Experimental study of the diffracted sound field around jagged edge noise barriers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2843-2854

  Menounou, Penelope ^a   You, Jeong Ho ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; DIFFRACTION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NOISE ABATEMENT;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; TRANSPORTATION NOISE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 9644257235     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1804633     Document Type: Article

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