vortices Near a Wall. Sound Radiation
from Structures in the Presence of Close-Fitting Sound
Shields • Acoustic Scattering from Two Finite Fluidloaded Co-planar Coupled Plates. Noise Scattered Field
Produced by Large Spherical Body • Acoustic Energy
Flux and Transmission Loss in a Duct with a By-Pass
NOISE CONTROL ELEMENTS (Noise Control
by External Treatments)
Noise Barrier Construction in a High Water Table Environment: An Alternative Method. Influence of Sound
Transmission Path Anomalies upon Effectiveness of Active or Passive Sound Barriers for Transformers. Prediction of Response Probability Distribution For Various
Type Sound Wall Systems Contaminated by a Background
Noise. Sound Radiation from Ribbed Cylindrical Structures-a Compact Modal Formulation for Use in SEA Models • Silencers for Automobile and for Industrial Noise
Control...the Main Ways of their Improving. Computer
Aided Design of Automotive Air Conditioner Mufflers.
Using TSA to Trend the Attenuation of an Installed Silencer. New Calculation Method to Locate Silencers and
Catalyst Converters in a Car's Exhaust System. Multidimensional Effects on Silencer Performance. The Herschel-Venturi Tube. On Hydraulic Model of
Conventional Helmholtz Resonator-Silencer Operating in
High Intensity Noise Field. Active Control of Turbomachine Discrete Tones. Recent Trends in the Development
of Active Sound and Vibration Control Systems. Causality Constraints of Adaptive Active Control Algorithms.
Active Control of Axial Fan Noise From Office Equipment • The State of the Art of Active Passive Noise
Control. A Numerical Investigation of Active Structural
Acoustic Control in a Double Walled Cylinder. Structureborne Noise Reduction Using an Active Isolation
Mount. Adaptive Active Vibration Control of Flexible
Beam Structures. Geometric Compositions in the Design
of Active Noise Control Systems. Selecting Numbers of
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Transducers and Filter Lengths for Neutralized-Feedforward Active Noise Control. The Numerical Analysis For
Active Structural Acoustic Control in an Aircraft Fuselage
• Large-Scale, Broadband Sensor and Actuator Selection
For Active Noise Control. When The Quiet Zone Needn't
Be Quiet Separating Speech From Noise in Active Noise
Control. Adaptive-Passive Vibration Control of Single
Frequency Excitations As Applied to Noise Control.
Adaptive Feedback Active Noise Control. Active Acoustic and Structural Acoustic Control of Car Cabin Noise Experimental Study on a Scale Model • Estimating
Acoustic Radiation using Wavenumber Sensors. Broadband Wide-Area Active Control of Sound Radiated from
Vibrating Structures Using Local Surface-Mounted Radiation Suppression Devices. Fixed-Point DSP Implementation of Active Noise Control Systems.
Improvement of the Estimate of the Speaker-Error Microphone Transfer function in an Active Noise Controller.
Adaptive-Passive Control of Structural Vibrations via
Shunted Piezoelectric Materials with Adaptable Circuits
• Active Control of Complex Noise Problems Using a
Broadband, Multichannel Controller. An Active Control
Procedure to Spatially Reduce the Noise Created by a
Vibrating Panel into a Room • A Frequency Domain
Multichannel Optimal Adaptive Algorithm for Active
Control of Sound and Vibration. Analytical Investigation
of Adaptive Control of Radiated Inlet Noise from Turbofan Engines • Adaptive Feedforward Control of Time
Varying Structural Systems. Active Attenuation of Motor/Blower Noise. Performance Evaluation of Various
Active Noise Control Algorithms • Control of Sound
RadiationiReflection with Active Foams. Active Control
of Interior Noise in a Business Aircraft Using Piezoceramic Actuators
VIBRATION AND SHOCK: GENERATION,
TRANSMISSION, ISOLATION, AND
REDUCTION
Random Vibration of Nonlinear Beams by the New Stochastic Linearization Technique. Stochastic Response of
Multi-Span Beam to the Acoustic Field. Interval Analysis
and Convex Modelling for Uncertainty Analysis in Structural Vibrations. Minimization of Radiated Sound Power
Using External System Modeling. Design of a Prototype
Acoustic Enclosure with One Flexible Wall for Use in
Structure-Borne Noise Studies. Impedance Measurements in Transversely Vibrating Beams. Analytical, Numerical, and Experimental Comparisons for
Structure-Borne Noise in a Rectangular Acoustic Enclosure. Vibrational Energy Distribution in Inhomogeneous
Structures. Vibrational Waves Propagation Along Piping
System Network. Application of the Mobility Power
Flow Approach to a Fluid-loaded Shell Coupled to a Plate
Bulkhead. Structural Power Flow Analysis Using Finite
Element. The Application of the Wigner Distribution to
Wave Type Identification in Finite Length Beams •
Boundary Element Calculation of Transient 3-D Wave
Propagation in Viscoelastic Solids • Structure-Borne
Noise Predictions and Measurements on a Simple Truss
Structure. Analysis ofTransmitted Vibration in aT-Beam
Structure Using Component Modes. AT-Frame Structure
for the Analysis of Structure-Borne Sound Transmission
by Multi-Point and Multi-Component Excitation. Low
Frequency (LF) Acoustic Testing of Boreholes Anomalies
• Localization and Transmission Loss in Ribbed Plates.
Experimental Studies of Vibrational Power Flow Through
Slotted Beams. Assessment of Structural Intensity and
Energy Flow in Multi-Source Environments by Means of
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Singular Value Analysis. A Theoretical Analysis of Airborne Sound Transfer for a Resiliently Mounted Machine
to its Foundation. Free Vibration of Stochastic Structures
on Uncertain Elastic Foundation. Adaptive Tuned Vibration Absorbers: Tuning Laws; Tracking Agility; Sizing;
and Physical Implementations. Virtual Sensors and Actuators for Incorporating Rotational Degrees of Freedom
in Active Vibration Control. Broadband Active Vibration
Control of a Beam Using Experimentally Obtained Impulse Functions. Prediction of Natural Frequency Variability due to Uncertainty in Material Properties. Effect
of Constraining Layer Stiffness on Performance of Damping-Tile Materials Using Finite Element Modelling with
Rayleigh Integral
IMMISSION: PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE
Sound Insulation Programs: Serving Three Clients. 25
Years of Airport Sound Insulation Programs. Noise Control in Research Laboratory. Vibration Isolation for Noise
Control in Residential HVAC Systems - A Case Study.
Acoustic Performance ofan Air Conditioning System with
a Diffusing Ceiling for Dwellings and Small Office Blocks
• Acoustical Treatment of Ventilation Paths for Sound
Insulation of Buildings. Identification of Noise Sources
and Paths in a Hermetic Reciprocating Refrigeration
Compressor via Multiple Input/Single Output Modeling.
Residential Sound Insulation - A Quest for Quiet. Effects
of Speed on Vehicle Sound Spectra. Noise Control along
Interstate 95 in Broward and Palm Beach Counties •
Application of a Large-Scale Sea Model to a Ship Noise
Problem. The Active Control of Airborne Noise in a High
Speed Patrol Craft. Noise Control on a Large Tractor Tug
• Valve Noise on an Offshore Platform. Design of a Low
Noise 46 MW Natural Gas Compressor Station. Noise
Evaluation in Geothermal Installations • The Environmental Noise Surveys of Two Communities at China's
City (Chongqing)
IMMISSION: EFFECTS OF NOISE
Recent Experience in the Use of Prominence Ratio for
Rating Discrete Tones in Noise. The Biologically Active
Acoustic Zones in the Conditions of Real Production.
The Biologically Active Infrasound Zones • The Initial
Link ofthe Infrasound and Man's Interaction Mechanism
• An Experimental Study on the Sound Evaluation Based
on the Compound Effect of Environmental Factors in a
Room. Community Effects of Barriers. Objective and
Subjective Evaluation of Equal and Unequal Exhaust
System for V6 and V8 Engine Application. Using Artificial Neural Networks to Model Human Annoyance to
Noise • Possibilities of Psychacoustics to Determine
Sound Quality • Environmental Noise Criteria for Pure
Tone Industrial Noise Sources. Assessing Effects of
Military Aircraft Noise on Residential Property Values
near Airbases • Integrating Noisemap with The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (Grass) to
Enhance Environmental Impact Assessments and Land
Use Compatibility Studies. Room Criteria for Performance Facilities. Acoustical Properties of Fabric Roofs.
Application of NCB and RC Noise Criterion Curves to
Evaluation of Noise in Occupied Spaces. A Review and
Revision of Acceptable Room Noise Levels. Low Frequency Noise Assessment - What Do We Know?
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ANALYSIS
Low-Noise Windscreen Design and Performance. Calibration of a Laser Vibrometer by Digital FM Demodulation (71
Instruments For Noise and Vibration Measurements) • Torsional Operational Deflection Shapes (TODS) Measurements • Comer Microphone Technique for Measuring Decay
Rate in a Reverberation Room. Objective Acoustical Analysis of Room Acoustic Measurements in Portuguese Roman
Catholic Churches • Estimation Theory and Experiment
Using Digital Filter for Reverberation Curve with Unknown
Initial State in Room Contaminated by Background Noise.
Techniques for Interaural Cross Correlation Measurements •
HC Rating of Tapping Machine Field Measurements. Design Problems of Test Reverberation Chamber for High
Intensity Noise Field Simulation Construction. Computer
Optimized Design ofa Reverberation Chamber. Time Series
Modelling Techniques for Multivariate Correlation Analysis
of Operating Response Data. Higher-Order Statistical Signal Processing Based on Wide Sense Digital Filters and its
Application to State Estimation of Various Type Acoustic
Environments. A Coupling Procedure for Modeling Acoustic Problems Using Finite Elements and Boundary Elements
• Regression Analysis Based on the Introduction ofMultiplicative Noise and the Prediction of Response Probability
Distribution for Acoustic Environmental Systems • VibroAcoustic Analysis of Manned Spacecraft using SEA. Probability Distribution of Mean-Squared Sound Pressure by
Statistical Energy Analysis • Finite Element Modeling of
Isotropic Elastic Porous Materials Coupled with Acoustical
Finite Elements. A Coupled Structural - Acoustic Indirect
Boundary Element Formulation with Unequal Mesh Capability between the Acoustic and the Structural Model •
Application ofMulti-Domain BEM to Acoustic Analysis. A
Refined Transient Boundary Element Model for Acoustic
Modeling. Generalization of the Bolotin's Dynamic EdgeEffect Method for Vibration Analysis of Mindlin Plates. A
Comparison ofMulti-ReferenceNearfield Acoustical Holography Procedures. Acoustical Holography in Spherical Coordinates for Noise Source Identification. Array Processing
Requirements for the Measurement of Structure and Fluid
Borne Propagation of Flow Noise in Pipes. Noise Modeling
for MOS's and Ranges. Noise Modeling and Analysis
Techniques of Aircraft Auxiliary Power Units. Determining
the Effects of Alternative Departure Cutback Altitudes and
Power Settings - A Case Study - John Wayne Airport •
MOAMAP: Three-Dimensional Noise Modeling For Military Special Use Airspace (SUA) • The Present and Future
of Aircraft Noise Models: A User's Perspective. INM
Contour Validation -A Case Study. At Istanbul Atatork
Airport Measurement and Analysis of Noise in Due of Take
Off Time. Subjective Assessment of Spatial Impression.
Effects of Various Architectural Parameters on Acoustical
Measurement s in Rooms for Listening • First Steps in
Rationalization ofRoom Acoustical Adaptation. Guidelines
for Conducting Listening Tests on Sound Quality
REQUIREMENTS
Noise Criteria for Ships, Boats, and Offshore Platforms.
Impact of Anticipated Changes in Mine Regulations on
the Coal Mining Industry. Noise Reduction as a Requirement in Machine Specific Safety Standards • European
Community Directives Relating to Noise • Are There
Ways to Comply with the European Directive on Machinery Safety? • New Focus Needed for Noise Ordinances.
Permitting Requirements for 24-hour Tunneling Construction
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Feature
Subiect Classification
for Noise Control Engineering
1. Introduction
Classification, according to the dictionary definition,
is the arrangement of things in classes according to
the characteristics they have in common. Here we are
interested in the many different subjects encountered
in the field of noise control engineering.
Why classify them? International INCE and
INCE/USA are concerned with technical publications: books, journals and proceedings. The principal reason for classification is to make the
information in those technical publications retriev-
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able and hence available to those who need it.
International INCE and INCE/USA are involved
with the organization of conferences and congresses. A scheme or system (these two words will
be used interchangeably here) to classify papers in
noise control engineering is of great value to the
organizers of these meetings. Once an invited or
contributed paper is classified, its placement on the
technical program and in the Proceedings for the
meeting is greatly facilitated.
The classification scheme to be described has
been developed by and for practicing engineers. To
date, librarians and other information professionals
have not participated in its development. However,
it may be useful to define what the INCE Classification of Subjects is, and what it isn't. To do so, it is
necessary to use the terminology of information
science. For those readers who are unfamiliar with
the jargon of information science, certain basic definitions are given in the next section.
Using these definitions, the INCE Classification
of Subjects is a so-called "traditional" system! for
classifying the subject content of documents, similar
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to the Dewey Decimal Classification. A traditional
scheme utilizes a deductive method for organizing
knowledge in a systematic manner. Instead of arranging the subject headings alphabetically, the
scheme is arranged hierarchically. Fields of noise
control engineering are divided into broad categories; each category is subdivided; and the subcategories are subdivided. Each subdivision is called a
level, and the process of subdivision may continue
until there are four or more levels in the scheme.
The advantages of the hierarchical scheme over
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the alphabetical arrangement are twofold:
• like subjects are grouped closely together and
browsing up or down near any entry will reveal
closely- related entries;
• during searches by means of on-line bibliographic
databases, the INCE subject classification code
can be truncated at will to broaden the area of
search.
A disadvantage of the hierarchical scheme is the
difficulty experienced by some users unfamiliar
with the scheme in locating a particular term that
they seek. In most cases, the desired subject can be
found quickly by using the One-Page Summmary to
locate the second level term; then the third and
higher level terms can be found from the detailed
classification of subjects.
A traditional scheme usually is accompanied by
a subject index with a cross-reference structure to
assist in locating any subject in the classification
system. Such indexes are usually in the form of an
alphabetical list of subject headings. The index for
the INCE Classification of Subjects has not yet been
completed.
As defined above, indexing is the process of
assigning one or more subject classification numbers to a document involving a decision by the
person doing the classifying. The author of the document is frequently asked to assist in this assignment.
A detailed description of the classification process
is described below in the section titled Indexing an
Article.
As a traditional scheme, the INCE Classification
of Subjects has a controlled vocabulary. Other, more
modern classification systems, such as the KWIC
index with an uncontrolled vocabulary, were consid-
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ered, but were not adopted. Also considered was the
thesaurus approach with its controlled vocabulary.
Many of the large engineering organizations, such
as the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), use their own thesauruses. The big
advantage that INCE has over other organizations is
its source-path-receiver model. None of the other
classification systems considered, with either controlled or uncontrolled vocabularies, could fully exploit the advantages of the source-path-receiver
model on which the INCE Classification of Subjects
is based.
2. Basic Definitions of Information
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Science
Classification: An orderly arrangement of terms,
developed by logical division of a subject by means
of a series of characteristics. A hierarchical classification suggests the positioning of various terms in
the chain going from the general to the specific.
Descriptor, Term: A word or expression having a
precise and unambiguous meaning.
Subject Heading: A word or group of words
embodying a subject under which entries for all
works on that subject are to be found.
Index: A systematic guide to items contained in a
document or groups of documents.
Indexing, Classifying: The process of analyzing
the information content of a document and expressing this information in the language of the classification system.
Controlled Vocabulary: A list of terms used in
indexing, with rules prescribed for selecting terms
and adding new terms.
Uncontrolled Vocabulary: A vocabulary in which
the terms are free of all constraints and information
is identified and retrieved in the natural language of
the authors.
Information Retrieval: The recovery of desired
information or data from an organized collection of
information.
Dewey Decimal Classification: Classification
system developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876 and
used extensively by U.S. libraries for the shelf arrangement of books. In Dewey's scheme, knowledge is divided into ten main classes, each with
further subdivisions.
Thesaurus: A list of subject headings or descriptors, usually alphabetical, with a cross-reference
system for use in the organization of a collection of
documents for reference and retrieval.
Keyword in Context Index (KWIC): A rotated
listing, usually of document titles, with each significant word in the title appearing in the appropriate
alphabetical place in the display, surrounded by the
remainder of the title.
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3. Early History of the INCE
Classification of Subjects
When INCE/USA was founded in 1971, one of the
first tasks undertaken by the new organization was
the preparation of a classification of subjects in noise
control engineering. At the Arden House Workshops
on Noise Control Engineering which played an important role in the early development of INCE/USA,
there were discussions of the need for a scheme to
classify subjects. The initial reasons for preparing a
classification of subjects were to facilitate the structuring of the technical programs of conferences, and
to make it easier to search for articles published in
technical journals.
An initial draft of a classification of subjects was
prepared for discussion at the First Arden House
Workshop. It was dated 1970-10-13. For convenience, this first draft was later identified as Version
0.0. During the formative years ofINCE/USA, there
was little opportunity to expand or refine Version 0.0
which languished until the end of the decade of the
1970s, unpublished and unused.
The theme of the 1980 International Conference on
Noise Control Engineering (Miami, Florida, USA,
1980 December 08-10) was Noise Controlfor the 80s.
In keeping with the theme, it was recognized that the
Proceedings would be useful not only to the participants, but would also serve as a valuable reference for
others who were not present at INTER-NOISE 80. In
preparing the Proceedings, consideration was given
both to the needs of the participants and to the ease with
which papers could be located in the Proceedings
subsequent to INTER-NOISE 80. It was decided that
arranging the Proceedings volumes according to the
sequential order of the technical sessions of INTERNOISE 80 was less important than an arrangement that
would make it easier to locate individual papers when
INTER-NOISE 80 technical sessions were but a hazy
memory. Accordingly, for the fIrst time, papers were
arranged in the Proceedings not in the order in which
they were given during the technical sessions, but in
accordance with the INCE/USA ClassifIcation of Subjects. It was appropriate to publish the classifIcation
scheme for the fIrst time. A One-Page Summary of the
ClassifIcation of Subjects was printed at the beginning
of Volume 1 of the two-volume Proceedings of INTER-NOISE 80. This was version 0.1.
4. One-Page Summary
The One-Page Summary, which has appeared in all
subsequent INTER-NOISE Proceedings, shows that
the classification scheme is based on the sourcepath-receiver model. There are 10 major sections in
the scheme; the first level digits are 0 through 9. The
first level digit is followed by a second level digit;
the first and second level digits are not separated by
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a period; all subsequent levels, which do not appear
in the One-Page Summary, are separated by periods;
see Appendix A.
The first block of ten second level numbers (00
through 09) is for general subjects. Noise sources are
included in the second and third blocks, the third also
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including propagation phenomena. The fourth block
is devoted to noise control elements which are inserted in the transmission path. The sixth block
covers the physical aspects of environmental noise
at the receiver when multiple sources and multiple
paths are present. The seventh block includes the
effects of noise on the receiver. The eighth block is
devoted to analysis techniques and the ninth block
defines requirements for acceptable levels of noise.
A separate section, the fifth block, covers those
aspects of vibration and shock phenomena which are
of importance to noise control engineers.
5. What's in Each Section of the
Scheme?
Few papers presented at NOISE-CON or INTERNOISE conferences or published in journal articles
will have a single, unique classification number according to any scheme. It is therefore recommended
that each paper or journal article should, if possible, be
given at least two classification numbers which may
be from different major sections or blocks.
A. The General category (i.e., Section 00 with
classification numbers 00 through 09) includes subjects of general interest. For convenience, the first
classification number in each of the ten sections also
covers general subjects.
Categories 01-04 are devoted to the I-INCE
Member Societies, listed in the chronological order in
which they became Participating Members of International INCE. For convenience, the two-letter country
code is given after the name of each I-INCE Member
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Society. Intended for these categories are matters
that relate to the individual I-INCE Member Societies, such as constitution and bylaws, history, publications, meetings, membership lists, activities of
administrative and technical committees, prizes,
medals and awards, regional chapters and obituaries.
Category 05 includes publications other than technical articles. Category 06 is reserved for entries to
the historical and philosophical literature. Category
07 covers education in noise control engineering and
acoustics. Category 08 is for descriptions of noise
programs which are undertaken by governmental or
private organizations. Finally, category 09 is reserved for terminology, i.e., defmitions and descriptors.
B. Section 10 (classification numbers 10 through
19) covers noise sources and noise generators. Category 11 is for papers that describe noise-generating
devices and mechanisms which are discrete sources
of sound, ranging in size from very small (e.g.,
electrical components) to large (e.g., internal combustion engines). Category 12 covers stationary
equipment which generates noise; it may also be a
mobile source producing noise when stationary.
Category 13 includes all sources that are in motion
when they are producing noise. Category 14 is for
specialized industrial machinery and equipment.
The industries in which this special machinery is
used are classified according to the Special Industrial Code (SIC) whenever such a code is available.
C. Section 20 (classification numbers 20 through
29) is intended for physical phenomena. Category
21 is devoted to basic, physical mechanisms that are
responsible for the generation of sound. Category 22
includes natural sources of noise. The remaining
categories in Section 20 are devoted to the propagation, transmission and scattering of sound outdoors,
indoors and in ducts.
D. Section 30 (classification numbers 30 through
39) is for noise control elements that are in the path
between source and receiver for the purpose of noise
control. Included are: barriers, enclosures, sound
isolating elements, mufflers, absorptive materials,
hearing protective devices, and duct attenuators.
Category 38 covers special acoustical treatments,
including papers in the field of active control of
sound and vibration.
E. Section 40 (classification numbers 40 through
49) covers those aspects of vibration and shock that
are important to noise control engineering. Section
40 is not intended to be a comprehensive classifica-
tion of all subjects related to shock and vibration.
Those aspects that are not related to noise control are
not included.
F. Section 50 (classification numbers 50 through
59) is intended to cover the physical aspects of
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environmental noise when there are many noise
sources, many transmission paths and many receivers. Such conditions are typically found in buildings
(51), in communities (52), in factories (53), and on
shipboard (54). Noise surveys in communities and
factories (category 56) are included in this section.
G. Section 60 (classification numbers 60 through
69) deals with the effects of noise: sound perception
(61), physiological (62), psychological (63), physical damage (64), on animals (65), community reaction to noise (66), and economic effects (67). The
section concludes with classification numbers devoted to environmental impact statements (68) and
noise criteria (69).
H. Section 70 (classification numbers 70 through
79) is devoted to analyses of all kinds, including the
instruments needed to perform such analyses (71) and
the techniques for physical measurements (72), test
facilities for experimental analyses (73), signal processing (74), analytical methods (75) such as Statistical
Energy Analysis (SEA), Finite Element Method
(FEM) and Boundary Element Method (BEM), as well
as modeling, prediction and simulation (76). At the end
of the section are two categories for hearing acuity (78)
and psychoacoustical evaluations (79)
1. Finally, Section 80 (classification numbers 80
through 90) covers all sorts of requirements including those that are prescribed by Standards (81), by
legislation (82, 83 and 84), by ordinances (85), by
building codes (86), and by specifications (87). The
final two categories are devoted to auditing, enforcement and certification (88) and to labeling (89).
papers. Indeed, it is intended that the scheme be
useful whenever it is desirable or necessary to classify papers in the field of noise control engineering
for any purpose.
In 1987, the Long-Range Planning Committee of
INCE/USA circulated the classification scheme to
several other professional societies in the U.S.A. for
comments and suggestions. This Version 3.0 was not
published. In making this circulation, it was emphasized that INCE/USA had no interest in imposing its
classification scheme on other organizations or in
including categories not noise-related. Further, it
was pointed out that INCE/USA did not intend to
classify papers on topics in mechanical engineering,
aeroacoustics, vibration engineering, and other
fields that are unrelated to noise. Indeed, it was
emphasized that the INCE/USA classification
scheme is for papers dealing with noise and very
closely related subjects, and is not a universal classification system.
Responses from the other professional organizations led to the conclusion that they had limited
interest in a detailed classification scheme restricted
to the subject of noise. Following the publication of
Version 2.0 in the 1985 July-August issue of Noise
Control Engineering Journal, the practice of publishing the One-Page Summary in the INTERNOISE Proceedings has been continued, but the
detailed scheme has not been republished until now.
In the interim, a number of relatively minor modifications has been made, and the scheme published
here is Version 6.0.
6. Publication of the Detailed Scheme
7. Internationalization of the
Classification Scheme
The One-Page Summary is useful for locating the
broad categories in which a paper may be found, but it
does not provide sufficient infmmation for the editor
involved in the preparation of an INTER-NOISE Proceedings who requires more than a summary in order
to properly classify papers. Since 1979, the classification scheme has undergone revisions and expansions.
Version 0.1 was used for classifying the papers for
INTER-NOISE 80. Version 0.2 was used to classify
papers for INTER-NOISE 82.
The first publication of the detailed classification
scheme was in Noise/News (vol. 12, no. 4, 1983
July-August). This was Version 1.0. The second
publication of the detailed scheme occurred two
years later when Noise Control Engineering Journal
(NCEl) (vol. 25, no. 1, 1985 July-August) presented
a subject index which listed the titles of all articles
that had appeared in NCEJ during the years 1973 to
1984 according to the INCE/USA Classification of
Subjects (Version 2.0). The publication in NCEJ
demonstrated the usefulness of the scheme for classifying journal articles as well as INTER-NOISE
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Upon the recommendation ofINCE/USALong-Range
Planning Committee (LRPC) in 1987 following the
circulation of Version 3.0 to the U.S. professional
societies for comments, responsibility for maintenance, revision and updating of the Classification of
Subjects was transferred to International INCE. The
LRPC considered it to be a matter of great importance
that the classification scheme be internationalized, and
International INCE was in the best position to provide
worldwide inputs on the process of updating and expanding the scheme, which. after 1987. has been identified as the I-INCE Classification ofSubjects in Noise
Control Engineering.
8. Comments by Kari Pesonen
Consulting Engineers
For the past several years, Kari Pesonen Consulting
Engineers Ltd. (KPCE), Kristianink. 11-13 B, SF00170 Helsinki, Finland has been using an extended
classification code which was based on Version 2.0
published in Noise Control Engineering Journal
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(1985). In discussions with the Finnish organization,
a number of important points have been raised.
First, KPCE noted that Version 2.0 is not complete enough for indexing all documents that are
needed in a professional noise-control-engineering
consulting practice. Nearly all organizations dealing
with noise control need to index and file acoustical
and engineering documents that are not noise related. Consider, for example, the design of silencers
for process plants. The noise control engineer needs
a great deal of information, much of it not noise
related, e.g., on process dynamics, materials for
thermal insulation, materials and methods for corrosion control, pressure vessel codes, technical data
sheets on prefabricated parts and fittings, mechanical standards, etc. It is not I-INCE's responsibility
to include such topics in the I-INCE classification
scheme. However, to encourage organizations to
adopt and use the I-INCE scheme, the indexing code
must be expandable to fit local requirements. Thus,
it is important to leave open numbers to provide
access points (numbers on which to start expanded
indexing) in the I-INCE classification scheme for
users to add their own special codes. Such open
numbers should not interfere with future alterations
and expansions of the I-INCE classification scheme,
but I-INCE should inform users of these open numbers or "hooks" which are available for the user to
cover special and non-noise related subjects. These
open numbers would not be supported by I-INCE
and would be maintained by each user of the I-INCE
scheme. Future changes and alterations to the 1INCE classification scheme will not interfere with
any users' extensions.
