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Health Effects of Apartment Noise (층간소음의 건강영향)

  • Park, Young Min;Kim, Kyoung Min
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.113-134
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    • 2015
  • In new housing demand, proportion of occupied multi-housing is 89.9% (statistics from 2013). In this way, with many generations living together, apartment noise disputes between the neighbors are continuously rising. The apartment noise problem in Korea is at a very serious level worldwide (about 88% of the population is experiencing stress due to apartment noise). On the other hand, the government has strengthened the regulations (such as the thickness of the floor and floor impact sound reduction performance, etc.) and promoted a resolution of its own for each multi-housing estates for mediating disputes on apartment noise. However, such physical regulations and passive management policies still presents a limit to the dispute mitigation of apartment noise. Also, in order to improve the quality of life in living spaces, policy on health effects of apartment noise should be provided. Therefore, we investigated a case study of the noise exposure-human body reaction to analyze the effect of noise on health. On the basis of this, the health effects according to the exposure period of apartment noise were considered.

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Research on the characteristics of noise exposure on worker wearing acoustic devices (음향도구 착용 근로자의 소음노출 실태에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kab-Bae;Yoo, Kye-Mook;Lee, In-Seop;Chung, Kwang-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.808-813
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    • 2011
  • There are hundreds of thousands call center workers wearing acoustic device. However, researches and noise exposure measurements on the noise transmitted from acoustic devices have seldom been performed due to the difficulty of measurement and to the absence of the measuring method in Korea. The aim of this study is to set up management measures to protect hearing loss on the call operator by acquiring measurement data of noise transmitted from the headset Noise exposure measurements of 17 operators were performed in 7 call centers and Head and Torso Simulator method in compliance with the ISO Standard 11904-2 was used for the measurement of noise transmitted from the headset Sound pressure levels(SPL) transmitted from the headset were 73.2~86 dB(A). The operator exposed to the highest SPL set up his volume control at 9 which was the highest volume level. The volume control level, adjustable from 1 to 9, could be identified 12 out of 17 operators and the range of volume levels was 4.5~9. As a result of Pearson Correlation Analysis, the correlation between volume level and SPL transmitted from the headset showed high relation as significance at the 0.672 level(p<0.05). To protect hearing loss of call center operators, it is more practical and effective measure to limit the volume level below the noise exposure level, i.e. 85 dB(A), rather than to carry out noise monitoring considering cost-effective aspect.

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Research on the Characteristics and Measures of Noise Exposure on Worker Wearing Acoustic Devices (음향도구 착용 근로자의 소음노출 실태에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kab-Bae;Yoo, Kye-Mook;Lee, In-Seop;Chung, Kwang-Jae
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.615-621
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    • 2011
  • There are hundreds of thousands call center workers wearing acoustic device. However, researches and noise exposure measurements on the noise transmitted from acoustic devices have seldom been performed due to the difficulty of measurement and to the absence of the measuring method in Korea. The aim of this study is to set up management measures to protect hearing loss on the call operator by acquiring measurement data of noise transmitted from the headset. Noise exposure measurements of 17 operators were performed in 7 call centers and head and Torso simulator method in compliance with the ISO standard 11904-2 was used for the measurement of noise transmitted from the headset. Sound pressure levels(SPL) transmitted from the headset were 73.2~86 dB(A). The operator exposed to the highest SPL set up his volume control at 9 which was the highest volume level. The volume control level, adjustable from 1 to 9, could be identified 12 out of 17 operators and the range of volume levels was 4.5~9. As a result of pearson correlation analysis, the correlation between volume level and SPL transmitted from the headset showed high relation as significance at the 0.672 level(p<0.05). To protect hearing loss of call center operators, it is more practical and effective measure to limit the volume level below the noise exposure level, i.e. 85 dB(A), rather than to carry out noise monitoring considering cost-effective aspect.

