TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing human response to infrequent blast noise events
AU - Pater, Larry
AU - Nykaza, Edward
AU - Hodgdon, Kathleen Kindlin
AU - Atchley, Anthony A.
AU - Baumgartner, Robert
AU - Rathbun, Pamela
AU - Luz, George
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - In 1974, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended that all types of noise environments be assessed in terms of the annual time-averaged sound level. Noise impact on human communities is often assessed in terms of the percent of the community that is highly annoyed, as a function of annual time-averaged sound exposure level. This has proven to be unsatisfactory for assessing community response to military blast noise. Infrequent event noise levels from military testing and training activities can be loud enough to elicit strong negative community response, yet the annual time-averaged noise level may meet established acceptability criteria. Moreover, experience has shown that citizens and decision makers have great difficulty relating annual time-averaged noise levels to the blast noise events that they experience. As an interim procedure, Department of Defense stakeholders supplement annual time-averaged noise levels with individual event peak noise level criteria that indicate complaint risk. This paper describes methodology to establish dose-response cause-and-effect relationships between high-energy impulsive noise metrics and human response.
AB - In 1974, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended that all types of noise environments be assessed in terms of the annual time-averaged sound level. Noise impact on human communities is often assessed in terms of the percent of the community that is highly annoyed, as a function of annual time-averaged sound exposure level. This has proven to be unsatisfactory for assessing community response to military blast noise. Infrequent event noise levels from military testing and training activities can be loud enough to elicit strong negative community response, yet the annual time-averaged noise level may meet established acceptability criteria. Moreover, experience has shown that citizens and decision makers have great difficulty relating annual time-averaged noise levels to the blast noise events that they experience. As an interim procedure, Department of Defense stakeholders supplement annual time-averaged noise levels with individual event peak noise level criteria that indicate complaint risk. This paper describes methodology to establish dose-response cause-and-effect relationships between high-energy impulsive noise metrics and human response.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867757643
SN - 9781604238525
T3 - Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 22nd National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, NOISE-CON 2007
SP - 85
EP - 91
BT - Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 22nd National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, NOISE-CON 2007
T2 - 22nd National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, NOISE-CON 2007
Y2 - 22 October 2007 through 24 October 2007
ER -