On the assessment of the human exposure from vibration caused by railway construction

41st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2012, INTER-NOISE 2012

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 2943-2954

  Sica, Gennaro ^a   Woodcock, James ^a   Peris, Eulalia ^a   Moorhouse, Andy ^a   Waddington, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; CONSTRUCTION VIBRATIONS; DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT , FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS; EXPOSURE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; HUMAN RESPONSE TO VIBRATIONS; RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION; RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD;

CONSTRUCTION; HOUSES;

RAILROADS;

EID: 84883567927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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