Good reading

This was an article written by Dan Maguire for the Women in Transportation Society Newsletter. It describes some of the basics of our dislike of noise and the reduction of it.

This paper - with primary author Rick St. Pierre - discusses the history and use/misuse of the A-weighting scale. I consider it a must read for anyone who uses the A-weighting setting on their SPL meter.

Whenever anyone asks why our transfer function models are so fast and so good, we send them a copy of this paper. Some things never get old.

This is Dan Maguire's dissertation. One of his major professors described the first 25 pages as "required reading for every controls graduate student." You can decide for yourself!

A measurement can be 100% accurate but still not valid. As an example, just place a thermometer on your heat vent to measure the temperature in your office. This paper considers the validity of noise regulations.

This article describes the application of active noise control to mining haul trucks.

This was an invited presentation given to the Auto Interiors technical conference. It discusses the value of active control in consumer automobiles.

This technical paper present the concept of using varying sample rates for the active control of tonal disturbances resulting from rotating machinery. By moving into the "order domain," computational load can decrease and/or precision can increase. ​

This paper focuses its rage on the inappropriateness of A-weighting locomotive noise measurements. It was an invited presentation to the Dutch Acoustical Society.