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List of Books on Noise Control (Announced in Noise/News International)

1993 March - 1995 December

A book number is listed with each title, and identifies the issue in which the announcement was published. For example, BK030102 was the second book announcement published in the first issue of volume 3.

Acoustic and Elastic Wave Scattering Using Boundary Elements
J.J. do Rego Silva
BK020402
Active Sound Absorption
Claude J. Mazzola
BK010402
AIP Handbook of Condenser Microphones
George S.K. Wong and Tony F.W. Embleton, Editors
BK030103
Communication and Job Performance in Noise: A Review
Alice H. Suter
BK0103013
Elsevier's Dictionary of Noise and Noise Control
Robert Serre, Editor
BK010102
Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
Volume 1, Accelerators to Analytic Methods
George L. Trigg, Editor
BK030104
Enviromnental Management Handbook
Sven-Olof Ryding, Editor
BK010405
Environmental Engineering and Sanitation, Fourth Edition
Joseph A. Salvanto, Editor
BK010302
Field Representations and Introduction to Scattering
Vol. 1, Acoustic, Electromagnetic, and Elastic Wave Scattering
V. Varadan, A. Lakhtakia and V.K. Varadan, Editors
BK020105
Handbook of Environmental Acoustics
James P. Cowan
BK020202
Industrial Noise Control
Lewis H. Bell and Douglas H. Bell
BK020201
Medical-Legal Evaluation of Hearing Loss
Robert A. Dobie, M.D.
BK020204
Noise Control Management
Howard K. Pelton
BK010202
Noise and Vibration of Electrical Machines
P.L. Timar, Editor
BK010103
Noise Control of Hydraulic Machinery
Stan Skaistis
BK020203
NOISE CONTROL: Measurement, Analysis, and Control
of Sound and Vibration
Charles E. Wilson
BK020401
Noise Control in the Built Environment
John Roberts and Diane Fairhall, Editors
BK030105
Noise Control Manual
David A. Harris, Editor
BK010303
Noise Control in Russia
E. Nekrasova, Technical Editor, L. Kobelashvili, Translator
BK030106
Noise Control in Buildings
Cyril M. Harris, Editor
BK020101
Noise and Vibration Control Engineering
Leo L. Beranek and Istvan L. Ver, Editors
BK010101
Notes on Sound Absorption Technology
K. Uno Ingard
BK030101
Proceedings of Euro-Noise '92
R. Lawrence, Editor
BK010201
Propagation of Sound in Porous Media
J.F. Allard
BK020102
Pump Noise and Vibrations
G. Caignaert, Editor
BK020103
Recent Advances in Active Control of Sound and Vibration
R.A. Burdisso, Editor
BK010401
Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity
George C. Izenour
BK010404
Ruido - Fundamentos e Controle
Samir N.Y. Gerges
BK010304
Sinc Methods for Quadrature and Differential Equations
John Lund and Kenneth L. Bowers
BK010403
Software for Noise Control
Edited by Pascal Millot
BK030201
Statistical Energy Analysis
Richard H. Lyon and Richard G. DeJong
BK030102
Vibrations and Waves - Part A: Vibrations; Part B: Waves
Sylwester Kaliski, Editor
BK020104
The Handbook of Hearing and the Effects of Noise
Karl D. Kryter
BK030401
Noise Control '95
Zbigniew Engel, Adam Lipowczan, and Jerzy Sadowski, Editors
BK030402
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Acoustics
BK030403
Sourcebook on Noise Control
L. Gooday, M. Scanlon and J. Devine, Eds.
BK030403

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Noise and Vibration Control Engineering
Leo L. Beranek and Istvan L. Ver, Editors
BK010101
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158
x + 804 pp., cloth, USD 89.95

In 1971, Leo L. Beranek edited his now classic volume, Noise and Vibration Control, a text very widely used in noise control. A revised edition of the book was prepared in 1988 and was published by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering in the United States (INCE/USA). In the revision, the chapter on criteria for noise control was completely revised, and the chapter on determination of the sound power level of sound sources was updated.

This book has a name similar to the 1971 classic, but it has been completely rewritten, many new authors have joined the editorial staff, and a wealth of new material has been added. The 21 chapters cover all aspects of noise control engineering, from the basics of sound propagation, to active noise control. The chapter headings give an indication of the scope of this text: Basic Acoustical Quantities: Levels and Decibels, Waves and Impedances, Data Analysis, Determination of Sound Power Levels and Directivity of Noise Sources, Outdoor Sound Propagation, Sound in Small Enclosures, Noise in Rooms, Sound-absorbing Materials and Sound Absorbers, Interaction of Sound Waves with Solid Structures, Passive Silencers and Lined Ducts, Vibration Isolation, Structural Damping, Enclosures and Wrappings, Noise of Gas Flows, Active Noise Control, Damage Risk Criteria for Hearing and Human Body Vibration, Criteria for Noise and Vibration in Communities, Buildings, and Vehicles, Prediction of Machinery Noise, Noise and Vibration Control of the Internal Combustion Reciprocating Engine, Noise and Vibration of Electrical Machinery, and Elements of Gear Noise Prediction.

This text would be very useful for a graduate course in noise control engineering, and will be invaluable for engineers, consultants, researchers, and others working in noise control. It provides a comprehensive overview of the technology of noise and vibration control engineering, and will in the future certainly become the classic English language text in this field.

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Elsevier's Dictionary of Noise and Noise Control

Robert Serre, Editor
BK010102
Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Sara Burgerhartstraat 25, P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
iv + 206 pp., cloth, NLG 195.00

This dictionary includes definitions in the English language of 1175 keywords used in noise and noise control. In addition, there is a large number of cross-references to the keywords. For example, if one searches for a definition of "solidborne sound," one is referred to the keyword "structure-borne sound." The French and German equivalents are given for each of the keywords. This trilingual dictionary is intended to be useful for scientists and engineers, health and safety professionals, labor and management representatives, indeed for anyone who is professionally concerned with noise and its control. It includes noise terms that are used in a number of diverse disciplines, including audiometry, psychological and physiological acoustics, standardization, architecture and urban planning, industrial safety, building and construction. The dictionary includes many useful features, including synonyms and spelling variants, bibliographic sources, a separate listing of acronyms and abbreviations, and French and German indexes. It attempts to bring some degree of order and coherence to a multitude of terms and expressions from a broad spectrum of scientific, technical and medical disciplines.

