PILING NOISE - THE PROBLEMS OF MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL

The paper describes the complexities of monitoring, evaluating and controlling impulse noise such as riveting, pile driving or road breaking. Conventional sound-level monitoring equipment can be highly inaccurate when measuring impulse sound. In terms of environmental nuisance, impulse sound is of a "psycho-acoustic" nature depending not only upon objective sound level but also on subjective factors associated with impulse repetition rate and the "sharpness" of each impulse. The author comments that British Standards and government legislation do not deal adequately with the problems of impulsive noise. An attempt to use the latest British Standard for limitation of construction site noise, for the purpose of piling noise control, is described. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Whitehall Technical Press Limited

  Wrotham Place
  Wrotham, Sevenoaks, Kent ME14 1PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • Miller, F L
• Publication Date: 1976-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: p. 23-29
• Serial:
  • Highway Engineer
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Whitehall Press Limited
  • ISSN: 0306-6452

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Equipment; Evaluation; Impulses; Laws; Lifting equipment; Measurement; Noise control; Pile driving; Prevention; Psychology; Rivets; Shock (Mechanics); Sound; Sound level; Standards; Support piles; Tests; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Impulses; Impulsion; Riveting
• ITRD Terms: 3674: Equipment; 5158: Lifting; 3399: Pile; 9149: Prevention; 2255: Psychology; 5471: Shock; 6748: Sound; 6747: Sound level; 187: Specification (standard); 6255: Test; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area; 5558: Vibration
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction; I53: Construction of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00134364
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM