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Papers

Reports

  • Research into the Improvement of the Management of Helicopter Noise 
  • Human response to vibration in residential environments  

Journals

  • Annoyance due to railway vibration at different times of the day   
  • Human response to vibration in residential environments (In Press)
  • Effect of situational, attitudinal and demographic factors on railway vibration annoyance in residential areas (In Press)
  • Developing exposure-response relationships
    for annoyance due to freight and passenger railway vibration exposure in residential environments (In Press)
  • Design of measurement methodology for the evaluation of human exposure to vibration in residential environments 

Conference

  • Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration
  • Attitudinal factors as determinants of railway vibration annoyance  
  • On the assessment of the human exposure from vibration caused by railway construction
  • Human response to vibration from passenger and freight railway traffic in residential environments
  • Developing exposure-response relationships for annoyance caused by vibration from freight and passenger railway traffic
  • Annoyance from railway vibration in residential environments: factors of importance when considering exposure-response relationships
  • Differences in response to vibration induced in residential environments by railway and construction activities
  • Two algorithms for the sorting of unknown train vibration signals into freight and passenger train categories
  • Calculation of noise in residential environments
  • Community reaction to railway vibration at different times of day
  • Estimation of vibration exposure in residential environments
  • Human response to vibration in residential environments: Establishing exposure-response relationships

Seminars

  • Webinar 11/6/25: Future Homes Project: Acoustics research to facilitate Net Zero targets
  • Webinar 28/5/25: An Introduction to NERIC: The People, Projects and Practical Considerations
  • Webinar 14/5/25: Soundscapy: Open Source Software in Soundscape

Contact Us

Head of Acoustics Research
Professor David Waddington
d.c.waddington@salford.ac.uk

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