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 indoor 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.


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    Title :

    Research at NASA on Human Response to Sonic Booms


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    5th International Conference on Flow Dynamics ; 2008 ; Sendai, Japan


    Publication date :

    2008-11-17


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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