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Noise and Vibration of Electrical Machines
P.L. Timar, Editor
BK010103
Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Sara Burgerhartstraat 25, P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
xvi + 339 pp., NLG 265.00, 1989
Originally published in the Hungarian language, and now available in English, the 18 chapters of this book are divided into three main topics: the generation and elimination of noise and vibration, experimental investigations of noise and vibration phenomena, and practical applications of vibroacoustic methods in the testing of rotating electrical machines. This is a systematic study summarizing currently-available knowledge of the vibroacoustic effects accompanying the energy conversion of electrical machines. This book deals with the acoustics of electrical machines in detail, presenting both the theoretical and the practical aspects of the generation of mechanical and magnetic noise by electrical machines. Beginning with a detailed field analysis used in the computation of the noise of electromagnetic origin in rotating electrical machines, the authors discuss the noise of inverter-fed asynchronous motors and the influence of loading. The book then deals with the noise of transformers and high voltage power lines. The second part of the book is devoted to vibroacoustical measurements. In addition to steady-state noise level data, the authors present practical analog and digital methods for measuring the noise characteristics of the machines in transient modes of operation and when generating impulsive sounds. This book is useful for engineers, designers, students and others who are concerned with the noise and vibration control of electrical machines.

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Proceedings of Euro-Noise '92
R. Lawrence, Editor
BK010201
Institute of Acoustics, Agriculture House, 5 Holywell Hill, St. Albans, Herts, AL1 1EU, UK
xiii + 987pp., 3 volumes, cloth, GBP 65
(Also available from Noise Control Foundation, P.O. Box 2469 Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA, USD 115)
Euro-Noise '92 was a Pan-European noise conference sponsored by the Institute of Acoustics and held at Imperial College, London during 1992 September 14-18. A program of 120 invited and contributed papers was organized and presented in 9 technical sessions. There were 3 plenary lectures; each one introduces one of the three volumes of the proceedings. M. van der Venne, the principal administrator responsible for occupational noise within the EC Commission, gave the keynote paper which is the lead paper of volume 1. He reviewed the rationale behind present and future EC Directives on noise at the workplace. The papers in volume 1 include 8 on the use of Leq as a descriptor, followed by a dozen on transportation noise. The volume concludes with 9 papers principally in the industrial noise area.

Volume 2 opens with an invited plenary paper by S. Fidell, BBN Systems and Technologies, Los Angeles, USA who discussed community response to environmental noise. He presented the approach to annoyance prediction which has given rise to the dosage-response relationships used in American planning studies. Then follows roughly a dozen papers on machinery noise standards and regulations. The remaining papers in the volume deal mostly with noise control of specific sources, ranging from wind turbines to gearboxes.

The lead paper in Volume 3 is the third plenary lecture by A.D. Wallis of Cirrus Research, UK who surveyed the history of sound measurement from Pliny the Elder some 20 centuries ago up to the present day. The papers relating to instrumentation and measurement presented at Euro-Noise '92 are to be found in this volume. In addition there is a potpourri of papers on a variety of other noise topics.

The proceedings are attractively printed from author-prepared manuscripts and presented in a readable format. If one can draw that inference from a proceedings, it appears that Euro-Noise '93 more than achieved its objective of bringing together European acousticians and noise specialists in order to exchange ideas and views on the European scene. But for the reader who was not present at Euro-Noise '92, it is not an easy task to find one's way around in the proceedings in order to locate papers of interest. There are neither subject nor author indices, and the volumes are not subdivided by subjects. The 11-page table of contents is all that the interested reader has to go on. The individual papers are not classified either by subject or by session. Nonetheless, the proceedings contain a valuable insight into the state of the technology of noise control development on the European scene.

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Noise Control Management
Howard K. Pelton
BK010202
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 115 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, USA
xiii + 267 pp., cloth, USD 59.95
This volume will appeal to individuals with little or no training in noise control engineering, but have some responsibility for control of noise - either in an industrial plant or related to a new project in which noise control is an element of the design. As the author points out in the preface, Experience has shown that personnel assigned the responsibility for noise control may not have the time, training, or inclination required to solve noise problems. The book emphasizes the practical aspects of noise control, and begins with a discussion of how to establish a noise control program in an industrial setting; how to identify priorities, and how to define a noise control program.

Chapter 2 deals with evaluation of noise levels in installations in order to maintain a program. Chapter 3 is a review of methods for placing noise and vibration specifications on equipment, and details the responsibilities of various parties for noise control. Unfortunately, establishment of noise emission specifications is generally not covered.

Chapter 4 on noise control guidelines and materials uses a source-path-receiver approach to noise control, and gives a general discussion of each of these three areas. Chapter 5 deals with the management of a hearing conservation program in an industrial setting.

Chapter 6 on fundamentals is brief and non-mathematical; the material on sound fields in rooms covers only rooms which are nearly rectangular, and there is no discussion of sound fields in rooms whose length and width are large compared with the height - a situation that occurs frequently in practice.

Chapters 7 and 8 deal with instrumentation and criteria, respectively, and chapter 9 deals with noise measurement procedures - mostly in situ procedures, and not noise emission measurement methods. The final chapter deals with case histories, and there are several appendices which contain practical information that may be of use to those who have responsibilities for noise control management.

The book is written from the point of view of a consultant rather than an engineer in industry responsible for the design of quiet products, and most of the information in the book is derived from American sources. Newcomers to noise control will find the book useful, and consultants will be able to evaluate how their own methods of dealing with clients compare to those suggested by the author - an engineer in consulting practice in Dallas, Texas, USA.

