Acoustic specialists have developed a computer model which allows them to calculate noise levels along the entire Swiss rail network. The program describes how much sound is radiated and how it is ...

Margin of error should be accounted for and the worst-case scenario measurement taken as the reading, particularly when close to an action level. The industrial ...

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 22 million people—including nearly all power plant workers—are exposed to potentially damaging noise at work each year in the U.S.

An Earth station for use with a geostationary satellite has a dish antenna which sees a sky temperature of 25 K. It is connected to the receiver with a feedline having 1 dB loss. The receiver ...

Real-world signals, such as vibration, temperature, pressure, and light, require accurate signal conditioning and signal conversion before further data processing in the digital domain. In order to ...

The world is getting louder. People cannot escape noise pollution in their everyday lives whether from traffic, infrastructure, music or more, but employees can and must be protected from excessive ...

Construction sites can have hazardous noise levels, and they often are transient situations where different trades come to the site for short periods of time to perform their work. Depending upon the ...

As Swedish cities are densified at a fast pace, there is now construction very close to roads and thoroughfares - land that was considered unthinkable for development just a decade ago. It is already ...