To meet this important requirement, I-INCE
agreed that those classification numbers with zero
on the third level (e.g., 12.0) will not be used by
I-INCE. Thus, all classification numbers following
a zero on the third level would be available for
user-tailored codes which will not appear in the
I-INCE Classification of Subjects. To distinguish
between the I-INCE classification scheme and usertailored subjects, it is recommended that user-tailored codes start with a letter rather than a number.
By permitting user-tailored entries in the I-INCE
classification scheme, interchangeability between
databases is assured.
Further, provision has been made for the inclusion
of a country code in the classification scheme. While a
country code could be used with any category of the
scheme, it is particularly convenient for the following:
05.7,06,07,08,81.1,81.9,82,83,84,85 and 86. When
an ISO country code designator is used, it should be
placed after the classification number in parentheses.
For example, Category 05.7 is Patents. As a document
may be classified as a German patent by assigning it
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the classification number 5.7(DE). Such a designation would facilitate the search through databases for
such a national document.
Second, KPCE noted that the I-INCE classification scheme should be easily adapted to and used
with popular database programs.
To meet this requirement, I-INCE maintains the
I-INCE Classification of Subjects on 5.25-inch and
3.5-inch diskettes as an ASCII file formatted in
MS-DOS. The file can be read and imported into a
variety of word processing programs.
Third, KPCE pointed out that care must be exercised in prescribing the number of digits between
two periods in the classification code. This is important when we consider the use of the classification
code with available general-purpose databases. All
database programs should be able to search multiperiod codes in a similar fashion.
To satisfy this requirement, I-INCE has restricted
the code to one digit between periods for each level,
except there is no period between the first and second levels. This requirement allows database programs that perform column sorts to sort the
information in the database according to the subject
classification scheme.
9. Other Classification Schemes
There are a number of other classification schemes
which cover aspects of noise and its control. Perhaps
the best known is the Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) which is used by the
Acoustical Society of Americl. Section 43 ofPACS
is devoted to acoustics. Between categories 43.05
and 43.88, the field of acoustics is divided into more
than 20 sub-sections. The subjects related to noise,
its effects and control, are itemized in PACS 43.50
with 15 sub-sub-sections starting with 43.50.Ba,
"Noisiness: rating methods and criteria" and ending
with 43.50.Yw, "Instrumentation and techniques for
noise measurement." This scheme was not considered suitable for adoption by INCE as it contains
only 15 sub-sub-sections not arranged using the
source-path-receiver model. Further, the scheme
mixes digits and letters. An all-numerical scheme
was preferred.
A number of commercial firms maintain their
own databases that cover noise control engineering.
An example is the classification scheme developed
and used by DNV Ingemansson AB, Gothenburg,
Sweden. That scheme also covers the entire field of
acoustics, and is not specialized to noise control
engineering.
1O. Classifying an Article
Consider now a specific example - to fmd the principal
INCE classification code for the following article:
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10.1 Noise Reduction of a Dot Matrix Printer
Yoji Okazaki and Yumio Nitta, Toshiba R&D Center,
4-1 Ukishima-cho, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki,Japan
When selecting an INCE classification code for
an article, the author or classifier must make a judgment of the principal topics covered by the paper.
The author/classifier consults the One-Page Summary and finds the 2-digit first and second level
Classification Number.
12 Stationary noise sources
The author/classifier consults the detailed
scheme and finds the third-level code:
12.3 Computers and business equipment
Continuing the search, the following fourth-level
code is located:
12.3.4 Computer equipment
And then the fifth-level code:
12.3.4.3 Input-output devices
And finally the sixth-level code:
12.3.4.3.4 Line and character printers
This sixth-level code is the principal INCE classification for the article.
It is desirable to assign secondary or alternative
code to each article that is classified. In this example,
the article deals with printers and the major noise
source is the printing element; so, following a similar procedure to that above, the secondary code for
this fourth-level article would be:
12.3.1.1 Printing elements
Each article should have at least two INCE subject classification codes. It is usually unnecessary to
provide more than two classification codes.
11. Future Uses of I-INCE Classification
of Subiects
Plans are in progress for INCE/USA to undertake a
leadership role in establishing a database of contemporary papers on noise and closely related subjects.
This database will include the titles of all papers
appearing in Noise Control Engineering Journal, the
Proceedings of INTER-NOISE Congresses and the
Proceedings of NOISE-CON Conferences (the na1994 March
tional meetings of INCE/USA). In addition, the database would include titles from other sources (proceedings and journals). At the present time, the
Board of Directors of INCE/USA is considering
appropriate file formats and methods of distribution.
The key point is that the construction and use of such
a database can only be successful if a single, uniform
scheme of classification is adopted.
It is proposed that such a contemporary literature
database be prepared for each calendar year and be
organized according to the I-INCE Classification of
Subjects. The database would be available on diskette in a standardized format. At the end of each year,
after all issues of journals and proceedings for that
year have been published, the database would be
printed in hard copy, and published in Noise/News
International. After several years, databases could
be consolidated and organized by subject classification to form five-year, ten-years indices, etc. For the
database to function effectively, not only is a uniform classification of subjects required, but also a
common data format for computer input. Readers of
NNI will note that the Government Reports department contains lists of government reports. While
only the most recent reports have been classified,
there is a repository of abstracts of nearly 3500 such
reports - dating from the early 1970s - which have
not yet been classified.
12. Questionnaire
Although no subject classification scheme is perfect,
classification is important to librarians, researchers,
consultants and others who have a need to establish
a rational system for indexing publications. A questionnaire appears in appendix C at the end of this
article. Many noise control engineers may acknowledge the importance of having a classification
scheme, but the extent to which individuals wish to
influence the construction of any classification
scheme is currently unknown. If you, the reader, are
interested in classifying papers, please take time to
respond to the short questionnaire on page 25 of this
issue.
13. References
1. "Indexing and Searching in Perspective," Everett H. Brenner
and Tefko Saracevic, National Federation of Abstracting and
Information Services, 112 South Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia,
PA 19102, USA, 1985.
2. "Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme 1993," AlP
PUB R-251.11, American Institute of Physics, 500 Sunnyside
Boulevard, Woodbury, NY 11797, USA, 1993.
Appendix A
One-Page Summary of the I-INCE Subject Classification
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GENERAL
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01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
General
International INCE
International INCE (continued)
International INCE (continued)
International INCE (continued)
Publications (other than technical articles)
History and philosophy
Education
Noise programs
Definitions and descriptors
EMISSION: NOISE SOURCES (noise
generation and control)
10
11
12
13
14
General
Noise-generating devices (including components and
subassemblies)
Stationary noise sources
Moving noise sources
Specialized industrial machinery and equipment
PHYSICAL PHENOMENA
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
General
Physical mechanisms of noise generation
Natural sources of noise
Propagation, transmission & scattering of sound (general wave equation)
Sound propagation in the atmosphere
Sound propagation in enclosed spaces
Sound propagation in ducts
NOISE CONTROL ELEMENTS
(for path noise control)
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
General
Barriers and screens, shielding
Enclosures for noise sources
Sound isolating elements (including panels, partitions
and curtains)
Filters, muffiers, silencers and resonators (conventional types)
Absorptive materials
Hearing protective devices
Noise attenuation and transmission in ducts
Special treatments (including active noise control)
54
55
56
Shipboard and offshore platform noise control
Outdoor plant noise control design and construction
Noise surveys
IMMISSION: EFFECTS OF NOISE
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
General
Perception of sound
Physiological effects
Psychological effects
Effects of noise on physical structures
Effects of noise on domesticated and wild animals
Sociological effects; community reaction to noise
Economic effects
Environmental impact statements
Criteria and rating of noise
ANALYSIS
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
General
Instruments for noise and vibration measurements
Measurement techniques
Test facilities (design and qualification)
Signal processing
Analytical methods
Modeling, prediction and simulation
Sampling and quality control procedures
Audiometry, dosimetry and hearing measurements
Psychoacoustical evaluations and testing
REQUIREMENTS
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
General
Standards
Federal government legislation and regulations
State and local legislation and regulations
Other legislation and regulations
Ordinances, including zoning requirements
Building codes
Specifications
Auditing, enforcement and certification
Labeling
RESERVED FOR FUTURE EXPANSION
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Appendix B
Detailed Classification of Subjects
VIBRATION AND SHOCK: GENERATION,
TRANSMISSION, ISOLATION AND
REDUCTION
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
General
Characteristics of sources of vibration and shock
Vibrating surfaces and structures (beams, plates, shells)
Propagation in structures (solid-borne noise)
Balancing of rotating and reciprocating machines
Reduction of impact forces; shock isolation and absorption
Vibration isolators and attenuators
Vibration-damping materials and structures
Vibration generators, shake tables
Effects of vibration and mechanical shock (on man, on
structures)
IMMISSION: PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE
(multiple sources and multiple paths)
50
General
51
Building noise control
52
Community noise control
53
In-plant noise control
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For convenience, the country codes of the International INCE
Member Societies are given in sections 01-04 of the classification.
GENERAL
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01
General
International INCE
01.1 INCE/USA (US)
01.2 Acoustical Society of Denmark (DK)
01.3 Acoustical Society of Norway (NO)
01.4 Acoustical Society of Japan (JP)
01.5 Schweizerische Gesellschaft fuer Akustik (CH)
01.6 Acoustical Society of America (US)
01.7 Normenauschuss Akustik, Laermminderung &
Schwingungstechnik (DE)
01.8 South African Acoustics Institute (ZA)
01.9 Australian Acoustical Society (AU)
02 International INCE (continued)
02.1 The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of Japan (JP)
03.2 Nederlands Akoestisch Genootshap (NL)
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03
04
05
06
07
08
09
02.3 Committee on Acoustics of the Polish Academy of
Sciences (PL)
02.4 Canadian Acoustical Association (CA)
02.5 Acoustical Commission of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (HU)
02.6 Association Belge des Acousticiens (BE)
02.7 Acoustical Commission of the Romanian Academy of
Sciences (RO)
02.8 Acoustical Society of Sweden (SE)
02.9 Institute of Acoustics, United Kingdom (GB)
International INCE (continued)
03.1 Acoustical Society of China (CN)
03.2 Acoustical Society of Finland (PI)
03.3 Acoustical Society of Korea (KR)
03.4 Associazione Italiana di Acoustica (IT)
03.5 Osterreichischer Arbeitsring fuer Laermbekaempfung
(AT)
03.6 Noise Section, Environmental Engineering Society
Singapore (SG)
03.7 Groupe Acoustique Industrielle et Environnement
(FR)
03.8 Sociedade Brasileira de Acustica (BR)
03.9 New Zealand Acoustical Society (NZ)
International INCE (continued)
04.1 Hungarian Society for Optics, Acoustics and Filmtechnics (HU)
04.2 East European Acoustical Association
04.3 Deutche Gesellschaft fuer Akustik (DE)
04.4 Lithuanian Acoustical Society
Publications (other than technical articles)
05.1 Books
05.2 Book reviews
05.3 Editorials
05.4 Announcements and calendars
05.5 Biographical and personal notes
05.6 Bibliographies
05.7 Patents
05.8 Errata and addenda
History and philosophy
Education
Noise programs
08.1 Federal governments
08.2 State governments
08.3 Local governments
08.4 Universities
08.5 Industries
08.6 Trade associations
Definitions and descriptors
EMISSION: NOISE SOURCES
(Noise generation and control)
10
General
11
Noise-generating devices (including components and
subassemblies)
11.1 Mechanical devices (noise generated mechanically)
I1.Ll Bearings
11.1.2 Cams
1Ll.3 Gears
1Ll.4 Belts and belt pulleys
11.1.5 Drive trains
11.1.6 Stepping mechanisms
lLl.7 Clutches
11.1.8 Actuators
11.1.9 Chains
11.2 Electrical elements (noise generated electrically)
11.2.1 Resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes
11.2.2 Transformers
11.2.3 Ballasts
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11.2.4 Solenoids
11.2.5 Switches
11.2.6 Circuit breakers
11.3 Hydraulic/pneumatic elements
11.3.1 Valves
11.3.2 Orifices and nozzles
11.3.3 Piping
11.4 Air-moving and distribution devices
11.4.1 Axial fans
11.4.2 Centrifugal blowers
11.4.3 Mixed-flow devices
11.4.4 Diffusers and grilles
11.4.5 Dampers
11.5 Electric power devices
11.5.1 Electric motors
11.5.2 Electric generators
11.5.3 Power supplies
11.6 Other power devices
11.6.1 Air motors
11.6.2 Compressors (air, gas, vapor)
11.6.2.1 Piston compressors
11.6.2.2 Centrifugal compressors, turbocompressors
11.6.2.3 Volumetric blowers
11.6.3 Pumps (oil, water, other liquids)
1.6.3.1 Gear pumps
11.6.3.2 Vane pumps
11.6.3.3 Screw pumps
11.6.3.4 Piston pumps (reciprocating and rotary)
11.6.4 Engines
11.6.4.1 Internal combustion, diesel
11.6.4.2 Internal combustion, gasoline
11.6.5 Gas turbines
11.6.6 Power transmissions
II.7 Rolling contact noise sources
11.7.1 Tires and road-tire interactions
11.7.2 Metal wheels and wheel-rail interactions
11.7.3 Rollers
11.8 Stick-slip motional noise sources
11.8.1 Brake squeal
11.8.2 Clutch squeal
11.8.9 Other friction squeal sources
11.9 Signaling devices
11.9.1 Bells
11.9.2 Horns
11.9.3 Whistles
11.9.4 Sirens
11.9.5 Fog horns
11.9.6 Impulsive devices
11.9.9 Other warning devices
12 Stationary noise sources
12.1 Large equipment (indoor and outdoor; major source
dimension greater than I meter)
12.1.1 Electric power transformers
12.1.2 Cooling towers and heat exchangers
12.1.3 Chillers
12.1.4 Motors and generators
2.1.5 Primary power sources (diesel engines, gas turbines)
12.1.6 Furnaces, burners, boilers and incinerators
12.1.7 Stacks and flares
12.1.8 Large rotating electrical equipment
12.2 Construction and demolition equipment (stationary)
12.2.1 Pneumatic and hydraulic tools
12.2.1.1 Pavement breakers
12.2.1.2 Rock drills
12.2.2 Air compressors
12.2.3 Pile drivers
12.2.4 Concrete mixers
12.2.5 Space heaters
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12.2.6 Wood chippers
12.3 Computers and business equipment
12.3.1 Subassemblies
12.3.1.1 Printing elements
12.3.1.2 Punches
12.3.1.3 Stackers
12.3.1.4 Keyboards
12.3.2 Typewriters and word processing equipment
12.3.3 Office and business equipment
12.3.3.1 Copiers and duplicators
12.3.3.2 Accounting and bookkeeping machines
12.3.3.3 Adding and calculating machines
12.3.3.4 Tabulating machines
12.3.3.5 Cash registers and check-out systems
12.3.4 Computer equipment
12.3.4.1 Digital computers
12.3.4.2 Central processing units
12.3.4.3 Input-output devices
12.3.4.3.1 Disk and drum drives
12.3.4.3.2 Tape Transports
12.3.4.3.3 Paper tape &card readers, punches
12.3.4.3.4 Line and character printers
12.3.4.3.5 Displays, monitors and terminals
12.3.4.3.6 Plotters
12.3.5 Commercial heating and ventilating equipment
12.3.5.1 Electric heaters
12.3.5.2 Gas-fued heaters
12.3.5.3 Window fans
12.3.5.4 Exhaust fans
12.3.5.5 Oil-fired furnaces
12.3.5.6 Gas-fired furnaces
12.3.5.7 Heat pumps
12.4 Home appliances and small equipment
12.4.1 Radio, television and high fidelity
12.4.2 Room air conditioners, humidifiers &dehumidifiers
12.4.2.1 Outdoor (unitary) airconditioning units
12.4.2.1.1 Compressors
12.4.2.1.2 Fans
12.4.3 Home heating and ventilating equipment
12.4.3.1 Electric heaters
12.4.3.2 Floor fans
12.4.3.3 Window fans
12.4.3.4 Exhaust fans
12.4.3.5 Oil-fired furnaces
12.4.3.6 Gas-fired furnaces
12.4.3.7 Heat pumps
12.4.4 Vacuum cleaners & powered cleaning equipment
12.4.5 Small appliances and housewares
12.4.5.1 Mixers
12.4.5.2 Blenders and juicers
12.4.5.3 Grinders
12.4.5.4 Knives and slicers
12.4.5.5 Ice crushers
12.4.5.6 Can openers
12.4.5.7 Electric sharpeners
12.4.5.7.1 Knives
12.4.5.7.2 Pencils
12.4.5.8 Sewing machines
12.4.5.9 Floor polishers
12.4.6 Major appliances
12.4.6.1 Refrigerators
12.4.6.2 Freezers
12.4.6.3 Clothes washers
12.4.6.4 Clothes dryers
12.4.6.5 Dishwashers
12.4.6.6 Garbage grinders
12.4.6.7 Range hoods
12.4.6.8 Trash compactors
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12.4.7 Personal equipment - electrically powered
12.4.7.1 Shavers
12.4.7.2 Hair grooming devices
12.4.7.3 Shoe polishers
12.4.7.4 Toothbrushes
12.4.7.5 Massagers and exercise machines
12.4.8 Plumbing equipment and fixtures
12.4.9 Cameras and projectors
12.5 Power tools
12.5.1 Portable power tools (gasoline, electric or air power)
12.5.1.1 Chain saws
12.5.1.2 Drills
12.5.1.3 Saws
12.5.1.4 Stud drivers
12.5.1.5 Cutting torches
12.5.1.6 Welders
12.5.1.7 Other hand tools
12.5.2 Stationary power tools
12.5.2.1 Punch presses
12.5.2.2 Saws
12.5.2.3 Drills
12.5.2.9 Other workshop tools
12.6 Vibratory equipment
12.6.1 Feeders
12.6.2 Shakers and shake-outs
12.6.3 Conveyors
12.6.4 Hopper vibrators
12.6.5 Concrete vibrators
12.7 Truck-mounted equipment
12.7.1 Solid waste compactors
12.7.2 Refrigeration units
12.7.3 Air compressors
12.8 Equipment for transporting materials
12.8.1 Conveyors
12.9 Equipment for recreational areas and sports
12.9.1 Amusement park equipment
12.9.2 Ski area equipment
12.9.3 Equipment for sound amplification
12.9.4 Auxiliary power units for RV's and motor homes
12.9.5 Swimming pool filter pumps
13 Moving noise sources
13.1 Aircraft
13.1.1 Subsonic aircraft (fixed wing)
13.1.2 Supersonic aircraft
13.1.3 CTOL, VTOL, and STOL aircraft
13.1.4 Helicopters
13.1.4.1 Main rotor
13.1.4.2 Tail rotor
13.1.4.3 Engines
13.1.5 Sources of external aircraft noise
13.1.5.1 Fan and compressor stages
13.1.5.2 Turbine stages
13.1.5.3 Combustion stages
13.1.5.4 Jet-exhaust flows
13.1.5.5 Propellers
13.1.5.6 Internal combustion (piston engines)
13.1.5.7 Airframes
13.1.6 Aircraft interior noise
13.2 Highway vehicles
13.2.1 Automobiles
13.2.2 Motorcycles
13.2.3 Buses
13.2.4 Trucks
13.2.5 Recreational vehicles
13.2.6 Snow plows and snow removal equipment
13.3 Off-road vehicles
13.3.1 Snowmobiles
13.3.2 All terrain vehicles
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13.3.3 Motorcycles
13.3.4 Snow cats
13.3.5 Modified automobiles
13.3.6 Racing vehicles
13.4 Railbound vehicles
13.4.1 Railway trains (locomotives, coaches, freight cars)
13.4.2 Underground and elevated trains
13.4.3 Street rail vehicles (streetcars, trams, etc.)
13.4.4 Monorails
13.5 Ships and marine vehicles
13.5.1 Craft for inland waterways, including pleasure
boats
13.5.1.1 Outboard engines
13.5.1.2 Inboard engines
13.5.2 Transoceanic vessels
13.5.3 Recreational water craft
13.5.4 Hovercraft, hydrofoils, and surface effect vehicles
13.6 Small engine-powered equipment
13.6.1 Lawn mowers
13.6.2 Agricultural and garden care equipment
13.6.2.1 Garden tractors
13.6.2.2 Tillers
13.6.2.3 Motorized turf care equipment
13.6.3 Snow blowers
13.6.4 Leaf blowers
13.6.5 Shredders/grinders
13.6.6 Log splitters
13.6.7 Electric-powered equipment
13.6.7.1 Edgers
13.6.7.2 Hedge clippers
13.6.7.3 Trimmers
13.7 Large engine-powered mobile equipment (non-highway)
13.7.1 Construction and earth-moving equipment
13.7.1.1 Bulldozers
13.7.1.2 Graders
13.7.1.3 Backhoes
13.7.1.4 Rollers
13.7.1.5 Scrapers
13.7.1.6 Power shovels
13.7.1.7 Pavers
3.7.1.8 Tractors (not used for farming)
13.7.2 Materials handling equipment
13.7.2.1 Loaders
13.7.2.2 Cranes
13.7.2.3 Forklift trucks
13.8 Sources inside moving vehicles, including ships & aircraft
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14.2.5 Machinery - except electric (SIC 35)
14.2.6 Electrical machinery (SIC 36)
14.2.7 Transportation equipment (SIC 37)
14.2.8 Food products (SIC 20)
14.2.9 Rubber and plastic products (SIC 30)
14.3 Mining and quarrying equipment
14.3.1 Surface operations
14.3.2 Underground operations
14.4 Farming machinery
14.4.1 Threshing machines
14.4.2 Harvesting equipment
14.4.3 Milking equipment
14.4.4 Conveyors, pneumatic transporters
14.4.5 Dryers (hay, corn etc)
14.4.6 Heaters
14.4.7 Farm tractors
14.5 Power generation and transmission (SIC 49)
14.5.1 Electrical transmission lines and equipment
14.5.2 Natural gas transmission equipment
14.5.3 Power station equipment
14.5.4 Wind turbines and wind farms
14.6 Automated assembly and manufacturing equipment
14.6.1 Welding robots
14.6.2 Painting robots
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21.1 Theoretical sound sources
21.1.1 Monopoles
21.1.2 Dipoles
21.1.3 Quadrupoles
21.1.4 Other multipoles
21.2 Noise produced by solid bodies
21.2.1 Vibrating bodies 21.2.2 Contacting bodies impulsive sounds
21.2.3 Sliding bodies
21.3 Rapid changes in temperature and/or pressure
21.3.1 Explosions
21.3.2 Combustion
21.3.3 Cavitation
21.3.4 Blast waves
21.4 Resonance, standing waves and normal modes (also 25.1)
21.4.1 Vibrating air columns (one-dimensional)
21.5 Interaction of a moving solid with a fluid
21.5.1 Movement of solid body through fluid
21.6 Flow noise, aerodynamic sound
21.6.1 Produced by jets
21.6.2 Blade slap and blade-vortex interactions
21.6.3 Blade vortex interactions
21.6.4 Produced by turbulence; ingestion and boundary layers
21.6.5 Produced by fluid-boundary interactions
21.6.6 Flow-induced noise generation in ducts & pipes
21.6.7 Supersonic flow, shock waves, sonic booms
21.6.8 Nonlinear effects
21.6.9 Cavities
21.7 Vibration excitation by mechanical & electrical
sources
Specialized industrial machinery and equipment
14.1 Machinery used in manufacturing industries
14.1.1 Tobacco processing (SIC 21)
14.1.2 Textile mills (SIC 22)
14.1.2.1 Looms
14.1.2.2 Spinning
14.1.2.3 Twisting
14.1.2.4 Winding
14.1.2.5 Knitting
14.1.2.9 Other
14.1.3 Apparel and related products (SIC 23)
14.1.4 Lumber and wood products (SIC 24)
14.1.5 Furniture and fixtures (SIC 25)
14.1.6 Paper and allied products (SIC 26)
14.1.7 Printing and publishing (SIC 27)
14.1.8 Chemicals and allied products (SIC 28)
14.1.9 Petroleum and coal products (SIC 29)
14.2 Machinery used in manufacturing industries (cont'd)
14.2.1 Leather and leather products (SIC 31)
14.2.2 Stone, clay and glass products (SIC 32)
14.2.3 Primary metals (SIC 33)
14.2.4 Fabricated metal products (SIC 34)
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Physical mechanisms of noise generation
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Natural sources of noise
22.1
22.2
22.3
22.4
22.5
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Rain storms, including thunderstorms
Waterfalls and streams
Wind
Waves
Surf
Animate sources
22.6.1 Birds
22.6.2 Insects
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22.7 Other
Propagation, transmission & scattering of sound (general wave equation)
23.1 Radiating surfaces
23.2 Reflection and echoes
23.3 Refraction and focusing
23.4 Diffraction
23.5 Interference
23.6 Scattering
23.7 Reverberation
23.8 Directivity
23.9 Transmission
Sound propagation in the atmosphere
24.1 Divergence decrease
24.2 Absorption (attenuation) of sound in air
24.3 Effects of fog and precipitation
24.4 Reflection by and diffraction around obstacles
24.5 Topographical factors; effects of grass, shrubs & trees
24.6 Meteorogical factors; effects of wind, temperature
and humidity
24.7 Scattering by small-scale temperature & wind variations
24.8 Reflection and absorption at small angles over a
ground surface
24.9 Effects ofground impedance and height above round level
Sound propagation in enclosed spaces
25.1 Standing waves and normal modes
25.2 Steady-state response
25.3 Diffusivity
25.4 Reverberation and echoes
25.5 Decrease with distance from the source
Sound Propagation in ducts
26.1 General theory of propagation in ducts
26.1.1 Without fluid flow
26.1.2 With fluid flow
26.1.3 With hard, non-absorbing surfaces
26.1.4 With absorptive surfaces
26.2 Radiation from duct terminations
NOISE CONTROL ELEMENTS
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Barriers and screens, shielding
31.1 Outdoors
31.2 Partial-height partitions indoors
31.2.1 Barriers in industrial halls
31.2.2 Barriers in open-plan offices
Enclosures for noise sources
32.1 Sound absorptive materials in enclosures
32.2 Wall construction
32.3 Isolation of plumbing and other wall penetrations
32.4 Ventilation openings
32.5 Doors and access openings
32.6 Windows
Sound isolating elements (including panels, partitions
and curtains)
Filters, mufflers, silencers and resonators (conventional types)
34.1 Dissipative type
34.2 Reactive type
34.3 Helmholtz resonators
Absorptive materials
35.1 Mechanisms of absorption - theory
35.2 Physical properties
35.2.1 Bulk sound absorption coefficient
35.2.2 Acoustic impedance
35.2.3 Flow resistance; effect of airflow rate
35.2.4 Density
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35.2.6 Elasticity of structures
35.2.7 Propagation constants
35.2.8 Structure factor
35.2.9 Non-acoustical properties
35.3 Commercial acoustical materials
35.4 Common materials
35.4.1 General building materials
35.4.2 Furnishings and chairs
35.4.3 Audience and individual persons
35.4.4 Floor coverings
35.4.5 Sprayed mineral fibers
35.5 Materials for special applications
35.5.1 Exposed to high temperatures (flame retardant)
35.5.2 Exposed to high gas velocities
35.5.3 Exposed to severe weather conditions
35.5.4 Surface treatments for anechoic chambers
35.5.5 Roadway materials
35.6 Perforated facings for absorptive materials
35.7 Resonant absorbers
35.8 Wrappings and lagging materials
36 Hearing protective devices
36.1 Earmuffs
36.2 Ear plugs
36.3 Helmets
36.4 Active noise reduction in protective devices
37 Noise attenuation and transmission in ducts
37.1 Lined ducts
37.2 Unlined ducts
37.3 Plenums
37.4 Area changes, bends and elbows
37.5 Transmission through duct walls
37.6 Duct attenuators
37.7 Active noise control in ducts
38 Special treatments
38.1 Noise control by masking
38.2 Active noise control (three dimensions)
38.3 Active vibration control for noise reduction
38.4 Noise control by operational changes
38.4.1 Traffic control
38.4.2 Routing and scheduling control
38.5 Change of configuration or design for noise control
purposes
38.6 Seals for openings
38.6.1 Absorptive seals (absorptive linings around
openings)
38.6.2 Sealing cements, plastic & rubber mastics,
foams, etc.