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Communication and Job Performance in Noise: A Review

Alice H. Suter
BK010301
ASHA Monograph Number 28, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 10801 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA.
xi + 84 pp., paper, USD 28.75

In this monograph, the subject of noise and job performance is divided into four categories, each one presented as a separate chapter: (1) the effects of noise on the perception of speech and warning signals, (2) the effects of hearing loss on the perception of speech and warning signals, (3) the effects of hearing protectors on the perception of speech and warning signals and (4) the effects of noise on task performance. This monograph summarizes the abundant laboratory evidence and the limited information from field studies that illuminate these issues. Chapter 1 covers speech levels, transmission characteristics, talker and listener variables, prediction methods and acceptability criteria. Chapter 2 summarizes the effects of hearing loss on speech recognition and predicting communication as a function of hearing impairment. Chapter 3 gives detailed consideration of how hearing protectors affect speech communication and the ability to hear warning signals. Chapter 4 provides confirmation for a variety of averse effects of noise on task performance which are not as easily discerned or predicted as are other noise effects, such as those on hearing and speech communication.

In Chapter 5, conclusions are presented, and recommendations for future research in each of the areas covered in Chapters 1-4 are given. An appendix covers U.S. military performance criteria, and information on impaired hearing in the military.

An extensive bibliography which covers all of the four areas has also been included.

This monograph is intended to be helpful to psychologists, managers concerned with efficiency and productivity, as well as consultants in acoustics, audiology, and industrial hygiene.

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Environmental Engineering and Sanitation, Fourth Edition
Joseph A. Salvanto, Editor
BK010302
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158, USA.
xxvi + 1418 pp., cloth, USD 125
Noise control is included in this volume only in a portion of a chapter which covers air pollution. The 22 pages devoted to noise summarize fundamentals, criteria, noise measurement and noise control. The material will be of interest to professionals involved in environmental issues other than noise - such as disease control, water treatment, solid waste management, air pollution, and related fields; these professionals would presumably purchase this book for its coverage of the above topics. A brief review of the properties of sound waves is followed by sections on the effects of noise, sources of noise, noise measurement. Control of noise is also discussed; industrial noise, transport noise, noise reduction, and regulations for noise, - federal as well as state and local.

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Noise Control Manual
David A. Harris, Editor
BK010303
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 7625 Empire Drive, Florence, KY 41042, USA.
xiii + 162 pp., cloth, USD 49.95
The subtitle of this manual is: "Guidelines for Problem-Solving in the Industrial/Commercial Acoustical Environment." The dust cover informs the reader that the manual was prepared by unnamed experts at the Noise Control Association, an association of manufacturers of noise control products, materials, and systems. Intended to assist the newcomer with the basics of noise control, this non-mathematical introduction to the subject consists of 8 chapters and 5 appendices.

Using the source-path-receiver model, the main text covers sound absorbing materials, sound barriers, vibration damping and isolating materials, silencers, systems for noise control and office acoustics. The appendices give a glossary of acoustical terms, a list of acoustical standards, a compilation of acoustical data, a bibliography and a 22-page design guide with worksheets. The design guide covers some of the most important calculations that are necessary for the solution of a typical noise control problem.

This manual is intended to be a working tool for plant engineers, safety managers, regulatory enforcement officers, and mechanical designers in industrial, commercial, and institutional environments. The book is well illustrated and contains a number of worked examples.

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Ruido - Fundamentos e Controle
Samir N.Y. Gerges
BK010304
Departamento de Engenharia Mecanica, Universidada Federal de Santa Catarina, Laboratorio de Acustica e Vibracoes, LVA, Cx.P. 476, Florianopolis, SC - CEP:88049, Brasil.
Edited and distributed by the Brazilian Center for Security and Industrial Health. Printed by the University Press, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
xxxvi + 600 pp, paper

This may well be the first text to appear in the Portuguese language that is exclusively devoted to noise and its control. This comprehensive text contains 13 chapters which cover all aspects of noise control. The major subjects covered are: acoustic waves, the effects of noise and vibration on people, instrumentation, sound radiation from vibrating structures, sound isolation, sound propagation outdoors, sound fields in rooms, materials and silencers for the absorption of sound, filters and acoustic resonators, shock and vibration isolation, machinery noise, hearing protection and the engineering control of noise.

The book is intended to serve as a text for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering curricula, particularly mechanical and civil engineering, as well as architecture. It is well illustrated and attractively printed.

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Recent Advances in Active Control of Sound and Vibration
R.A. Burdisso, Editor
BK010401
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Recent Advances in Active Control of Sound and Vibration, C.R. Fuller, Chairman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061, USA, 1993 April 28-30. Available from Technomic Publishing Company, 851 New Holland Avenue, Box 3535, Lancaster, PA 17604, USA. xiii + 1006 pp, hardcover, USD 195
The concept of active control of sound and vibration is relatively simple to understand even for a layman, but the theory and application of active control are complex, and are being studied at many institutions around the world. This collection of 80 papers related to active control is unusual for a proceedings volume because the papers are of full length, about 12 pages each, and the typography is unusually good. The manuscripts appear to be prepared by the authors, but they have a common style, and contain excellent figures and readable equations. The titles of the seventeen sections in the book give an idea of the breadth of the coverage: Feedforward Algorithms I, Interior Noise, Modeling and System Identification, Actuators and Sensors, Applications I, Feedback Algorithms, Structurally Radiated Sound I, Duct Acoustics, Active Isolation and Absorbers, Feedforward Algorithms II, Fluid Structure Interaction, Flexible Structures, Feedforward Algorithms III, Applications II, Vibration Control, Structurally Radiated Sound II, and Sound Field Modification.

This volume is a follow-on to the proceedings of the first conference on the same topic which was also held at Blacksburg Virginia - on 1991 April 15-17. The earlier volume was edited by C.A. Rogers and C.R. Fuller, and contains 924 technical pages in a format similar to that of the second proceedings. Unfortunately, the first volume is now out of print.

