Predicted influence of ballast and porous concrete on rail noise

International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2005, INTERNOISE 2005

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3811-3819

  Attenborough, Keith ^a   Boulanger, Patrice ^a   Qin, Qin ^a   Jones, Rick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b RICARDO UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D EFFECTS; A-WEIGHTED LEVEL; BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONCRETE TRACKS; FLOW RESISTIVITY; IMPEDANCE MODELS; IMPEDANCE TUBES; POROUS CONCRETES; RAIL NOISE; RAIL/WHEEL; RAILWAY BALLASTS; SLAB TRACKS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOURCE SPECTRUM; TIME AVERAGING;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84873878133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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