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Cumulative Impact of Wind Farm Noise
Applied Sciences, 2023 Although wind farms have an undeniable beneficial impact on the environment, certain negative environmental implications do appear as a consequence of their operation. One of them is the production of noise.
Boško Josimović +4 more
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Modelling the acoustic signature and noise propagation of high speed railway vehicle [PDF]
Archives of Transport, 2022 The proportion of high speed railway vehicles in the rolling stock of national carriers providing public transport services is constantly increasing. Currently, Alstom vehicles run at the highest speed on railway lines in Poland.
Krzysztof Polak, Jarosław Korzeb
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Study on Sound Transmission across a Floating Floor in a Residential Building by Using SEA
Archives of Acoustics, 2021 For the purpose of reducing the impact noise transmission across floating floors in residential buildings, two main sound transmission paths in the floating floor structure are considered: the stud path and the cavity path. The sound transmission of each
Xianfeng HUANG +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2021 The use of timber constructions recently increased. In particular, Cross Laminated Timber floors are often used in multi-story buildings. The development of standardization processes, product testing, design of details and joints, the speed of ...
Federica Bettarello +2 more
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Archives of Public Health, 2022 Background The disability weight is an essential factor to estimate the healthy time that is lost due to living with a certain state of illness. A 2014 review showed a considerable variation in methods used to derive disability weights.
Periklis Charalampous +4 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Cross-laminated timber (CLT) floors with supplementary layers or floating floors comprise a common solution in new multistory timber structures. However, bare CLT components provide poor sound insulation, especially in low frequencies during structure ...
Nikolaos-Georgios Vardaxis +2 more
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A Comparative Study of Acoustic Regulations for Hospital Bedrooms in Selected Countries in Europe
Buildings, 2023 Regulatory acoustic requirements for hospitals exist in several countries in Europe, but many countries have either no or few regulatory limits or only recommendations. The purpose of limit values is to ensure optimal acoustic conditions for the patients
Birgit Rasmussen +2 more
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Energy Science & Engineering, 2021 The flame front area is an important parameter to quantify the heat release rate. However, the limitations imposed by the measuring instruments and the measurement methodologies make it difficult to determine the flame front position in an image.
Lanzhou Gao +6 more
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Subjective evaluation of floor impact noise using the tapping machine and a non-standardized source
Acta Scientiarum: Technology, 2022 Assessing the acoustical performance of building floor systems relies on the impact source to be utilized and on the type of floor cover used. Besides that, a reliable assessment should consider the listeners´ judgments of the sounds transmitted through
Andriele da Silva Panosso +1 more
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Environment and Natural Resources Journal, 2023 This study investigated factors associated with road traffic noise and residents’ annoyance from three distinct types of roads (major arterial, minor arterial, and collector roads). Nine sampling locations in Thailand’s Nakorn Pathom Province were chosen
Nattawat Siwapathomchai +3 more
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