Prof David Waddington's Outputs (68)

Estimation of uncertainty using revised draft ISO 1996-2 (2014)
Journal Article
Alves, S., & Waddington, D. (2014). Estimation of uncertainty using revised draft ISO 1996-2. Acoustics bulletin / Institute of Acoustics, 39(2), 34-41

The aim of this paper is to examine methods for the estimation of the uncertainty associated with environmental acoustic measurements. It is considered best practice that any measurement should be accompanied by a quantitative indication of its quali... Read More about Estimation of uncertainty using revised draft ISO 1996-2.

Effect of situational, attitudinal and demographic factors on railway vibration annoyance in residential areas (2014)
Journal Article
Peris, E., Woodcock, J., Sica, G., Sharp, C., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2014). Effect of situational, attitudinal and demographic factors on railway vibration annoyance in residential areas. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 135(1), 194-204. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4836495

Railway induced vibration is an important source of annoyance among residents living in the vicinity of railways. Annoyance increases with vibration magnitude. However, these correlations between the degree of annoyance and vibration exposure are wea... Read More about Effect of situational, attitudinal and demographic factors on railway vibration annoyance in residential areas.

Exposure-response relationships for annoyance due to freight and passenger railway vibration exposure in residential environments (2014)
Journal Article
Sharp, C., Woodcock, J., Sica, G., Peris, E., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2014). Exposure-response relationships for annoyance due to freight and passenger railway vibration exposure in residential environments. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 135(1), 205-212. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4836115

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 human response to these two sources of enviro... Read More about Exposure-response relationships for annoyance due to freight and passenger railway vibration exposure in residential environments.

Human response to vibration in residential environments (2014)
Journal Article
Waddington, D., Woodcock, J., Peris, E., Condie, J., Sica, G., Moorhouse, A., & Steele, A. (2014). Human response to vibration in residential environments. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 135(1), 182-193. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4836496

This paper presents the main findings of a field survey conducted in the United Kingdom into the human response to vibration in residential environments. The main aim of this study was to derive exposure-response relationships for annoyance due to vi... Read More about Human response to vibration in residential environments.

Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The University of Salford has derived exposure-response relationships for vibration caused by railway construction and operation in residential environments. The exposure assessment methodology for almost 1000 case studies has its key factor in the m... Read More about Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration.

Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), executive summary (2012)
Report

The aim of the Defra-funded project NANR209 ‘Human response to vibration in residential environments’ was to develop exposure-response relationships for vibration experienced in residential environments from sources outside of the residents’ control.... Read More about Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), executive summary.

On the assessment of the human exposure from vibration caused by railway construction (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When constructing large infrastructure, such as railways, close to living environments it is important to know how residents respond to construction vibration. In this framework, the University of Salford, within the project “Human response to vibrat... Read More about On the assessment of the human exposure from vibration caused by railway construction.

Attitudinal factors as determinants of railway vibration annoyance (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this paper is to identify and understand the role of the attitudinal factors involved in annoyance reported due to railway vibration. Many non-acoustical factors have been identified with various degrees of association with annoyance due t... Read More about Attitudinal factors as determinants of railway vibration annoyance.

Human response to vibration from passenger and freight railway traffic in residential environments (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Exposure-response relationships for the human response to vibration and noise from railway activities in residential environments have been derived recently in the UK. These relationships are the outcome of a large scale field study funded by Defra (... Read More about 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 (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sharp, C., Woodcock, J., Sica, G., Peris, E., Waddington, D., & Moorhouse, A. (2012, June). Developing exposure-response relationships for annoyance caused by vibration from freight and passenger railway traffic. Presented at Euronoise 2012, Prague

The aim of this paper is to apply a new categorisation algorithm to an existing database of case stud- ies in order to investigate its effectiveness in sorting unknown train vibration signals into freight and passenger train categories for exposure-r... Read More about Developing exposure-response relationships for annoyance caused by vibration from freight and passenger railway traffic.

