Noise and Vibration Control Engineering is a completely new single-source guide to all aspects of noise and vibration control. It offers mechanical acoustical architectural electrical and chemical engineers and students the engineering principles necessary for designing quiet conditions into industrial machinery motors power plant equipment air-conditioning systems factories buildings and transportation systems. Contributors are among the world's leading acoustical scientists and consultants many associated with Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Assuming only a general engineering background Hoist and Vibration Control Engineering begins with an examination of acoustic basics decibels sound power and the properties of the various sources that create noise. The book identifies key parameters which govern sound power output and examines how noise can be controlled at its sources. Readers learn how sound propagates outdoors around or over barriers and in enclosed spaces such as rooms and vehicles. 1. Basic Acoustical Quantities Levels and Decibels / Leo L. Beranek -- 2. Waves and Impedances / Leo L. Beranek -- 3. Data Analysis / Allan G. Piersol -- 4. Determination of Sound Power Levels and Directivity of Noise Sources / George C. Maling Jr. William W. Lang and Leo L. Beranek -- 5. Outdoor Sound Propagation / Grant S. Anderson and Ulrich J. Kurze -- 6. Sound in Small Enclosures / Donald J. Nefske and Shung H. Sung -- 7. Noise in Rooms / Murray Hodgson and Alfred C.C. Warnock -- 8. Sound-absorbing Materials and Sound Absorbers / Fridolin P. Mechel and Istvan L. Ver -- 9. Interaction of Sound Waves with Solid Structures / Istvan L. Ver -- 10. Passive Silencers and Lined Ducts / Anthony G. Galaitsis and Istvan L. Ver -- 11. Vibration Isolation / Eric E. Ungar -- 12. Structural Damping / Eric E. Ungar -- 13. Enclosures and Wrappings / Istvan L. Ver -- 14. Noise of Gas Flows / Michael S. Howe and Hans D. Baumann -- 15. Active Noise Control / Larry J. Eriksson.

Leo Leroy Beranek István L. Vér

Noise and vibration control engineering: principles and applications