THE MEASUREMENT OF NOISE INSIDE CARS

A PANEL OF SUBJECTS ASSESSED THE NOISINESS OF SIX CARS AT FOUR CONSTANT SPEEDS. ALSO, THE SOUND-PRESSURE LEVELS IN THE VEHICLES WERE MEASURED IN 1/3 - OCTAVE BANDS FROM 25 TO 10,000 C./S. AND WITH THE A AND B WEIGHTING NETWORKS. FROM BAND LEVELS, ESTIMATES WERE MADE OF SINGLE-FIGURE PARAMETERS TO DESCRIBE THE NOISE ENVIRONMENT. GOOD CORRELATION WAS FOUND BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT AND ZWEICKER PHONS, STEVENS PHONS, DB. (A) AND DB. (B). SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT CORRELATED LESS WELL WITH SPEECH INTERFERENCE LEVEL, ETC. THE EXPERIMENT INDICATES THAT SUBJECTIVE RESPONSE TO INTERNAL CAR NOISE CAN BE ADEQUATELY MEASURED WITH THE A WEIGHTING NETWORK. /AUTHOR/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 3, No 1, PP 69-84
• Corporate Authors:

  Elsevier Publishing Company, Limited

  Rippleside Commercial Estate, Ripple Road
  Barking, Essex,   England 
• Authors:
  • Ford, R D
  • Saunders, D J
  • Hughes, G M
• Publication Date: 1970-1

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Applied Acoustics
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0003-682X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0003682X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Instruments for measuring loads or pressure; Measurement; Noise; Pressure; Sound
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interior
• Old TRIS Terms: Pressure measurement
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223227
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 3 1970 12:00AM