Two algorithms for the sorting of unknown train vibration signals into freight and passenger train categories (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sharp, C., Waddington, D., Woodcock, J., Sica, G., Peris, E., & Moorhouse, A. (2012, April). Two algorithms for the sorting of unknown train vibration signals into freight and passenger train categories. Presented at Acoustics 2012 Nantes Conference, Nantes, France

The human response to railway noise has been well researched; however, there is a need to further research the human response to railway vibration, freight in particular. To facilitate this, two algorithms have been constructed with the aim of sortin... Read More about Two algorithms for the sorting of unknown train vibration signals into freight and passenger train categories.

Human response to railway vibration in residential environments : exposure-response relationships and modifying factors (2012)
Thesis

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This thesis aims to contribute to the knowledge of human response to vibration in
residential environments and id... Read More about Human response to railway vibration in residential environments : exposure-response relationships and modifying factors.

Annoyance due to railway vibration at different times of the day (2012)
Journal Article
Peris, E., Woodcock, J., Sica, G., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2012). Annoyance due to railway vibration at different times of the day. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 131(2), 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3679390

The time of day when vibration occurs is considered as a factor influencing the human response to vibration. The aim of the present paper is to identify the times of day during which railway vibration causes the greatest annoyance, to measure the dif... Read More about Annoyance due to railway vibration at different times of the day.

Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), Technical report 6 : determination of exposure-response relationships (2012)
Report

This technical report presents the development of exposure-response relationships for the human response to vibration in residential environments. The data used to formulate the relationships presented in this report are those which were collected fo... Read More about Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), Technical report 6 : determination of exposure-response relationships.

Human response to vibration in residential environments, technical report 1 : measurement of vibration exposure (2012)
Report

The Technical Report 1 describes the research undertaken to develop a method by which human exposure to vibration in residential environments can be assessed. That work has been carried out by the University of Salford supported by the Department of... Read More about Human response to vibration in residential environments, technical report 1 : measurement of vibration exposure.

Living with helicopter noise : evaluating sound insulation techniques for domestic dwellings using real helicopters (2011)
Journal Article

Specific remedial works designed to improve sound installation and reduce the noise level produced by helicopters inside dwellings are described. The theoretical problems and practical solutions to installing high performance acoustic insulation to a... Read More about Living with helicopter noise : evaluating sound insulation techniques for domestic dwellings using real helicopters.

Community reaction to railway vibration at different times of the day (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Peris, E., Woodcock, J., Sica, G., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2011, July). Community reaction to railway vibration at different times of the day. Presented at 10th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN) 2011, London, UK, London

A number of studies have shown different sensitivities to noise exposure for day, evening and night, in particular for railway and air traffic. Lden has been accepted as a good indicator for predicting noise annoyance. In the same way, time of day is... Read More about Community reaction to railway vibration at different times of the day.

Estimation of vibration exposure in residential environments (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Sica, G., Woodcock, J., Peris, E., Koziel, Z., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2011, July). Estimation of vibration exposure in residential environments. Presented at 10th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN) 2011, London, UK, London

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 study questionnaire based on face-to-face int... Read More about Estimation of vibration exposure in residential environments.

Calculation of noise in residential environments (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Koziel, Z., Peris, E., Woodcock, J., Sica, G., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2011, July). Calculation of noise in residential environments. Presented at 10th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN) 2011, London, UK, London

The DEFRA funded project “Human Response to Vibration in Residential Environments” investigates relationships between human response in residential areas, primarily in terms of annoyance, and combined effects from exposure to vibration and noise. Thi... Read More about Calculation of noise in residential environments.

Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 3 : calculation of vibration exposure (2011)
Report
Sica, G., Woodcock, J., Peris, E., Koziel, Z., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2011). Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 3 : calculation of vibration exposure

The Technical Report 3 describes the research undertaken to develop a methodology by which human exposure to vibration in residential environments can be calculated. That work has carried out by the University of Salford supported by the Department o... Read More about Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 3 : calculation of vibration exposure.