A novel approach to the acoustic characterisation of porous road surfaces

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1171-1186

  Morgan, P A ^a   Watts, G R ^a  

^a TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption measurements; Porous road surfaces

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE ABATEMENT; POROSITY; ROADS AND STREETS;

POROUS ROAD SURFACES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0141641141     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(03)00085-9     Document Type: Article

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