38.6.3 Sealing tapes and caulking materials
38.6.4 Foam and rubber ribbons and profiles
VIBRATION AND SHOCK: GENERATION,
TRANSMISSION, ISOLATION & REDUCTION
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Characteristics of sources of vibration and shock
41.1 Periodic vibration, sinusoidal
41.2 Stationary random vibration
41.3 Transients and shocks, impacts
41.4 Non-stationary random vibration
41.5 Nonlinear vibrations
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43 Propagation in structures (solid-borne noise)
43.1 Decrease due to spreading
43.2 Transmission and attenuation in solid structures
43.2.1 Mechanical constructions (internal damping)
43.2.2 Buildings, civil engineering constructions
43.2.3 Earth (geoacoustics)
43.2.4 Foundations/soil interactions
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43.3 Reflections and interference
43.4 Vibration breaks
43.5 Structural intensity
Balancing of rotating and reciprocating machines
Reduction of impact forces; shock isolation and
absorption
Vibration isolators and attenuators
46.1 Theories of vibration isolation and isolators
46.2 Vibration isolators
46.3 Foundation analysis and design
46.4 Active vibration control
Vibration-damping materials and structures
47.1 Mechanisms of damping - theory
47.2 Constrained layer damping
47.3 Damping of structures and panels
47.4 Dynamic absorbers
Vibration generators, shake tables
Effects of vibration and mechanical shock (on man, on
structures)
49.1 Onman
49.2 On structures and machines
49.2.1 Vibration induced effects
49.2.2 Noise induced effects
49.2.3 Designs to withstand high noise levels
49.3 Criteria
49.3.1 Criteria for vibration of human body and organs
49.3.2 Criteria for machine vibrations
49.3.3 Criteria for shock in transportation of goods
IMMISSION: PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE
52.9 Planning for noise control, zoning, land use and urban
planning
52.9.1 Ambient sound levels
53 In-plant noise control
53.1 In-plant noise levels
53.2 Exposures of workers
53.3 Planning, design and construction for noise control
53.4 Booths and control rooms
54 Shipboard and offshore platform noise control
54.1 Noise control in ship spaces
54.2 Noise control on offshore platforms
55 Outdoor plant noise control design and construction
56 Noise surveys
56.1 Outdoors
56.2 Indoors
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Building noise control
51.1 Sound fields in rooms and enclosed spaces
51.U Industrial halls and plants
51.1.2 Concert or other halls for audiences or performances
51.l.3 Special spaces (corridors etc).
51.2 Reduction of noise levels by increased absorption
51.3 Sound transmission thru windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors
51.4 Sound-insulating structures, transmission coefficients
and transmission loss
51.5 Flanking and impact transmission
51.6 Heating, ventilating & airconditioning (aVAC) systems
51.7 Landscaped (open plan) offices and lobbies
51.8 Elevators and escalators
51.9 Plumbing and piping noise
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Community noise control
52. I Community noise levels
52.2 Airport noise
52.2.1 Commercial airports
52.2.2 Military airfields
52.2.3 General aviation airports
52.2.4 Heliports
52.2.4.1 Police
52.2.4.2 Hospitals
52.2.4.3 Military
52.3 Road traffic noise
52.4 Rail vehicle noise
52.5 Industrial noise (inel. noise around plants & power stations)
52.6 Construction noise
52.7 Sport areas and events
52.8 Residential area noise due to lawn mowers, air conditioners,etc
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Perception of sound
61.1 Biomechanics of the ear
61.2 Theories of hearing
61.3 Hearing levels and hearing thresholds of populations
61.4 Presbycusis and sociocusis
61.5 Critical bandwidths, masking
61.6 Just noticeable differences
Physiological effects
62.1 Hearing loss (temporary & permanent threshold shifts)
62.2 Extra-auditory effects (fatigue, blood pressure, heart rate)
62.3 Hearing conservation programs
62.4 Workers compensation; liability for hearing loss
Psychological effects
63.1 Loudness
63.2 Perceived noisiness, annoyance
63.3 Speech intelligibility and interference, speech levels,
speech communication
63.4 Sleep disturbance
63.5 Work interference and efficiency
63.6 Infrasonic noise
63.7 Noise quality
Effects of noise on physical structures
64.1 On natural environment, parklands
64.2 On structures and in materials, sonic fatigue
64.3 Sonic boom damage
Effects of noise on domesticated and wild animals
65.1 Domestic animals
65.2 Wildlife
Sociological effects: community reaction to noise
66.1 Community disturbance, interference with activities
66.2 Assessment of impact of community noise
Economic effects
67.1 Economic aspects of noise reduction
67.2 Cost-benefit analyses
67.3 Manufacturers', operators' and users' costs
67.4 Social costs of noise
Environmental impact statements
68.1 Background or ambient noise (baseline)
68.2 Environmental noise sources
68.3 Population exposure; impact criteria and assessment
techniques
68.4 Highway projects
68.5 Airport projects
68.6 Public facilities under construction
68.7 Noise control planning; siting issues and zoning
Criteria and rating of noise
69.1 For acceptable levels of noise in rooms
69.2 For speech interference
69.3 For annoyance
69.4 For sonic-fatigue resistance
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Instruments for noise and vibration measurements
71.1 Transducers
71.1.1 Microphones, wind screens
71.1.2 Vibration pick-ups
71.1.3 Intensity probes
71.104 Transducers for sound generation & reproduction
71.1.4.1 Loudspeakers
71.1.4.2 Headphones
71.1.9 Other sensors
71.2 Amplifiers, including preamplifiers
71.2.1 Amplifiers for measurement systems
71.3 Sound level meters
71.3.1 Conventional
71.3.2 Integrating-averaging
71.3.3 Computer-based
71.4 Sound exposure meters
71.5 Waveform or frequency analyzers
71.6 Filters, analog and digital
71.7 Indicating devices
71.8 Data acquisition systems, recorders &data storage devices
71.9 Calibration; acoustical and electrical performance
verification
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Measurement techniques
72.1 Sound pressure level
72.2 Vibration level
72.2.1 Surface contact methods
72.2.2 Non-contact methods (laser interferometry, holography)
72.3 Sound intensity
7204 Sound power
72.5 Transmission loss
72.6 Reverberation time
72.7 Measurement of properties of materials
72.7.1 Bulk sound absorption coefficient
72.7.2 Acoustic impedance
72.7.3 Flow resistance; effect of airflow rate
72.7.4 Density
72.7.5 Porosity
72.7.6 Elasticity of structures
72.7.7 Propagation constants
72.7.8 Structure factor
72.7.9 Non-acoustical properties
72.8 Impulsive noise measurements
72.9 Measurements of other quantities
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Test facilities (design and qualification)
73.1 Free-field (anechoic rooms)
73.2 Free-field over a reflecting plane (hemi-anechoic
rooms)
73.3 Reverberation rooms (diffuse field)
73.4 Outdoor test sites
73.5 Laboratory facilities (design and construction)
73.6 Other test environments (indoor and outdoors)
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Signal processing
74.1 Correlation and coherence analysis
74.2 Bursts and impulsive sounds
74.3 Digital processing and simulation
74.3.1 Processing of microphone array signals
74.4 Automated data processing and reduction
74.5 Diagnosis and failure prediction
74.5.1 Machinery and condition monitoring
74.6 Source localization and transmission paths
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74.7.1 Processing by microphone arrays
74.8 Frequency domain and spectral analysis
74.9 Other signal processing techniques
Analytical methods
75.1 Statistical methods
75.2 Statistical energy analysis (SEA)
75.3 Finite element methods (FEM)
75.4 Computer algorithms including computer aided design
7504.1 Expert systems
75.5 Boundary element methods (BEM)
75.6 Modal analysis
75.7 Imaging of acoustical and vibrational fields (holography, etc.)
75.8 Wave vector analysis
Modeling, prediction and simulation
76.1 Propagation models, noise models
76.1.1 Outdoors
76.1.1.1 Road traffic noise
76.1.1.2 Rail traffic noise
76.1.1.3 Noise in communities around airports
76.1.1.4 External industrial noise
76.1.2 Indoors
76.1.2.1 Factory halls, sound level contours indoors
76.1.2.2 Concert halls
76.2 Small scale modeling
76.3 Building foundation modeling
76.9 Other modeling, prediction and simulation methods
Sampling and quality control procedures
Audiometry, dosimetry and hearing measurements
Psychoacoustical evaluations and testing
79.1 Speech quality
79.2 Preference testing
REQUIREMENTS
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Standards
81.1 National standards
81.2 International standards
81.2.1 InternationalOrganizationforStandardization(lSO)
81.2.2 International Electrotechnica1 Commission (lEC)
81.2.9 Otherinternational standards
81.9 Other standards documents
Federal government legislation and regulations
State and local legislation and regulations
Other legislation and requirements
84.1 European Community requirements
Ordinances, including zoning requirements
Building codes
Specifications
87.1 Purchase specifications for new equipment
Auditing, enforcement and certification
88.1 Laboratory accreditation
Labeling
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Appendix C
Questionnaire
Since the I-INCE subject clasification scheme was first discussed more than twenty years ago, a number of noise control
engineers have participated in its development. One of the purposes of this questionnaire is to identify those engineers who
have not previously had an opportunity to express their ideas concerning classification.
Current Status of the I-INCE Classification Scheme
1. Do you find that the I-INCE Classification of Subjects is useful in its present state of development?
_ _ yes_ _ no _ _ undecided
2. Do you feel that the I-INCE Classification of Subjects can and should be improved?
_ _ yes_ _ no _ _ undecided
3. Are you willing to offer suggestions for its improvement?
_ _ yes_ _ no
(If you answered "no" to this question, please do not return the questionnaire.)
Improvement of Classification Scheme
As a traditional, hierarchical scheme, the I-INCE Classification of Subjects divides the field of noise control engineering
successively into more and more specific classes. The major difficulty with such schemes is that they may be uneven in their
coverage; the I-INCE scheme is no exception. For some subjects, there are six levels of classification; in others, only two
levels. Please refer to the One-Page Summary for the first-level code.
4. In my opinion, the Section in greatest need of improvement is:
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10 _20 _30 _40 _50 _60 _70 _80
5. I will assist (by correspondence) with further refinement of the I-INCE Classification of Subjects.
_ _ yes_ _ no
(If you answered "yes" to this question, give your name and address below. You will be contacted by a representative from
the committee responsible for the maintenance of the I-INCE Classification of Subjects.)
6. Do you feel that an alphabetical list of subject headings would assist in locating any subject in the classification scheme?
_ _ yes_ _ no_ _ undecided
7. I have reworked part of the I-INCE scheme, and offer the following improvements to a second-level or third-level
section: (use an additional page if necessary):
Submitted by:
Name
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Address
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postal code
country
Please mail this questionnaire to: INCE/USA, P.O. Box 3206 Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA or FAX
questionnaire to: + 1 9144739325, and thank you very much for your efforts to improve the I-INCE classification scheme.
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Feature
Deaf Colleague,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee for ITER-NOISE 94,
the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of Japan, and the
Acoustical Society of Japan, it gives us great pleasure to invite
you to participate in INTER-NOISE 94, the 23rd International
Congress on Noise Control Engineering, to be held in Yokohama, Japan from 1994 August 29 to 31. A II member of the
Organizing Committee join us in extending this invitation to
you.
We are making every effort to have a well-organized Congress, and of course to make your visit a fruitful and pleasant
one. INTER-NOISE was held in Japan in 1975, and since then
the management and control of the noise environment have
greatly improved.
In the technical program of the Congress, three distinguished lectures will be presented in plenary sessions, and
approximately 500 invited and contributed papers which cover
all area of noi e control will be presented in nine parallel
sessions.
An equipment exhibition will be held in conjunction with
the Congress. Acoustical materials, noise control equipment,
measuring instruments and software, active noise control
equipments, and ear protectors will be on display in the Congress building. Brief presentations will also be given by exhibitors in special sessions connected with the exhibition.
Prior to INTER-NOISE 94, the Fifth Western Pacific Regional Acoustics Conference (WESTPRAC V) will be held in
Seoul, Korea, a city that can be reached by a two-hour flight
from most Japanese citie . WESTPRAC V will cover all areas
of acoustics and will heartily welcome those who are interested
in the Conference. The International Conference on Motion and
Vibration Control (MOVIC) will also be held in Yokohama,
and will partly overlap INTER-NOISE 94.
Yokohama, situated 30 kilometers south of Tokyo, is one of
the busiest seaports in the world, and the second largest city in
Japan. Yokohama, with a population of over three million, is a
romantic, cosmopolitan and exotic city with many tourist attractions, new and old.
The social programs will include one-half day tours for
accompanying persons, a banquet on a cruise boat, and technical visits to high-tech industries.
We are sure you will enjoy INTER-NOISE 94 in Yokohama
both technically and socially.
We look forward, with great anticipation, to seeing you in
Yokohama in August.
-Masaru Koyasu
President, INTER-NOISE 94
-Toshio Sone
General Chairman
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The INTER-NOISE 94
Program
NTER-NOISE 94, the 1994 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering, will be held
at Pacifico Yokohama (Pacific Convention Plaza
Yokohama) from 1994 August 29 to 31.
INTER-NOISE 94 is the twenty-third in a series
of annual international congresses on noise control
engineering which have been held around the world
since 1972. This is the second INTER-NOISE congress to be held in Japan; the first one was held in
1975 in Sendai. The congress is sponsored by the
International Institute ofNoise Control Engineering,
and is being jointly organized by the Institute of
Noise Control Engineering of Japan, the Acoustical
Society of Japan, and the Foundation for the Advancement of International Science.
The theme ofINTER-NOISE 94 is Noise - Quantity and Quality. Three plenary distinguished lectures on this theme will be presented from different
viewpoints in the Plenary Sessions. The Plenary
Session speakers are listed later in this article.
Five hundred sixty abstracts have been accepted
from authors in 42 countries. These papers which
relate to different areas of noise control engineering
will be presented in 9 parallel technical sessions.
Special Technical Sessions have been organized by
individuals and the Technical Program Committee.
The topics of the Special Sessions are as follows:
• Active noise and sound field control
organized by I.Tichy and Y.Yamasaki
• Active vibration control
organized by R. Bernhard and H. Hamada
• Aircraft and airport noise
organized by I. G. Bekebrede and I. Yamada
• Characterization of structure-borne sound
sources and components
organized by T ten Wolde and K. Fujiwara
• Exposure to noise
organized by K. Kuno
• Floor impact noise
organized by A.C.C. Warnock and M. Yasuoka
• Information processing and auditory perception in noisy environments
organized by T Houtgast and M. Tohyama
• Inner ear function and noise
organized by T Gladke and S. Funasaka
• New methods of sound absorption and insulation measurements for future standards
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organized by H. Goydke and M. Vorlander
• Noise control in the workplace
organized by T. F. W. Embleton
• Noise legislation for road vehicles
organized by U. Sandberg and S. Ohno
• Prediction of road traffic noise
organized by K. Takagi and I. W. Cha
• Railway noise and vibration
organized by B. Barsikow and H. Fujita
• Sound source characterization in duct systems
noise control will be held at the center area of the
congress plaza. The exhibition will include noise
analyzers, sound level meters, computer-based instrumentation systems, sound intensity analyzers,
signal processing systems, equipment for active
noise control, acoustical materials, and other devices
for noise control.
The following is a partial list of companies that
will exhibit:
organized by M. Crocker and M. Terao
• Sound amenity and soundscape
organized by K. Hiramatsu
• Sound intensity applications
organized by H. Suzuki
• Sound power determination
organized by G.S.K. Wong
• Sound quality of machinery noise
organized by 1. Blauert and T. Hashimoto
• Structural intensity measurement
organized by G. Pavie and Y. Irie
• Subjective evaluation of environmental noise
organized by H. Fast! and S. Kuwano
• Subjective evaluation of vibration
organized by M. Griffin and S. Maeda
•
Recent development of instrumentation and
software (Exhibitors' presentation)
organized by A. D. Wallis and T. Ono
GENERAL INFORMATION
Dates
The technical program, social events, and accompanying persons programs of the Congress will be held
from Monday, 1994 August 29 to Wednesday, 1994
August 31. Technical visits are planned on Thursday,
1994 September 01.
Official Language
English will be the official language ofthe Congress.
Simultaneous translation from English to Japanese
will be provided only for the three plenary distinguished lectures.
CONGRESS VENUE
The opening and closing ceremony and all the technical programs will be held at Pacifico Yokohama
(Pacific Convention Plaza Yokohama). Pacifico
Yokohama forms a part of a congress complex consisting of an international exhibition hall, a firstclass hotel, a National Convention Hall, and the
Convention Plaza. It is located in a newly- developed section of Yokohama City at a sea-front location, and is only a 10-minute bus ride from
Yokohama Station, a 5-minute bus ride or a 15-minute walk from Sakuragi-cho Station.
EXHIBITION
A major exhibition of instruments and products for
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Briiel & Kjrer
Cirrus Research PLC
Larson Davis Laboratories
Lucas Cel Instruments Ltd.
Nippon Sheet Glass Environmental
Amenity Co. Ltd.
NorsonicAS
Ono Sokki Co. Ltd.
Rion Co. Ltd.
SDRC
Sho-on Giken Co. Ltd.
Sony Magnescale Inc.
Yokogawa-Hewlett-Packard Ltd.
SOCIAL PROGRAM
Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony on the morning of Monday,
1994 August 29 will be held in the main hall of the
convention plaza and will include welcoming addresses and a keynote lecture.
Reception
On the first day, Monday, 1994 August 29, following
the afternoon sessions, a reception for all registrants
and registered accompanying persons, hosted by our
sponsors, will be held in the convention plaza in a
room with a beautiful view of Yokohama Bay.
Banquet
In the evening of 1994 August 30, all delegates and
accompanying persons are encouraged to participate
in a cruise around Yokohama Bay. They will enjoy
beautiful views of the city of Yokohama and Bay
Bridge as well as typical Japanese and Western food
and drinks. The Banquet is not included in the registration fee and costs JPY 10 000 per person. Due
to limited space, the number of participants must be
limited. Registration for the banquet will be on a
first-come, first-served basis. Please register as soon
as possible.
Closing Ceremony and Reception
On Wednesday afternoon, August 31, a closing ceremony and farewell drinks will be offered after the
technical sessions.
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Half-day Tour around Yokohama
A half-day bus tour around Yokohama will be organized every day during the congress. This tour is free for
registered accompanying persons and costs JPY 3 000
for others. More detailed information on the tour is
available in the section below on the Accompanying
Persons Program.
YOKOHAMA
Yokohama is situated 30 km south of Tokyo, and is
conveniently linked with Tokyo's major stations by
trains. Yokohama is one of the busiest seaports in the
world, and one of the largest cities in Japan, with a
population of over 3 million. Yokohama is a romantic,
cosmopolitan and exotic city with many tourist attractions. The ancient capital of Kamakura with many
historical spots and the beautiful Hakone National Park
are 15 km and 60 km, respectively, from Yokohama.
The waterfront area around Pacifico Yokohama is
being transformed into a new city center for Yokohama. Open to the public in this area are the convention complex involving Pacifico Yokohama, the
Yokohama Museum of Art, the Nippon-Maru Memorial Park (where the graceful Nippon-Maru sailing ship sits in dry dock), the Yokohama Maritime
Museum, the Landmark Tower, etc.
Climate and Clothing
Yokohama is usually sunny, hot and a bit humid in
August. The average temperature in daytime usually
goes up to a range of 28 to 33 degrees Celsius.
Accordingly, light and casual clothing is appropriate. However, as the Conference Hall and all the
hotels are air-conditioned, it is advisable to bring a
light jacket or a sweater. A small umbrella is also
advisable for occasional evening showers.
REGISTRATION
As is customary for INTER-NOISE Congresses,
one full delegate registration fee is required for each
technical paper included in the program. This fee
should accompany the manuscript and be submitted
prior to 1994 April 15. Papers submitted without
registration fee will not be printed in the congress
proceedings and will not be included on the technical program.
When and where to send your manuscript
and the forms
The destinations and the deadlines of the Congress
registration fonn, the Hotel reservation fonn, and
your manuscript are somewhat complicated. Please
read the following description carefully so that each
participant will be properly registered.
Manuscript. Send your manuscript to our Editor,
Prof. Kuwano at Osaka University, by 1994 April
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15. A special envelope with the address will be
attached to the manuscript paper.
Congress registration form. Send your INTERNOISE 94 Congress Registration Form to the Congress Secretariat Sendai, Japan.
Registrants with paper submission. The registration form should be returned to the Congress Secretariat with payment by 1994 April 15.
Registrants not submitting a paper. The registration form should be returned to the Congress Secretariat with payment by 1994 July 31.
Hotel reservationform. Send your hotel reservation
form to our official travel agent, KNT. While the
deadline for the acceptance of the form is 1994 June
23, reservation well in advance is strongly recommended to assure a reservation at the hotel you select.
Registration desk
The registration desk will be open from 14.00 to 20.00
on Sunday, 1994 August 28; delegates should pick up
their registration materials at this time if possible. The
Registration Desk will be open from 08.00 to 17.00 on
Monday and Tuesday, August 29 and 30, and from
08.00 to 11.00 on Wednesday, August 31.
Registration Fee
Registration fees for delegates include a set of congress proceedings, participation in the technical program, the opening and the closing ceremonies,
morning and afternoon coffees, and the reception
held in the evening of Monday, 1994 August 29. The
accompanying persons registration fee includes attendance at the opening and closing ceremonies, the
reception and a guided half-day tour around Yokohama city on a day of your choice (please specify
your preference on the registration form).
Classification
of Delegates
Fee on or
before 1994
May 30
Fee on or
before 1994
June 01
General
Delegates
JPY 45 000
JPY 50 000
Students *
JPY22 000
JPY25 000
Accompanying
Persons
JPY 4 000
JPY 4 000
* Student means undergraduate and masters course
students. Doctoral students are not included. If you
would like to apply for this special discount, please
attach a letter of your professor to certify your status.
Registered delegates and accompanying persons
may attend the congress banquet and cruise round
the Yokohama Bay at the cost of JPY 10 000 per
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person and can also apply for the technical tours and
specially planned accompanying persons tours and
events as listed in this announcement.
Please use the congress registration form in this
issue of Noise/News International.
Payment
All registration fees for INTER-NOISE 94 should
be sent with the registration form to the Congress
Secretariat:
INTER-NOISE 94 Secretariat,
Sone Laboratory, Res. Inst. Electr. Comm., Tohoku University, Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980, Japan.
The Secretariat will accept the following creditcards: VISA, Master Card, American Express, and
Diners Club. If you have more than one type of credit
card, the Secretariat would prefer that you use a
VISA card or a Master Card. International Postal
Money Order and money transfer to our bank account are also accepted. Our bank account is:
Name of Bank: Asahi Bank, Sendai Branch,
Name of Account: INTER-NOISE 94 Secretariat
Account No: S/A315-1l51747
Handling charges should be covered by payers.
PersonaJ checks, bank drafts, and travelers checks are
not accepted. The registration will be closed on 1994
July 31. After this date, the registration fee will be
received only at the registration desk at the Congress.
TRAVEL INFORMATION
Official Travel Agent
Kinki Nippon Tourist (KNT) has been appointed as
the official travel agent for INTER-NOISE 94 Congress to handle all travel arrangements to/from and
in Japan. All inquiries and application forms for
hotel accommodations should be addressed as follows:
Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd.,
Attn: E. Tanimura, M. Nakamura
Inbound Travel Division
19, Kanda-Matsunaga-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101, Japan
FAX: +813 3255 7128; Telephone: +813 3253 6131
KNT has several overseas branches called Kintetsu International Express (KIE). Participants from
North America and Europe may contact the following offices for information on Japan.
KIE (USA) Inc.
1325 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10019, U.S.A.
FAX: +1 2122599705; Telephone: +1 2122599700
KIE (Europe) B. v., Amsterdam Branch,
Amsteldijk 166, 1079 LH
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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FAX: +31205046677; Telephone: +31205046666
JAPAN RAIL PASS
The Japan Rail Pass is a special ticket that is available only to travelers visiting Japan from foreign
countries. The rail pass is a flash pass good on most
of the trains and ferries in Japan. It provides a very
significant saving on transportation costs within Japan if you plan to travel more than just from airports
to Yokohama and return.
You must purchase the pass before going to
Japan. Please contact KIE or your travel agent for
details. Followings are the examples of the cost of
the pass for ordinary (second class) seats.
7-day: JPY 27 800
14·day: JPY 44200
HOW TO REACH YOKOHAMA
Transportation from New Tokyo International
Airport (Narita Airport)
Yokohama is situated 90 km south-west of New
Tokyo International Airport. The following two
ways to reach Yokohama are recommended:
1. The Narita Express (NEX) from New Tokyo
International Airport (Narita Airport) to JR Yokohama station. It is a comfortable 88-minute train ride
on NEX, which runs at intervals of 60 minutes, and
the ticket costs JPY 4 100. After you arrive at Yokohama Station, you may take a lO-minute bus ride
to Pacifico Yokohama. We recommend, however, to
change railways at the JR Yokohama station to go to
the JR Sakuragi-cho Station. Take the Keihin-Tohoku Line and ride one station (Do not go in the
direction towards Tokyo). From the JR Sakuragicho Station, you can walk to Pacifico Yokohama in
about 15 minutes; a bus takes only a few minutes.
2. The Highway Bus (Limousine Bus) from New
Tokyo International Airport to Yokohama City Airterminal takes about two hours and the fee is 3 300
JPy' The terminal is connected by a five-minute bus
ride to Yokohama Station.
We recommend that you do NOT use a rental car
to reach Yokohama because of the complex roadnetwork through Tokyo and traffic jams.
Transportation from Osaka
You may also use Osaka to enter Japan. Osaka is 500
km west of Yokohama. In this case you may take
either a train or a domestic flight:
1. Non-stop-bus service to the JR Shin-Osaka
train station and then a super express train (Tokaido
Shinkansen, fee: JPY 13 700) to Shin-Yokohama
Station. The Shinkansen takes 3 hours from Osaka
to Shin-Yokohama. From Shin-Yokohama Station,
take Yokohama City's underground line to come to
Sakuragi-cho Station.
