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Noise Control in Buildings

The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA (INCE/USA) is grateful to Professor Cyril M. Harris, Member of INCE, Board Certified, for permission to reprint his text on Noise Control in Buildings. The book was originally published by the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1994, and has been out of print for several years. A short review of the book was published in Noise/News International.

Noise Control in Buildings features contributions by leading authorities on noise control, and contains a very complete set of data on the properties of acoustical materials and on the sound insulation of walls and floor/ceiling constructions. This wealth of technical information provides an invaluable resource for the professional as well as the non- professional. Noise Control in Buildings provides you with complete information on:

• The properties and selection of acoustical materials
• The design of select wall and floor/ceiling constructions
• Airborne sound insulation
• Control of noise communicated by building structures
• Acoustical characteristics of rooms

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Noise Control in Buildings

Cyril M. Harris, Editor
McGraw Hill , Inc., 11 West 19th Street, New York, Ny 10011, USA.
vii + 414 pp., cloth, 1993, USD 45.00
(Now only available in paperback from INCE for 38 USD.)

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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