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Active Sound Absorption

Claude J. Mazzola
BK010402
NAMLAK, P.O. Box 804, Mamaroneck, NY 10543, USA.
vii + 106 pp, paperback, USD 49.50

This slim volume is primarily devoted to the theory of active sound absorption in the case of a plane wave incident on an vibrating body, the object being to prevent the wave from being reflected at the boundary. The control system and feedback strategy are discussed and the reflection coefficient for the plate is derived. Information on other geometries and on oblique incidence is also given.

Sinc Methods for Quadrature and Differential Equations
John Lund and Kenneth L. Bowers
BK010403
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 3600 University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688, USA.
x + 304 pp, hardcover, USD 42.50
This mathematical volume is devoted to the Sinc-Galerkin method for solving time-dependent partial differential equations, and is offered as a more elementary version of material which is currently found in the literature. Information provided by SIAM indicates that "engineers may find sinc methods a very competitive approach to the more common boundary element or finite element methods." It is also suggested that "workers in the signal processing community may find this particular approach a refreshingly different view of the use of sinc functions."

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Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity
George C. Izenour
BK010404
Yale University Press, 92A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
xxi + 234 pp, hardcover, USD 110
In this beautifully illustrated and printed volume, Professor Izenour examines the archeological remains of twenty-four Greek, Greco-Hellenistic and Roman Buildings. Among other topics he gives tentative conclusions on the acoustical quality of the interior spaces created in ancient times. Without an understanding of the relationship between room volume, sound absorption, and reverberation, it seems clear that the designers of these spaces were at times surprised by the resulting acoustical quality achieved. Information on acoustics is presented in Chapter 3. Noise is not mentioned except to say that the ancients were not plagued with external noise and noise in modern ventilating systems that concern noise control engineers today.

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Environmental Management Handbook
Sven-Olof Ryding, Editor
BK010405
IOS Press, Van Diemenstraat 94, 1013 CN Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
xviii + 777 pp., cloth, SEK 700
This book represents a collective international effort which is intended to serve the needs of people dealing with the effective management of the environment in different countries of the world. The purpose of the book is to provide an overview of the interrelated, interdisciplinary and international aspects needed to be dealt with, in order to successfully manage increasingly serious environmental problems. The intended audience of the book is those individuals who are responsible for making decisions regarding the management and control of environmental problems, including policy-makers, legislators, managers, company presidents, as well as individuals in environmental protection authorities, state agencies, non- governmental organizations, trade unions, etc. Ten pages of the book are devoted to noise as an environmental problem. The major sources of environmental noise are described: motor vehicle noise, noise from high-speed trains, airport and aircraft noise, and external noise from manufacturing plants. Selected approaches are then presented of the remedial actions that can be taken to reduce the noise from the major sources.

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Noise Control in Buildings
Cyril M. Harris, Editor
BK020101
McGraw Hill , Inc., 11 West 19th Street, New York, Ny 10011, USA.
viii + XXX pp., cloth, 1993, USD 45.00
This book is subtitled A Practical Guide for Architects and Engineers. It provides a wealth of information, mainly without the use of mathematics, that can be used to ensure that noise control measures are incorporated into buildings during the design stage. The reader will find introductory material on the general aspects of sound transmission into buildings, properties of sound waves, sound absorption coefficients, and tables of sound absorption coefficients.

There are chapters on both airborne and structureborne sound transmission, and several chapters on the control of specific noise sources in buildings. These include heating, ventilating, and airconditioning systems, noise in plumbing systems, noise in electrical and mechanical systems, and the uses of vibration isolators to control noise.

It is pointed out in the preface that extensive tables of the sound absorptive properties of materials are not generally available in the literature, and that the characteristics of acoustical materials manufactured in North America, Europe, and Asia have been collected and published as appendices to Chapter 3, Sound Absorptive Materials.

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Propagation of Sound in Porous Media
J.F. Allard
BK020102
Elsevier Science Publishers, Ltd., Crown House, Linton Road, Barking, Essex IG11 8JU, United Kingdom
xiii + 284 pp., cloth, USD 89.95
This book is devoted to the physics and mathematics of sound propagation through porous materials. The essentials of acoustic impedance, reflection of sound, and flow resistance of materials is given in the introductory chapters. The text then covers sound propagation in porous materials, including porous materials in general and materials having circular pores. The Biot theory is then applied to the acoustical properties of materials that have an elastic frame, such as acoustical foam materials.

Another chapter in the book deals with the modelling of porous layers, and emphasizes the use of transfer matrices in the prediction of the impedance of such structures. Two additional topics are covered; the effects of perforated facings on the sound absorptive properties of materials and sound transmission in stratified porous materials.

Throughout the book, the treatment is generally mathematical, and is in a form that lends itself to mathematical modelling of porous materials. Many of the calculated results are given in figures; the author offers to supply copies of the computer programs that have been used to calculate impedance and transmission coefficients.

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Pump Noise and Vibrations
G. Caignaert, Editor
BK020103
Centre Technique des Industries Mé chaniques (CETIM), B.P. 67, 60304 Senlis, France
xv + 546 pp., paperback, FFR 417.06 without tax, FFR 440 including tax.
This volume is the proceedings of the first international symposium on pump noise and vibrations sponsored by the Socié té Hydrotechnique de France. The symposium was held at the Centre de Recherche d'Electricté de France (EDF) on 1993 July 7-9. The key lecture on "Interaction of pumps and piping systems with regard to pressure fluctuations was followed by 10 topics all related to pressure fluctuations in pumping systems and the resulting production of noise and vibration. The ten topics give an idea of the scope of the papers presented: Experimental analysis of unsteady flow in pumps, numerical analysis of unsteady flow in pumps, Modelling and prediction of fluid-borne noise and similarity laws, measurement of fluid borne noise in pumps, structure-borne and air-borne noise measurement, Dynamic interaction between pump and piping system, Computer codes for noise and vibration analysis, Experimental methods for noise and vibration analysis of pumps and piping systems, Case histories, and Pump noise and vibration control.

Of the 58 papers in the proceedings, 15 are in French and 43 are in English.