2. A domestic flight to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) (fee: JPY 14 600). Haneda
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Airport is connected by a 30-minute bus ride to JR
Yokohama Station.
Distances from Yokohama:
Tokyo:
30km
Osaka:
500 km
Nagoya:
300 km
Sendai:
350 km
Seoul:
1,200 km
Beijing:
2,200 km
Sydney:
9,300 km
Los Angeles: 9,600 km
Leuven:
9,500 km
ADDITIONAL TRAVEL PLANNING
During the congress, a KNT travel desk will be available near the INTER-NOISE 94 registration desk. The
KNT desk will open between 14.00 and 20.00 on
Sunday, 1994 August 28. From 1994 August 29 to
August 30, it will open between 11.30 and 13.30 and
between 17.00 to 18.30. Some ready-made tours are
provided by KNT. The followings are examples:
One day tour to Mt. Fuji and Hakone National
Park
06.30 -19.00 JPY 17000
One day tour to Nikko
06.30 - 19.30 JPY 17 000
One day Shinkansen tour to Kyoto
07.30 - 21.30 JPY 49 000
1\vo-day tour to Kyoto and Nara
07.30 1st day - 21.30 2nd day JPY 70000
On all of these tours, there will be English-speaking
guides.
USEFUL INFORMATION
We hope that the following information will make
your visit to Yokohama more enjoyable.
Passports and Visas
Every foreign national coming to Japan must have a
valid passport. Citizens of countries which have Visa
Exemption Arrangements with Japan are not required
to have a visa to enter Japan for a stay shorter than three
months. Citizens of all other countries must obtain a
visa from the Japanese Embassy or Consulate prior to
entering Japan. A visa cannot be issued in Japan.
CURRENCY EXCHANGE
Major banks and the Yokohama Central Post Office
handle foreign currencies. They are located in the
downtown area of Yokohama. Banks are open from
9.00 to 15.00 on weekdays. The Post Office is open for
exchange from 9.00 to 16.00 on weekdays. They are
closed on Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays.
Major foreign currencies can also be exchanged at the
larger hotels but the exchange rates are not as good as
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those in banks and the Central Post Office. It is
recommended that participants purchase traveler's
checks in Japanese yen, US dollars, UK pounds or
German DM before leaving their own countries
because of the favorable exchange rate. In Japan,
exchange rates for traveler's checks are usually better than those for foreign bank notes. In almost all
banks, cash dispensers are available which accept
major credit cards. Most such dispensers are open
until 18.00. A personal identification number (PIN)
is required to obtain money from cash dispensers.
Restaurants and shops except those in major hotels
do not accept traveler's checks, even in Japanese yen.
Travellers checks should be cashed at banks or the
Central Post Office.
Credit Cards
Master Card, Diners Club, Visa, and American Express are widely accepted at hotels, department
stores, shops, restaurants, and night clubs.
Tipping
Tipping is not customary in Japan except when
asking for a special service.
Electricity
100 V, 50 Hz In major hotels, however, you may find
two sockets, one for 110 and one for 120 volts.
Postal Service
Main Offices: Weekdays 09.00 - 19.00
Saturdays 09.00 - 17.00
Sun. & Hal. 09.00 - 12.30
Branch Offices Weekdays 09.00 - 17.00
Saturdays closed
Sun. & Hal. closed
For airmail and domestic express mail, the Central Post Office in Yokohama is open 24 hours a day.
Car Rental
Rental car desks of major companies such as Hertz
and Avis as well as of domestic companies are
available at the airports, and at major JR stations,
including Yokohama Station.
Rules of the Road
Vehicles must keep to the left in Japan. In the front
seats, lap and shoulder belts are mandatory for both
the driver and passengers. In most parts of towns and
cities, the only parking is in toll parking lots.
Opening Hours of Stores
Shops are usually open from 10.00 to 19.00 including Saturday and Sunday.
Lunch
Lunch is not included in the registration fee. There
are restaurants in and adjacent to the Convention
Plaza. Many restaurants are available in the Land1994 March
mark Tower, the tallest building in Japan, an 8-minute walk from the Congress Plaza.
Restaurants
Yokohama is a special treat if you like Chinese food.
In Chinatown, the largest Chinese settlement in Japan, you will find more than 100 colorful Chinese
restaurants. In addition to Chinese food, restaurants
serving every traditional style of Japanese cuisine,
traditional and Japanized European cuisine, as well
as a great variety of ethnic cuisine, can be found in
the downtown area close to the Convention Plaza.
ACCOMPANYING PERSONS PROGRAM
The following activities are being planned as our
Accompanying Persons' Program. These programs
are also open for the delegates if space is available.
One-half day tour around Yokohama
A one-half day bus tour around Yokohama will be
organized each day. On Monday, 1994 August 29, the
tour will be held in the afternoon, and on 1994 August
30 and 31, it will be held in the morning. The tour
will take you to Mikazuki (Crescent) Park, Marine
Tower, Bay Bridge, etc. Registered accompanying
persons may take part in the tour without additional
charge. Other delegates are requested to pay JPY 3
000 to participate in this tour. Please specify your
preference of the dates on the registration form.
Sightseeing tour to Kamakura,
Tuesday, 1994 August 30
One-day tour to the old capital of Japan. There are
interesting old Buddhist Temples and Shinto
Shrines. The tour starts from the Convention Plaza
at 09.30 in the morning and returns to the same place
at around 16.00. The cost of this tour is JPY 9 500
(lunch and coffee are included).
Sightseeing tour to Asakusa and Yedo Museum,
Wednesday, 1994 August 31
One-day tour to Yedo Museum which displays interesting historical materials and records of Yedo Period
(1600 - 1867). Then to Asakusa Street to get the feeling
of old Tokyo (Yedo). You will enjoy a delicious Tempura lunch in Asakusa. The tour starts at the Convention Plaza at 9.00 and returns at 17.00. The cost of this
tour is JPY 9 500 (lunch and coffee are included).
Japanese Tea Ceremony in the afternoon of
Thesday, 1994 August 30
You will experience a Japanese Tea Ceremony Sado. This is a special performance which has been
recommended since the 16th century in Japan for
mental calmness and composure. The ceremony will
be held from 13.30 to 15.30 in the afternoon of
Tuesday 1994 August 30. The location of the Tea
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Ceremony will be announced at the registration
desk. A cup of "bitter" green tea with traditional
sweets will cost JPY 400. The number ofparticipants
is strictly limited to 100. Registration will be on a
first come, first served basis.
Japanese Ikebana (Flower Arrangement)
Exhibition on Monday, 1994 August 29
All participants of the congress as well as accompanying persons may appreciate the exhibition of Japanese
Ikebana (Flower Arrangement, Kado), with no extracharge. This is one of the traditional ceremonies to
appreciate the beauty of various flowers which has
been continued from the Yedo Period. The Ikebana
exhibition will be held from 10.30to 15.00 on Monday,
1994 August 29. The location ofthe exhibition will be
announced at the registration desk.
TECHNICAL TOURS
One-day post-congress technical tours are planned
on Friday, 1994 September 1. It will be a good
opportunity to get an overview of a variety of Japanese advanced technologies. The following three
tours are available. All tours will start at 9.00 from
the Convention Plaza and end in the evening. We
travel by bus, and each tour includes visits to two
places. The price includes lunch.
TOUR 1
This tour starts with a visit to Fujitsu Laboratories,
Ltd. and then moves to RICOH Ltd. Gotenba Plant.
LSI technology and super-conductivity devices will
be shown at Fujitsu Laboratories. At RICOH, automated assembly lines of copiers and facsimile machines will be shown. On the way to RICOH, lunch
will be provided in the bus. Mt. Fuji can be seen
during the tour if the weather is clear. The tour will
end at around 18.30.
TOUR 2
This tour starts with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Oppama
Plant and then moves to the Technology Research
Center of the Taisei Corporation by bus. At the
Nissan plant, you will see modernized assembly and
inspection lines of automobiles. At Taisei, you will
visit research facilities for the acoustical environment as well as light and heat environments. The tour
will end at around 17.00.
TOUR 3
This tour starts with Kajima Technical Research
Institute of Kajima Corporation and then moves to
NTT Human Interface Laboratory by bus. At Kajima
you will see buildings for structure and vibration
tests. At NTT you will see research facilities for
automatic speech recognition and adaptive control
of sound. The tour will end at around 18.00. Tour
venues are subject to alternative arrangements.
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nying Persons. Please kindly refrain from joining a
tour to a compnay of the same category as your own
company. The cost of each tour is JPY 6 000. The
number of participants in each tour is limited to 90.
Registration for the tours will be on a first-come,
first-served basis. You may register for the tours
using the Congress Registration Form. Registration
well in advance is strongly recommended.
SHORT VISITS
Short technical visits to interesting buildings near
the Convention Plaza will also be held. These visits
will take about one hour and will be free of charge.
The venue and schedule of the visits will be announced during the congress.
COMPANION CONFERENCES
INTER-NOISE 94 will be preceded by the 5th Western Pacific Regional Acoustic Conference (WESTPRAC) in Seoul, Korea, from 1994 August 23 to 25.
(Secretariat: Wann Yu, The Acoustical Society of
Korea, Science Building, Suite 302, 635-4 YuksamDong, Kangnam-Ku, Seoul 135-703, Korea. Telephone: +8225563513, FAX: +8225699717).
INTER-NOISE 94 will be followed by the International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control
(MOVIC) in the Shin-Yokohama Prince Hotel, Yokohama, Japan, from 1994 August 31 to September 3.
(Secretariat: Prof. K. Yoshida, Faculty of Science and
Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohokuku, Yokohama 223, Japan. FAX: +81455635943).
THE INTER-NOISE 94 TECHNICAL
PROGRAM
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
NOISE - QUANTITY AND QUALITY
Seiichiro Namba, Osaka University, Japan
PROGRESS IN BUILDING ACOUSTICS
Andre Cops, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium
REGULATION OF COMMUNITY NOISE
Dieter Gottlob, Environmental Protection
Agency ofGermany, Germany
PROGRESS REPORTS
OF I-INCE WORKING PARTIES
UPPER NOISE LIMITS AT THE WORKPLACE
Tony Embleton, Canada
NOISE EMISSIONS OF ROAD VEHICLES
Ulf Sandberg, Swedish Road and Traffic Research Institute, Sweden
ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED
Abstracts with the following titles have been accepted for presentation at INTER-NOISE 94.
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SPECIAL SESSIONS
These sessions have been organized by individuals
and by the Organizing Committee.
Active control (noise and vibration)
Active Noise Control in Trucks • Active Attenuation of
Impulsive Noise from a Railway Tunnel Exit. Multiple-Input
Active Control of Road Noise. Active Control of Elevator
Noise Caused by Ventilator. Reduction of the Noise Inside
the Cab of Earth-Moving Machines by Active Noise Cancellation Technique. Active Control of Machinery-Generated
Acoustic Noise Using a Multichannel, Broadband, Real-Time
Controller. Active Noise Control Adapted to Co-Generation
System • Application of Active Noise Control for SmallSized Electronic Equipments • Active Noise Cancellation of
Low Frequency Noise Emitted from Tunnel of High Speed
Train. Active Noise Control of Gas Turbine Exhaust Noise
(Report 2) • Virtual Noise Source Identification for Active
Noise Control System. On Arrangements of Noise-Controlled Points for Producing Larger Quiet Zones with Multi-Point
Active Noise Control. Autodirective Sources for 3-D Active
Noise Control. Transient Response of Systems for the Reconstruction of Acoustic Fields. On Design of Filters Synthesizing Anti-Noise for Achieving Good Noise-Suppression
with Multi-Point Active Noise Control • The Acoustical
Aspect of Global Sound Control by Active Technologies. A
Study on Active Noise Control in 3-Dimensional Space for
Minimizing Total Acoustic Power • Investigation on the
Mechanism of Active Sound Control in Space. Active Sound
Absorption in the Free Field: Part I Theory. Experiments on
a System for the Reproduction of Direction of Arrival Information in Recorded Sound Fields • Theory of Acoustic Impedance Control for Active Noise Control
Aircraft noise
What Use Can Be Made of the Recent Technological Advances in Outdoor Instrumentation • Kansai International
Airport on an Artificial Island-It is the Last Solution to
Airport Noise Problems. Metrics Systems with Respect to
Aircraft Noise Revisited. Noise Control for In-Service Jet
Transports. The Effects of Night Flights on Near Airports.
TOLAPS-a Program for Take-Off and Landing Profile
Simulation. Environmental Noise Management for Helicopter Landing Areas.• Reduction by Regulation of Noise from
Leisure Aircraft Activities. A General Prediction Procedure
for Light Propeller Driven Aeroplane Flyover Noise Signatures • Airport Noise Prediction with the Application of the
Integrated Noise Model and the German AzB Model, and the
Consideration of Meteorological and Ground Effects • Effects of the Descriptor Change on the Value of the Property
within the Noise Exposure Contours. Noise Contours Surrounding Ataturk Airport due to Run-Up Operations of the
Airplanes. Introducing Topography Corrections into Aircraft
Noise Calculations. Microphone Location for Unattended
Aircraft Noise Measurement. Basic Consideration for Developing a Helicopter Noise Prediction Model. On the Structural Damage due to the Aircraft Noise-Is there Any
Relationship between the Roof-Tile Slip Phenomena and
SPL? • Interdependencies of Aircraft/Airport Noise and Urban/Regional Planning
Sound source characterization in duct systems
• A Rejection Method of Throttle Noise Contribution in
Measurement of Sound Generated from a HVAC Duct Com-
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ponent • Acoustical Source Characterization in Duct Systems-An Overview. Investigation of the Sound Generation
from an In-Duct Fan Using a 2-Port Model. The Direct Least
Squares Method for Determination of the Source Data of
Acoustic One-Port Sources. Noise Spectral Analysis of the
Turbomachinery Inlet Tubes • On the Modelling of Fluid
Machines as Acoustic N-Port Sources
Floor impact noise
Method for Rating the Impact Sound Insulation of Floor Covering in Gymnasium • Effect of Floor Size on Impact Sound
Levels. Alternative Rating of Impact Sound Insulation. Dynamic Properties of Floor Covering Materials. Transient Vibration of Light Frame Floors-Part III • The Present Situation
and the Points Have to Be Improved of the Floor Impact Sound
Insulation Property of Floor Finish Materials both in China and
in Japan • Sound Insulation of Parquet Floors • Practical
Investigations on Floating Floor in Ship • Classification and
Recognition of Shapes of the Frequency Characteristics of
Floating Floors.Information processing and auditory perception in noisy environments. Experimental Set-Up for Analysis
of the Speech Intelligibility between Consultancy Modules on
Landscape Banking Offices. Evaluation of Equalisation and
Source Position Compensation Systems in Two Channel Sound
Reproduction. Localization and Detection of Signals in Noise
• General Introduction • Source Wave Form Recovery in a
Reverberant Environment. Effect of IACC on Speech Clarity
and Articulation. Design of Sound Field with Multi-Channel
Public Address System. Hearing Test of Speech Waves Intermittently Replaced by White Noise. RASTI Measurements in
Portuguese Roman Catholic Churches • Acoustic Quality via
Intensity Measurements in a Church. Applying the Articulation
Index in Evaluation of Speech Intelligibility in Several Band
Noise and SIN Conditions Considering Hearing Impairment.
Noise Reduction for Speech Using a Microphone Array with
Consideration ofWavelength Constant. Floor Slope Design for
Improved Acoustics in Speech Oriented Halls
Noise control in the workplace
Reduction of Impact Noise in the Sheet Metal Industry •
Noise Reduction by Reshaping the Tongue in a Centrifugal
Fan. Noise Control of Office Machines. Structural Acoustic
Design for Noise Control. Upper Noise Limits at the Workplace. Noise Source Parameters for an Expanded-Metal
Press. Noise Exposure in Aeronautical Industry
Characterization of structure-borne sound
sources and components
Progress in the Development of International Standards for
Determining Structure-Borne Sound Source Strength and Isolator Transfer Stiffness. Numerical Study of the Reverberant
Reception Plate Method for Structure-Borne Noise Measurements of Small Compact Machines • Sound Scattering by
Shells. Characterization of Structure-Borne Sound Sources
• Surface and Terminal Source Power for Characterization of
Vibration Sources at Audible Frequencies. Characterization
of Structure-Borne Sound Sources in Dwellings
Railway noise and vibration
Sources and Control of Railway Noise Vibration. Aerodynamic
Noise ofMaglev Cars. Dynamic Characteristics ofRail Track with
Viscoelastic Vibration Isolation Components • Internal Pressure
Level Prediction Method in the Two Story High Speed Trains
(TGV-2N). Development of Low-Noise Configuration ofCurrent
Collectors for High-Speed-Trains. Development ofLow Aerodynamic Noise Pantograph for High Speed Train • New Legislation
to Control Railway Noise in Austria. Research on Visualization of
Noise Distribution between the Sinkansen and a Noise Barrier.
Prediction of the Shinkansen Noise • Trend~ in Low Noise Train
Design. On the Boundary-Layer Contribution to Wayside Noise
Generated by High-Speed Tracked Vehicles • Community Response to Railway Noise with Special Respect to High-SpeedTrains. Localization of Flow Noise Sources on High Speed Train
Models in Anechoic Wind Tunnel • Increase of Noise Barriers
Efficiency by Active Noise Control. Track Vibroacoustic Simulation • High Speed Train Noise AbatementImportant Parameters
and Case Study • DeuFrako - I: Microphone Array Techniques
Used to Locate Acoustic Sources on TGV-A, ICE and TR07 •
DeuFrako -2: Localized Sound Sources onthe High-Speed Vehicles
TGV-A, ICE and TR07 • New Airborne Noise Acoustic Insulation
Structures for Railway Vehicle • Vibration Protection in Urban
Underground Railways and Its Evaluation. Noise Control Investigation ofTramway-Barrier Using Ray Tracing Model. Research
Evolution on Noise Problems Concerning the Speed System of
ItaIianRailways. Community Response to High SpeedTrainNoise
in France. Effects of Barrier Shapes on Railway Noise Reduction
• Community Response to Railway Noise-Comparison of Social
Survey Results between Japan and Other Countries. Experimental
Investigation of Acoustical Characteristics of Trains • Different
Interpretations of the Meaning of Annoyance. Irrelevant Background Noise and Hwnan Performance
Subjective evaluation of environmental noise
Noise legislation for road vehicles
Noise Emissions of Road Vehicles-Effect of Regulations /
Final Report of an I-INCE Working Party. Trailer Test of
Tyre/Road Noise. Road Vehicle Noise Legislation in Japan
• Road Vehicle Noise Legislation in the European Union
Prediction of road traffic noise
Noise Barrier Performance and Other Problems of German
Rules and Regulations for the Prediction of Road Traffic Noise
• Prediction of Traffic Noise along Expressway. Calculation
Methods for Road Traffic Noise Propagation Proposed by ASJ
• ASJ Prediction Methods of Road Traffic Noise • Noise
Prediction and Evaluation of Traffic Noise from the Complex
Road. Traffic Volume and Community Noise. Road TratIic
Noise Prediction Model Developed in Thailand. On Traffic
Noise Calculation Methods about Double Decks Road
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Fitting of Hearing Aids with Loudness Scaling of Environmental Sounds. Loudness Judgments on the Background of
Subjective Experience with Environmental Sounds. Perceptual Processing of Environmental Sounds. The Evaluation of
Acoustic Features in Industrial Noise. Cross Cultural Comparison in the Annoyance due to Transport Noise. Comparison of Community Response to Outdoor Noise at the Areas
along Shinkansen and Ordinary Railroad • Psychoacoustics
and Rail Bonus. Subjective Price of Noise Reduction in the
Case of Electric Appliances. Discussion about the Results
from Hearing Tests of Rating on the Difference between the
Annoyance Effects by Meaningful Sound and Meaningless
Sound
New methods of measuring sound transmission for future
standards. Application of the M-Sequence Correlation Technique for Sound Transmission Measurements. Survey Test
Methods for Measuring Airborne and Impact Sound Trans-
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mission. Detenninistic Excitation Signals Reduces Statistical Spread and Extraneous Noise Contamination in Sound
Transmission Measurements. Measurement of Sound Insulation with Intensity Technique. Concept of Reduction Index
at Low Frequencies • Intensity Methods for Transmission
Loss Measurement of Silencers. Impulse Method for Determination of Transmission Loss. Measurement of Equivalent
Sound Absorption Area of Rooms Using Reference Sound
Sources. Comparison of Sound Transmission Loss between
the Sound Intensity Method and the Conventional Two Room
Method in the Laboratory
• Roughness Level as a Measure for Estimating Unpleasantness- Modification of Roughness Level by Modulation Frequencies • Digital Generation of Acoustical Targets for Car
Sound Engineering Based on Psychometrical Data. Evaluation and Measurement of Roughness of Artificial and Technical Sounds. Subjective Evaluation of Car Interior Noise in
a Consecutive Series of Driving Situation • Digital Filter
Implementation for Application of Sound Quality. A Comparison Study of Annoyance Response between Ethanol Engine and Diesel Engine Noise
Sound amenity/soundscape
Validity of Structural Intensity Measurements • Structural
Intensity Measurement of 2-Dirnensional Vibrational Field.
Transmitted Power in Coupled Beams • Developments of
Energy Density Models for Structural Problems. Measurement Error of Vibration Intensity Flow in a Beam Tenninated
by an Elastic Impedance. Structure-Borne Intensity: Two
Decades After. Structureborne Intensity Measurements •
Experimental Study of Space Signal Processing for Structure
Intensity Measurements. A Fiber Optic Vibrometer Array for
Structural Intensity Measurements • The Measurement of
Envelope Vibration Intensity to Identify the Combustion Impact Transmission in Diesel Engine • Measuring Condition
and Precision of Structural Intensity Measurement • Predicted and Measured Reactive Power Flow with Different
Cam Motions. Neurocontrol of Vortex Power Flow. Power
Flow Measurement in Vehicle Floor Structure Using MultiInput Structural Intensity Techniques. On the Evaluation of
Directional Components of Intensity in a Plate Using Two
Accelerometers • Distribution of Structural Intensity in a
Cylindrical Shell-Structure. Velocity-Intensity Index for Vibrational Intensity Measurements • Measurement of Vibration Power Flow in Plates and Beams • Structure-Borne
Intensity Measurements for Multiple Inputs. Bending Wave
Intensity in a Thick Beam. Influence of Near-Field Components for One-Dimensional Vibration Intensity Measurement
Structural intensity measurement
Research on Acoustical Environment Planning of the Cities •
Cross-Cultural Study of Emotion and Identification to Environmental Sounds. How Important Do People Think Quiet Is for a
Good Residential Environment? (Part2) • Reported Sonic Environment is Theory- and Method-laden. Acoustic Ecology: From
the Expressivity ofSilence to the Pollution by Music. Description
of Sound Map and Sound Events as Expression of Sound Environment • Historical Changes of Japanese Soundscapes Represented in the World of Haiku. Noise Treatment Technology in
Amenity Space. Visually Handicapped Pedestrians and Sound
Environment- Analysis of Social Survey to the Nonnal and of
Interviews to the Visually Handicapped. Effects of Planting on
ReliefofAnnoyance-Field Survey at Urban Roadside. Amenity
of Environment in Residential Area on the Basis of Sound and
Green. What is Good Environment in Classrooms? • An Investigation on Environmental Education on Sound Conducted in
Japan. A Study for Designing Soundscape ofNeighborhood Park
• Multiplicity of Meaning in Environmental Sounds
Sound intensity applications
Intensity Measurements in the Presence of Moderate Airflow
• Practical Considerations about Noise Measurements in
Railway Vehicles Using Conditioned Intensity. Application
of Personal Computer Based Sound Intensity System on
Coach Noise Control. Criteria for Local Noise Control Based
on Energy Analysis of Sound Field • Intensity Technique
Used for Airport Noise Monitoring. Separation of Sound
Intensity Vector Using Variable Directional Microphone.
Sound Power Estimation of a Converging Nozzle. Sound
Power Detennination by Intensity Measurements for AirConditioning Equipments • Measurements of Absorption
Coefficient by Intensity Method
Sound power determination
ASurvey Method for DeterminationofSound Power Levels under
Reverberant Conditions in situ. Examination of Sound Intensity
Scanning Technique to Determine Sound Power of Machinery
Noise Sources. Measurement with Octave-Band and FractionalOctave-Band Filters. National Round Robin Test Detennining
the Sound Power-Further Results. Future Needs for Sound
Power Standards. Interference Effects on Sound Power Measurement • A Generalized Prediction Fonnula for Calculating Sound
Power Level Data of Square Ceiling Diffusers • Procedures to
Limit the Measurement Uncertainty of the Sound Intensity Scanning Method Detennining Sound Powers
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Subjective response to vibration
Path Analyses of the Effect of Vibration on Road Traffic and
Railway Noise Annoyance. Whole-Body Vibration and Vehicle Comfort. This Countenneasure and the Present Condition of Building Vibration Influences the Dwelling
Environment. Prediction of Discomfort Caused by ShortTenn Increases in Low-Frequency Vertical Vibration. Subjective Evaluations Concerning Complex Exposure
Conditions. Measurements of Ground Vibrations Induced by
Tokaido Shinkansen Trains. Measurement of Psychological
Change Caused by Low-Frequency Whole-Body Oscillations
• Human Response to the Motions of a Semi-Submersible
Drilling Platfonn. Effect of Polyurethane Foam on Dynamic
Sitting Comfort. Centre of Rotation for Pitch Head Motion
during Exposure to Fore-And-Aft Seat Vibration. Experiment on the Evaluation of the Whole Body Exposure to
Level-Fluctuating Vibration-Part 2: Subjective Perception
in a Wooden House • Human Responses to Short Repeated
Vibrations. Traffic-Induced Vibration and Geological Characteristics in the Vicinity of Cities in Japan
Sound quality of machinery noise
Noise exposure
Product-Sound Design & Assessment: An Enigmatic Issue
from the Point of View of Engineering? • Contribution Diagram as a Tool for Sound Quality Improvement • Sound
Engineering of Vehicle Noise. Multidimensional Analysis of
the Perceptual Dimensions and Features of Complex Noises
Hearing Conservation Related to the Occupational Noise
Standard. Non-Auditory Health Effects Research: A Conceptual Analysis of Recent Results and Research Needs. Nighttime Road Traffic Noise and Sleep Quality. Review of the
Research on Daily Noise Exposure of People in Japan •
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Analysis of 24-Hour Noise Exposure on Bangkok People.
Personal Noise Exposure and Noise Environment in China.
Noise-a Contributor to Chronic Diseases. Sound Produced
by Metal Baseball Bats • 24 Hour Measurements of AWeighted Leq Outside and Inside Dwellings in Yokohama.
Daily Noise Exposure of Housewives in Japan-Comparison
of the Surveys in 1978 and in 1990
Inner ear function and noise
Distortion-Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Humans: Sensitivity of Ll-L2 Differences to the Effects of Tonal Overstimulation • Distortion-Product Otoacoustic Emission in Rabbits:
Resistance and Susceptibility to Noise Over-Exposure. Otoacoustic Emissions: New Views of Hearing and Hearing Loss.
