HUMAN RESPONSE EFFECTS OF IMPULSE NOISE

✍ Scribed by C.G. Rice

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 368 KB
• Volume: 190
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1006/jsvi.1996.0077

✦ Synopsis

This paper both reviews and presents new information on the state of knowledge of human responses to impulse noise. The topics covered are as follows: damage risk from high intensity impulse noise, which has now been quantified and criteria agreed internationally; issues associated with the sonic boom and overland flying of civil supersonic aircraft, which although well documented some 20 or so years ago are nevertheless still causing concern with the possible advent of the new generation of supersonic aircraft; the problems associated with environmental impulse noise, which have now reached the stage where more definitive international criteria can be formulated. Suggestions for the prioritising of further research needs relating to more general short comings in existing criteria for the evaluation of human responses to environmental noise are also outlined.