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Vibrations and Waves - Part A: Vibrations; Part B: Wave
Sylwester Kaliski, Editor
BK020104
Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V., P.O. Box 1991, 1000BZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Part A: xiii + 488 PP., hardcover, NLG 330.00; Part B: xi + 382 pp., NLG 280.00. Price for both volumes, NLG 550.00
These two companion volumes were edited by Sylwester Kaliski in collaboration with Lech Solarz. The first volume is devoted to vibrations, and covers vibrations in continuous systems such as bars, shafts, strings, beams, membranes, plates, and shells. Both linear and non-linear vibrations are treated. Approximate methods treated include the Ritz method, the Rayleigh method, and the Bubnov-Galerkin method. The final chapters of the book are devoted to the physical foundations of the vibration theory of solids. Crystal structures and the stochastic dynamics of vibratory systems are among the topics covered.

Part B is devoted to a study of a variety of topics in wave propagation, including the basic equations of motion, propagation in non-linear elastic media, boundary value problems, plane, cylindrical, and spherical waves, shock waves, surface waves, and stochastic analysis of wave processes.

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Field Representations and Introduction to Scattering; Vol. 1, Acoustic, Electromagnetic, and Elastic Wave Scattering
V. Varadan, A. Lakhtakia and V.K. Varadan, Editors
BK020105
Borth Holland, P.O. Box 1991, 1000BZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
xv + 355 pp., hardcover, USD 134.50
This book is a treatment of the general theory of scattering for both scalar and vector fields. A general introduction to the properties of acoustic fields is given, and boundary conditions are discussed. Integral representations and integral equations for harmonic fields are discussed and the properties of scattered fields are discussed; in general and by spheres and cylinders. The book is mathematical with a good deal of formalism related to the general theory of scattering.

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Industrial Noise Control
Lewis H. Bell and Douglas H. Bell
BK020201
Marcel Dekker, Inc., 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Cloth, xiv + 660 pp., USD 150
This is the second edition of a book on industrial noise control which was first published 12 years ago. The text is well organized with Part I devoted to the fundamentals of noise - propagation of sound, levels and decibels, measurement of sound and psychoacoustics. Part II on noise control methods covers materials, sound absorption, enclosures, silencers, and vibration control. Part III is devoted to the nature of sound sources, and covers noise emission from a very wide variety of sources, including fans and blowers, gears, gas jets, and various types of noisy machinery. There is a short description of active duct silencers included in the section of absorptive and reactive silencers.

Part IV is devoted to environmental acoustics, and covers both indoor and outdoor noise control as well as environmental noise regulations and personal hearing protection. The type fonts and style selected by the publisher are reminiscent of those used in Noise/News in the few years before the newsletter was converted to this magazine in 1993. The text is very readable, but letter symbols are often in roman type rather than italic type. Both English and metric units are used in the text.

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Handbook of Environmental Acoustics
James P. Cowan
BK020202
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 115 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Cloth, x + 283 pp., USD 59.95
This book, as the title implies, is devoted to environmental acoustics with emphasis on the general characteristics of sources of noise that affects the environment, construction issues that affect noise levels in offices, single-family dwellings, and multifamily dwellings. There is also a chapter on noise regulations, guidelines, and ordinances. The material on environmental acoustics is preceded by four chapters which cover acoustical terminology, noise descriptors, noise measurement, and noise control terminology and design. The latter chapter describes the source-path-receiver model often used in noise control, and contains information on the properties of acoustical materials, path noise control (mufflers, silencers, etc.), The principles of source noise control are given, but little emphasis is placed on this subject. Similarly, the receiver is given little emphasis.

The chapter on noise regulations, guidelines and ordinances gives many examples of federal, state, and local regulations, and gives guidelines for the drafting of municipal noise ordinances, and an appendix includes a model municipal noise ordinance. The chapter on common noise sources describes in general, and includes the characteristics of recreational, transportation, household, and natural sources of noise.

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Noise Control of Hydraulic Machinery
Stan Skaistis
BK020203
Marcel Dekker, Inc., 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Cloth, vii + 324 pp., USD 125
This specialized volume is primarily devoted to noise reduction for pumps and valves. It therefore includes information on both airborne noise, noise propagation in fluids, and structureborne noise. It also includes information on mechanical isolation of motors and pumps and various types of filters that can be used to reduce fluidborne noise.

The treatment is of an engineering nature rather than a theoretical nature, and many examples of noise reduction techniques are included. The chapter on pumping forces and moments describes in practical terms the generation of the forces in hydraulic equipment that are responsible for the generation and transmission of airborne, structureborne, and fluidborne sound.

There are examples of pump spectra with the various peaks in the spectrum related to the cause of the noise, examples of the effectiveness of control shaft isolators, information on the effectiveness of barriers, and examples of different types of plate radiation.

There are also chapters which cover the basics of different types of pumps, the nature of the generation of sound and vibration, and methods for the diagnosis of noise problems in various types of hydraulic machinery.

The publisher has used the same typography as that for the first book described above.

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Medical-Legal Evaluation of Hearing Loss
Robert A. Dobie, M.D.
BK020204
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 115 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Cloth, xiv + 381 pp., USD 69.95
As stated in the first chapter, this book will be of most use to otologists and otolaryngologists. It can also supplement the professional training of others such as audiologists, engineers, attorneys, etc. It is stated that nothing in the book requires more background than high school science and eighth-grade mathematics. A brief discussion of the principles of acoustics is followed by a description of the ear and the various tests that can be made to determine hearing acuity.

While much of the book contains information of interest to medical specialists, there are several chapters that relate to noise, noise-induced hearing loss, non-occupational noise sources, hearing conservation and reduction of noise exposure, legal remedies for hearing loss, and the role of the expert witness.

A brief history of federal and state regulations related to noise exposure is included in the chapter on hearing conservation. Sources of sound (noise?) discussed under nonoccupational hearing loss include shooting, loud music, recreational sources, household appliances and transportation noise. The chapter on legal remedies for hearing loss includes a discussion of workers compensation, product liability claims, and the importance of federal noise regulation on injury litigation.