Detection of Hearing Loss Using Otoacoustic Emissions •
Transiently-Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions (TEOAEs) from
Industrial Workers Exposed to Noise. The Effect of 6 kHz Tone
Exposure on the Inner Ear Function of the Guinea Pig
Feeder. Reduction ofldling Noise Radiated from Circular Saw
Blade. Reducing Construction Din in Hong Kong? • Prediction
of Electromagnetic Vibration for Brushlees Motors Driven by
Inverters • Test Reverberation Chamber Compact Matching
Horns Parameter Choice Introducing Efficiently High Power
from Pneumatic Acoustic Source. Noise Enclosure for Construction Works. Noise Generation of Foundry Machines and
Definition of Reproducible Operating Conditions • Punching
Noise Reduction of Punch Press Using High Damping Alloy as
Punch Press Frame • Experimental Studies on the Dynamic
Performance of Powered Knapsack Sprayer and the Control of
Vibrations. Noise Control ofa Mechanical Car-Parking System
Installed in Buildings. Characteristics of Noise Generated by
Process Burners • Control of Infrasound Generated by Large
Vibrating Screens used at Construction Sites. Noise and Noise
Control of the Large Capacity Gear Box • The Experimental
Research of the Specific Noise Law on Hydraulic Rock Drill •
Noise Reduction on the River Ships
Vehicle noise
Noise of air moving devices
Vacuum Motor Buzzing Noise Control. Screening of Noisy
Junctions of a Tractor for Contactless Land Cultivation.• The
Environment and Improvement of Traffic Noise in City Tunnel • Improvement of Acoustical Comfort Inside Cars by
Using Laminated Glass. A Study of Sound Power Level
Radiated from an Isolated Starting Truck. Effect on Passenger Car Wind Noise Sources of Different A-Post Configurations • The Study on Technology to Reduce the Noise
Generated by Hydraulic Breakers. Generation of Low Frequent Noise in the Passenger Compartment of Overland Busses • The Relativity between Stationary Noise and
Accelerated Noise from Motor Vehicle and It's Noise Control
• Shall We Measure Lmax or Leq of Road Vehicles? • AStudy
of Heavy Vehicle Engine Compression Brake Noise: The
Feasibility of Developing a Road-Side Noise Test. A Study
of the Interaction Effects between the Torsional Vibration
Damper and the Engine Structure by Gated Measurements •
Noise Reducing Modifications of the Lower Half and Front
End on a Diesel Truck Engine. Noise Emissions from
Snowmobiles-A Comparison of Laboratory and Field Measurements • Analysis of Dynamic Response and Noise Radiation of Engine Crankcase Coupled with Rotating Crankshaft
• Coaxial Tuning Cables for Noise Reduction in Automotive
Power Steering Systems • Sound Power Levels of Road
Vehicles Measured Using a Reverberant Tunnel
Selection of an Optimum Formula for Ship Fan Noise Levels
and Spectrum Composition Evaluations through Power Parameters • A Flow Microstructure Control as a Way of Fan
Noise Reduction. Noise Reduction of Fans by Control of
Flow Distortion. Infra-Sound Control of a Centrifugal Fan
by Inlet Cone Flow Guides. Acoustical Resonance in Turbomachines • Challenges for Quiet Radial Fan Design
Tire/road noise
Noise Reduction Factors of Drainage Asphalt Pavement •
Acoustical Properties of Air-Saturated Granular Materials •
The Noise Reducing Performance of Open Textured Road
Surfacing Material • Influence of Porous Asphalt Pavement
Characteristics on the Hom Amplification of Tire/Road Contact Noise. The Effect of Rain on the Noise Reduction of
Porous Asphalt Pavement. Cabin Noise in Car on Cruising
the Porous Asphalt Pavement. Effect of Sound Absorptive
Common Footway on Traffic Noise
Machinery noise
Does the Ideal Inverter Eliminate the Vibro-Acoustic Problems in Variable-Speed Induction Motor Drives? • An Aerodynamic Design of a Rotary Cutter Head for the Debarking
of Logs • Analysis of Vibroacoustics Activity of Electric
Drive Systems. Effects of Flux Variations over the Noise
Problems of Series Fractional Horse Power Motors • Improvement to Reduce Noise Generated from Electronic Parts
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Flow acoustics
Excessive Noise Preventer • Aeroacoustic Characteristics of
the Vortex Ring with Small Vortisity in the Vicinity of the
Vortex Core. Gas Ejecting Suppressor Device. Suppression
of Jet Noise by Using a Device of Generating a Spiral Flow •
Noise Generated by Turbulent Submerged Jet in Stratified
Fluid. Noise Prediction by Axial Flow Fans. Reducing the
Aerodynamic Noise from Nozzle-Outlet by Inclined Flanges
• On the Cavity Tone in a Perforated Tube Muffler. Variation
of Supersonic Jet Noise Characteristics in Different Aspect
Ratio of Rectangular Exit Nozzles. Underexpanded Supersonic Jet Noise Reduction by Combinations of Tab and Ejector • Aeroflow Sound Generated from the Screw Gap of
Slightly Loosened Connector of Compressed Air Pipes
Noise propagation outdoors
SoundProp - Fast, Accurate Prediction of Sound Propagation
Under Varying Weather Conditions and Over Hard or Soft
Surfaces • Propagation of Impulsive Low Frequency Sound
and Response of Building Fittings. The Influence of Directivity of Point Sources on the Result of Prediction Environmental Noise from Industrial Plants • The Effect of
Atmospheric Pressure on Measured Aircraft Noise Levels.
Prediction of Noise Propagation During Upward Refraction
Above Ground. Characteristics of Finite Amplitude Impulsive Sound on the Ground. The Study of Sound Propagation
over an Impedance Plane in the Presence of Wind and Temperature Gradients. Outdoor Sound Propagation Over Non
Flat Terrain under the Influence of Wind and Temperature
Gradients. Long-Range Propagation of Low Frequency
Noise Generated by the Thrust Reversers of an Aircraft
SESSIONS
Barriers
Acoustic Performance of Parallel Traffic Noise Barriers-
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Full-Scale Tests. Prediction of Earth Benn Perfonnance by the
Boundary Element Method. Study on Noise Reduction by
T-Profile Barrier. Main and Side Effects of Noise Protection
Barriers in a Longitudinal Field Study. Effect of Road Traffic
Noise Reduction by Plant Pots Fixing Low-Height Type Barriers. The Acoustic Perfonnance ofMultipleEdge Noise Barriers
• Comparison of the Modelled and Measured Perfonnance of a
Barrier Used for Environmental Noise Control. Scale Model
Studies of New Type Highway Noise Barriers
Physical phenomena
Possibility of Prediction of the Acoustic Noise Caused by the
Transmission Lines Corona Effect in Polish Conditions •
Sound Energy Circulation in the Nearfield of a Finite Cylindrical Shell and a Free Circular Plate. Helmholtz Resonator:
Silencer Element or Noise Source? • Numerical and Experimental Studies of Complex Sound Intensity Fields in a Dissipative Enclosure. On Sound Characteristics of Glass Fiber
Ducts. Geometrical Acoustics as a Predictive Design Tool.
Noise Scattering by Models of Vegetation-Study on the
Phenomenon of Insertion losses Becoming Minus • Some
Analytical Aspects of Structural-Acoustic Interaction Phenomena in a Closed Field • Pulse Propagation in Bubbly
Fluids via Multiple Scattering Theory
Duct acoustics, silencers & mufflers
An Experimental Study on the Muffler of Resonator Type.
Silencers for Air Intake and Exhaust System of Mechanical
Draft Cooling Tower • Acoustic Models of Double Pipe
Elements of Mufflers. A Study on the Interaction between
Acoustic Resonance and Turbulence in Mufflers. APractical
Method to Approximate the Sound Radiation from a Lined
Circular Duct. New Broad-Band Silencers Composed of
Resonant Type and Dissipative Type. Superior Noise Suppression for Incinerator Plants (Noise Control of the Aircooled Heat Exchangers) • High Intensity Discrete Low
Frequency Noise Resonance Mufflers Hydraulic Design Principles • Calculation of Complex Silencer Perfonnances by
Non-Linear Fluid Dynamic Simulation Models • Acoustic
Effect of Micropore Muffler on Pulsed Jets and Ring Jets.
The Influence of Eigentones in Intake and Exhaust Manifolds
on Exhaust and Intake Noise Radiation
Sound absorptive materials
Single Number Ration of Acoustic Absorption of Perforated
Bricks • Microperforated Panel at High Sound Intensity •
Study of Sound-Absorption Coefficients, ex, ofAccessible and
Cheap Materials Found in Brazil • Sound Absorption of
Masonry Blocks. The Result Differences of the Detennination of Sound Absorption Coefficient by the Impedance Tube
Method Based on Different Standards • Sound Absorber of
Transparent Thin Film. Experimental study of the Frequency
Characteristics of Sound-Absorbing Powder Materials. An
Experimental Study of Pure-Metal Sound Absorber Based on
Microperforated-Panel Construction. Absortion Coefficient
of a Person in a Closed Room
Vibration damping & isolation
Numerical Prediction of Damping Properties of Polymers •
Method of Optimization Transport Vibroisolating Systems
and Experience of its Practical Application. Cut off Characteristics of Structure-Borne Sound by Hybrid Mass Damper
• The Design of Vibration Isolating Structure Using Genetic
Algorithm and Other Evolutional Programming Methods •
Piston Machine Pipelines Vibration Attenuation by Using of
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Compact Low-Frequency Pulsations Damper. Inadequacies
in Some Elastomeric Isolation Pads Manufactures' Product
Data. Evaluation of Vibration and Noise Using Scale Model
of C-Frame Turret Punch Press. Sound Radiation from the
Vibrating Plate with Damping Characteristics. Fonnulation
of the Loss Factor for Flexural Vibration of Three-Layer
Assembly with a Thin Cover Plate, Considering Extension/Contraction Strain in the Viscoelastic Middle Layer •
Vibration and Structure-Borne Noise Reduction for Building
with Isolation Systems. Damping Properties of MagneticVibration-Damper. Chain and Cable Wrap as High Frequency Dampers. A Study on the Vibration Isolation f the
Car CDP Using Power Mixed Oil Damper. Analysis of the
Effect of Damping Treatment of an Enclosure • Radiation
Noise Reduction by Applying Vibration Damping Material.
Improvement of Acoustic Characteristics of an Alminium
Honeycomb Plate with a Damping Layer. Dynamic Vibration Absorbers used for Increasing Noise Transmission Loss
of Aircraft Panels. Vibration Damping Properties and Test
Methods of Laminated Damping Steel Sheets
Structure-borne sound
The Relative Contributions of Forces and Moments in Structure-Borne Sound Power Emission from Machines. A Study
of Dynamic and Stability Characteristics of Joints Using
Impedance Measurements. Experimental Study on Vibration
Propagation in Water Piping System Connected with Pump.
Coupled Acoustic Fluid-Structure Analysis Using Component Mode Synthesis (Application to the Interior Noise Problem of the Vehicle Cabin) • Transmission Path Analysis in
View of Active Cancellation of Road Induced Noise in Automotive Vehicles • Calculation and Correlation of Vehicle
Body Structure Acoustic Transparency. The Characteristics
of Structure-Borne Sound from a Reinforced Concrete Wall
with Mechanical Vibration and Transmission Loss
Building acoustics: sound insulation
Control of Noise in Rest Environments for Civil Houses:
Analysis and Methods Proposed. Airborne Noise Acoustic
Insulation of Double Panels. Regression Lines. A Study of
Noise Control of Home Appliances Considering Acoustic
Mode. Fonnulation for the Prediction of Plumbing Noise.
On Sound Insulation of Thin-Walled Structure in the NonUnifonn Aerodynamic Field of Pressure Fluctuations. Sound
Power Level of the Rain Noise Radiated from Lightweight
Roofs. Variable Acoustics for Radio Studio 12 at the CBC
Building in Montreal. Computer Design for Sound Insulation against Traffic Noise. Flanking Transmission in Building with Multilayer Partitions. An Acoustical Characteristics
of an Automatic Sliding Sound Proof Door • Countenneasures on Blasting Noise Incident to Tunnel Construction.
Analysis of Components of Noises in Large Open-Plan Offices in Japan. Noise Insulation Design Simulation of Glass
Window in a Building and its Noise Measurement Cases.
Behavior of a Light Weight Wooden Joist Floor at Low
Frequencies • Noise Control Interior Design for Enclosed
Atrium with Railway Stairwell. Case Study on Sound Insulation of Music Rooms in the House of Professional Musicians • Effect of Molecular Structure of the Interlayer on the
Transmission Loss of Laminated Glass • Effects of Edge
Damping on the Sound Transmission Loss of Glass Pane.
Sound Insulation Structures in Auditorium Buildings
Perception of sound
The Measurement of Equal Loudness Contours Using a Di-
1994 March
rect Scaling Procedure and the Validation by Equal Time
Contours Measured Using a Simple Reaction Time Task. The
Dose-Response Relationship with Noise- Induced Temporary
Threshold Shift (NITSS) • Threshold of Hearing in Various
Sound Fields. Equal Loudness Level Contours for Frequencies 20-1000 Hz at 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 phon Levels.
Subjective and Objective Transformation Level between
Free-Field and Diffuse-Field in Equal-Loudness Level Contours. Continuous Judgment of Level-Fluctuating Noise.
Loudness Evaluation of HVAC Noise with Low Frequency
Components • Loudness of Sounds Transmitted through
Walls under Background Noise • Subjective Disturbance
Perception of Various Ambient Noise Levels of a Mosque: A
Mathematical Modelling Analysis. Factor Analysis on Subjective Evaluation of Drainpipe Noise. Experimental Study
on Evaluation for Environmental Comfortableness Using
Physiological and Psychological Method. Sound Level Meter Directly Capable of Evaluating Psychological Effects with
"URUSASA" and/or "HUES" Scales. Thresholds of Sensation and Effects on Human Body of Impulsive Low-Frequency Sound • A Prediction Method of Psychological
Impression Caused by Fluctuating Random Noise Based on
Fuzzy Sets Theory • Vehicle Insertion Loss and Shift of
Loudness. Laboratory Studies on Environmental Effects of
Vehicle Noise • Psychological Transient Response to Low
Frequency Noises. Trade-Off Effects in the Laboratory: A
High Number of Soft Aircraft Did Not Exceed a Low Number
of Loud Aircraft in Psychological Noise Effects. Annoyance
of Meaningful Sound in Broadcast Listening • On the Influence of the Ordering of Noises in Sequences for Paired
Comparison Judgment Utilization. Low Frequency Sound
Quality and HVAC Systems. The Influence of Noise on
Students When Working with Videoterminals
Psychological effects of noise
Cost Efficient Noise Reduction around Large Plants Using
Genetic Algorithm Optimization. Noise Control and Economic Analysis. Evaluation of the Cost of Noise Pollution.
Noise and Subjective Symptoms ofInhabitants
Noise surveys
Spatial Distribution in Outdoor Noise Levels in the Historical
Center of a Large Size Italian Town. Spatial Distribution of
Environmental Noise Peaks. A Study on Selection of Measuring Points on Noise Survey by Using Noise Simulation
Community reaction to noise
The Failure of Day-Night Average Sound Level for Intrusive
Noise • Community Response to Noise from Short Term
Military Aircraft Exercises at Airports Serving both Civil and
Military Traffic. Cross-Cultural Study on Community Response to Traffic Noise (2): Surveys in Gothenburg. Sweden
and Kumamoto. Japan. The Fact-Finding Inquiry of the
Management of Complaints with Indoors Measuring. Aircraft Noise Amelioration Schemes-Attitudes of Residents to
the Options • On Dose Response Curves of Annoyance to
Aircraft Noise. Social Survey of Public Opinion on Sound
Environment in Yokohama-Part I. Sounds Liked or Disliked
and Sounds Representing Yokohama or Residential Wards.
Survey on Environmental Noise and Human Response to
Environmental Sounds • Study on Annoyance and Trouble
Caused by Pollution in a Residential Area in a Megalopolis
by Analyzing Free Response Data. Management of Complaints Caused by Noise and Other Pollution Phenomena
Filed by Residents Flowing into Industrial Areas. Results of
1994 March
a Questionnaire Survey of Citizens' View on Neighborhood
Noise in Sendai City. Health Effects on the Residents due to
Aircraft Noise around Ladena U. S. airbase in the Ryukyus •
Cross-Cultural Study on Community Response to Traffic Noise
(1): Surveys in Songkhla, Thailand and Tomakomai, Japan
Measuring techniques: Source localization
Developments in Digital Signal Processing for Handheld Portable Electroacoustic Instrumentation. Time Domain Contribution Analysis. ASignal Processing for Wind Noise Cancellation
by Using a Wide Sense Digital Filter in the Low Frequency
Sound Measurement • Identification of Machine Noise Radiators Using Intensity, Holography and Modal Analysis Techniques • Identification of Industrial Noise Sources with Finite
Band of Frequency Based on Spherical Wave Model. Improvement of Acoustical Detection of Aircraft Position in Flight
Measuring techniques
Ultrasonic Measurements on Acoustic Porous Materials •
Acoustical Instrumentation-Standards and Accreditation.
New Approach for the Measurement of the Acoustic Properties of Sound Absorbent Samples. Microphones, Preamplifiers and Calibration: New Products and New Possibilities.
A Study on Repeatability for Sound Absorption Measurements in Reverberation Chambers. Assessment ofLAeqLevel
of Urban Noise by Means of Time History Pattern. Measurement of Airflow Resistance by DC Method and AC Method
• Average of Sound Pressure Measurement in a Room Using
a Double Pendulum • A Sensitivity Compensation Method for
a Three-Dimensional Sound Intensity Probe. The Development of Instruments for the Measurement of Sound Intensity
Using 3-Dimensional Microphone Probe. Two-Microphone
Impedance Tube Measurement Method: How to Obtain the
Speed and Convenience of the Technique Improving Accuracy. Error Analysis ofthe Spatial Fourier Transform Method
for Measuring Absorption Coefficients at Arbitrary of Incidence • Introduction of Hand Held Instrument for Direct
Assessment of Impulse and Pure Tone Correction Factors.
The Bimorph Piezoceramic Transducer for Mechanical Vibrations. Experimental Study on Resonance Frequency of Horizonta1 Vibration Pickup. A Measuring Method for Sound
Reflection or Absorption Coefficient by Using Two Closed
Microphones with Different Sensitivities. Bending Vibrations of Ribbed Plates. Prediction of Airborne Noise Acoustic Insulation of Light Panels. A SEA Model for Predicting
the Insertion Loss of Noise Source Enclosures. Analysis of
Acoustic Characteristics of Automobile Hom by Simplified
Vibration Model • Vibration Response of Foundation of
Wooden House. Use of Array Techniques in Automotive
Industry. Finite Frequency Band Averaging Effects in SEA
• Exhaust Systems: Comparing Boundary Element and Finite
Element Models with Experiments • The Finite Element
Treatment of Large Size Coupled Problem Using Unequal
Meshes. A Comparative Study of the Analysis of Transient
Acoustic Problems Using Finite Element and Boundary Element Methods. Prediction of Transmission Loss for Railway
Structures Using Numerical Technics. Reduction of Spatial
Windowing Effects in Acoustical Holography. On-Line State
Estimation Algorithms for Road Traffic Noise Indexes Under
the Contamination of Background Noise. Prediction of Output Probability Distribution for Arbitrary Sound Insulation
Systems Based on the Introduction of Hierarchical Parameter
Differential Operator and Its Application to a Double Wall
with Sound Bridge • Application of a Statistical Inverse
Method to Improve Parameter Estimation in Statistical En-
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ergy Analysis Models • A Hierarchical Digital Filter with a
Smoother for Measuring the Non-Gaussian Acoustic Signals
Under Background Noise and Its Applications to the Reverberation Time Measurement • An Evaluation Method of
Probability Distribution on LAeq for Nonstationary Environmental Noise Based on Its Level Statistics. An Introduction
of Regression Model in Hierarchical Form for the Response
Probability Prediction of a Working Environmental System.
Energy Flow within Three Subsystem Configurations •
Measuring Aerodynamically Generated Noise from a Wind
Turbine Using a Microphone Array. The Energy Finite
Element Method of Coupled Structures • Measurements by
Means of Microphone Array of Fast Passing Sound Source.
Change of Source Impedance due to Close Fitting Rigid
Screen • The Influence of a Rigid Barrier on the Radiation
Efficiency of a Sound Source. Finite Elemental Analysis of
Sound Field in Rooms with Sound Absorbing Materials •
Error Analysis for Prediction of Acoustic Fields Using Planar
Acoustic Holography and the Application of MEW (Minimum Error Window) for the Minimization of Bias Error •
Numeric Prediction of Impulse Responses of Sound Fields in
Small Rooms and Cabins • Equivalent Sphere Method for
Prediction ofRadiation Field of Sound Source from Measurements of Diffraction Field Characteristics • Finite Element
Formulation for Sound Transmission through Finite Double
Panels Lined with Elastic Porous Materials. Application of
Statistical Analysis to Determinate Forecasted Model of
Acoustical Impact on Road
Rank
Name of Hotel
Single Room
(JPY)
1
Twin Room
(JPY)
Numerical analysis & modeling
Matrix Model of Diffuse Reflection (MMDR) • Modeling of
Enhanced Sound Propagation at a California Airport. Numerical Modeling in Geometrical Acoustics with Applications in Industrial Noise Control. Mapping Neural Network
and Application to the Prediction of L eq • Modeling for
Environment Noise by the Dynamic Model. Rende-Cosenza
Highway: Forecasting Calculation of the Acoustical Reclamation. Correlation of Acoustic Model Analysis with Operating Data for Road Noise Problems. Noise Prediction in
Urban Area by a Fuzzy Logic Approach. Numerical Analysis
of Sound Propagation over Wide Barriers. Doppler Effect
for a Car Moving in a Tunnel. Using Subjective Response
Data to Train an Artificial Neural Network Model of Human
Annoyance to Noise • Sensitivity Calculations for BroadBand Acoustic Radiated Noise Design Optimization Problems • Statistical Energy Analysis of Vibration and Sound
Radiation of Multisectional Cylindrical Shells • StructureBorne Sound Transmission in Complex Systems Using Iterative SEA-Based Technique. The Analysis of Bending
Vibration of Plate Combinations at Low and High Frequencies • A State Estimation Method Based On the Wide-Sense
Digital Filter Employing Higher Order Correlation Information for the Reverberation Curve in the Room Contaminated
by a Background Noise. Nearfield Acoustical Holography
for the Visualization of Interior Sound Fields. The Effect on
Prediction Accuracy of Computer Modelling of Sound Distribution in Enclosed Spaces Using a Reduced Number of Rays
1
Access to
Sakura~-cho
Phone
(all +81)
Station and
some comments
A
Yokohama Grand
Intercontinental Hotel
22000
24000
Located adjacent to
the Convention Plaza
452232222
B-1
B-2
Breeze Bay Hotel
Shin-Yokohama
Prince Hotel
12100
11 000
18700
16500
5-minute walk
I-minute walk &
15-minute subway
ride
452535555
45471 llll
C-l
C-2
Mandarin Hotel
Chatelet Inn
Yokohama
(Main Building)
(Annex)
San-Ai
Yokohama Hotel
8200
15400
IO-minute walk
452433131
7800
7800
7300
15000
15000
15000
5-minute walk &
5-minute subway
ride
IO-minute walk
456814800
5500 -7 000
N.A.
Within 30-minute
train ride 3
C-3
D
Several hotels in the
Yokohama area
452424411
1 Rates
are per room per night in JPY. Meals are not included. A, B or C hotel rates include service charges and do not include
VAT and local tax (3 - 6%). D hotel rate includes a service charge and tax.
2 From Sakuragi-cho station, Pacifico Yokohama is a 15-minute walk or a short bus ride.
3 You cannot always expect English-speaking staff to be on duty.
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Signal signature analysis & diagnostics
The Use of Wavelet Transfonn for Analysis ofTransient Noise
• A Correction of Acoustic Systems Pulse Response Using
Inverse Filters • Generation of Stationary Non-Gaussian
Noise Sequences with Specified Power Spectra. On Line
Quality Inspection System for Electroacoustic Products •
Measurement of Cavitation Noise as a Diagnostic Tool for
Perfonnance Monitoring of Hydraulic Turbines. Development of New Sensor Using Sound to Detect Mistransfering
Plural Sheets. Development of Experimental Techniques to
Minimize the Leakage Errors Involved in FFT Based Measurements • Rotating-Machine Diagnosis Based on the 2nd
and 3rd Order Spectral Analyses of Sounded Noises. Noise
for Process Control. Classification of Abnonnal Noise Factor
on Small Motors with Neural Network. The Use of Shorter
Time Window for Source Signal in Impulse Response Estimation by Cross Spectral Technique. Estimation of Power
Spectral Density by Singular Value Modification. Wavelet
Analysis of Nonstationary Acoustic and Vibrationary Signatures
Test facilities and equipment
Development of an Alternative Metal Anechoic Wedge •
Diffusion in Reverberation Chambers Investigated by a Room
Acoustic Computer Model • Helpful Measurement Tools
Based on Flexibility and Focused Design • Diffusion in
Reverberation Chambers Investigated by a Room Acoustic
Computer Model
Standards
Industrial Noise and Solution of Noise Abatement Problems in
Lithuania. Comparative Severities for National Noise Regulations • Aircraft Noise. Particularly Annoying Local Traffic at
Viborg Airfield. Noise Measurements for the Development of
Spanish Environmental Noise Regulations
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
As the official agent, Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd.
is holding blocks of rooms at hotels in Yokohama
during the congress. The following have been selected for the participants.
APPLICATION
Reservations should be made by completing and
returning the enclosed Hotel Reservation Form, indicating the name of the hotel, number of nights you
will stay and the number of rooms desired, to Kinki
Nippon Tourist. This form must be returned before
1994 June 23. No reservations will be confirmed
without a deposit and the handling charge of JPY
1000, which covers costs for correspondence, etc.
Hotel assignment will be made on a first-come,
first-served basis. However, if the hotel you desire
is fully booked, a room in a hotel belonging to the
category as close as possible to your choice will be
offered. Upon receipt the form and remittance, confirmation will be sent to you after 1994 June 23.
1994 March
Return to: INTER-NOISE 94
The person in charge: E. Tanimura / M. Nakamura
Inbound Travel Division
Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd.
Takakyu Bldg. 7F, 19, Kanda-Matsunaga-cho,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101, Japan
Telephone: +81332536131; FAX: +813 3255 7128
PAYMENT
Payment must be made in Japanese Yen. Personal
checks are not acceptable.
Bank transfer to: The Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank,
Okachimachi Branch
Account Name: INTER-NOISE 94
Account Number: 1489635
Bank draft payable to: INTER-NOISE 94
Credit Card (VISA, Master Card or AMEX only)
Please fill in the credit card form at the bottom of
the application form.
CANCELLATION
In case of cancellation, a written notification should
be sent to Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd.
We will refund your deposit after the following
cancellation and handling fees are deducted.
Up to 14 days before the check-in date:no
charge
13 - 7 days before the check-in date: 10% of the
daily room charge
6 - 2 days before the check-in date: 40% of the
daily room charge
Less than 2 days before or no notice: 100% of
the daily room charge
Youth Hostel
For the least expensive stay in Yokohama, a Youth
Hostel is available within a IS-minute walk from
Pacifico Yokohama. If you wish to stay there, reservation should be made personally and directly to the
address below in writing enclosing a return postcard
or self-addressed envelope with international postal
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European News
A. Cops, European Editor
EUROPE
Activities of the European Acoustics Association. The European Acoustics Association (EAA) consists of 11 acoustical
societies (Belgium - ABAV, Denmark - DAS, FinlandASF, France - SFA, Germany - DEGA, Great Britain - lOA,
Italy - AlA, The Netherlands - NAG, Norway - NAS, Spain
- SEA, and Sweden - SAS). EAA will have the status of an
European Economic Interest Group (EEIG) within the European
Community (EC).
