A review of research on environmental noise barriers

Building Acoustics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 289-323

  Ekici, Inan ^a   Bougdah, Hocine ^b  

^a ATKINS   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; FULL-SCALE TESTING; NOISE BARRIERS; PHYSICAL MODELLING; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE POLLUTION;

RESEARCH;

EID: 33845359119     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/135101003772776712     Document Type: Article

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