An Investigation of Community Attitudes Toward Blast Noise: Methodology
Abstract
The military has determined that current blast noise impact assessment procedures do not fully meet the military's noise management needs. Noise impacts are almost universally assessed in terms of the response metric "annoyance" as predicted by a long-term average noise level metric. This has proven to be unsatisfactory for extremely variable impulsive military noise. Individual event noise levels from military testing and training activities can be loud enough to elicit negative community response, and even loud enough to exceed the human hearing damage threshold. Yet when events are averaged over a year's time, the average level meets established acceptability criteria. The objective of this project is to provide a research methodology for improving the current human response to blast noise assessment procedures. More specifically, this report outlines an approach to enhance understanding of human response to blast noise, and to determine a methodology to accurately predict human response to impulsive military noise. This methodology will provide reliable and practicable guidance for noise impact management decisions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA474855
Entities
People
- Anthony Atchley
- Edward T. Nykaza
- George Luz
- Kathleen Hodgdon
- Larry L. Pater
- Pamela Rathbun
- Robert Baumgartner
Organizations
- Engineer Research and Development Center