The purpose of the group is:
• to promote and represent the science of acoustics in Europe
and around the world;
• to publish a journal on acoustics titled Acta Acustica - to
be the property of the group;
• more generally, to carry out any activity which could relate,
directly or indirectly, to the purposes described above, provided
that this activity is approved as such by the members.
The headquarters of this group will be in Liege (Belgium);
the registration was effective at the end of 1993. Such a group
operates as a commercial enterprise under the ownership of its
member societies and provides the base for many activities in
acoustics which earlier European groups could not accomplish.
The organization will function with a council of the presidents of the individual acoustical societies, a chairman, Professor Jens Blauert (Germany), a manager, Armand Dancer
(France), and a controller, Peter Wheeler (United Kingdom).
Each acoustical society will pay a modest entrance fee, and
the societies, as a group will bear the cost of registration of the
European Economic Interest Group, the cost for registering the
Acta Acustica trademark, and the Editor-in-Chief expenses for
Acta Acustica.
In 1993, Acta Acustica was distributed to nearly 2000 subscribers who are members of the 11 national acoustical societies.
Libraries and other organizations must purchase the periodical
from the publisher. A future goal is to place copies of Acta
Acustica on the desk of every European acoustician. For 1994,
the plan is to publish the periodical bimonthly with about 200
pages in each issue. The objective is to have a publication that
serves as a high quality scientific journal, an engineering journal
of applied acoustics, a communications medium for research
briefs and product news, a newsletter for the 11 societies and for
EAA itself, and a source of commercial information.
It is an objective of EAA to include in its membership all
European acoustical organizations. The Swiss Acoustical Society recently decided to join the group. Special arrangements are
being made for societies in Eastern Europe because of monetary
problems. Some services will be offered free of charge to these
organizations, and some members may receive Acta Acustica
free of charge.
On 1996 April 1-4, the EAA will organize a European Con1994 March
gress covering all topics in acoustics. (Noise will not be emphasized- Ed.) A number of national meetings will be merged into
this event which will be held in Antwerp, Belgium. The Congress will be organized by the Belgian Acoustical Association.
Registration fees will be kept as low as possible to foster
scientific and cultural exchanges, especially among younger
acousticians.
The third General Assembly of the EAA was held on 1993
October 4 in Frankfurt, Germany; the next meeting will be held
on 1994 June 04 in Milano, Italy.
LITHUANIA
Lithuanian Acoustical Society Joins International INCE.
The Lithuanian Acoustical Society has become a Member Society of I-INCE. The society was formed shortly after the
Republic of Lithuania was reestablished an independent state.
One of the objectives of the new society is to maintain contacts
with similar societies and organizations in other countries. The
society has eight technical groups representing different areas
of acoustics; two of the groups are concerned with noise: the
groups on vibrations and noise in industry and on environmental
noise. The president of the Lithuanian Acoustical Society is
Professor Danielius Guzas.
SOUTH AFRICA
Institute Changes its Name. In accordance with the latest
trends in naming organizations and institutes, it has been decided to change the name of the Institute formally from The
South African Acoustics Institute to the abbreviation of these
words. The institute will now be known merely as SAAI which
will mean the Southern African Acoustics Institute to make it
known that the Institute is no longer confined to the boundaries
of South Africa, but aims to serve the entire Southern African
Continent.
Automotive Noise and Vibration Meeting is Held. A presentation to SAAI on Automotive Noise was made on 1993 June
18 at the product development section of Nissan SA (Pty) Ltd.
The speakers were D.C. Van der Walt and M. Buffa. The
speakers received their initial training at the South African
Technikon and this was followed by a period of training at the
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of
Southampton in England. For this, both were awarded an MSc
degree.
The lecture was followed by a demonstration of a motor car
to which the required sensors had been fitted and which carried
analyzing and recording instruments enabling tests to be performed with the car on jacks or on the road. Modem computer
simulation of resonant movements of various components of a
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vehicle was demonstrated using the extensive facilities of the
manufacturer by whom Messrs. Van der Walt and Buffa are
employed.
FRANCE
Noise as a Public Health Problem. 6th International Congress.
The materialfor this report was provided by Dr. Michael Vallet,
Research Director at the Laboratoire Energie Nuisances, part
ofFrance's Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et
leur Securite (INRET-LEN). "Noise in Europe is becoming a
major preoccupation ofpeople in
general," said Dr. Vallet. To support this claim and disseminate
and exchange the latest results of
noise research worldwide, Dr. Vallet organized the 6th International
Congress on Noise as a Public
Health Problem in Nice, France
on 1993 July 5-9. The theme ofthe
congress was Noise as a Public
Health Problem. Current research
into auditory and non-auditory
phenomena
was highlighted.
Dr. Michael Vallet
Dr. Vallet also gave a presentation on the results ofthe Congress at INTER -NOISE 93, the 1993
International Congress on Noise Control Engineering, on 1993
August 24 in Leuven, Belgium. His paper appears on pages
51-53 of the INTER-NOISE 93 Congress Proceedings.
A report on the congress by W Dixon Ward has been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society ofAmerica (1. Acoust.
Soc. Am., 94, 3026-3028, 1993). In Dr. Ward's report, the
activities ofthe nine research teams are highlighted.
The congress was organized with the support ofthe International Commission on the Biological Effects ofNoise (ICBEN).
The new ICBEN Board consists of Professor Birgitta Berglund
and Professor Shirley Thompson, Chairpersons, Professor Barbara Griejhan, Secretary, andDr.Alain Muzet, PastChairman.-Ed.
The 6th International Congress
Some 400 participants, including experts from a wide range of
private and public institutes, universities, and companies from
all over the world attended Noise and Man '93. The congress
program included 50 sessions, 160 papers, and 2 workshops, all
centered around two main themes: noise and its effects on
auditory health, and environmental noise and its psychosomatic
effects. Research results were presented under nine main topics
(which reflected the nine international teams of ICBEN), with
a series of invited and contributed papers: noise induced hearing
loss, noise and communication, non-auditory physiological effects due to noise, influence of noise on performance and
behavior, noise disturbed sleep, community response to noise,
noise and combined agents, regulations and standards.
Noise Abatement.
In addition to being a forum for scientific research work done
in each of the nine sectors covered, the congress was also aimed
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at influencing noise abatement policies, in the context of public
health (i.e. the workplace) or as a factor affecting the quality of
life. Hence, the presence of a number of key politicians, including the French ministers of the environment, research, health,
and defense, as well as representatives from the European
Community'S DG-XI and international bodies such as WHO
(World Health Organization).
Mr. Perera Manzanedo (DG-Xl's Urban Environment Unit)
welcomed this congress for concentrating on the effects of noise
on man and his well-being. He admitted that European Community noise policy to date has focused on sound emissions and
been more influenced by environmental concerns and harmonization of product standards. However, the European Community is interested in improving noise abatement by reducing
permissible noise levels. The 5th Environmental Action Program (adopted by the Council on February, 1993) (See the
Editor's View in this issue.-Ed.) has broken new ground in
European Community noise policy by setting noise quality
objectives up to the year 2000 using nighttime equivalent Aweighted sound level. A more comprehensive noise policy will
depend on collaboration with bodies like WHO, as well as
further research.
In his introduction, Chairman Vallet emphasized the importance of noise research in ensuring public authorities are kept
aware of the problems of noise exposure for people. In his view,
regulations probably do not go far enough to protect the environment, and "they are not always applied to the fullest extent
- particularly in the workplace." On the other hand, stringent
regulations may also cause difficulties: "the conclusions of
scientists as to the most suitable noise thresholds may appear
more unrealistic than practical and do not often consider the
costs involved." He also pointed out how research by his own
team is being put to good use: France's civil service is making
decisions and preparing regulations to protect people from
transportation noise, thanks to scientific data from INRET-LEN.
Today in France, for example, 10 percent of the country's budget
for motor way construction is spent on protection from noise;
and for the last two years, all2-wheeled vehicles have been fitted
with fixed exhaust pipes, to prevent the illegal exhange of these
pipes.
Aircraft Noise
The perennial problem of aircraft noise is being widely studied
throughout Europe, reflected by a total of 12 presentations at
this congress. In the UK, a major field study was carried out in
1991 by the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) university teams to
obtain objective measurements of the effects of aircraft noise on
the sleep to people in their homes near 4 United Kingdom
airports. The sleep-EEGs (electroencephalograms) of 400 subjects were monitored for a total of5742 subject nights. In Germany,
research has been carried out on the effects of aircraft noise on
children, using a wide-ranging battery of tests, including measurement of overnight urinary catecholamines and cortisol, cardiovascular functions, memory and performance tests, etc.
Aircraft noise studies have resulted in various models for
critical nighttime noise levels (Germany). In the United King-
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dom, recent studies allowed comparisons with 1982 data on
general perceptions of aircraft noise. It was generally concluded
that "no clear relationships emerge between aircraft noise exposure and reported (sleep) disturbance," although effects varied
greatly between people, depending on age, sex, personality and
so on. For example, according to the CAA, men are more likely
to be disturbed during sleep by aircraft noise events. The congress also saw a vigorous debate on aircraft noise, with one
group suggesting that WHO noise recommendations should be
relaxed because of the economic implications of further restrictions.
voices speaking at once are apparently preferable to just one or
two, as they create a more even (and therefore less distracting)
background noise. Future noise abatement may actually involve
adding more voices or sound to reduce disruption!
Protection of Habitats
Noise habituation experiments on animals are also yielding
interesting results, with potential human applications. Although
loud noise is known to damage hearing, it is now apparent (from
work in France, Sweden, and elsewhere) that some protection
may be afforded by pre-exposure to moderate levels of noise.
Physiological ERects of Noise
Noise Control Measures
Presentations by groups in several countries (including USA,
Germany, and the United Kingdom) highlighted new studies
into non-auditory physiological effects of noise. This research
is now being improved, thanks to the use of sophisticated
technical methods to investigate the effects of noise on physiological subsystems (e.g., coronary blood flow, cerebral circulation), thus complementing traditional laboratory studies on
stress mechanisms using animals and humans. The results of
European work on non-auditory physiological effects indicate
that noise does stimulate the autonomic nervous system to a
higher ergotropic level; consequently, noise can be considered
a stressor. However, current findings do not yet support a
consistent relationship between noise exposure and harmful
physiological effects. More studies are needed to confirm the
hypothesis that prolonged noise exposure increases the risk of
hypertension or ischemic heart disease.
The congress had good news and bad news about noise prevention and reduction measures aimed at protecting populations
from the noise of new transportation infrastructures in a large
number of industrialized countries. On the plus side, data provided by INRETS showed that measures (such as the erection
of sound barriers and noise embankments along roads and
railway lines in urban/suburban areas) have been successful in
two ways: first, they have reduced noise levels by from 3 dB in
some cases to 20 dB in other cases. Secondly, these measures
have had a very significant social impact; surveys show that
communities protected from noise exhibit less overall or behavioral annoyance, and also begin to reuse formerly abandoned
housing and adjacent areas (gardens, playgrounds, etc.). In
France and Germany, new actions include the adoption of lownoise road surfaces and traffic speed limits (e.g., Tempo 30 in
Germany and Zone 30 in France).
However, positive effects are sometimes counterbalanced by
induced negative effects, including greater public awareness of
previously unnoticed noise from other sources (such as neighbors), and the visual ugliness of sound barriers. As a result,
researchers will have to look again at their methods of evaluating the effectiveness of noise abatement prevention and reduction measures, possibly adopting a multi-criteria approach.
Noise in CRices
Although high noise levels are apparently more troublesome for
people than lower levels, it is likely that there will be an increase
in research on the effect of lower noise levels in the home and
office. Researchers are interested in both the physiological and
psychological reactions to the presence of noise and not necessarily to its level. In Nice, a number of groups presented their
findings on the effects of noise on human performance. Researchers at the University of Wales, for example, have examined the distracting effects of low levels of sound, particularly
speech. New techniques included improved sound measurement
techniques (artificial head systems to measure spatial cues) and
the latest cognitive psychology.
Regarding voice pollution, an increasingly-important area of
research, new results are now filling gaps in previously ambiguous data (noise was said to deteriorate or improve mental
performance, or neither!). For example, evidence is emerging
that although speech is more disruptive to human concentration
than meaningless noise, it is neither a sufficient nor necessary
condition. Meaningless sounds with sharp energy or pitch
changes have been found to be equally disruptive, since they
more closely resemble human speech. However, new research
contradicts recent pessimistic findings about voice pollution and
provides hope for office workers concerned with noisy colleagues: it now seems that the more voices heard, the less the
disruption (a phenomenon known as babble speech). Eight
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The Congress Proceedings
The three volumes of the proceedings are now available from
INRETS for FFR 500. Contact Dr. Michel Vallet, INRETSLEN, 109, Avenue Salvador Allende, Case 24, 69675 Bron,
France. Telephone: +33 72 36 23 42; FAX: +33 72 37 68 37.
NORWAY
Opening Address by the Chairman to the 16th Plenary
Meeting of ISO/TC 43/SC1, "NOISE." The following article
is excerpted from the remarks of Dr. Klaus Brinkmann to the
Plenary Meeting ofISO/TC 43/SC1, "NOISE", in Oslo,Norway
on 1993 June 02. - Ed. This is the first meeting ofISO/TC43/SC
I after the magic date of 1992 December 31 which was intended
to be the deadline for the completion of the European internal
market. The day passed and most European citizens realized that
their daily lives were not much affected by the event. Some of
us will have noticed this with relief, others may have been
somewhat disappointed. The suspicion of non-Europeans that a
well established "Fortress Europe" might exist by the end of
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1992, fortunately did not prove true. And some European countries like our host country did not even make up their minds
whether they would prefer to live inside or outside the fortress,
if any.
In the field of acoustical standardization, everybody within
this committee did his utmost to avoid any separation between
Europe and other parts of the world. As we will hear in some
more detail from the Secretariat, more than 50 work items are
presently included in the program of work of the corresponding
European Committee on Acoustics, CENrrC 211. Only one of
these 50 items is exclusively related to European legislation, and
consequently has no international equivalence. All the other
European Standards in our field are or will be based on ISO
documents prepared by ISOrrC 43 and its SCI. This, is in fact,
a very fortunate situation.
The European need for standards in the field of machinery
noise, however, has placed an additional burden on the Working
Groups and especially on the Secretariat of this Committee.
Since the last plenary meeting in Sydney, Australia in 1991
December, a total of 38 documents has reached the next stage
within the development of an International Standard. This is an
incredibly large number and means an increase by 40% compared with the previous period. If you compare the number of
documents to the periods before 1991, you will notice an increase by more than 200%.
Even more impressive, however, is the number of 21 Draft
International Standards issued since the last meeting versus 3
DISs issued on an average in the periods before. This is really
fantastic and we have very good reason to congratulate our
Working Groups and especially the Secretariat on its success.
Please realize that the staff capacity of the Secretariat has been
unchanged for many years.
More than half of these DISs are of special European concern
and were submitted to parallel processing in ISO and CEN
according to the Vienna Agreement. Suffering from some initial
difficulties in interpretation, the procedure has now come fully
into force. In general everything runs as smoothly as expected
though some surprising voting results appear now and then. In
one case, for instance, the results were different at the international and the European level, making the decision on the further
treatment of the document a little delicate.
At this meeting, another 7 Committee Drafts will be presented with a view to approval for circulation as Draft International Standards. At the current speed, we may assume that the
great majority of necessary acoustical standards in the field of
machinery noise will be available in a very few years. This will
certainly not mean that the Secretariat and acoustical experts
will suffer from underemployment, since continuous updating
of standards will be required. However, the period of hectic
activity may then be over which may give us some time to reflect
on the future work of this Committee, e.g. in the field of
environmental noise.
RUSSIA
At its meeting in 1993 August in Leuven, Belgium, the International INCE Board of Directors voted to designate as an Inter-
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national INCE Symposium the Second International Symposium 'Transport Noise 94." The symposium will be held in St.
Petersburg, Russia on 1994 October 4-6, and will be organized
by the East-European Acoustical Association. The symposium
is also being sponsored by the Krylov Shipbuilding Research
Institute. A. Nikiforov (Russia) and M. Heckl (Germany) are
serving as co-chairmen.
The symposium will be held in the Congress Hall of the
Academy of Sciences; papers will be presented in both Russian
and English, with English preferred. Simultaneous translation
will be provided. Delegates will receive a proceedings book at
final registration. The registration fee will be USD 280 before
1994 July 30, and USD 330 after than date. Participants from
the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe may register
early for USD 100, and for USD 120 after 1994 July 30. It is
recommended that participants stay at the hotel St. Petersburg
where room rates will be USD 75 single and USD 95 double.
Other hotels in St. Petersburg will offer lower rates.
Participants from Europe, African countries, and Israel
should register through Professor Tor Kihlman, Applied Acoustics, Chalmers University, S-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden. Participants from North America, Latin America, Asia, and
Australia should register through Professor Malcolm Crocker,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, 202 Ross Hall, Auburn
University, Alabama, USA. Further information on the symposium can be obtained from The East European Acoustical Association at the address given in the NNI Directory on page 62 of
this issue.
BELGIUM
Short Courses follow INTER-NOISE 93 in Leuven. A course
on Modal Analysis Theory and Practice was held at the Catholic
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, on 1993 August 30 Sept 01, following the INTER-NOISE 93 meeting in Leuven.
The 1993 K. U. Leuven International Seminar on Modal Analysis was the eighteenth in a series of annual conferences and
courses on Modal Analysis and Structural Dynamics organized
by the department of Mechanical Engineering of the K.U.
Leuven.
This year's edition consisted of a course on Modal Analysis
Theory and Practice. The three day course was intended as a
general introduction into modal analysis theory and practice
with emphasis on data acquisition and recent trends such as
operating mode analysis and principal component analysis. The
course was conceived as an intensive training course illustrated
with various integrated demonstrations. During the course a
full-scale multi-channel modal survey of a real life structure was
conducted; this gave participants the opportunity to discuss
practical problems with experts in the field. The course was
attended by 21 participants from 6 countries.
A second course on Advanced Techniques in Applied Numerical Acoustics was also held on the same dates. The 1993 K.
U. Leuven International Seminar on Advanced Acoustics was
the fourth in a series of seminars dedicated to numerical and
experimental techniques in applied acoustics.
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Brazil
The Sociedade Brasileria de Acustica
(SOBRAC) is organizing the I Congress
Brazil/Argentina together with the 15th
SOBRAC meeting at the Hotel Praiatur in
Florianopolis, Brazil from 1994 April 11
to 15. This is expected to be the largest
event in noise and vibration ever held in
Latin America. The hotel is on Ingleses
beach on the north end of the Santa Catarina Island of Florianopolis. Invited
speakers from abroad include Professor
Frank Fahy of the Institute for Sound and
Vibration Research in the United Kingdom and Professor John Caselli of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. It is expected
that over 300 persons will attend-from
all Latin American countries including
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay,
Uruguray, and Mexico. More than 100
abstracts have been received by the Congress Secretariat. An equipment exhibition will be held as part of the congress.
Further information can be obtained from
Professor Samir Gerges, President of SOBRAC. FAX: +55 482 341524 or
341519.
The Noise and Vibration Group
(GVA) at the Federal University of Santa
Catarina has obtained a grant of USD 95
000 for the importation of new noise and
vibration equipment into Brazil.
The Brazilian National Council for
Scientific and Technological Development is supporting Dr. Thais C. Morata
for research to be carried out on the "Effect of Occupational Exposure to Organic
Solvents and Noise on Hearing." The
work will be carried out in cooperation
with the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio,
USA.
SOBRAC organized the II Symposium on Vehicle Noise in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 1993 August 30-31. The main topic
of interest was how to comply with new
Brazilian legislation for external noise
control limits. SOBRAC also held its
14th meeting in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
on 1993 November 16-18. Dr. Hans Finke
1994 March
G.C. Maling, Jr., Pon Americon Editor
from the PTB Braunschweig in Germany
gave the keynote address on traffic noise.
-Samir N.Y. Gerges
Mexico
New Acoustical Society Meets. The Sociedad Mexicana de Acustica, the Mexican Acoustical Society, was established at
a meeting of professionals in the field of
acoustics which was held in 1990 August
at the Grand Hotel in Mexico City, Mexico. The first president was Ing. Ilhuicamina Servin Rivas. In 1992 October,
the society organized the First National
Congress on Acoustics which was held at
the Escuela Superior de Ingenieria in
Mexico City. During the two-day congress, papers were presented on a wide
range of acoustical topics by Mexican
scientists and engineers. In 1993 October,
the Second National Congress on Acoustics was held at the same venue as the first
congress. At the second congress, the
Mexican hosts were joined by a number
of well-known North American acousticians, including I. Busch-Vishniac, V.
Nedzelnitsky, T. Rossing and G. Wong.
Membership in the society has grown to
approximately 100 members. The current
president is Ing. Juan Antonio Ortiz Garcia.
USA
ASA President Spearheads Noise Assessment. The ASA's Technical Committee on Noise (TCN) has been working
since 1991 on a reformulation of its role,
and on the role of the Society in the noise
area. At the Ottawa meeting of the Acoustical Society of America last May 19,
ASA President Richard H. Lyon presented the keynote opening address at a
special noise workshop. The purpose of
the workshop was to explore possible future roles of the ASA in noise and its
control. Cochairmen of the workshop
were Robert M. Hoover and T. James
DuBois.
In his keynote talk, President Lyon
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ment may appear to be an unreachable
goal, but our profession has an obligation
to assist in striving for it. He emphasized
the need for a troika program based on
public information, education at all levels, and support for industry and commerce. In the support category, he
mentioned the development of standards
and the involvement of industrial people
in the activities of the ASA. Today, there
are few product designers who are involved with the ASA. But the Acoustical
Society of America is indeed an organization with an exceptionally broad scope. It
is not a professional society, but rather a
society of many professions. Physicists
bemoan the narrow focus ofthe American
Physical Society, but the ASA has disciplinary strengths in perceptual science,
engineering, standards, environmental
control, and physiological and psychological health studies. ASA already has
the multi-disciplinary focus that is required for the effort.
Where ASA is weak is in the product
design area and in influencing the development of regulations. There is need to be
even more inter-disciplinary in these areas. As an example, product design involves economics, safety, performance,
as well as engineering fundamentals involving product dynamics. An important
thing for us to consider is how ASA can
become a professional home for the designers of sound quality in products.
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Lyon pointed out that the world is not
the same as it was twenty years ago; 1993
is not 1973! Governments are less trusted
than they were, economies world-wide
are more fragile, and commerce today is
truly multi-national. Quiet products have
become items of competitive advantage.
We need to assemble and organize our
resources to provide assistance to society
at large to meet the challenges of a troika
program.
Following President Lyon's keynote
speech, participants joined small subgroups to define key issues and to develop
action plans. The subgroups were tasked
to address the following areas of interest:
environmental noise control, industrial
noise control, product noise control, prevention of hearing loss, government and
education.
The subgroups focused on three issues: 1) what are the noise issues facing
ASA, 2) what should be the role of the
ASA in addressing these issues, and 3)
how should ASA fulfill its role? At the
conclusion of the all-day workshop, the
moderators of the six subgroups presented their findings. Their recommendations were subsequently presented at the
meeting of the TCN on May 20.
The workshop organizing committee
(R. Hoover, J. DuBois, B. Brooks, K.
Eldred, G. Krishnappa and L. Sutherland)
was active over the summer and presented a progress report on the ASA's role
on noise and its control at the Denver
meeting of the Society on October 07. A
number of proposed actions developed
during the special workshop in May were
compiled and refined. There was an extended discussion of these proposals at
the TCN meeting of October 08. The
TCN agreed to take action this year on a
selected number of the proposed steps.
These included the general areas of education, public awareness of noise issues,
noise induced hearing loss, industrial and
product noise control, improved communications with governments at all levels,
and the establishment of a clearing house
on noise and its control.
Some of the specific steps to be acted
upon this year include:
• Determine the feasibility and scope
of the proposed ASA Clearing House on
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• develop a seeding program regarding acoustics and noise control in public
schools, to be conducted by local chapters
of ASA,
• sponsor a joint meeting with other
professional societies on industrial noise
and product quieting,
• develop an information package on
noise induced hearing loss, and
• organize a program to conduct hearing tests at ASA meetings.
Subcommittees to carry out specific
proposals are being appointed, and they
will report on progress at the next ASA
meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts in
1994 June. In addition, the existing steering subcommittee for this overall program will continue to develop some of the
other ideas generated at the Ottawa workshop for future action.
FAA To release Integrated Noise
Model. The ability to accurately assess
and predict noise exposure is an increasingly important factor in the design and
implementation of airport and airspace
improvements. In response to this growing challenge, the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) Office ofEnvironment and Energy (AEE) is redesigning
the Integrated Noise Model (INM) to increase its performance, capability, and
ease of use.
Version 5.0. The most striking difference in the new INM design (Version 5.0)
will be its modem, fully menu-driven
look and feel. Users will be able to choose
between operating in Microsoft Windows
3.1 or WindowslNT, both of which enable
multi-processing and graphical "point
and click" program interaction. Supporting the windows environment will be a
new INM database structure using dBase
(.dbf) compatible files. This structure will
help users to set up their INM input data
through presentation of default parameters and automatic error checking. Users
will be able to access the INM database
through their own DBMS application
programs, including FoxPro, Clipper,
Paradox, and dBase. Moreover, Version
5.0 will provide input and output functions allowing data to be exchanged with
popular spreadsheets and other commercial applications that run in Windows.
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Version 5.0 run times will be significantly faster. Performance gains will be
achieved by redesigning the model and
implementing it with a 32-bit processing
capability that will run on both Windows
3.1 and WindowslNT operating systems.
INM code will be reprogrammed in CH,
an object-oriented language.
For those who need the highest level
of performance, Version 5.0 will also be
available on workstation computers. Using WindowslNT, Version 5.0 immediately supports DEC Alpha and
MIPS-based ~orkstations. Also, INM
will run on HP workstations (widely used
in the FAA) by using NT translation software or, possibly, HP support of the NT
operating system. Version 5.0 will be
shipped with Microsoft software allowing NT programs to run on Windows 3.1
operating systems, thereby supporting
both the currently large DOS/Windows
market and the predicted growth in the
NT market. In so doing, we will be able
to reduce costs and increase reliability by
maintaining one stream of code.
Other changes will contribute significantly to visual analysis and presentation.
In Version 5.0 users will be able to overlay noise contours with airport diagrams
(CAD), U.S. Census Bureau population
and street map data, aircraft tracks, and
other information. INM will provide the
necessary software to process census data
and to compute population inside of noise
contours. In addition, the FAA is investigating fee-for-service schemes to provide
users with subsets of the census data for
input into the INM. Version 5.0 will also
be capable of displaying topography and
ARTS data, including the statistical reduction of ARTS data into INM tracks.
For applications with extensive street
mapping, topography, or radar tracks, as
well as possible 3-D graphics, the workstation version of 5.0 will be required.