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NOISE CONTROL: Measurement, Analysis, and Control of Sound and Vibration
Charles E. Wilson
BK020401
Krieger Publishing Company, P.O. Box 9542, Melbourne, FL 32902, USA.
xviii + 565 pp, hard cover, 1994, USD 74.50
This is a 1994 reprint, with corrections, of a book originally published in 1989. The ten chapters in the book cover a wide variety of topics in acoustics, noise control, and vibration. The basic principles of acoustics are covered in the first chapter. These include sound pressure, sound power, and sound intensity, combining sound levels, frequency analysis, sound propagation, the principles of active and passive noise control, and criteria and standards. Chapter 2 contains additional basic principles, especially monopole, dipole, and quadrupole radiation, normal mode theory, principles of diffraction, diffraction due to sound barriers, and noise contour mapping.

The third chapter is devoted to instrumentation and measurement in acoustics and noise control. Microphones and intensity probes are described, and several examples, mostly from Brü el & Kjæ r, are presented. Fast Fourier Transform methods are covered, as are intensity methods and methods for the determination of sound power.

Chapter 4 covers hearing conservation, including a basic description of the hearing mechanism, audiometric principles and testing, criteria for hearing damage, and hearing protectors. Community noise is the subject of chapter 5. Here, such subjects as community response, non-auditory effects of noise, speech interference, equivalent sound levels, noise prediction, and regulatory measures are covered.

Control of noise inside buildings is covered in Chapter 6. The subjects include sound transmission through structures, prediction and control of interior noise levels, and control of noise from common indoor noise sources such as home appliances, heating and ventilating systems, and plumbing noise.

Chapter 7 is titled industrial noise control, but it does not emphasize broad topics such as in-plant noise control. Rather, it covers control of machinery noise itself, including gear noise, mufflers and silencers for noise control, and enclosures. There is, however, a section of the chapter devoted to industrial noise control case histories.

Highway noise as well as surface transportation noise control are covered in Chapter 8. This includes sources of vehicle noise, highway noise prediction, noise barriers, non-highway noise sources, and environmental impact statements. This chapter is followed by a chapter on aircraft noise which gives an overview of aerodynamic noise sources, prediction of noise around airports, and airport noise compatibility planning.

The last chapter in the book is devoted to vibration analysis; the principles of vibration, the design of vibration isolators, and vibration measurement.

Each chapter contains examples, sample problems, and references. There are several flow charts in the book which will assist in the programming of some of the algorithms described.

The book is intended for those with training in engineering, and, in the preface, it is stated that the content could be covered in a three-credit-hour course for students in their third or fourth year, or in a graduate course.

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Acoustic and Elastic Wave Scattering Using Boundary Elements
J.J. do Rego Silva
BK020402
Computational Mechanics Publications, 225 Bridge Street, Billerica, MA 01821, USA. (USA, Canada, and Mexico), Ashurst
Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA, United Kingdom.
134pp., hard cover, 1994, USD 69.00, GBP 49
This text first reviews the basic equations for acoustical problems with emphasis on a surface integral representation of the sound field in terms of a Green's function and its approximate representation as a sum over a number of boundary elements. The details of constructing boundary elements are presented and the solution to several generic problems, such as the radiating sphere, are given. The text also covers the basic equations of elastodynamics and their integral representation - followed by numerical examples.

Chapter 3 covers hypersingular boundary element methods with emphasis on the formalism, computational methods, and numerical results. An improved formulation for 3D acoustic radiation problems is treated in chapter 4, and the solution of exterior acoustic problems is emphasized. The formalism is presented and numerical results are given. The final chapter is devoted to a new formulation for 3D elastic wave problems.

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Notes on Sound Absorption Technology
K. Uno Ingard
BK030101
Noise Control Foundation P.O. Box 2469 Arlington Branch Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA
384 pp., soft cover, 1994, USD 88
This text covers a variety of topics related to the propagation and absorption of sound. The main emphasis is on the properties of sound absorptive materials and their effectiveness in absorbing sound under a variety of conditions. The chapters on sound-absorptive structures include sound absorption by screens (including multiple screens and variable spacing), the properties of rigid and flexible porous materials (including both open and closed cell materials), the effects of perforated and wire mesh facings, and sound propagation in lined ducts. The sections on measurement of the properties of sound absorptive materials include measurement of flow resistance and measurement of complex compressibility. Other chapters in the book cover the effects of viscosity and heat conduction on propagation of sound, sound absorption in wind tunnels, resonator design, the theory of transmission matrices, and fundamentals of acoustics.

The book is accompanied by three high-density 3 1/2 inch disks which contain 38 executable programs. These programs, written for IBM-compatible personal computers running under DOS, allow the user to make a variety of calculations of the sound absorptive properties of the structures described above. A 64-page section of the book is devoted to examples of the use of the programs.

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Statistical Energy Analysis
Richard H. Lyon and Richard G. DeJong
BK030102
Butterworth-Heinemann, 313 Washington Street, Newton, MA 02158-1626
277 pp., hard cover, 1995, USD 89.95
This book is a revision of Statistical Energy Analysis of Dynamical Systems which was originally written by Richard H. Lyon. The book begins with a description of the origins of statistical energy analysis (SEA), and then presents an analysis of vibrating systems in terms of energy. The analysis continues with a description of how energy is shared in coupled systems, and how, at relatively high modal densities, the modal response statistics of systems can be calculated. These topics make up Part I of the text. Part II of the text is devoted to engineering applications. Although the procedures are based on the theoretical material in Part I, the material is intended to be understandable without a detailed understanding of the theoretical background. Topics covered in Part II include such topics as how to set up a model of a dynamical system, and evaluation of the mode count, damping loss factors, and coupling loss factors.

There are chapters on evaluation of input power to the system, solving for the energy distribution and evaluating the dynamical response variables. There is also a brief discussion of transient SEA and an example of the application of SEA to a welded steel plate structure.

