The performance of noise barriers in attenuating road traffic noise

8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 31, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages

  Parnell, Jeffrey ^a   Samuels, Stephen ^b,c   Tsitsos, Con ^d  

^a NSW Department of Planning   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c TEF Consulting   (Australia)

^d NSW Roads and Traffic Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER DESIGN; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DIRECT WAVES; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL TESTING; GROUND PLANES; IN-SITU; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; MULTIPLE-PATH; NOISE BARRIERS; OPTIMISATIONS; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RANDOM EDGES; RECEIVER LOCATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SHADOW ZONE; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; STATE GOVERNMENTS; STRAIGHT EDGE; VARIABLE PHASE;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; DEGRADATION; NOISE POLLUTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84864684252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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