Engineering Acoustics Noise and Vibration Control

ENGINEERING ACOUSTICS
NOISE AND VIBRATION CONTROL

A masterful introduction to the theory of acoustics along with methods for the control of noise and vibration

In Engineering Acoustics: Noise and Vibration Control, two experts in the field review the fundamentals of acoustics, noise, and vibration. The authors show how this theoretical work can be applied to real-world problems such as the control of noise and vibration in aircraft, automobiles and trucks, machinery, and road and rail vehicles.

Engineering Acoustics: Noise and Vibration Control covers a wide range of topics.

The sixteen chapters include the following:

• Human hearing and individual and community response to noise and vibration
• Noise and vibration instrumentation and measurements
• Interior and exterior noise of aircraft as well as road and rail vehicles
• Methods for the control of noise and vibration in industrial equipment and machinery
• Use of theoretical models in absorptive and reactive muffler and silencer designs
• Practical applications of finite element, boundary element and statistical energy analysis
• Sound intensity theory, measurements, and applications
• Noise and vibration control in buildings
• How to design air-conditioning systems to minimize noise and vibration

Readers, whether students, professional engineers, or community planners, will find numerous worked examples throughout the book, and useful references at the end of each chapter to support supplemental reading on specific topics. There is a detailed index and a glossary of terms in acoustics, noise, and vibration.

Malcolm J. Crocker, Distinguished University Professor – Emeritus, Director, Sound & Vibration Research Laboratories, Mechanical Engineering Department, Auburn University, Alabama, USA. Professor Crocker obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Science (Acoustics), from Liverpool University, UK, in 1969. He has had a long and illustrious international career working in universities in the UK, Australia and USA, and has written extensively on the topic of noise and acoustics for a wide range of journals, books and conference proceedings. In 1995, Dr. Crocker was one of the main founding directors of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV). He has served as the Executive Director of IIAV since its founding and Editor in Chief of its Journal since 2000. IIAV now has 400 members in 60 countries throughout the world and in addition it has 37 scientific societies that are affiliated with it as cooperating societies. In 2011, Professor Crocker was Scientific Chairman of the Eighteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jorge P. Arenas, Professor and Director, Institute of Acoustics, University Austral of Chile, Valdivia, Chile.

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Vibration of Simple and Continuous Systems

Chapter 3 Sound Generation and Propagation

Chapter 4 Human hearing, speech and psychoacoustics

Chapter 5 Effects of Noise, Vibration, and Shock on People

Chapter 6 Description, Criteria and Procedures Used to Determine Human Response to Noise and Vibration

Chapter 7 Noise and Vibration Transducers, Signal Processing, Analysis and Measurements

Chapter 8 Sound Intensity, Measurements and Determination of Sound Power, Noise Source Identification and Transmission Loss

Chapter 9 Principles of Noise and Vibration Control

Chapter 10 Mufflers and Silencers - Absorbent and Reactive Types

Chapter 11 Noise and Vibration Control of Machines

Chapter 12 Noise and Vibration Control in Buildings

Chapter 13 Design of Air-conditioning Systems for Noise and Vibration Control

Chapter 14 Surface Transportation Noise and Vibration Sources and Control

Chapter 15 Aircraft and Airport Transportation Noise Sources and Control

Chapter 16 Community Noise and Vibration Sources

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