Experimental evaluation of simplified models for predicting noise levels in industrial workrooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1933-1939

  Hodgson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031981539     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421345     Document Type: Article

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