There have been significant changes in noise and vibration control engineering in the last 10 years. This classic guide acts as a concise reference that supplies practical design information to all facets of a noise and vibration engineer's job. The increased emphasis and interest in engineering control of noise has driven the growth in attendance and membership rates at meetings of the Acoustical Society and at Noise-Con and this book should be the essential desk reference for this market.Table of Contents: Preface Contributors Waves and Impedances (Leo LBeranek).Data Analysis (Allan GPiersol).Determination of Sound Power Levels and Directivity of Noise Sources (William WLang, George CMaling, Jr., Matthew ANobile, and Jiri Tichy).Outdoor Sound Propagation (Ulrich JKurze and Grant SAnderson).Sound in Small Enclosures (Donald JNefske and Shung HSung).Sound in Rooms (Murray Hodgson and John Bradley).Sound-Absorbing Materials and Sound Absorbers (Keith Attenborough and István LVér).Passive Silencers (MLMunjal, Anthony GGalaitsis and István LVér).Sound Generation (István LVér).Interaction of Sound Waves with Solid Structures (István LVér).Enclosures, Cabins, and Wrappings (István LVér).Vibration Isolation (Eric EUngar and Jeffrey AZapfe).Structural Damping (Eric EUngar and Jeffrey AZapfe).Noise of Gas Flows (HDBaumann and WBConey).Prediction of Machinery Noise (Eric WWood and James DBarnes).Noise Control in Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Systems (Alan TFry and Douglas HSturz).Active Control of Noise and Vibration (Ronald Coleman and Paul JRemington).Damage Risk Criteria for Hearing and Human Body Vibration (Suzanne DSmith, Charles WNixon and Henning EVon Gierke).Criteria for Noise in Buildings and Communities (Leo LBeranek).Acoustical Standards for Noise and Vibration Control (Angelo Campanella, Paul Schomer and Laura Ann Wilber).Appendix AGeneral References.Appendix BAmerican System of Units.Appendix CConversion Factors.Index.