Conference_programme: 20.2 - Perception based models of acoustic environment
Lecture: The inaudible soundscape of a wind farm
Author(s): Cooper Steven
Summary:
Whilst people become habituated to transport noise the opposite occurs for long term exposure to wind turbine noise. People become sensitised to the noise that in the end affects them and in extreme cases requires these people to abandon their homes. Typical noise targets are applied external to the dwellings and do not address internal noise environments. A pilot study of using inaudible wind turbine noise from field measurements inside a dwelling found sensitised people to respond to the inaudible wind turbine noise as a sensation in their heads and legs. The pulsing nature of the wind turbine time signature and the nature of the fluctuations of such signals to the perception by test subjects is discussed.
Corresponding author
Name: Mr Steven Cooper
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Country: Australia