PC Version 5.0 is scheduled for release
by September, 1994. The best price estimate at this time for PC Version 5.0 is
USD 300 to USD 500 to cover diskettes,
user and reference manuals (the reference
manual is new), shipping and handling,
and potential licenses. Some users will
also need hardware upgrades. The recommended PC platform is: a 486DX66MHz processor with 16Mb RAM, a
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300 Mb hard disk (Approx. 20Mb INM
programs, 10Mb/application, Windows
OS, other commercial Windows applications), and a CD-ROM drive for processing Census and topographical data.
Version 4.11. Prior to completion of
Version 5.0, the FAA has released INM
Version 4.11. This upgrade concentrates
on the following enhancements to the
model's core equations:
• An internal profile generator to compute aircraft takeoff profiles based on
user-supplied airport elevation and temperature data;
• Effects on source-to-receiver slant
range due to land elevation at and around
the airport. (Users must have access to 3
Arc Second Elevation Data on CD-ROM
from Rocky Mountain Communications,
Golden, CO.);
• Analysis of aircraft runup operations
given a user-defined location and duration for the runup;
• Addition of CNEL, WECPNL, LEQday, LEQ-Night metrics;
• Revised directivity algorithm to improve behind start-of-takeoff-roll assessments;
• User-defined displaced runway
thresholds;
• Improved runtimes from streamlined
grid computations;
• Additions to the aircraft database.
Other Noise Models. In March, Version 2.2 of the Heliport Noise Model
(HNM) is scheduled for release. The new
version will contain several features to
make installation and data development
easier, including a new user interface and
additional error checking. We are adding
data for some of the existing helicopters,
improving the Taxi Module, and incorporating a new plot routine (the same as the
INM).
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A revised version of the Area Equivalent Method (AEM) is planned for release
in 1994 August. The name of the AEM
will change to the Area Dimensional
Model (ADM) to reflect its ability to not
only compute the 65 dB DNL contour
area in square miles, but to calculate the
dimensions of the contour by length and
width. The ADM will include all aircraft
contained in INM Version 4.11.
Noise Model Training. The first "Environmental Tools Workshop" was conducted at the FAA Academy this August.
The 3-day workshop provided hands-on
instruction in the use and application of
the INM and AEM. We plan to offer this
workshop again in the near future on a
one week basis with the HNM included.
If you are interested, please indicate on
the attached user survey described below.
More Information. If further information is needed, please contact Donna Warren' AEE-l20 U.S. Department of
Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Ave., S.W.,
Washington, DC 20591. Telephone: +1
202 267 3571.
Wyle Wins Airport Noise Control Contract to Soundproof Homes in Orange
County. Wyle Laboratories announced
that Wyle Research, a unit ofWyle's Scientific Services & Systems Group, has
been awarded a contract from the County
of Orange, California, to provide acoustic
engineering and architectural services for
the sound insulation of existing buildings
near John Wayne Airport. The three-year
consulting and design services contract is
valued at USD 450 000.
Wyle performed similar tasks during
previous phases of the project since 1987.
As part of the new contract Wyle will
provide field measurements and analysis
of aircraft noise in roughly 150 dwellings,
engineering design of sound insulation
modifications, architectural plans and
specifications, and construction inspection services.
Wyle personnel will meet with each
affected homeowner as a key element of
the company's involvement in this pro-
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ject. They will explain how sound insulation is done, listen to homeowners' concerns and answer questions.
Wyle Research has been involved with
airport sound insulation projects since
1968, when Wyle conducted the first project of this kind in the United States. Since
then, Wyle Research has conducted 32
similar programs in 24 different airport
communities across the nation.
Wyle has corporate offices at 128
Maryland Street, El Segundo, California,
90245-4100, USA.
Penn State's June 1994 Program in
Acoustics and Noise Control. A unique
four-week program of graduate-level
courses in acoustics and noise control will
be offered in 1994 June by Penn State's
Graduate Program in Acoustics in cooperation with the University's Applied Research Laboratory (ARL). Courses, many
of which are not available at other universities, include: Fundamentals of acoustics, digital signal processing,
electroacoustic transducers, acoustical
data measurement and analysis, vibration
isolation and damping, sound structure
interaction, experimental modal analysis,
noise control engineering, active control
of sound and vibration, and fundamentals
of flow-induced noise.
The program provides many professional and academic opportunities in a
convenient four-week period. For those
interested in pursuing an advanced degree, credits earned can be applied toward
a Master of Engineering degree in Acoustics from Penn State or transferred to
other academic institutions. Those already involved in acoustics or noise control may elect to audit courses to acquire
basic knowledge in specialized areas or to
enrich and update their technical skills.
For those new to these fields, the program
provides a comprehensive orientation,
while providing the opportunity to interact with faculty and fellow students working in these fields.
For further information please contact
Dr. Alan D. Stuart, Summer Program Coordinator, the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics, P. O. Box 30, State
College, PA 16804, phone (814) 8634128, or FAX (814) 865-3119.
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Asia-Pacific News
AUSTRALIA
Vibro-Acoustic Sciences Limited Introduces Predictive Engineering Design
Software. Vibro-Acoustic Sciences Limited (VSAL), a subsidiary ofVIPAC Engineers and Scientists, Ltd., is coordinating an
international consortium (which includes
major automotive and aircraft manufacturers, and has received government research
grant support) to develop a second generation software product-RESOUND. Targeted at the large installed base of
engineering UNIX workstations, the RESOUND project involves not just software
development but important new research
and development of "modal energy methods" which promise to extend the capabilities of the existing statistical energy
analysis (SEA) method to permit detailed
engineering design.
The project follows the successful
launching, in 1992 January, of AutoSEA,
its noise and vibration modeling software
which uses Apple Computer's graphical
user interface to present SEA as an intuitive noise and vibration modeling tool for
non-academic design and development
engineers. One application was to Incat's
design for the 71-m wave-piercing catamaran which recently set the North Atlantic crossing speed record. Readers who
want more information on this topic may
contact Anne Altamore, Vipac Engineers
& Scientists, Ltd., The Victorian Technology Centre, 275-283 Normanby Road,
Port Melbourne, Victoria 3207, Australia.
Copies of the INTER-NOISE 91 Proceedings are still Available. INTERNOISE 91, the 1991 International
Congress on Noise Control Engineering
was held in Sydney, Australia on 1991
December 2-4. The theme of the meeting
was The Costs ofNoise. Alimited number
of the proceedings of the Congress are
still available. Three hundred and eleven
papers were published in the proceedings; these include two distinguished lectures and special sessions on a number of
topics in noise control engineering. The
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INTER-NOISE Proceedings are sold only
as atwo-volume set. For further information,
contact the Australian Acoustical Society at
the address given in the NN/ Directory on
page 63 of this issue. Alternatively, contact
Noise Control Foundation, P.O. Box 2469
Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY
12603, USA. FAX: +1914473 9325.
Erratum. An error was made in the 4th
paragraph of the article on the ASHRAE
Contract which appeared in the Asia-Pacific News Department in the 1993 September issue (page 161). The first grade
of metric is not the A-weighted sound
pressure level, but the (Linear - A) sound
pressure level difference where energy
down to /0 Hz is included.-Ed.
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KOREA
WESTPRAC V to Immediately Precede
INTER-NOISE 94. Complete information
on INTER-NOISE 94, the 1994 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering will be found on pages 25-41ofthis issue.
Individuals who are interested in branches of
acoustics in addition to noise may want to
attend WESTPRAC V, the Fifth Western
Pacific Regional Acoustics Conference. This
conference will be held in Seoul, Korea on
1994 August 23-25. Although there will be
some papers on noise presented at the conference, the technical program is expected to
emphasize other areas of acoustics such as
speech and oral communication, electroacoustics, ultrasonics and underwater acoustics, physical acoustics, and musical
acoustics and psychological effects.
The General Chairman for the conference
will be ll-Whan Cha. WESTPRAC V is
being organized by the Acoustical Society of
Korea. The official language will be English.
There will be no simultaneous translation.
For further information on WESTPRAC V, contact the Congress Secretariat, Wann Yu, The Acoustical Society of
Korea, Science Building, Suite 302, 6354 Yuksam-Dong, Kangnam-Ku, Seoul
135-703, Korea. Tel: +82 2 556 3513;
FAX: +8225699717.
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INCE UPDATE
The Boards of Directors of International INCE and
INCE/USA welcome the opportunity afforded by this department of NNI to bring readers up to datc on the activities
of the two organizations. Published here are reports on
actions taken and planned by the two Boards, activities of
committees, summaries of discussions and decisions of
general interest, etc. Announcements and reports of the
major conferences ofI-INCE and INCE/USA will be found
in other NNI departments. It is the intent of this department
to keep the reader informed of what's going on within the
two organizations that jointly share the responsibility for
the publication of Noise/News International.
International INeE
Cops Succeeds Maa on International INCE Board.
Following the successful completion of INTER-NOISE 93
in Leuven, Belgium last August, Professor Andre Cops, the
general chairman of INTER-NOISE 93, was elected to the
Board of Directors of International INCE for a six-year term.
Cops succeeds Professor Dah-you Maa who has served on the
Board as the representative of INTER-NOISE 87. INTERNOISE 87 was was co-hosted by the Acoustical Society of
China and Academia Sinica in Beijing, China. As reported in the
last issue of this news magazine, Cops succeeded Professor
Henry Myncke as I-INCE Secretary-General, effective 199401-01. In addition to his double duty on the I-INCE Board, Cops
is also serving as European Editor of NNJ.
Four I-INCE Member Societies to Cooperate in Active Noise
Symposium.
INCE/USA, INCE/Japan, the Acoustical Society ofAmerica,
and the Acoustical Society of Japan will join in the sponsorship
of ACTIVE 95, the 1995 International Symposium on Active
Control of Sound and Vibration. The conference is a continuation of the biannually-organized meetings on Recent Advances on Active Control of Sound and Vibration which were
held at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA in 1991 and 1993, and the International Symposium
on Active Control of Sound and Vibration which was held in
1991 in Tokyo Japan. The format of the meeting will follow that
of the Blacksburg Conferences with full-length papers in a
proceedings volume available to delegates at final registration.
The Symposium will be held on 1995 July 6-8 in Newport
Beach, California. The organization of the Symposium organization will be coordinated by INCE/USA because it immediately precedes INTER-NOISE 95, the 1995 International
Congress on Noise Control Engineering which is also being held
in Newport Beach on 1993 July 10-12 (See announcement
below.- Ed.) The venue for both meetings will be the Newport
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Beach Marriott hotel, an attractive resort hotel overlooking
Newport Beach Harbor and the Pacific Ocean.
Professor Jiri Tichy, head of the Graduate Program in Acoustics at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA will be the general chairman and Professor
Hideki Tachibana of the University of Tokyo will be co-chairman for the Symposium. It is expected that approximately 150
technical papers will be presented covering all aspects of active
control of noise, sound fields (including auditoria and other
listening spaces), and vibration.
It is expected that a combined SymposiUm/Congress registration fee will be available to delegates who want to attend both
the Symposium and INTER-NOISE 95. The Announcement and
Call for Papers for both meetings will be issued in 1994 June,
and abstracts of papers will be due in 1994 December. Individuals interested in presenting a technical paper or organizing a
technical session should contact either Professor Tichy or Professor Tachibana:
Professor Jiri Tichy
Graduate Program in Acoustics
Applied Research Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University
P.O. Box 30
State College, PA 16804, USA
Professor Hideki Tachibana
Institute of Industrial Science
University of Tokyo
Roppongi 7-22-1
Minato-ku
TOKYO 106, Japan
To be added to the mailing list to receive the Announcement
and Call for Papers for ACTIVE 95, contact the Institute of
Noise Control Engineering, P.O. Box 3206 Arlington Branch,
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA.
INCE/USA to Organize INTER·NOISE 95 in Newport
Beach, California.
INTER-NOISE 95, the 1995 International Congress on
Noise Control Engineering, sponsored by the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering, and will be held in Newport Beach, California, USA. Newport Beach is a business
center and resort community on the Pacific Coast south of Los
Angeles. The congress will be held at the Newport Beach
Marriott hotel from 1995 July 10 to 12.
INTER-NOISE 95 will be the twenty-fourth in a series of
international congresses on noise control engineering that have
been held in the United States and in other countries since 1972.
The theme of INTER-NOISE 95 is Applications for Noise
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Control Engineering. The congress is sponsored by the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering, and is being
organized by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the
USA. (lNCE/USA).
Alan H. Marsh, President of DyTec Engineering and Editorin-Chief of Noise Control Engineering Journal, is the General
Chairman. Robert J. Bernhard, Director of the Ray W. Herrick
Laboratories at Purdue University, and J. Stuart Bolton, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, are cochairmen of the Technical Program and will edit the congress
proceedings.
Technical papers in all areas ofnoise control engineering will
be considered for presentation at the congress. An Announcement and Call for Papers will be issued in 1994 May, and
abstracts will be due in 1994 December.
A major acoustical equipment, materials and instrument exhibition will be held in conjunction with INTER-NOISE 95. The
Exhibition will include materials and devices for noise control
as well as instruments such as sound level meters, noise monitoring equipment, sound intensity measurement systems, acoustical signal processing systems, and equipment for active noise
control.
A noise control seminar and an international symposium will
be held at the Newport Beach Marriott immediately before
INTER-NOISE 95. The seminar will be held on 1995 July 7-8.
The 1995 International Symposium on Active Control of Sound
and Vibration will be held on July 6-8 (See announcement
above.-Ed.)
The site of the congress, the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel,
is approximately 1 km from the Pacific Ocean on a hill with a
view to the southwest of Newport Beach Harbor, Balboa Island
and, on the horizion, Catalina Island about 40 km offshore.
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Newport Beach is located in Orange County, California, south
of Los Angeles. Orange County Airport (John Wayne Airport
[SNA]) is about 15 minutes to the north of the hotel by automobile. The airport was completely rebuilt in 1990-1991, and is
now an excellent final destination for delegates to INTERNOISE 95. The Newport Beach Marriott hotel provides complimentary transportation to and from the Orange County Airport.
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is about 60 km to the
northwest. Scheduled air transportation service, scheduled bus
service and frequent van service are also available from LAX to
Orange County Airport.
The location of the hotel is very attractive; opportunities for
recreational activities include sightseeing at Disneyland in Anaheim, a boat trip to Catalina Island, and the harbor and beaches
in the Newport Beach and Laguna Beach areas which are readily
accessible without an automobile. The hotel is adjacent to one
of Southern California's major shopping centers, Fashion Island, in the Newport Center, and is about 20 minutes from the
well-known South Coast Plaza shopping center and the Orange
County Center for the Performing Arts in Costa Mesa. Some of
the best restaurants in California are within 30 minutes of the
hotel.
The hotel has excellent meeting room and exhibition facilities for INTER-NOISE 95. It was the venue for INTER-NOISE
89, and attendees at that congress will recall the excellent
meeting, living and dining facilities at the Newport Beach
Marriott.
Further information on the congress, the seminar and the
exhibition may be obtained from the Institute of Noise Control
Engineering, P.O. Box 3206 Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie,
NY 12603, USA.
INCE/USA
INCE/USA Names New NCEJ Editor-in-Chief.
At its meeting in Denver Colorado on 1993 October 03, the
INCE Board of Directors named Alan H. Marsh as Editor-inChief of Noise Control Engineering Journal. He succeeds Professor Malcolm J. Crocker who submitted his resignation to
INCE/USA in 1993 September (See the President's Column in
Noise/News International, Vol. I, No.4-Ed.)
At the same meeting, the Board approved a new vision for
Noise Control Engineering Journal which will begin to be
implemented with the 1994 January-February issue. One significant change is that the solicitation of technical papers and
handling of peer reviews will be done by a team of Associate
Editors under the direction of the new Editor-in-Chief. A second
significant change involves composition and layout of NCEJ.
INCE/USA has an agreement with the American Institute of
Physics (AlP) to perform this function, and the 1994 JanuaryFebruary issue of NCEJ has now been published in the new
format. NCEJ will no longer carry advertising; all potential
advertisers should consider Noise/News International as their
primary advertising medium.
The names, addresses and telephone numbers of the new
Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors of NCEJ are given below-together with the subject areas which they will cover.
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Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts
directly to the Associate Editors.
Tel: +1317 494 9614; FAX: +13174940787
Areas covered: Book Reviews
KESSLER, FREDERICK M., Associate Editor
FMK Technology, Inc.
P.O. Box 168, Bound Brook, NJ 08805, USA
Tel: +1 908 356 6364; FAX: +1 908 356 0244
Areas covered: Stationary Noise sources; Community
Noise Control
MARSH, ALAN H., Editor-in-Chief
DyTec Engineering, Inc., 5092 Tasman Drive
Huntington Beach, CA 92649, USA
Tel: +1 714891 1407; FAX: +1 7148971611
Areas covered: All subjects
BERNHARD, ROBERT J., Associate Editor
1077 Ray W. Herrick Laboratories
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1077, USA
Tel: +1317 494 2141; FAX: +13174940787
Areas covered: Signal Processing; Analytical Methods;
Modeling, Prediction, and Simulation
BOLTON, J. STUART,Associate Editor
1077 Ray W. Herrick Laboratories
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1077, USA
Tel: +1317 494 2139; FAX: +13174940787
Areas covered: Noise Control Elements (Barriers, Si·
lencers, Enclosures, Mufflers, Absorptive Materials)
BRUCE, ROBERT D., Associate Editor
Collaboration in Science & Technology Inc.
15835 Park Ten Place, Suite 105
Houston, TX 77084-5131, USA
Tel: +1 713 492 2784; FAX: +1 7134921434
Areas covered: Industrial Noise Control
FULLER, CHRIS R., Associate Editor
Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory
Mechanical Engineering Department
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Tel: +1703231 7273; FAX: +1 703 2319100
Areas covered: Active Noise and Vibration Control
HUBBARD, HARVEY H., Associate Editor
23 Elm Avenue, Newport News, VA 23601, USA
Tel. +18045960819; FAX: +1 804 8648823
Areas covered: Air Transportation Noise
JONES, JAMES D., Associate Editor
1077 Ray W. Herrick Laboratories
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1077, USA
POWELL, CLEMANS A., Associate Editor
NASA Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 462
Hampton, VA 23681-0001, USA
Tel: + 1 804 864 3640; FAX: +1 804 864 7687
Areas covered: Psychological Effects of Noise; Effects of
Noise on Physical Structures and Animals; Criteria and
Rating of Noise
RASMUSSEN, GUNNAR, Associate Editor
GRA.S.
Hoje Skodsborgvej 22, DK 2942 Skodsborg, Denmark
Tel/FAX: +45 42 80 60 52
Areas covered: Acoustical Instruments; Measurement
Techniques; Test Facilities
SOMMERFELDT, SCOTT D., Associate Editor
Applied Research Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University
P.O. Box 30, State College, PA 16804, USA
Tel: +18148631398; FAX: +18148638783
Areas covered: Physical Phenomena; Noise Generation;
Sound Propagation
TOCCI, GREGORY c., Associate Editor
Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Inc.
327F Boston Post Road, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA
Tel: +1 508 443 7871; FAX: +1 508 443 7873
Areas covered: Building Noise Control
VON GIERKE, HENNING E., Associate Editor
1325 Meadow Lane, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, USA
Tel: +1 513 767 2181
Areas covered: Perception of Sound; Physiological and
Sociological Effects of Noise; Environmental Impact
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Noise Control in Buildings
Cyril M. Harris, Editor
McGraw Hill , Inc., 11 West 19th Street,
New York, Ny 10011, USA.
Cloth, 1993, USD 45.00
This book is subtitled A Practical Guide
for Architects and Engineers. It provides a wealth of infonnation, mainly
without the use of mathematics, that can
be used to ensure that noise control measures are incorporated into buildings during the design stage. The reader will find
introductory material on the general aspects of sound transmission into buildings, properties of sound waves, sound
absorption coefficients, and tables of
sound absorption coefficients.
There are chapters on both airborne
and structureborne sound transmission,
and several chapters on the control of
specific noise sources in buildings. These
include heating, ventilating, and airconditioning systems, noise in plumbing systems, noise in electrical and mechanical
systems, and the uses of vibration isolators to control noise.
It is pointed out in the preface that
extensive tables of the sound absorptive
properties of materials are not generally
available in the literature, and that the
characteristics of acoustical materials
manufactured in North America, Europe,
and Asia have been collected and published as appendices to Chapter 3, Sound
Absorptive Materials.
Propagation of Sound in Porous Media
J.E Allard
Elsevier Science Publishers, Ltd., Crown
House, Linton Road, Barking, Essex
IG 11 8JU, United Kingdom
xiii + 284 pp., cloth, USD 89.95
This book is devoted to the physics and
mathematics of sound propagation
through porous materials. The essentials
of acoustic impedance, reflection of
sound, and flow resistance of materials is
given in the introductory chapters. The
text then covers sound propagation in porous materials, including porous materials in general and materials having
circular pores. The Biot theory is then
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applied to the acoustical properties of materials that have an elastic frame, such as
acoustical foam materials.
Another chapter in the book deals with
the modelling of porous layers, and emphasizes the use of transfer matrices in the
prediction of the impedance ofsuch structures.
Throughout the book, the treatment is
generally mathematical, and is in a fonn
that lends itself to mathematical modelling of porous materials. Many of the
calculated results are given in figures; the
author offers to supply copies of the computer programs that have been used to
calculate impedance and transmission coefficients.
Pump Noise and Vibrations
G. Caignaert, Editor
Centre Technique des Industries
Mechaniques (CETIM), B.P. 67, 60304
Senlis, France
xv + 546 pp., paperback, FFR 417.06
without tax, FFR 440 including tax.
This volume is the proceedings of the first
international symposium on pump noise
and vibrations sponsored by the Societe
Hydrotechnique de France. The symposium was held at the Centre de Recherche
d'Electrict€ de France (EDF) on 1993
July 7-9. The ten major topics covered in
the proceedings are: Experimental analysis of unsteady flow in pumps, numerical
analysis ofunsteady flow in pumps, Modelling and prediction of fluid-borne noise
and similarity laws, measurement of fluid
borne noise in pumps, structure-borne
and air-borne noise measurement, Dynamic interaction between pump and piping system, Computer codes for noise and
vibration analysis, Experimental methods for noise and vibration analysis of
pumps and piping systems, Case histories, and Pump noise and vibration control.
Of the 58 papers in the proceedings, 15
are in French and 43 are in English.
Vibrations and Waves-Part A: Vibrations; Part B: Waves
Sylwester Kaliski, Editor
Noise/News International
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Box 1991, 1000BZ Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Part A: xiii + 488 PP., hardcover, NLG
330.00; Part B: xi + 382 pp., NLG
280.00. Price for both volumes, NLG
550.00
These two companion volumes were edited by Sylwester Kaliski in collaboration
with Lech Solarz. The first volume is
devoted to vibrations, and covers vibrations in continuous systems such as bars,
shafts, strings, beams, membranes,
plates, and shells. Both linear and nonlinear vibrations are treated. Approximate
methods treated include the Ritz method,
the Rayleigh method, and the BubnovGalerkin method.
The final chapters of the book are devoted to the physical foundations of the
vibration theory ofsolids. Crystal structures
and the stochastic dynamics of vibratory
systems are among the topics covered.
Part B is devoted to a study of a variety
oftopics in wave propagation, including the
basic equations of motion, propagation in
non-linear elastic media, boundary value
problems, plane, cylindrical, and spherical
waves, shock waves, surface waves, and
stochastic analysis of wave processes.
Field Representations and Introduction to Scattering; Vol. 1, Acoustic,
Electromagnetic, and Elastic Wave
Scattering
V. V. Varadan, A. Lakhtakia and v.K.
Varadan, Editors
Borth Holland, P.O. Box 1991, 1000BZ
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
xv + 355 pp., hardcover, USD 134.50
This book is a treatment of the general
theory of scattering for both scalar and
vector fields. A general introduction to the
properties of acoustic fields is given, and
boundary conditions are discussed. Integral representations and integral equations for harmonic fields are discussed
and the properties of scattered fields are
discussed; in general and by spheres and
cylinders. The book is mathematical with
a good deal of fonnalism related to the
general theory of scattering.
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Specialized Meetings
This calendar includes specialized meeting (seminars, short courses, workshop,
etc.) with limited attendance which feature programs on noi e and its control.
Entries for this calendar are solicited from the I-INCE Member Societies and other
organization . In order for a listing to appear in this calendar, information must be
provided by the organizers of a pecialized meeting on the sessions planned for the
technical program that will be devoted to noi e and its control. This is particularly
important if the word noise does not appear in the name or theme of the meeting.
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for listings of future events with required details to: Specialized Meetings Calendar,
INCE/USA, P.O. Box 3206 Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA.
FAX: +1 (914) 4739325.
"Sessions on noise are planned
1994 April 25-29
Rotor Dynamics and Balancing
Course, Syria, Virginia, USA. Instructors: R.L. Eshleman and C. Jackson. Fee:
USD 1 500. Contact: The Vibration Institute, 6262 S. Kingery Highway - Suite
212, Willowbrook, IL60514, USA. Tele-
phone: +1 708 654 2254; FAX: +1 708
6542271.
1994 April 26-27
Architectural Acoustics and Noise
Control Standards, Austin, Texas, USA.
Fee: USD 645. Contact: T. Falkenstein,
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materials? With the ACUPRO Measurement System, all you
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data acquisition and microphone
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measurements.
SPECTRONICS, INC.
1994 May 12-15
Effects of Noise on Hearing, Gothenburg, Sweden. Contact: A. Axelsson, Department of Audiology, Sahlgren's
Hospital, 413 45 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Telephone: +4631601605; FAX: +46 31
829811.
1994 May 24-26
Sound Power Determination Using
Sound Intensity, Fullerton, California,
USA. Instructors: J. Pope and P. MacDonald. Fee: USD 1 195. Contact: C.
Hamilton, Hewlett Packard, 39550 Orchard Hill Place Drive, P.O. Box 8024,
Novi, MI 48376-8024, USA. Telephone:
+18103802100; FAX: +18103802450.
1994 June 13-16
Mechanics of Underwater Noise, Fundamentals of Acoustic Quieting, Washington, DC, USA. Instructors: D. Ross
and R. Collier. Fee: USD 1 300. Contact:
Applied Technology Institute, 12960 Linden Church Road, P.O. Box 1172,
Clarksville, MD 21029, USA. Telephone:
+14105316034;FAX:+14105311013.
1994 June 02-28
Penn State Program in Acoustics and
Noise Control, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. Instructors from the Graduate
Program in Acoustics at the Pennsylvania
State University. Fee: USD 3800 (up to 3
courses). Contact: Dr. Alan D. Stuart,
Summer Program Coordinator, the Penn
State Graduate Program in Acoustics, P.
O. Box 30, State College, PA 16804, Telephone: +1 8148634128; FAX: +1 814
8653119.
ACUPRO Measurement System:
ACUPRO Measurement System - $6,500
ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia,
PA 19103, USA. Telephone: +1 215299
5480; FAX: +1 2152992610.
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1994 July 11-14
Flow Acoustics, A Technology Audit,
Lyon, France. * Contact: J. E. Fowcs-WilIiams, Cambridge University, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street,
Cambridge CB2 IPZ, England. FAX:
+44 223 464 815.
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New literature on Digital
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CEl Instruments Accounces
New Digital Sound level
Meters
CEL Instruments have recently announced a completely new range of digital sound level meters featuring the many
benefits of Digital Signal Processing
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The CEL-593 and CEL-573 ranges
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operator to instantly identify problem frequency bands when tonal components are
present.
