A study on the relationship between subjective unpleasantness and body surface vibrations induced by high-level low-frequency pure tones

Industrial Health

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 580-587

  Takahashi, Yukio ^a,b   Kanada, Kazuo ^a   Yonekawa, Yoshiharu ^a   Harada, Noriaki ^b  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body surface vibration; High sound pressure level; Low frequency noise; Pure tone; Subjective unpleasantness

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BODY SURFACE VIBRATION; HIGH LEVEL LOW FREQUENCY PURE TONE; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE INDUCED VIBRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SOUND PRESSURE; THORAX; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VIBRATION; VIBRATION ACCELERATION LEVEL; VIBRATION SENSE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NOISE; RADIO WAVES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THORAX; VIBRATION;

EID: 23344433019     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.43.580     Document Type: Article

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