Nowadays EN 1793-5 and EN 1793-6 allow measurements on noise barriers almost everywhere, what is essential for approving noise barriers installed alongside roads. This is already and increasingly done by authorities in European countries. However, these methods require a careful application by expert users, which may result in quite lengthy tests, and this can limit their use to few locations. Therefore, there is a need for a new “quick method” that could be easier and faster to be applied to a large part of an installed noise barriers in a manageable time, even if with a broader uncertainty compared to the full EN standards. SOPRANOISE (Securing and Optimizing the Performance of Road traffic noise barriers with new methods and In-Situ Evaluation, 2019-2022) is European research funded by the CEDR (Conference of European Directors of Roads) about simplified methods to characterize the in-situ intrinsic acoustic performances of road and/or railway noise barriers: the present paper shows the main outcomes of the project.
SOPRANOISE - a New Quick Method for Measuring the Acoustic Quality of Noise Barriers In-Situ
Garai M.;Guidorzi P.;Brero G.;
2023
Abstract
Nowadays EN 1793-5 and EN 1793-6 allow measurements on noise barriers almost everywhere, what is essential for approving noise barriers installed alongside roads. This is already and increasingly done by authorities in European countries. However, these methods require a careful application by expert users, which may result in quite lengthy tests, and this can limit their use to few locations. Therefore, there is a need for a new “quick method” that could be easier and faster to be applied to a large part of an installed noise barriers in a manageable time, even if with a broader uncertainty compared to the full EN standards. SOPRANOISE (Securing and Optimizing the Performance of Road traffic noise barriers with new methods and In-Situ Evaluation, 2019-2022) is European research funded by the CEDR (Conference of European Directors of Roads) about simplified methods to characterize the in-situ intrinsic acoustic performances of road and/or railway noise barriers: the present paper shows the main outcomes of the project.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