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AIP Handbook of Condenser Microphones

George S.K. Wong and Tony F.W. Embleton, Editors
BK030103
American Institute of Physics, 500 Sunnyside Blvd, Woodbury, NY 11797, USA
321 pp., hard cover, 1995. USD 85.00
This text is the third in a series of books on modern acoustics and signal processing published by the American Institute of Physics. As its title indicates, it is devoted to the condenser microphone. The book opens with a history of the condenser microphone and the history of the Western Electric 640AA capacitance microphone. The following chapters cover the theory of condenser microphones, calibration methods, (free-field, reciprocity, and diffuse field calibrations), and calibration methods employed by national testing laboratories, including those in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.

The book also deals with secondary calibration methods which are widely used in the field. These include comparison methods, calibration at high amplitudes, the use of the electrostatic actuator. Additional chapters deal with determination of the phase match of microphones and the practical aspects of handling and caring for these devices. The last chapter is devoted to the characteristics of commercially-available microphones, the data being supplied by the manufacturers.

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Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
Volume 1, Accelerators to Analytic Methods
George L. Trigg, Editor
BK030104
VCH Publishers Inc., 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 909, New York, NY 10010. The publisher also has offices in Weinheim, Germany and Cambridge, United Kingdom.
666 pp., hard cover, 1991, USD 295
As indicated by the subtitle, this volume contains a wide variety of topics in applied physics. Since acoustics falls between accelerators and analytic methods, one will find several chapters of interest to those working in noise control. There are 285 pages devoted to acoustics. The topics covered in these chapters are:

• Acoustic Properties of Liquids
• Acoustical Instrumentation
• Acoustical Tomography
• Architectural Acoustics
• Linear Acoustics
• Nonlinear Acoustics
• Psychological Acoustics
• Underwater Acoustics

These chapters are followed by a chapter on aerodynamics which is also of interest to workers in noise control.

Of the above chapters, the ones on instrumentation, architectural acoustics, linear acoustics, and physiological acoustics are most relevant to noise control. The instrumentation chapter, by Busch-Vishniac and Hixon presents a detailed description of transducers, but little on analysis equipment. The chapter on architectural acoustics, by Walsh and Norris describes sound fields in rooms, the effects of sound absorptive materials, reverberation time equations and sound isolation. The chapter on linear acoustics, by Pierce, covers the basic equations of acoustics, sound attneuation, sound intensity and sound power, and wave propagation. The chapter on psychological acoustics, by Yost, covers the scientific aspects of response to sound and hearing impariment, but does not include noise control criteria.

Some of the topics which are to be covered in future volumes will also be of interest to workers in noise control. The following subjects are related to acoustics, but are indexed under different topics. These include filters and resonators, solids, sensors, holography, microscopy, engineering acoustics, and atmospheric acoustics. It is hoped that the publishers will, when the final volume has been published, consider republishing the chapters related to acoustics and noise control as an Encyclopedia of Applied Acoustics. Such a volume would be of considerable interest to those concerned with acoustics and noise control.

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Noise Control in the Built Environment
John Roberts and Diane Fairhall, Editors
BK030105
Published by Gower Technical, Gower Publishing Co., Ltd., Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3HR, United Kingdom. Distributed in the USA by Gower Publishing Co., Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036, USA.
xii + 252 pp., hardcover, USD 69.95
This book begins with theoretical considerations in acoustics which include such basic topics as sound pressure, sound intensity, sound power, the sound fields in rooms, sound absorption, and sound transmission. Chapter 2 covers frequency weighting and instrumentation. The next three chapters cover environmental noise itself, and include information of sources of community noise such as traffic noise and aircraft noise, principles of building acoustics and sound insulation between dwellings, and industrial noise control. Chapter 6 deals with hearing conservation programs and audiometry. Chapter 7 covers noise in buildings from mechanical equipment such as fans, blowers, pumps, etc. The chapter gives information on noise reduction techniques including use of silencers and vibration isolators.

The final chapter in the book deals with applications for active sound attenuation, and outlines the principles of active attenuation in duct systems. Future applications of active noise control are also discussed.

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Noise Control in Russia
E. Nekrasova, Technical Editor, L. Kobelashvili, Translator
BK030106
NPK Informatica, P.O. Box 81, Tbilisi 380008, Republic of Georgia, International Scientific Publications, P.O. Box 13, Auburn, AL 36831, USA.
262 pp, hard cover, USD 70
This text is part of a series of books on applied physics and engineering with O.V. Rudenko as Editor-in-Chief. It is a series of nine articles, translated into English, on various topics related to noise control in Russia. The first chapter, by A.S. Nikiforov, is devoted to structure-borne damping, especially in ribbed plates. The second article, by G.M. Avilova and S.A. Rybak, deals with sound insulation by layered partitions, especially walls. The third article deals with adaptive systems for canceling noise and vibration, and covers algorithms for noise and vibration cancellation systems. Yu. I. Matveev, in the fourth article, turns to monitoring of vibration levels in industry, and deals with measurements and the effects of vibration levels on workers. Noise and vibration in centrifugal fans, the effects of fan housings, and the design of mufflers is the subject of the fifth article on noise and vibration of centrifugal fans by D.V. Bazhenof and L.A. Bazhenova.

Acoustical wave propagation is inherently nonlinear, and noise by high-amplitude waves is the subject of the sixth article, a short description of nonlinear methods in noise control by O.V. Rudenko. Room acoustics, including sound energy decay and normal mode theory is covered in the seventh chapter by S.A. Rybak and L.A. Soroka. Finally, there are two chapters by G.L. Osipov, the first on protection from environmental noise generated by automobiles, aircraft, trains, and industrial noise sources, and the second on Russian standards for protection against noise.

