• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.120-125
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• 2015

With rapid urbanization, the volume of traffic in urban area has been significantly increased. This in turn led to problem which can be described as Road Traffic Noise. Currently, to alleviate the road traffic noise damage, a demand for installation of soundproofing walls is rising. Among different shapes of soundproof walls being installed, the reflection-type acoustical insulation panel is highly drawing attentions of residents due to the fact that it does not obstruct their field of vision in contrast with the opaque acoustical insulation panel. On the other hand, improving the soundproofing wall of the reflection-type acoustical insulation barrier panel needs to be focused on since it has a possibility to cause a secondary damage by reflected sounds. Therefore, in this research, study has been carried out to improve the forms in order to minimize travelling of reflected sounds through changing the frontal surface shape and geometrical shape of the reflection-type soundproofing panel. A result from comparison between the normal reflection-type soundproofing panel and the improved soundproofing panel, with reduction effects in the noise reflection, showed that the curved type of soundproofing panel has an impact on reducing the noise up to 1.5 dB. Furthermore, from the research conducted, it appears that the increase and decrease in the reflected sounds can be changeable depending on various design factors. Thus, it turns out that the study shows a potential possibility to develop a reduction technology of the reflected sounds pertaining to overall condition on the soundproofing walls.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.617-618
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• 2014

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.138-145
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• 2015

Although it is well-known that environmental noise can lead to hearing loss in individuals, the true extent of subway noise effects in the general population remains poorly understood. The purpose of the present study is to see changes of acoustic reflex thresholds and speech perception scores when passengers listen to music presented from their personal listening device in the subway. Forty subjects with normal hearing participated being divided into two groups, experimental and control groups. As a baseline, all subjects were measured by acoustic reflex thresholds in five test frequencies and Korean speech perception in noise (KSPIN) test at 0 and -5 dB SNR. In the experiment, the control group read newspaper or magazine in the subway noise, whereas the experimental group listened to music presented from their smartphone under the subway noise through speakers at 73.45 dBA for 60 min. After completing the experiment, two groups also conducted both acoustic reflex thresholds and KSPIN tests in the same condition as the baseline. The results showed that there was a significant difference of correct percent in speech-in-noise test between experimental and control groups and of that between two signal-to-noise ratios, which means the double noise exposure of 60 min might cause some degradation of speech perception when noise increases compared to only subway noise condition that was not statistically significant difference. We concluded that a risk of some degraded speech perception ability would be expected when passengers have a habit of listening to music in the subway noisy situation for a long duration.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.191-196
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 공조용 소음기에 대한 삽입손실 및 압력손실과 같은 음향성능 평가를 위해 필요한 제반 사항을 ISO 7235에 근거하여 소개하였다. 이를 위해 시험설비의 종류 및 구비조건, 측정방법, 측정시 유의사항 등을 기술하였고, 이로서 공조용 소음기의 보다 정확한 음향성능평가가 이루어지도록 검토 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.312-316
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• 1994

본 연구를 통해 공간 푸리에변환을 이용한 반사계수측정에 있어서 L.S.B.M 및 유한크기 모델의 사용가능성과 유용성을 살펴보았다. 1) L.S.B.M은 P.D.M의 측정음압내에 포함되는 잡음에 대한 민감성을 줄일 수 있어 잡음에 대해 안정한 측정을 할 수 있는 장점이 있음을 알 수 있었다. 2) 유한크기모델은 무한크기모델의 경우 측정면적보다 큰 측정할 반사물질이 요구되는데 반해 측정할 물질의 크기에는 무관하게 반사계수를 얻을 수 있었고 이는 공간 푸리에 변환을 이용한 반사계수 측정방법의 유용성을 증가시킬 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.537-537
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• 2010

이 논문에서는 음향 임피던스를 제어하는 능동형 소음 제어 방법을 연구하였다. 관의 끝단에 스피커를 이용하여 음향 임피던스를 제어하게 된다. 음향 임피던스 제어는 음향의 반사를 최소화 하는 제어 방법을 이용하는 것으로, 닫힌 관의 끝단에 음파의 흡수와 반사를 제어한다. 나아가 음향 임피던스 제어 방법은 관의 중앙에 설치되어 적용된다. 이 경우에는 음향의 반사, 흡수 및 전달이 측정되고, 최소화하기 위한 임피던스가 계산된다. 이를 위해 가진기, 마이크로폰, 진동측정용 레이저 바이브로미터, 그리고 능동 소음 제어 하드웨어로 구성된 시스템을 구축하고 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.677-678
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• 2013

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.131-136
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• 1993

본 연구에서는 무한덕트의 경우를 기준으로 하여 반무한덕트(semi-infinite duct)와 유한덕트에서의 소음제어결과를 비교함으로써 반사에 따른 영향을 실험적으로 고찰하였다. 제어는 광대역의 평면파 소음을 대상으로 하였고 적 응필터 기법을 적용하여 실시간으로 감소시키고자 하였다. 또한 원소음의 진 행방향과 반대방향의 음에 대한 마이크로폰의 감도(sensitivity) 역시 능동소 음제어 시스템의 성능을 결정하는 주요 요소로 볼 수 있으므로 두 개의 마 이크로폰으로써 지향성 마이크로폰을 구성.실험을 통하여 그 결과를 고찰하 였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.835-839
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• 2012

In recent decades, a lot of noise barriers have been installed along paved road in order to reduce the road induced noise, which increases as traffic volume grows. For better range of sight, transparent noise barriers are widely installed despite of reflecting noise. In this study, the effect of surface shape and pattern of noise barriers on the reduction of reflecting noise was analyzed to maximize the noise reduction. According to the number of shape and pattern, it was observed that there were noise reduction effect as of 0.9~1.5 dB(A). It was found that the spatial field where the noise concentrates or disperses changes according to the width of blocks on the barriers as well. It suggests that there might be possibility of surface shape modification to optimize the noise reduction technology.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.48-53
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• 1995

A considerable number of methods are available for predicting traffic noise levels of road networks where sound is freely propagating. But surrounding buildings reflect back sound to the road and sound energy is increased by these reflectors. Therefore, this study was focussed on the establishment of the prediction method of road traffic noise under reflective conditions. This prediction method was developed by establishing prediction formulas of noise level such as $L_{10},\;L_{50},\;L_{90}\;and\;L_{eq}$. The sound energy density was employed to establish prediction formulas in terms of independent variables. The validity of the proposed prediction formulas was been confirmed by applying them to actually measured parameters of road traffic noise and noise level data. On the whole, the agreement between measured and predicted noise levels appeared to be satisfactory. The conclusion might be reached that the method developed in this study could be used to predict road traffic noise under reflective conditions.