SURVEY OF SONIC BOOM PHENOMENA FOR THE NON-SPECIALIST

The purpose of this document is to make available to the non-specialist and non-scientist a review of the technical concepts underlying the work done in the field of sonic boom research. It contains a non-technical discussion of the acoustic mechanisms which are fundamental in sonic boom phenomena, using photographs of water wave analogues. Then the report discusses a variety of basic aspects including: generation, propagation, minimization, human response and social criteria, structural and wildlife response, threshold Mach number operations and simulation methods. The report sites many references and draws extensively on a recent review for investigators in the field of sonic boom prepared by L. J. Runyan and E. J. Kane.

• Corporate Authors:

  H H Aerospace Design Company

  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523

  Federal Aviation Administration

  Systems R&D Service, 800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Slutsky, S
• Publication Date: 1975-2

Media Info

• Pagination: 106 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acoustic waves; Animals; Environment; Physiological aspects; Physiological stress; Sonic boom; Structural analysis; Structural mechanics; Supersonic aircraft; Wave motion
• Uncontrolled Terms: Structural response
• Old TRIS Terms: Response biology
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091284
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: HHA-14 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FA74WAI-468
• Files: NTIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 26 1975 12:00AM