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This book is a guide to the practical technology involved in achieving a more acceptable acoustic environment for human life. It deals with the two aspects of the acoustic environment, firstly with the public or social and secondly with the personal. The former is concerned largely with the outdoor environment, the latter with the indoor environment. Since modern life continues to produce an increasingly high level of outdoor noise, it is now vital to establish a technology for Environmental Acoustics based on Architectural Acoustics with a similarly multi-disciplinary approach. This book covers all aspects of environmental and architectural acoustics starting with the fundamentals of sound waves and hearing and going on to the measurement of noise and vibration, room acoustics, sound absorption, airborne sound insulation and noise and vibration control. This text will serve as an invaluable foundation for students of architecture and environmental engineering, including those new to the study of acoustics. Particularly useful are the problem-solving exercises which are presented after each chapter and relate to the material covered by each chapter.

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