Acoustic characteristics of urban streets in relation to scattering caused by building facades

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 310-325

  Onaga, Hiroshi ^a   Rindel, Jens Holger ^b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Radiosity method; Reverberation time; Scattering; SPL; Streets

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACADES; REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS; RADIOSITY METHOD; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS (SPL); URBAN STREETS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 33845633408     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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