Edited by Colin H. Hansen, University of Adelaide
published 2007 • ISBN 0906522 45 5 • ix + 416pp • £42.50
The effect of low frequency noise and vibration on people is an important issue for communities around many industrial facilities and an transportation systems. There are a number of research groups throughout the world which have been actively researching these effects. This book brings together, for the first time in one set of covers, over thirty papers on the effects of low frequency noise and vibration on people.
The papers are arranged under five headings:
• Perception thresholds for low frequency noise
• Effect of low frequency noise on people in terms of annoyance and sleep deprivation
• Physiological effects of low frequency noise
• Perception thresholds for low frequency vibration and the effect of low frequency vibration on people in terms of comfort and annoyance
• Physiological and health effects of low frequency vibration
Interest in the powerful effects of low frequency noise and vibration on people is widespread; thus this work will appeal to researchers in disciplines as diverse as acoustics, vibration, psychology, occupational health and environmental health It will also appeal to researchers in academia and designers of all kinds of industrial equipment, in terms of its generation of low frequency sound and its effect on whole body vibration. Regulatory and standards bodies, as well as Trade Unions, will also be interested in this work.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Perception thresholds for low frequency noise
Unpleasantness and acceptable limits of low frequency sound
Yukio Inukai, Norio Nakamura and Hideto Taya
An investigation of the perception thresholds of band-limited
low frequency noises: influence of bandwidth
Yasunao Matsumoto, Yukio Takahashi, Setsuo Maeda, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro
Yamada and Jishnu K Subedi
Masked perception thresholds of low frequency tones under background
noises and their estimation by loudness model
Jishnu K. Subedi, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Yasunao Matsumoto
Thresholds and acceptability of low frequency pure tones by
sufferers
Yukio Inukai, Hideto Taya and Shinji Yamada
Chapter 2: Effect of low frequency noise on people in terms of annoyance and sleep deprivation
Low frequency noise and annoyance in classroom
Pär Axelsson, Kjell Holmberg and Ulf Landström
A Structured approach to LFS-complaints in the Rotterdam region
of the Netherlands
Ing. Piet Sloven
Annoyance of low frequency noise and traffic noise
Frank Rysgaard Qistdorff and Torben Poulsen
Perceptions of the public of low frequency noise
D.M.J.P. Manley, P. Styles and J. Scott
A questionnaire survey of complaints of infrasound and low-frequency
noise
Henrik Møller and Morten Lydolf
Assessments of low frequency noise complaints among the local
Environmental Health Authorities and a follow-up study 14 years later
Johanna Bengtsson and Kerstin Persson Waye
Low Frequency Noise Annoyance: The Behavioural Challenge
Stephen Benton and Orna Abramsom-Yehuda
Comparison of objective methods for assessment of annoyance
of low frequency noise with the results of a laboratory listening test
Torben Poulsen
Blast densification method: Sound propagation and estimation
of psychological and physical effects
Hiroyuki Imaizumi, Yasumori Takahashi, Motoharu Jinguuji, and Sunao Kunimatsu
Annoyance of low frequency noise (LFN) in the laboratory assessed
by LFN-sufferers and non-sufferers
Torben Poulsen
Psychological analysis of complainants on noise/low frequency
noise and the relation between psychological response and brain structure
Toshiya Kitamura, Masaki Hasebe, and Shinji Yamada
Annoyance of low frequency tones and objective evaluation methods
Jishnu K. Subedi, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Yasunao Matsumoto and Mitsutaka Ishihara
LFN and the A-weighting
Piet Sloven
Low frequency noise annoyance and the negotiation challenge
for environmental officers and sufferers
Stephen Benton
Chapter 3. Physiological effects of low frequency noise
Some characteristics of human body surface vibration induced
by low frequency noise
Yukio Takahashi, Kazuo Kanada and Yoshiharu Yonekawa
The relationship between vibratory sensation and body surface
vibration induced by low-frequency noise
Yukio Takahashi, Kazuo Kanada and Yoshiharu Yonekawa
Measurement of human body surface vibrations induced by complex
low-frequency noise composed of two pure tones
Yukio Takahashi and Setsuo Maeda
An investigation on the physiological and psychological effects
of infrasound on persons
Chen Yuan Huang Qibai and Hanmin Shi
Effects on spatial skills after exposure to low frequency noise
Jessica Ljungberg, Gregory Neely and Ronnie Lundström
Does low frequency noise at moderate levels influence human mental performance? Malgorzata Pawlaczyk-Luszczynska, Adam Dudarewicz, Malgorzata Waszkowska, Wieslaw Szymczak, Maria Kamedula, Mariola Sliwinska-Kowalska
Chapter 4. Perception thresholds for low frequency vibration and the effect of low frequency vibration on people in terms of comfort and annoyance
Perception of low frequency vibrations by heavy vehicle drivers
Rayya Hassan and Kerry McManus
Vibration perception thresholds assessed by two different methods
in healthy subjects
Ewa Zamyslowska-Szmytke, Wieslaw Szymczak and Mariola Sliwinska-Kowalska
Chapter 5. Physiological and health effects of low frequency vibration
Occupational disease induced by hand transmitted vibration -
The relationship between characteristics of case and kind of tool
Shin'ya Yamada and Hisataka Sakakibara
The evaluation of horizontal whole-body vibration in the low
frequency range
Masashi Uchikune
Study of the effects of whole-body vibration in the low frequency
range
Masashi Uchikune
Professor Colin Hansen has been working in acoustics and noise and vibration control for more than 30 years. He is presently Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide and is past President of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration