Laboratory study of the annoyance of aircraft-induced secondary emissions

摘要

The annoyance of aircraft overflight noise is customarily assessed in simple A-weighted units, since they predict annoyance judgments nearly as well as more complex noise metrics. Because the low frequency content of noise produced by aircraft along runway sidelines (including that produced during takeoff run and during thrust reverser application) is proportionally greater than that of overflight noise, and because such low frequency noise can cause secondary emissions of household paraphernalia, it is reasonable to inquire whether noise metrics adequate to assess the annoyance of overflight noise are also appropriate for assessing the annoyance of runway sideline noise. The present study was conducted to quantify (1) the relative annoyance of runway sideline and aircraft overflight noise and (2) the annoyance of rattle associated with low-frequency runway sideline noise.