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Comparison of New Methods for Assessing Community Response to High Energy Impulsive SoundsThe latest CHABA Working Group to have reviewed published information about the effects of high energy impulsive sounds (such as sonic booms) on communities has recommended abandonment of the dosage-response relationship identified by its predecessor in favor of two alternate prediction method. Both of the new assessment methods continue to rely on C-weighted measurements of impulsive sounds One of the two assessment methods retains the standard assumptions of the 'equal energy hypothesis' (the notion that annoyance is governed simply by the product of level, duration, and number noise events), and further assumes that the rate of growth of the prevalence of annoyance is proportional to the rate of growth of loudness with level. The other assessment method, however, assumes a level dependent (non-equal energy) summation of the C-weighted sound exposure levels of individual impulsive events. Since predictions of the second method are distribution-dependent, they are not readily represents graphically in the form of a single dosage-response function. The effects on annoyance predictions of variance in distributions of CSEL values of impulsive sounds are explored in this presentation.
Document ID
19960055064
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Fidell, Sanford
(Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. Canoga Park, CA United States)
Pearsons, Karl S.
(Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. Canoga Park, CA United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1996
Publication Information
Publication: The 1995 NASA High-Speed Research Program Sonic Boom Workshop
Volume: 1
Subject Category
Environment Pollution
Accession Number
96N36862
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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