Scale-model study of the effectiveness of highway noise barriers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1947-1954

  Busch, Todd ^a,c   Hodgson, Murray ^a   Wakefield, Clair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Wakefield Acoustics Ltd   (Canada)

^c ACENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; INSERTION LOSSES;

NOISE BARRIERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

POLYSTYRENE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMPEDANCE; MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRAFFIC NOISE;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; POLYSTYRENES; SOIL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0142058385     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1605412     Document Type: Article

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