Increasing the insertion loss of noise barriers using an active-control system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3408-3416

  Guo, Jingnan ^a,b   Pan, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACTUATORS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; INSERTION LOSSES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; SENSORS;

ACTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM; NOISE BARRIERS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL;

ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MICROPHONE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

EID: 0032440061     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423924     Document Type: Article

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