Product Description: A comprehensive discussion of the theory of principles and concept of noise control. The authors provide a range of practical applications of current noise-control technology. The book provides a sound base to understanding and solving real-life problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Abigail is desperate in her quest to continue living on for her children; she is determined to make the best of all she has left.

Product Description: Noise Control Management presents a system-wide management approach to the many noise-related problems that plague industrial settings. Students learn how to define noise problems and determine the feasibility of mitigating them. The text shows how to identify noise sources and set up priorities for dealing with the problems these sources create...read more

Product Description: Excessive noise levels are generally acknowledged to have adverse effects on our environment. Studies indicate that excessive noise levels can cause fatigue in exposed individuals, lower efficiency and productivity, impaired speech communication, and hearing loss...read more

Product Description: Dieses Buch wendet sich an Konstrukteure, Wissenschaftler und fortgeschrittene Studenten des Maschinenbaus. Neben den physikalischen, maschinenakustischen und meßtechnischen Grundlagen sowie den mathematischen Methoden liegen die Schwerpunkte auf neuesten Erkenntnissen und Verfahren in diesem Fachgebiet, die das Buch zu einer einzigartigen und wertvollen Informationsquelle machen: - Numerische Berechnungsverfahren, Finite Elemente bei Körperschall, Randelemente für Abstrahlung - Abschätzverfahren für Körperschall- und Abstrahlmaß - Konstruktive Maßnahmen zur aktiven Lärmminderung Die zweite neu bearbeitete Auflage trägt der rasanten Entwicklung im Bereich der numerischen Verfahren Rechnung...read more

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise provides a key for understanding some of our most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change.In a journey that leads us from the Tanzanian veldt to the streets of New York, Keizer deftly explores the political ramifications of noise, America’s central role in a loud world, and the environmental sustainability of a quieter one. The result is a deeply satisfying book—one guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.

Product Description: Is noise the most neglected green issue of our age? This book argues compellingly that it is, and tells you all you need to know about noise as a social, cultural, environmental and health issue. Across the world, more people are disturbed by noise in their day-today lives than by any other pollutant on Earth...read more

Product Description: A medida que pasa el tiempo, se abren nuevos campos de análisis jurídico en el ámbito de la protección medioambiental. Uno de estos nuevos campos se relaciona con la protección de la atmósfera. Junto a formas de contaminación tradicionales ( la expulsión a la atmósfera de partículas), hay otras formas de contaminación a las que se viene prestando mayor atención últimamente, muy notablemente al ruido (área en la que ya hay mucha experiencia), pero también las referidas a olores, radiaciones o luz...read more

Product Description: Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. By the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western Europe and North America had formed to fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles, and gramophones, with campaigns featuring conferences, exhibitions, and "silence weeks...read more

Noise and Vibration Control Engineering: Principles and Applications, Second Edition is the updated revision of the classic reference containing the most important noise control design information in a single volume of manageable size. Specific content updates include completely revised material on noise and vibration standards, updated information on active noise/vibration control, and the applications of these topics to heating, ventilating, and air conditioning.

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, including: the development of prediction methods for urban sound propagation establishment and application of noise-mapping software new noise control measures and design methods. Also covered is the new EU directive on noise and the substantial actions it has brought about across Europe. As the importance of soundscape, acoustic comfort and sound environment design have become widely recognized, Urban Sound Environments is a thoroughly useful book for students and practitioners in a wide range of fields, from urban planning and landscape through to architecture and acoustics.

The science commentator author of the best-selling Fuzzy Thinking presents a scientific history of noise for general readers, defining noise as an unaesthetic signal that occurs at every level of the universe that has made significant contributions in each period from the ice age to the information age. 20,000 first printing.

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Product Description: Noise Pollution and Control Strategy discusses the basics of acoustic propagation and noise reviews over all national and international noise situations and gives various techniques available for noise measurements and assessment, health effects of noise, the standards adopted by various countries of the world, environmental impact assessment techniques, control measure and status of noise measurement and abatement practices...read more

Product Description: Leading pollution control educators and practicing professionals describe how various combinations of different cutting-edge process systems can be arranged to solve air, noise, and thermal pollution problems. Each chapter discusses in detail a variety of process combinations, along with technical and economic evaluations, and presents explanations of the principles behind the designs, as well as numerous variant designs useful to practicing engineers...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Compiling strategies from more than 30 years of experience, this book provides numerous case studies that illustrate the implementation of noise control applications, as well as solutions to common dilemmas encountered in noise reduction processes...read more

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Product Description: A revision and expansion of an established reference covering the solution of noise problems in industrial, business, residential and community environments. The Handbook's scope has been significantly increased to include acoustical measurements...read more

Product Description: Vibration and noise reduce the perceived quality, productivity, and efficiency of many and limit production speeds electromechanical systems. Vibration can cause defects during manufacturing and produce premature failure of finished products due to fa­ tigue...read more

Product Description: Vibration and noise reduce the perceived quality, productivity, and efficiency of many and limit production speeds electromechanical systems. Vibration can cause defects during manufacturing and produce premature failure of finished products due to fa­ tigue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)