Prediction of outdoor sound transmission loss with an artificial neural network

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-345

  Mungiole, Michael ^a   Wilson, D Keith ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural networks; Outdoor sound propagation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DATA SETS; OUTDOOR SOUND PROPAGATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE (RMS) ERRORS; TRANSMISSION LOSS (TL);

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 29244446521     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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