Jagged edge noise barriers

Building Acoustics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-198

  Menounou, Penelope ^a   Busch Vishniac, Ilene J ^b  

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

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATIONS; DIFFRACTED FIELD; EDGE SEGMENTS; LINE SOURCE MODELS; NOISE BARRIERS; RECEIVER LOCATION; THEORETICAL APPROACH; TRAFFIC NOISE;

NOISE POLLUTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 9644259394     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1351010001501598     Document Type: Article

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