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Noise level Assessment Exposed to Cashiers in the Highway Tollbooth (고속도로 톨게이트 요금수납원 소음노출 수준 평가)

  • Kim, Kab Bae;Chung, Eun-Kyo;Kim, Jong-Kyu;Park, Hae Dong;Kang, Joon Hyuk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.26 no.6_spc
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    • pp.729-735
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    • 2016
  • According to the survey for working environment of the cashiers in highway tollbooths, workers replied that noise was the most harmful substances next to air pollutant in the tollbooth. Researches on the noise levels exposed to cashiers in the highway tollbooth scarcely have been performed. Therefore, the aim of this study was to acquire baseline data to prevent health impairments of the cashiers by evaluating noise level exposed to them. Noise dosimeters were used for monitoring workers' noise exposure level in the tollbooths at 8 different highway tollgates. The noise levels of tollbooths did not exceed noise exposure limit of the ministry of labor, 90 dB(A). The average TWA inside of the tollbooths was 55.4 dB(A) and the average TWA outside of tollbooths was 58.3 dB(A). The average TWA outside of tollbooths was slightly higher than that of inside of tollbooths. However, the significance probability(p-value) was 0.255 which means statistically not significant. The noise levels inside and outside of tollbooth were statistically significant to both mean traffic volume per day and traffic volume of passenger car.

New Approach to Evaluating the Effects of Repeated Shocks Exposed to Human (반복 충격에 대한 인체 영향 평가의 새로운 방안)

  • 정완섭;권휴상
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.1088-1093
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    • 2001
  • This paper introduces new approaches attempted to evaluate quantitatively the effects of repeated shocks exposed to human. This attempt, by the members of ISO TC 108 / CS4, has been made to add a standardised draft of ISO 2631 Part 1 which covers newly the human response to repeated shocks. It contains the review of previous work related to shocks responses to human and suggests a mathematical model to predict the three-axis lumbar spine accelerations from the measured seat accelerations. The predicted accelerations are used to evaluate the vibration dose to the spine. The evaluated dose values are shown to enable the assessment of adverse health effects.

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Investigation into the Uncertainty in Measurements and Evaluation of Hand-transmitted Vibration (동력공구 작업시 수전달 진동에 관한 측정 불확도 분석)

  • Jang, Han-Kee;Song, Chi-Mun;Choi, Seok-Hyun;Hong, Seok-In
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.1265-1267
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    • 2006
  • 현재 ISO 에서는 공구제조업체에서 해당 공구의 수전달 진동을 측정하여 제시하도록 하는 규격을 제정 중에 있으며, 이를 위해서는 공구에서 발생하는 진동과 영향을 평가하는 기술이 확보되어야 하며, 이 과정에서 측정 불확도 수준을 결정하는 것이 매우 중요하다고 하겠다. 본 연구에서는 동력 공구 작업시 작업자의 손으로 전달되는 진동을 측정하고 그 영향을 평가함에 있어서 발생할 수 있는 불확도를 분석하였다. 먼저, ISO 5349 규격을 적용함에 있어서 존재하는 불확도 인자들을 분류하고, 각 인자들이 어느 정도 수준의 불확도를 발생시키는지 시험을 통해서 확인하고 분석하였다.

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Study on the Subjective Responses of Loudness and Annoyance according to Exposed Time for the Traffic Noise (도심교통소음의 노출시간에 따른 라우드니스 및 어노이언스의 주관적 반응에 대한 연구)

  • Hur, Deog-Jae;Jo, Kyoung-Sook;Choe, Byong-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.3 s.120
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    • pp.241-248
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    • 2007
  • A study has been conducted to investigate the subjective responses of loudness and annoyance according to the exposed time of urban traffic noise in controlled laboratory environment. To make a closer inspection into psychological response relevant to noise characteristics while varying the time of exposure to noise, the subjects were presented a set of noises with different exposed time and requested to judge spontaneously on a 100-unipolar scale. To be concrete, the subjects were exposed to noises being varied in time from 15 sec up to max. 1,200 sec for the controlled traffic noise sources. So far achieved from laborious tests, it has an importance being on the logarithmic relations of perceived loudness and exposed time, say, it is more increased the perceived loudness in the sorter exposed time than in the longer exposed time. However, the trend is said to be not effective for the case of annoyance. On the other hand, the subjective impressions on relative annoyance of noise is shown to be correlated with the noise characteristics such as loudness (sones), tonality and time with logarithmic scale, the product correlation moment being calculated as $R^{2}=0.99$. The variances to be explained for annoyance assessments through varying the time of exposure were ranged between 30 % and 50% for the exposed time, $27{\sim}37%$ for tonality, and $34{\sim}20%$ for loudness, respectively With these results, hopefully, it can be helpful for those who want to work out an experimental design for evaluating an environmental noise or to quantify any psychological dimensions found in annoyance assessments.

Materials and Systems for Noise Control : Categorization and Challenges

  • Bolton, J. Stuart
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.44-44
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    • 2010
  • In this presentation, noise control materials will be discussed from several points-of-view. First, materials will be categorized in terms of their intended function: i.e., as dissipative materials, as barriers, and as media intended to modify some aspect of the sound field. Within each category, example implementations will be described as will modeling procedures. In the context of barrier materials, recent developments in the area of metamaterials will be described briefly, and problems with some recently suggested approaches will be highlighted. Acoustical cloaking will be described as a method of modifying a sound field in such a way that a sensitive area is shielded from noise exposure; the practical difficulties of this approach will also be described. Finally, within each category of material and approach, a series of suggested research challenges will be described.

