The effect of the scattering of sound from building facades on urban noise propagation

Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1445-1452

  Ismail, Mostafa ^a   Oldham, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE REFLECTIONS; SOUND PROPAGATION; URBAN NOISE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; CURVE FITTING; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 2342439354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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