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Software for Noise Control
Edited by Pascal Millot
BK030201
Centre Technique des Industries Mé canique, 52, Avenue Fé lix-Louat, F60304 Senlis, France
1074 pp. in 3 volumes, soft cover, 1995, FRF 620 (including tax). FRF 587.68 (without tax). Required shipping charge: FRF 100.
This three-volume set is the Proceedings of euro?noise '95 which was held in Lyon, France on 1995 March 21-23. The meeting was the second in the euro?noise series. Unlike the proceedings of the first conference in 1992, euro?noise '95 and the proceedings are devoted to a specific topic, Software for Noise Control. While the topic is specialized, software can (and is) being written to solve a wide variety of problems in noise control engineering, and therefore the subjects in the proceedings cover rather broad areas. The 162 papers in the volumes are divided into eight major sections, generally with several subsections. The sections and subsections are:

Noise prediction in factories, room acoustics (15 papers)

• software available on the market
• present expertise

Prediction of outdoor and traffic noise (27 papers)

• traffic noise: provisional models
• traffic noise: expert systems/users
• railway noise and vibration
• environmental noise/industry
• outdoor noise propagation: barriers
• outdoor noise propagation: physical aspects

Prediction and optimization in active control (8 papers)

Prediction of structure-borne noise and related machinery noise (56 papers)

• introductory and invited lectures
• formulations for analytical and structural acoustics software
• applications of analytical and structural software
• formulations for numerical acoustics software
• application of numerical acoustics software
• power flow transmission in structures
• SEA/basic formulations and application of existing tools
• design for structures and machines
• software validation

Ducts and silencers (15 papers)

• waves and pulsations in ducts and pipes
• modeling of silencers

Materials for noise control (9 papers)

• absorption
• insulation

Aero and hydrodynamic sources and machines (6 papers)

Noise measurement using dedicated software (26 papers)

• noise and images
• 3-dimensional acoustics
• computer-aided measurement

The papers in the proceedings generally fall into one of four categories; those which use existing software to solve a specific problem, those which address the software needs of the future, those which use "in house" or proprietary software to solve problems, and those which are primarily analytical in nature and present calculated results.

euro-noise '92 was organized by the Socié té Franç aise d'Acoustique (SFA), and was held in cooperation with International INCE and the European Acoustical Association. It was an International INCE Symposium

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The Handbook of Hearing and the Effects of Noise
Karl D. Kryter
Academic Press, Inc., 525 B Street, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
673 pp., hard cover, USD 79.95
The subtitle of this book, Physiology, Psychology, and Public Health, is a good 5- word description of the contents of this book. The text begins with a 15-page summary of noise definitions and measurement techinques. This chapter is followed by a review of the structures and functions of the ear and a summary of auditory sensations and perceptions. The latter includes several properties of noise which affect sensations and perceptions. These include spectral and temporal factors, tonal characteristics, impulsive noise, and background noise.

Hearing loss from industrial noise and other topics relating to hearing loss is then covered, and this information is followed by a chapter on the prediction of hearing loss, both temporary threshold shift and permanent threshold shift.

The emphasis then changes to those factors which affect speech intelligibility. The next chapter returns to physiological effects; the assessment of hearing handicap and damage risk from noise.

Finally, there are three chapters related to the effects of noise, one on the effects of noise on performance of tasks, a discussion more than 100 pages on non-auditory effects of noise such as sleep disturbance and health disorders, and a final chapter on community reactions to environmental noise.

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Noise Control '95
Zbigniew Engel, Adam Lipowczan, and Jerzy Sadowski, Editors
Central Institute for Labour Protection, Warsaw, Poland
477pp., soft cover, PLZ 43.00
This volume is the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Noise Control which was held in Warsaw, Poland on 1995 June 20-22. This proceedings book contains five plenary session papers, all in English, on the following topics:

• Problems of noise control in Poland on the way to European integration
• European directives and standards for vibroacoustic protection
• Sound intensity: state-of-the-art in noise control of buildings
• Active control or passive control?
• Music and noise

• Fundamental problems
• Industrial noise
• Environmental noise
• Measurements and analysis
• Active methods

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Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Acoustics
ICA 95 Committee, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway
2400 pp. in 4 volumes, soft cover, NOK 1500 plus surface or air postage (NOK 165 or 200 in Europe, NOK 205 or 365 outside Europe
The Proceedings of the 15th ICA, held in Trondheim, Norway at the end of 1995 June, consists of nearly 600 papers on all aspects of acoustics. The technical program of the Congress had four types of sessions, all of which are covered in the proceedings: plenary sessions, special structured sessions, sessions for contributed papers, and poster sessions. Distinguished lectures were given by P.V. Brü el and J.L. Flanagan. Plenary papers and structured sessions covered the following areas: aeroacoustics, architectural and building acoustics, atmospheric sound, bioacoustics, computational acoustics, geoacousticvs, infrasound, medical acoustics, musical acoustics, noise, quantum and physical effects, physical acoustics, physiological and psychological acoustics, speech, transduction, underwater acoustics, ultrasonics, audio, and education in acoustics.

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Sourcebook on Noise Control
L. Gooday, M. Scanlon and J. Devine, Eds.
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ, UK.
v + 245 pp, soft cover, 1994, GBP 32.00
This is the 9th sourcebook to be published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. A sourcebook contains a selection of relevant sources of information in a specialized field and is intended to provide a ready means by which the readers may find sources of information and the organizations to assist them. This sourcebook is divided into two main sections.

The first section (Noise Control Information) comprises the first half of the sourcebook. It lists abstracting and indexing services and publications, important books dealing with noise control, companies and consultancies, university courses, short courses, research institutions, European noise directives, journals, online data bases, professional organizations, reports, software programs and standards. Information concerning sources in the United Kingdom is quite complete, but coverage for the rest of the world is largely lacking.

The second section (Noise Control References) includes the abstracts of 402 papers on noise control that have been published during the last decade in the world's technical literature. The abstracts cover a number of different topics, including active noise control, aircraft, autos, construction industry, handtools, industrial plants, military equipment, office environment, power industry, railways, shipping, standards, waste treatment and others. It is difficult to cover such a wide range of subjects with only a few hundred references, but the uninitiated reader is at least given a place to start in the quest for information.

The sourcebook contains a large amount of useful information assembled from the viewpoint of a noise control engineer practicing in the United Kingdom.

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