Quiesst: Toward a better knowledge and understanding of how efficient noise barriers could actually be

39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 3665-3672

  Clairbois, J P ^a   De Roo, F ^b   Garai, M ^c   Conter, M ^d   Defrance, J ^e   Oltean Dumbrava, C ^f   Fusco, I ^d  

^a A Tech / Acoustic Technologies   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d AIT ^*  (Belgium)

^e CSTB   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Diffraction; Insulation; Modeling; Noise barriers

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SOUND INSULATION; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; NOISE BARRIERS; NOISE PROPAGATION; SOUND ABSORPTION; SOUND DIFFRACTION; WORK SCHEDULES;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; DIFFRACTION; INSULATION; MODELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84868638054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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