A laboratory investigation of noise reduction by riblike structures on the ground

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3714-3722

  Bougdah, Hocine ^a   Ekici, Inan ^a   Kang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; INTERFERENCE GRATINGS; RIBLIKE STRUCTURES; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFRACTION; HEIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NOISE POLLUTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORY;

EID: 33845362407     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2372594     Document Type: Article

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