On the relationship between blast noise complaints and community annoyance

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2690-2698

  Nykaza, Edward T ^a   Hodgdon, Kathleen K ^b   Gaugler, Trent ^b   Krecker, Peg ^c   Luz, George A ^d  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^d not available   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

BLAST EVENTS; BLAST NOISE; MILITARY INSTALLATIONS; NOISE ANNOYANCE; NOISE ENVIRONMENTS; RANGE MANAGEMENTS;

NOISE POLLUTION;

DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPLOSION; FIREARM; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MILITARY PHENOMENA; NOISE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPLOSIONS; FIREARMS; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; MILITARY FACILITIES; NOISE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877588833     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4795781     Document Type: Article

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