The CEL-573 can be controlled manually to store results entirely under the
choice of the user for attended measurements on fans, pumps, compressors, office equipment, etc., whilst the CEL-593
has additional facilities to collect data in
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sound levels exceed a set threshold value.
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Westchester Drive, Milford, NH 030553056, USA. Telephone: +1 603 6720470; FAX: +1 603 672 0487. Circle
Reader Service Number 52.
PCB Forms New Division:
AVC Instrumentation
AVC Instrumentation (Active Vibration
Control Instrumentation) has been established as a new division of PCB Piezotronics, Inc., developing and marketing
piezoelectric actuators, sensors, and associated electronics for active control of
noise and vibration. These devices are
suitable for reduction of noise and vibration in helicopters, aircraft, automobiles,
marine hulls, and vibrating machinery.
AVC Instrumentation offers compact,
high-powered piezoelectric actuators for
applying controlling forces. These rugged piezoelectric actuators are hermetically sealed and electrically shielded,
making them ideal for applications requiring continuous use in harsh environments. Power amplifiers for driving our
actuators and other piezoelectric devices
are also available. In addition, AVC offers
quality ICP® piezoelectric accelerometers, force transducers, and microphones
for sensing in active control systems.
Located at PCB's modem facility in Depew, NY, AVC Instrumentation utilizes
PCB's extensive in-house capabilities for
research, design, and manufacturing developed by manufacturing piezoelectric sensors for over 25 years.
For additional information contact
AVC Instrumentation's applications engineering group at AVC Instrumentation,
div. of PCB Piezotronics Inc., Attn: Andrea Mohn, 3425 Walden Avenue, Depew, NY 14043, USA. Telephone: +1 716
684 0006; FAX: +1 716 684 0987. Circle
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World Conference Calendar
Thi calendar includes major conference
which feature programs on noise and its con1T01. The working language of each conference will be English, unle otherwise noted.
This calendar does //ot include eminars, short
courses, workshop and other small, specialized meeting which are Ii ted elsewhere in
thi i ue of NNI. The shaded entries in the
calendar are conference which are organized
by I-I CE and I CE/USA. Entrie for thi
calendar are 'olicited from the I-I CE Member Societies and from other organizations. In
order for a listing to appear in this calendar,
infonnation mllst be provided by the conference organizers concerning the sessions
planned for the technical program that will be
devoted to noise and its control. This is particularly important if the word lIoise does not
appear in the name or theme of the conference.
Send reque ts for Ii ting of future meetings
with required details to: World Conference
Calendar, I CE/USA, P.O. Box 3206 Arlington Branch, Poughkeep ie. Y 12603,
USA. FAX: +19144739325.
1994 April 11-13
Brasil/Argentina Conference on
Acoustics and Vibration, Florianopolis,
5C, Brasil. Contact: Samir N. Y. Gerges,
SOBRAC, UFSC/EMC/CTC - Lab.
Acustica e Vibracoes, Cx. Postal 476
Trindade Cid. Universitaria 88040-900,
Florianopolis, SC, Brasil. Telephone: +55
482344074; FAX: +55482341524.
1994 April 18-21
Acoustics '94, Salford, England; sessions on noise are planned. Contact: eM.
Mackenzie, Institute of Acoustics, P.O.
Box 320, 51. Albans, Herts ALIIPZ, UK.
Telephone: +44 727 848195; FAX: +44
727850553.
1994 May 1-4
OISE-CO 94, The 1994 ational
Conference on oise Control Engineering, Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
USA. Abstract deadline: 1993 November22. Contact: InstituteofNoi e Control Engineering, P.O. Box 3206
Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, Y
12603, USA. Telephone: +1 (914) 4624006, FAX: +1 (914) 473- 9325
1994 March
1994 May 2-6
3rd French Conference on Acoustics,
Toulouse, France; sessions on noise are
planned in English and French. Contact:
3eme CFA, Universite Toulouse-Ie-Mirail, Centre de Promotion de la Recherche
Scientifique, 5 Allees Antonio Machado,
31058 Toulouse Cedex, France. Telephone: +33 61 5044 68, FAX: +33 61 50
4209.
1994 May 15-19
Triennial International Mechanical
Engineering Congress, Perth, Australia;
sessions on noise are planned. Contact:
Convention Manager, AE Conventions
Pty.Ltd., Engineering House, 11 National
Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600, Australia.
Telephone: +61 62706530, FAX: +61 6
2732918.
1994 May 16-20
NATO Symposium on Aircraft Noise
Receiver Technology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Contact: Judi Abraham, Conference Management Associates, 1401
Spring Lake Drive, Haymarket, VA
22069-1008, USA. Telephone: +1 703
7540066; FAX: +1 7037544261.
1994 May 25-26
Schallschutzprodukte '94, BadenBaden, Germany; an exhibition andtechnica1 program are planned in the German
language. Contact: Normenausschuss
Akustik, Larmrninderung und Schwingungstechnik (NALS) im DIN und VDI,
Postfach 10 11 39, 40002 Dusseldorf,
Germany. Telephone: +49 211 621 4261;
FAX: +49211 6214575.
1994 June 5-9
127th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA. * Contact: Elaine Moran, Acoustical Society of America, 500 Sunnyside
Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797, USA. Telephone: + 1 (516) 576-2360, FAX: + 1
(516) 349-7669.
Noise/News International
1994 June 6-8
Scandinavian Acoustical Meeting '94,
Aarhus, Denmark; sessions on noise are
planned, principally in the Scandinavian
languages. Contact: Danish Technological Institute, Acoustics, Teknologiparken,
DK-8000 Aarhus C., Denmark. Telephone: +45 86142400; FAX: +45 8614
7722
1994 June 13-15
Third International Congress on Airand Structure-Borne Sound and Vi·
bration, Montreal, Canada; sessions on
noise are planned. Contact: Malcolm 1.
Crocker, 201 Ross Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849-3501, USA. Telephone:
+12058443310; FAX: +1205 8443307.
1994 July 18-21
Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics,
Southampton, England; sessions on active and passive vibration control are
planned. Contact: N.S. Ferguson, ISVR,
University of Southampton, Southampton S09 5NH, UK. Telephone: +44 703
592274; FAX: +44703593939.
1994 August 23-25
5th Western Pacific Regional Acoustics
Conference, Seoul, Korea. * Contact:
Conference Secretariat. Telephone: +822
361-2783, FAX: +82 2 365-4668.
1994 August 29-31
I TER- OISE 94, the 1994 International Congress on oi e Control
Engineering, Yokohama, Japan. Contact: INTER- OISE 94 Congre Secretariat,REIC, Tohoku University,
2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku, Sendai 980,
Japan. Telephone: +81 22 224 7889,
FAX: +81 22 263 9848.
1994 August 31-September 3
International Conference on Motion
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and Vibration Control, Yokohama, Japan. Contact: K. Yoshida, Science &
Technology Faculty, Keio University, 314-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama,
223 Japan. Telephone: +81 45 563 1141;
FAX: +81 45 563 5943.
1994 October 4-6
Transport Noise and Vibration Symposium, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact: A. lonov, East-European
Acoustical Association, Moskov koe
Shosse 44, 196158 St. Petersburg, Russia. Telephone: +7812 1279348, FAX:
+7812 1279349.
1994 November 9-11
"Noise and sound, nuisance and amenity," Australian Acoustical Society annual conference, Canberra, Australia.
Contact: Marion Burgess. Telephone:
+61 62688241; FAX: +61 62588276.
1994 November 28-December 2
128th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, Austin, Texas, USA.* Contact: Elaine Moran, Acoustical Society of
America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797, USA. Telephone: +1
(516) 576-2360, FAX: +1 (516) 3497669.
1995 March 21-23
Euronoise '95: Software for Noise
Control, Lyon, France. Contact:
CETIM Acoustical Department, B.P.
67, 60304 Senlis, France. Telephone:
+3344583217; FAX: +3344583400.
1995 March 22-25
Hearing Conservation Conference
IWXX, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; sessions
on noise cancellation and control techniques are planned. Contact: Michele
Johnson, National Hearing Conservation
Association, 431 East Locust Street,
Suite 202, Des Moines, IA 50309, USA.
Telephone: +1 515 243 1558; FAX: +1
515 243 2049.
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1995 April 25-27
Vibration and Noise '95, Venice, Italy.
Contact: MJ. Goodwin, School of Engineering, Staffordshire University, P.O.
Box 333, Beaconside, Stafford STl8
ODF, England. Telephone: +44 785
275242; FAX: +44 785227741.
1995 May 15-18
SAE Noise and Vibration Conference,
Traverse City, Michigan, USA. Contact:
Mone Asensio, SAE International, 3001
West Big Beaver Road, Troy, Michigan,
USA. Telephone: +13136490420
Control Engineering, P.O. Box 3206
ArlingtonBranch, Poughkeepsie, Y
12603, USA. Telephone: +1 (914)4624006, FAX: +1 (914) 473-9325.
1995 November 27-December 1
130th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. *
Contact: Elaine Moran, Acoustical Society of America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd.,
Woodbury, NY 11797, USA. Telephone:
+1 (516) 576-2360, FAX: +1 (516) 3497669.
1995 May 31-June 4
129th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, Washington, DC, USA. *
Contact: Elaine Moran, Acoustical Society of America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd.,
Woodbury, NY 11797, USA. Telephone:
+1 (516) 576-2360, FAX: +1 (516) 3497669.
1996 April 1-4
Forum Acusticum, European Acoustics
Association, Antwerp, Belgium. Contact:
A. Cops, Catholic University Leuven,
Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 LeuvenHeverlee, Belgium. Telephone: +32 16
201015; FAX: +32 16201368.
1995 June 26-30
Fifteenth International Congress on
Acoustics, Trondheim, Norway; sessions
on noise are planned. Contact: ICA 95,
N-7034 Trondheim, Norway. Telephone:
+477592645; FAX: +477594302.
1996 May 13-17
131 st Meeting of the Acoustical Society
ofAmerica, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. *
Contact: Elaine Moran, Acoustical Society of America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd.,
Woodbury, NY 11797, USA. Telephone:
+15165762360, FAX: +1516 349 7669.
1995 July 06-08
International Symposium on Active
Control of Sound and Vibration,
continuation of two conferences, one
organized by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and another by Acoustical Society of Japan. 1995 Symposium
sponsored by ASA, ASJ, I CE/USA
and I CE/Japan. Contact: J. Tichy,
Applied Research Laboratory, Penn.
State University, Univer ity Park, PA
16802, USA. Telephone: +1 814865
6364; FAX: +18148653119.
95 July 10-12
ITER-NOISE 95, The 1995 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering, Newport Beach, California,
USA. Contact: Institute of oise
NoiselNews International
1996 July 31-August 2
INTER-NOISE 96, The 1996 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering, Liverpool, England.
Contact: C.M. Mackenzie, Institute of
Acoustics, P.O. Box 320, St. Albans,
Herts, AL I I PZ, UK. Telephone: + I 44
727848195; FAX: +144 727850553.
1996 December 2-6
132nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. *
Contact: Elain Moran, Acoustical Society
of America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797, USA. Telephone: +1
(516) 576-2360, FAX: +1 (516) 3497669.
* Sessions on noise are planned.
1994 March
Acknowledgements
The Board of Directo~ of I F../U
expresses its. in 'ere appreclatton to the cou tical ocietyof merica for its support and
ws ( 1972-92). and oi e ew Intemattonal since it. in eplion in 1993. The Board al. 0
c pcmtion in the publicali n of oi
grJlefull} acknowledge. the financial a.ssistance given by th • members of the I CE/US Liaion Program:
T&T Bell Laboratori , Murray lIi//, ell Jeney
Auburn lJniverity, Auhum Vllh'cr ·iry. lahama
Bolt Beranek and ewman, Inc., Camhrid~c. Ma sacJlIISC/ls
Brllel and Kjaer Instrument., MarlhoroLl'lh. Mauael/llsi'm
Digital Equipment orporation, MaYllard. Ma sachLlSC/ls
Indu trial coustic Company, Bront. CII York
IBVl orporation, Armollk , CII York
Chevron Corporation, San Francisco. California
The Pennsylvania tate niver ity, SWtC' Co//ege, Penllsyll'Ullia
Tracor, Inc., AII.I/ill. Texa.1
The Board of Directors of International I CE gratefully acknowledges the financial assistan e being given by the following
Sustaining Mernbc~ of International I . E:
Bond oor Materialenkennis, l!I'ijlldreeh/. Thc e/herlallds
Bruel and Kjaer, aerllm, DCllmark
Lucas EL In truments, Ltd. lIi/chin.ller/s. VIIi/cd Kingdom
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NNI Directory
Organizational and Editorial Addresses
President, International INCE: W. W. Lang. P.O. Box 3067
Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA. FAX: +1914
4739325
President, INCEIUSA: Robert 1. Bernhard, 1077 Ray W.
Herrick Laboratories, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
47907-1077, USA. Fax: + 1 317 494 0787
Secretary-General, International INCE: H. Myncke, Catholic
University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001
Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium. FAX: +32 16201368
Managing Editor and Pan-American Editor: G. Maling, Jr.,
INCE/USA, P.O. Box 3206 Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY
12603, USA. FAX: +19144739325
European Editor: A. Cops, International INCE, Catholic
University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 2ooD, B-3001
Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium. FAX: +3216201368
Asia-Pacific Editor: A. Lawrence, P.O. Box 78, Wahroonga,
NSW 2076, Australia. FAX: +61 24498694
Member Societies of International INCE
Australia: Australian Acoustical Society, Science Centre
Foundation, Private Bag 1, Darlinghurst NSW 2010. FAX: +61 7
3454892
Austria: Osterreichischer Arbeitsring ftir Larrnbekampfung,
Wexstrasse 19-23, A-12oo Wien. FAX: +43 13305925.
Belgium: Association Beige des Acousticiens, Belgische
Akoestische Vereniging (ABAV), c/o D. Soubrier, WTCB/CSTC,
Mile A-F. Stalport, avo P. Holoffe 21, B-1342 Limelette. FAX:
+32 2 653 0729
Brazil: Sociedade Brasileira de Acustica, SOBRAC, c/o Prof.
R.A Tenenbaum, Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory,
COPPE/UFRJ, c.P. 68503,21945 Rio de Janeiro. FAX: +55 21
2906626
Canada: Canadian Acoustical Association, P.O. Box 1351,
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2V9
China: Acoustical Society of China, 17 Zhongguancun Street,
Beijing
Czech Republic: Czech Acoustical Society, Technicka 2, 116
27, Praha 6. FAX: +42 2 243 10784
Denmark: Acoustical Society of Denmark, Lundtoftevej 100,
Bldg. 352, DK-28oo Lyngby. FAX: +45 42 88 05 77
Finland: Acoustical Society of Finland, Acoustics Laboratory,
Helsinki University of Technology, Otakaari 5A, SF-02150
Espoo
France: Groupe Acoustique Industrielle et Environnement,
GAI.E., CETIM, BP 67, 60304 Senlis. FAX: +33 44 58 34 00
Germany: Norrnenausschuss Akustik, Larmminderung und
Schwingungstechnik (NALS) im DIN und VD!, Postfach 1139,
D-40oo DUsseldorf 1. FAX: +49 211 6214575.
Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Akustik, Carl von Ossietzky
Universitat, D-26111 Oldenburg. FAX: +494417983698
Hungary: Acoustical Commission of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Technical University, Chair of Electric Machines, Egry
Jozsefu. 18, 1111 Budapest XI. FAX: +361 1666808
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Hungary: OPAKFI, Laszlo Fuszfas, General Secretary, Fa U. 68,
1027 Budapest. FAX: +36 1 156 1215
India: Acoustical Society of India, c/o Dr. M. L. Munjal, Indian
Institute of Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Bangalore, Karnataka 560 012. FAX: +91 80341683
Italy: Associazione Italiana di Acoustica, Instituto di Acoustica
O.M.Corbino, Via Cassia 1216,1-00189 Roma. FAX: +3963765341
Japan: Acoustical Society of Japan, Ikeda Building, 2-7-7
Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151. FAX: +81 3 33791456
Japan: Institute of Noise Control Engineering of Japan,
INCE/Japan, c/o Kobayasi Institute of Physical Research,
Higashimotomachi 3-20-41, Kokubunji, Tokyo 185. FAX: +81
423273847
Korea: Acoustical Society of Korea, 635-4 Yucksam-Dong,
Kangnam-Ku, Seoul 135-703. FAX: +8225699717
Lithuania: Lithuanian Acoustical Society, Krivizl 15-2, Vtlnius 2007
Netherlands: Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap, Stieltjesweg
I, Postbus 162, Delft. FAX: +31 15692410
New Zealand: New Zealand Acoustical Society, P.O. Box 1181,
Auckland. FAX: +64 9 309 3540
Norway: Acoustical Society of Norway, Acoustics Laboratory ELAB, N-7034 Trondheim-NTH. FAX: +477591412
Poland: Committee on Acoustics of the Polish Academy of
Sciences, Polska Akademia Nauk, Palac Kultury i Nauki,
Skrytka pocztowa 24, 00-901 Warszawa
Romania: Academia Romana, Comisia de Acustica, Calea
Victoriei 125,71102 Bucuaresti. FAX: +40 13120209
Russia: East-European Acoustical Association, Moskovskoe
Shosse 44,196158 St. Petersburg. FAX: +7 8121279349
Russia: Noise Control Association of the Baltic State Technical
University, c/o Professor N.I. Ivanov, I-st.Krasnoarmejskaja 1,
198005 St. Petersburg. FAX: +7 812 2921559
Russia: Russian Acoustical Society, Andreev Acoustical
Institute, ul. Shvemika dA, 117036, Moscow. FAX: +7 095 126
8411
Singapore: Noise Section, The Environmental Engineering Society
of Singapore, Kent Ridge, P.O. Box 1007, Singapore 9111
South Africa: South African Acoustics Institute, P.O. Box
912-169, Silverton 0129. FAX: +27 12862856
Sweden: Swedish Acoustical Society, c/o Tor Kihlman, Dept. of
Building Acoustics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412
96 Gothenburg. FAX: +46 31 772 2212
Switzerland: Schweizerische Gesellschaft fur Akustik, Postfach
251,8600 Dtibendorf. FAX: +41 19543348
United Kingdom: Institute of Acoustics, Agriculture House, 5
Holywell Hill, S1. Albans, Herts, ALl lEU. FAX: +44 727 85 05
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U.S.A: Acoustical Society of America, 500 Sunnyside Blvd,
Woodbury, NY 11797. FAX: +1 5163497669
U.S.A: Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the U.S.A, P.O.
Box 3206 Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. FAX: +1
9144739325
Yugoslavia: Acoustical Society of Yugoslavia, c/o Prof. P.
Pravica, Elektrotehniki Fakultet, Bu1evar Revo1ucije 73, 11000
Beograd
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1994 March
International Advertising (ontacts
Below is a list of i~temational contacts for the advertisers in this issue. The telephone number is given first, and is followed by the FAX
number where available. In cases where there are several telephone numbers per location. or several locations within a country, a colon
(:) separates the telephone number(s) from its respective FAX number.
Larson-Davis Laboratories
Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, New Zealand, Malaysia: +61 3
6479700; +61 36464370
Austria: +43 222 36 7660; +43 222 369 8443
Belgium, Luxemburg: +3227570351; +3227570607
Brazil: +5531 221 6001:+5531 2219184
Canada: Que (514) 453 0033: (514) 453 0554
Ont (416) 508 8345; (416) 508 8344
France: +33 1 69302880; +33 1 69306851
Germany: +496172 72172; +496172 74618
India: +91 80566813: +91 80582627 Anen; FAX Box #49
Ireland: +353 4125647; +35341 25743
Italy: +39 39 287 24 88; +39392872430
Japan: +81 3 5688 6800: +81 356886900
Netherlands:+31 162024421: +31 162025652
Portugal: +351 1410 3420; +351 14101844
Russia and former Soviet Union Countries:
+70954036119: +7 095 482 4374
South Korea: +822 576 3161: +822 576 3163
Spain: +3416750429
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway: +468 765 0280: +468 767
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Switzerland, Hungary, Yugoslavia: +41 1 810 3022; +41 1 81043
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Taiwan, Peoples Republic of China: +886 2 760 2396: +886 2 760
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United Kingdom: +44 723 3644 95; +44 1 7235000 94
Venezuela: +58 2 322025: +582321977
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Canada: +1 (416) 845 8900: +1 (416) 845 7380: +1 (604) 929-7357:
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England: +44 784 456 251; +44 7784 463303
Germany: +49 216 3843133: +49216 380618; +497116805485:
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Greece: +77 92 193; +77 53 627
Hong Kong: +82557 8633; +82 897 0423
Indonesia: +62 21 570 5170; +62 21 570 6309
Israel: +972 3 456 433: +972 3 5463290; +972 52 586211: +972 52
547 244: +972 3 339224: +972 3 333 980
Japan: +81 3 831 9595, +81 3 835 9658: (no FAX); +81 45 391
1906: (no FAX); +81 64734531: +81 64734558; +81 33271
7771: +81633281 1928
Korea: +82 2 846 2708: +82841 6634: +82 2 577 6451/6: +822 577
6457
Malaysia: +60 03 904 4611; +60 03 904 4600
Netherlands Antillies: +5999611 987; +5999611 744
Singapore: +65 291 7123; +65 292 5831
South Africa: +27 622 1743; +27 622 1306
Taiwan: +8862 364 3456; +8862365 3434
Thailand: +662512 1438
Thrkey: +90 11 481 610
Austria: +43 2222 25343; +43 2222 253434
Belgium: +31 1640 9000; +31 164066651
Czech Republic: +43 222225343; +43222 253434
Denmark: +45 42 459764; +45 43 630720
Finland: +35802941773: +35802947084
France: +33 1 6472929; +33 164470084
Germany: +492529383; +4925291649
Hungary: +43 2222 25343; +43 2222 253434
India: +9122223401; +9122942222
Italy: +39499200975; +39495566164
Korea: +82 2 5699854; +82 2 5615992
Luxembourg: +31 1640 9000; +31 164066651
Malaysia: +60 3 7334236; +60 3 7336281
Netherlands: +31 1640 9000; +31 164066651
Norway: +47 32852080; +47 32 852208
Singapore: +65 7485791; +65 7485791
Slovak Republic: +43 2222 25343; +43 2222 253434
Spain: +34 1 5720440; +34 I 5702661
Sweden: +46854068100; +46 8 54066538
Switzerland: +4134713121; +4134713122
Taiwan: +886 2 7693863; +886 2 7567582
United Kingdom: +44933 624212; +44 933 624608
USA: +13014957738; +13014957739
AVC Instrumentation (A Division of PCB Piezotronics, Inc)
Austratia: +613555-7277: +613555-7956; +612748-0544: +612
748-7016
Belgium: +3227570351: +32 2 757 06 07: +32 16402030: +32
16403166
Brazil: +55 II 535-5589: +55 II 535-5677
Germany, Austria: +49 2462 7021: +49 2462 7025
India: +91224137096: +91224133341
Israel: +972 3 6450444: +972 3 491576
Netherlands: +31 189220844: +31 189220442
Norway: +47 22161710: +47 22161950
Pakistan: +92 21 2425089: +92 21 2418354
South Korea: +82 2 5543856/9: +82 2 5544880
Sweden: +46 8 359250: +46 8 359270
HEAD Acoustics
America: Sonic Perceptions, Jnc; + I 203 838 2650: + 1 203 854
5702
Germany: HEAD Acoustics GmbH, +492407 577 0; +49 2407
57799
Australia: MB. & K.J. Davidson, +615557277; +615557956
Austria: LB-electronics. +43 367 660; +43 1 369 8443
Benelux: AKRON, +32 757 03 51; +32757 06 07
France: elexo, +33 I 69302880; +33 I 69306851
Italy: S.C.S., +3924504111; +394504110
Japan: CRIE, +81 63522026; +81 63529438
Korea: ABC Trading, +82 2 576 3161; +82 2 576 3163
Taiwan, R.O.C., P.R.C., Hongkong: Samwcll Testing, Jnc., +886
6488455; +8866483024
United Kingdom: HEAD Acoustics UK Ltd., +44322863 350;
+44 322 860 026
NorsonicAS
Australia: +61 22675939; +61 22618294
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DIRECTORY OF NOISE CONTROL SERVICES
Information on listings in the Directory ofNoise Control Services is available from INCEIUSA, P.O. Box 3206
Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA. The price is USD 325 for four insertions.
CAVANAUGH TOCCI
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Consultants in Acoustics
DESIGN:
Architectural - Structural - Mechanical - Environmental
William 1. Cavanaugh, INCE. Bd. Cert.
Gregory C. Tocci, INCE. Bd. Cert.
Timothy J. Foulkes, INCE. Bd. Cert.
K. Anthony Hoover, INCE. Bd. Cert.
Douglas H. Bell, INCE
Sheryl Soloman, INCE
Deborah 1. Blasinsky, INCE Assoc.
Brion G. Konig, INCE Assoc.
327F Boston Post Road, Sudbury, MA
01776, USA Telephone: (508) 443-7871
FAX: (508) 443-7873
SCANTEK, INC.
Sound and Vibration Instrumentation
& Engineering
• Sales, Rentals, Service
• Technical Support
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Richard J. Peppin, INCE
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- Stndios & Music Halls - Condos &
Apartments - Scientific and Seismic
Equipment Isolation - Transportation &
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3201 Ridgewood Drive
Columbus, OH 43026-2453 USA
Telephone: (614) 876-5108
FAX: (614) 771-8740
EGGERS INDUSTRIES
Manufacturers of Wood Acoustical
Products; complete line of doors,
panels and custom products.
• Offered in all available foreign
and domestic veneers
• Doors available with 20-minute
fire ratings
• Products tested to E-90-90 and
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916 Gist Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
Telephone: (301) 495-7738
FAX: (301) 495-7739
164 Lake Street
Neenah, WI 54957, USA
Telephone: (414)722-6444
FAX: (414) 722-0375
ACENTECH INC.
CHARLES KULMAN
28 Technical Professionals Available for
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- Noise and Vibration Control
- Structnral Vibrations and Structnre-bome
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• Thermal building physics
• Noise and vibration control
• Air pollution control
• Machinery acoustics
• Laboratories and testing facilities
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8033 Planegg (near Munich)
Germany
Telephone: +49 89 856020
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HESSLER ASSOCIATES,
INC.
Consultants in Engineering Acoustics
Serving the Power Industry Since 1976
- Environmental & Plant Noise
Measurements - Computer Modelling of
Facility Noise Emissions - Expert Witness
& Environmental Assessments - Equipment
Noise Control Design & Specification
George F. Hessler Jr., P.E., Mem. INCE
6400 Wishbone Terrace
P.O. Box 77
Cabin John, MD 20818 USA
Telephone: (301) 229-4900
FAX: (301) 320-6714
SOUND
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Motor Sports Sound Abatement
7415 Gum Grove Lane
Vacaville, CA 95688-9653 USA
Telephone: (916) 678-8815
Contact Eric E. Ungar, Sc.D., P.E.
INCE/USA Past President
- custom designed industrial products to
suppress noise
- acoustical enclosures and panel lagging
systems
- tnned-dissipative and absorptive silencers
- combustion turbine and heat recovery
steam generator noise supression systems
P.O. Box 600
Michigan City, IN 46360 USA
Telephone: (219) 879-2600
FAX: (219) 879-2611
125 Cambridge Park Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140 USA
Telephone: (617) 499-8000
FAX: (617) 499-8074
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