다구찌 방법을 이용한 알루미늄 배선 덕트의 스위칭 노이즈(Noise) 특성에 관한 연구

  • 홍석묵;박명규
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.205-209
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    • 2001
  • A study to analyze and solve problems of multi wire installation duct experiment has presented in this paper We have taken Taguchi's parameter design approach, specifically orthogonal array, and determined the optimal levels of the selected variables through analysis of the experimental results using S/N ratio.

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A Study on Annoyance of Interior Noise on Town-Bus

  • Park, Hyung Woo;Kim, Sung Han
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.42-47
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    • 2017
  • In these days, the size of urban is growing and the function of city becomes complicated. And also, in city, people lives a lot. The life of urban is getting closer and linked with neighboring people in many parts. Especially, when peoples are exposing during using public transportation, even though does not be known, in they were living. Seoul is the most crowded place in Korea. In Seoul,The village buses have been serviced to the narrow streets. And people who use this bus, wants to seek the comfort of the ride, air quality and noise during in vehicle. In this paper, we determine the degree of annoyance with the noise inside the town bus in dB scale. And, such a situation was confirmed annoyance see their effect. The Interior noise did not see a big difference in the new car and the old car. Annoyance but also according to the skill of the bus driver remains the difference was confirmed.

Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Radiation of SWATH vessel using Transfer Function Method (전달함수법을 이용한 SWATH선의 수중 음향 방사 해석)

  • 김재호
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.20-34
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    • 2003
  • The good sea-keeping capability of the SWATH(Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) ship has been attractive for research or surveillance vessels. Especially, for the naval ships accomplishing the underwater acoustic missions, it is necessary to access and minimize the underwater radiated noise level generated by the ships. Therefore, acoustic signature management and control are very important topics for these vessels. Underwater radiation pattern in the low frequency range is dominated by the tonals from the vibration of onboard machinery. In this work, the radiated noise level generated by the propulsion machine in the submerged hull is predicted using the transfer function technique and the hull transfer function for the submerged hull is determined by analyzing the longitudinal/circumferential stiffened infinitely long cylindrical shell and considering the empirical database of the previous vessels. It is confirmed that the transfer function technique can give useful information for identifying the noise source and estimating its contribution to the total radiatied noise level.

Diffractive Optical Element for Noise-reduced Beam Shaping of Multi-array Point Light Source

  • Lee, Jonghyun;Hahn, Joonku;Kim, Hwi
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.506-513
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    • 2021
  • An arrayed diffractive optical element design for the beam-shaping of a multi-array light source is proposed. This is an essential device for recent optical security and face recognition applications. In practice, we devise a DC noise reduction technique featuring high fabrication error tolerance regarding the multi-array light source diffractive optical elements, as a necessary part of the proposed design method. The spherical diverging illumination leads to DC-conjugate noise spreading. The main idea is tested experimentally, and the multi-array light source diffraction pattern is investigated numerically.

Development of the Noise Elimination Algorithm of Stereo-Vision Images for 3D Terrain Modeling (지반형상 3차원 모델링을 위한 스테레오 비전 영상의 노이즈 제거 알고리즘 개발)

  • Yoo, Hyun-Seok;Kim, Young-Suk;Han, Seung-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.145-154
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    • 2009
  • For developing an Automation equipment in construction, it is a key issue to develop 3D modeling technology which can be used for automatically recognizing environmental objects. Recently, for the development of "Intelligent Excavating System(IES), a research developing the real-time 3D terrain modeling technology has been implemented from 2006 in Korea and a stereo vision system is selected as the optimum technology. However, as a result of performance tests implemented in various earth moving environment, the 3D images obtained by stereo vision included considerable noise. Therefore, in this study, for getting rid of the noise which is necessarily generated in stereo image matching, the noise elimination algorithm of stereo-vision images for 3D terrain modeling was developed. The consequence of this study is expected to be applicable in developing an automation equipments which are used in field environment.