residential environments
Human response to vibration from passenger and freight railway traffic in residential environments
... A large scale field survey has been conducted in the UK to determine both response and ex- posure to environmental vibration and noise in residential environments. The survey consisted of questionnaires ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), Technical report 6 : determination of exposure response relationships
... This report has aimed to present the development of exposure-response relationships for the human response to vibration in residential environments. An analysis of the most appropriate vibration exposure ...
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Exposure response relationships for annoyance due to freight and passenger railway vibration exposure in residential environments
... In this work, exposure-response relationships for annoyance due to freight and passenger railway vibration exposure in residential environments are developed, so as to better understand the differences in ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 4: calculation of noise exposure
... Noise sources from construction and railway traffic were covered in this report. Although both sources were found to be subjectively annoying, construction work could potentially invoke a much higher negative annoyance ...
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Differences in response to vibration induced in residential environments by railway and construction activities
... in residential environments By means of a large scale field trail (1431 questionnaires), a database of responses for annoyance due to environmental vibration along with estimations of internal vibration ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209) Final Project Report
... However, there appears to be a growing consensus from international researchers, some of which have provided peer reviews of the development of this questionnaire, that the adoption of the standard ISO/TS: 15666:2003 ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments : establishing exposure response relationships
... This paper presents results from a large scale study investigating the human r e- sponse to vibration in residential environments. The main aim of this study was to derive exposure-response relationships ...
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Annoyance from railway vibration in residential environments: factors of importance when considering exposure response relationships
... Abstract: Railway induced vibration is an important source of annoyance in residential environments. Annoyance increases with vibration magnitude. However, these correlations between annoyance and physical ...
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The Concept of Neighbourhood in Contemporary Residential Environments: An Investigation of Occupants' Perception
... urban environments is now less dependent on the sharing of common close physical residential environment due to housing initiatives driven by liberal / random land use options, financial viability and ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments
... in residential environments have led to internationally accepted exposure- response relationships (see, for example, Miedema and Oudshoorn, 2001; Miedema and Vos, 1998; Schultz, 1978) which have formed the ...
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Calculation of noise in residential environments
... Miedema HME, Vos H (1998). Exposure-response relationships for transportation noise. J Acoust Soc Am 104: 3432. Öhrström E, Ögren M, Jerson T et al. (2008). Experimental studies on sleep disturbances due to railway and ...
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Estimation of vibration exposure in residential environments
... The University of Salford has derived an exposure-response relationship for vibration in residential environments. Vibration measurements have been used for assessing the human exposure alongside a social ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 5: analysis of the social survey findings
... As the construction activity was a temporary feature of the respondents’ residential environments, data was collected on what they anticipated the vibration would be like in the future. Many respondents ...
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Using a qualitative approach to explore the human response to vibration in residential environments in the United Kingdom
... The normative method of investigating the human response to vibration is based, quite substantially, on the more established community noise research studies (e.g. Fields & Walker, 1982; Grimwood et al., 2002; ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments, technical report 1 : measurement of vibration exposure
... 31 March 2011 NANR209 Technical Report 1 Figure 23 Velocity ratio between Guralp CMG 5TD and B&K when the Guralp accelerometer is on a carpet of 1 cm, on a ceramic tile placed on the car[r] ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 2: measurement of response
... There is currently a shift in policy discourse towards the term ‘neighbourhood’, away from previously used terms such as ‘community’ and ‘area’ (Meegan & Mitchell, 2001). In addition, the use of the term ‘area’ may ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 3 : calculation of vibration exposure
... In the case of railway vibration, the quasi-permanent nature of the source means that it is logistically possible to obtain internal measurements in a large number of cases in synchronisation with the social survey. A ...
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Field evaluation of a low-cost indoor air quality monitor to quantify exposure to pollutants in residential environments
... extensive indoor air quality monitoring projects looking to characterise pollution and identify potential health risks in indoor building environments with much larger and more statistic[r] ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 5: analysis of the social survey findings
... buildings) Residential/housing estate with some commercial buildings (shops, offices ...etc.) Residential/housing estate with some industrial facilities (factories) nearby Primarily a commercial area with ...
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Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 5: analysis of the social survey findings
... tube or metro Trains in tunnels Construction activity, including demolition, piling road works, drilling, surface activity such as bulldozers and loading trucks and any other constructio[r] ...
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