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Md Iltaf Zafar, Rakesh Dubey, Shruti Bharadwaj, Alok Kumar, Karan Kumar Paswan, Anubhav Srivastava, Saurabh Kr Tiwary and Susham Biswas
Determination of health hazards of noise pollution is a challenge for any developing city intersection. The people working at roadside open-air shops or near the congested roads of any intersection face intense noise pollution. It becomes very difficult ...
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Joo Hyun Sung, Jiho Lee, Kyoung Sook Jeong, Soogab Lee, Changmyung Lee, Min-Woo Jo and Chang Sun Sim
Environmental noise is known to cause noise annoyance. Since noise annoyance is a subjective indicator, other mediators?such as noise sensitivity?may influence its perception. However, few studies have thus far been conducted on noise annoyance in South ...
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Edoardo Alessio Piana and Nicolaas Bernardus Roozen
Reduction of the noise impact of electrical substations through a hybrid control strategy based on passive noise barriers and auditory masking.
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Sanjay Kumar and Heow Pueh Lee
Owing to a steep rise in urban population, there has been a continuous growth in construction of buildings, public or private transport like cars, motorbikes, trains, and planes at a global level. Hence, urban noise has become a major issue affecting the...
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Dorota Jarosinska, Marie-Ève Héroux, Poonum Wilkhu, James Creswick, Jos Verbeek, Jördis Wothge and Elizabet Paunovic
Following the Parma Declaration on Environment and Health adopted at the Fifth Ministerial Conference (2010), the Ministers and representatives of Member States in the WHO European Region requested the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop updated g...
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Rodrigo Tavares de Freitas and Sakdirat Kaewunruen
A focus of the railway industry over the past decades has been to research, find and develop methods to mitigate noise and vibration resulting from wheel/rail contact along track infrastructure. This resulted in a wide range of abatement measures that ar...
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Esraa Othman, Iva Cibilic, Vesna Posloncec-Petric and Dina Saadallah
Environmental noise is a major environmental concern in metropolitan cities. The rapid social and economic growth in the 20th century is not always accompanied by adequate land planning and environmental management measures. As a consequence of rapid urb...
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Md Iltaf Zafar, Shruti Bharadwaj, Rakesh Dubey, Saurabh Kr Tiwary and Susham Biswas
The accurate prediction of noise levels at outdoor locations requires detailed data of the noise sources and terrain parameters and an efficient model for prediction. However, the possibility of predicting noise with reasonable accuracy using less input ...
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Huanyu Wu, Wei Zhang, Zongbin Liu, Xuhui Bai, Junwei Huang, Jun Huang and Zezhou Wu
Rail transit is an important part of the urban transportation system, while the noise generated during construction seriously affects the engineering personnel and surrounding residents. To investigate the noise emissions and characteristics during the c...
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Renée P. Schoeman, Christine Erbe and Stephanie Plön
In 2014, the South African government launched ?Operation Phakisa? under which port developments play a significant role in supporting ocean economic growth. These developments will likely increase vessel traffic to and from South African ports, making i...
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Michael Leupolz and Frank Gauterin
Especially for electric vehicles, the tire impact on car noise is becoming more and more important. The requirement of meeting certification criteria makes estimating the sound pressure level essential for vehicle manufacturers. Most recent research on t...
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Victor F. Kopiev, Ivan V. Belyaev, Andrey I. Dunaevsky, Andrey A. Poukhov and Igor L. Trofimovsky
Compliance with environmental protection regulations, in particular, community noise requirements, constitutes one of the major obstacles for designing future supersonic civil aircraft. Although there are several noise sources that contribute to the tota...
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Yanjie Sun, Mingguang Wu, Xiaoyan Liu and Liangchen Zhou
High-precision dynamic traffic noise maps can describe the spatial and temporal distributions of noise and are necessary for actual noise prevention. Existing monitoring point-based methods suffer from limited spatial adaptability, and prediction model-b...
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Xueqi Zhang, Meng Zhao and Rencai Dong
Noise pollution is one of the major urban environmental pollutions, and it is increasingly becoming a matter of crucial public concern. Monitoring and predicting environmental noise are of great significance for the prevention and control of noise pollut...
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Gyuseok Park, Woohyeong Cho, Kyu-Sung Kim and Sangmin Lee
Hearing aids are small electronic devices designed to improve hearing for persons with impaired hearing, using sophisticated audio signal processing algorithms and technologies. In general, the speech enhancement algorithms in hearing aids remove the env...
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Po-Jiun Wen and Chihpin Huang
The noise prediction using machine learning is a special study that has recently received increased attention. This is particularly true in workplaces with noise pollution, which increases noise exposure for general laborers. This study attempts to analy...
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Pavel Kholodov and Stéphane Moreau
Large Eddy Simulation is performed using the NASA Source Diagnostic Test turbofan at approach conditions (62% of the design speed). The simulation is performed in a periodic domain containing one fan blade (rotor-alone configuration). The aerodynamic and...
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Carolin Kissner, Sébastien Guérin, Pascal Seeler, Mattias Billson, Paruchuri Chaitanya, Pedro Carrasco Laraña, Hélène de Laborderie, Benjamin François, Katharina Lefarth, Danny Lewis, Gonzalo Montero Villar and Thomas Nodé-Langlois
A benchmark of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)-informed analytical methods, which are attractive for predicting fan broadband noise, was conducted within the framework of the European project TurboNoiseBB. This paper discusses the first part of th...
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Colin Hansen and Kristy Hansen
This review is focussed on large-scale, horizontal-axis upwind turbines. Vertical-axis turbines are not considered here as they are not sufficiently efficient to be deployed in the commercial generation of electricity. Recent developments in horizontal-a...
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Malte Von Szombathely, Myriam Albrecht, Jobst Augustin, Benjamin Bechtel, Isabel Dwinger, Philine Gaffron, Anne Caroline Krefis, Jürgen Oßenbrügge and Anke Strüver
Living in cities offers many benefits and thus more and more people are living in urban areas. However, the concentration of human activities also creates environmental stressors with severe influence on people?s health and well-being. Noise is an enviro...
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