Accuracy in the knowledge of the sound field incident on a façade is essential for proper
planning of control actions. Independently of the chosen method for noise map**, if we …

Over the past two decades there have been many major new developments in the field of
urban sound environment. Jian Kang introduces and examines these key developments …

The first artificial reverberation algorithms were proposed in the early 1960s, and new,
improved algorithms are published regularly. These algorithms have been widely used in …

Environmental noise is a rising problem in contemporary cities, and the awareness of its
consequences on human health is growing. Although the leisure noise generated by people …

A 1: 10 scale of a street canyon and courtyard was constructed to evaluate sound
propagation when various vegetation treatments including trees, shrubs, vegetated facades …

Building and room acoustics are relatively modern architectural and engineering disciplines.
Nevertheless, acoustics was also a concern for buildings in the past, eg, in theatres in …

Abstract European Directive 2002/49/EC indicates that strategic noise maps are the main
tool for assessing the exposure of the population to environmental noise. When these are …

A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used to measure spherically diverging N-waves in
homogeneous air. An electrical spark source is used to generate high-amplitude (1800 Pa at …

When a domain in outdoor acoustics is invariant in one direction, an inverse Fourier
transform can be used to transform solutions of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation to a …

When carrying out acoustical measurements in order to construct an urban noise map, the
ISO 1996 international standard is usually taken as a reference. However, this standard …