Absorbent parallel noise barriers in urban environments

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 315, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 239-257

  Li, K M ^a   Law, M K ^b   Kwok, M P ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INSERTION LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE; PARALLEL ABSORBENT NOISE BARRIERS; SCALE-MODEL EXPERIMENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 43049170341     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2008.02.023     Document Type: Article

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