Effects of individual sound sources on the subjective loudness and acoustic comfort in underground shopping streets

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 435-436, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-89

  Kang, Jian ^a,b   Meng, Qi ^a   Jin, Hong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic comfort; Sound source; Subjective loudness; Underground shopping street

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMFORT; BACKGROUND MUSICS; HUMAN EVALUATION; SHOPPING STREETS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUND SOURCE; SUBJECTIVE LOUDNESS;

PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS;

ACOUSTICS; SHOPPING ACTIVITY; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; URBAN AREA;

ACOUSTIC COMFORT; ACOUSTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMFORT; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MUSIC; NOISE POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOPPING; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND INTENSITY;

CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MUSIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUND;

CHINA; HARBIN; HEILONGJIANG;

EID: 84864411610     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.105     Document Type: Article

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