Loudness-level weighting for environmental noise assessment

Acustica

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-61

  Schomer, Paul D ^a  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMPULSE NOISE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ENVIRONMENT NOISE ASSESSMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0041114080     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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