Title: Research at NASA on Human Response to Sonic Booms
Abstract: NASA used its sonic boom simulator to study human response to shaped sonic booms and concluded that a loudness metric, such as Perceived Level, predicts human reaction to outdoor booms more accurately than overpressure. To investigate the importance of phenomena (rattle, reverberation) under controlled laboratory conditions, NASA is building an indoor sonic boom simulator. The intention is to develop a psychoacoustic model that describes human response as a function of boom shape (spectrum), boom intensity, reverberation, and varying rattle characteristics.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-11-17
Language: en
Type: article
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