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Study on the Assessment Method of Urban Traffic Noise Using the 3D Noise mapping in Cheongju city (소음지도를 이용한 도시 교통 소음 평가방법에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, J.H.;Park, S.J.;Chang, S.I.;Lim, J.S.;Lee, B.C.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.48-53
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    • 2006
  • Noise mapping is performed in the city of Cheongju which has 626,614 inhabitants on a $153.41km^2$ area. This city has 71,387 buildings and 969,274m roads. Many database sets like information of roads, topography and buildings are required for making the noise map of large area. These database sets are provided by the various departments of the regional administration in Cheongju city. Using the given database sets, 3-dimensional model of topography and buildings are made to consider the multi-reflections and diffractions. A predicted noise level is compared with measured noise level of the road traffic noise. As the tool of management and decision of urban noise policy, noise map is combined into the map of land use to make the conflict noise map. This conflict noise map is useful to assess the present urban noise and to make the better life in complicated urban life.

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Community Annoyance from Transportation Noise in Korea (한국인의 교통소음에 대한 불쾌감 연구)

  • Lee, Soo-Gab;Lim, Chang-Woo;Kim, Jae-Hwan;Hong, Ji-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2005
  • Studies on community annoyance caused by transportation noise exposure were carried out in fifty-one areas around Gimpo and Gimhae international airports, Gyungbu and Honam railway lines and east and riverside-northen motorway to accumulate social survey data and to assess the relationship between each transportation noise level and degree of annoyance in Korea. The measurements of transpotation noise were carried out using portable precision sound level meters (B&K type 2238 and LD 812) except in aircraft noise. Aircraft noise levels were measured automatically by airport noise monitoring system, B&K type 35n Social surveys were carried out to people living around noise measurement points. Questionnaires were only aggregated by face-to-face interviews using various questions concerned with demographic factors, degree of noise annoyance, interference with daily activities and health-related symptoms. The questions of noise annoyance were answered on an 11-point numerical scale. The respondents, from 18 to 70 years of age, were randomly selected and completed the questionnaire for themselves. The total number of respondents for the questionnaires was 1,839. The results showed that community annoyance of railway noise in Korea is similar to that in Japan, but is more severe than that in European countries.

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Analysis of Building Facade Noise and Ground Noise in a Roadside Apartment Complex through Noise Mapping (노이즈맵핑을 활용한 도로변 아파트단지의 세대외부소음 및 옥외지면소음 특성 분석)

  • Shin, Hye-Kyung;Kim, Myung-Jun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.275-283
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    • 2015
  • The aim of this study is to estimate the noise exposure of roadside apartment complex according to the characteristics of apartment complex. The facade noise level of residential buildings and the ground noise level inside apartment complexes were predicted and analyzed using noise mapping based on a computerized noise model. In addition, the correlation analysis between these noise levels and the characteristics of apartment complex such as traffic volume, building coverage, the number of adjacent roads, etc. was done in a total of 21 apartment complexes. The results showed that building facade noise level and ground noise level were positively correlated with traffic volume (correlation coefficient, r=0.616~0.623) and the number of adjacent roads (r=0.340~0.496). On the other hand, they were negatively correlated with building coverage (r=-0.413~-0.477) and complex area per the number of roads (r=-0.478~-0.615).

A Study on Variables of Aircraft Noise Survey in Korea (국내 항공기 소음 성가심 조사 설계 시 고려해야 할 변수에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ki-Jung;Lee, Kun;Chang, Seo-Il;Son, Jin-Hee;Lee, Yeon-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.742-749
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    • 2006
  • For the purpose of finding if aircraft noise annoyance response is affected to variables when noise survey is performed, the questionnaire survey is conducted around the Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, Republic of Korea. This residential area is exposed to the aircraft noise and road traffic noise, simultaneously. Research areas are classified according to three different aircraft noise exposure levels expressed in WECPNL, under 75, between 75 and 80, and above 80 WECPNL, on aircraft noise map. The 7-step numerical magnitude with verbal category scales is used to measure the annoyance level. This surrey suggests that aircraft noise annoyance is not affected to an important extent by other noise sources (road traffic noise, community noise) and demographic variables (sex, age, education, occupation, dwelling type, length of residence). Aircraft noise annoyance would be related to complaint activity which is one of attitudinal variables.

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An Experimental Study on PWR Nuclear Fuel Assembly Vibration (경수로 핵연료집합체 진동의 실험적 고찰)

  • 장영기;김규태;조규종
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.82-87
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    • 2003
  • Nuclear fuel with a big slenderness ratio is susceptible to flow-induced vibration under very severe conditions of high temperature, high flow and exposure to irradiation in nuclear reactor. The fuel assembly should, therefore, be designed to escape any resonance due to the vibration during the reactor operation, in particular, in case of the design changes. In addition, the amplitudes due to the grid vibration, the fuel rod vibration and the fuel assembly vibration should be minimized to reduce the grid-to-rod fretting wear. Fuel assembly vibration tests in air at room temperature and in water at high temperature have been performed to investigate fuel vibration behaviors. The frequency and damping during the test in air have been compared to those in water. Through the hydraulic test, the advanced assembly has been evaluated not to be susceptible to any resonance. In addition, the test data from the tests can be used to make fuel model and to evaluate grid-to-rod fretting wear.

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