Product Description

A thoroughly revised, updated and extended edition of Engineering Noise Control, resulting in a comprehensive discussion of the theoretical principles and concepts of acoustics and noise control.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #532027 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 744 pages

From the Back Cover
The third edition of Engineering Noise Control has been thoroughly revised, updated and extended. Each chapter contains new material, much of which is not available elsewhere. The result is a comprehensive discussion of the theoretical principles and concepts of acoustics and noise control, a detailed discussion of the hearing mechanism, noise measuring instrumentation and techniques, noise criteria, sound source characterization and emission, outdoor sound propagation, sound in rooms, sound transmission through partitions, enclosure design, dissipative and reactive mufflers, vibration isolation, equipment sound power emission calculations and active noise cancellation.

Completely new material includes speed of sound calculations in media with non-rigid boundaries, analysis of beating, explanation of the non-damping and half-octave shift phenomena of human hearing, a discussion of energy density and its measurements, direct measurement of particle velocity, definitions of a range of measures used to quantify noise, hearing conversation program, addition of two more types of noise rating curves (NCB and RNC), a more extensive discussion of outdoor sound propagation including shadow zones and the ISO standard, two more methods for relating sound absorption and reverberation times in auditoria, a discussion of auditoria design, expansion of the discussion on the prediction of sound transmission loss for single, double, triple and sandwich constructions, calculation of the sound reduction index and the impact isolation class, calculation of double barrier insertion loss, analysis of perforated plate impedance, design of resonator mufflers, two stage vibration isolation analysis, detailed vibration absorber analysis, analysis of the effect of flexible support structures on vibration isolator performance, revision of valve noise prediction to include the IEC standard, simplified derivation of the wave equation and integration of the discussions on sound absorbing materials.

The book is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate or graduate students of acoustic and noise control, and it also contains the necessary information and prediction techniques that make it an invaluable resource for the practitioner.

About the Author
David Bies is and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide's Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has previously worked as a senior consultant in industry.

Colin Hansen is a Professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide and has also had a long career as a consultant. His two other books are on the topic of active noise control.

Customer Reviews

As it says on the tin.
Very thorough book. Good theoretical review, but also loads of details on the different sources of noise and how to reduce/control them.
A must have.