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This page shows the titles of all our current pages and the main structure of our site.  Some pages naturally fall into more than one category, and may be listed more than once. Bullet lists show short, related items collected together on a single page.

ISVR Consulting. (Home page).

1968-2008: 40 years of ISVR Consulting

  1. Services offered.
    1. Environmental and community noise.
      1. Mineral extraction, waste recycling, dredging, construction and demolition.
      2. Railway noise and vibration.
      3. Noise from wind turbine generators
      4. Aircraft noise and sleep disturbance.
      5. The Black Country Forge and Foundry Project.
      6. Gas turbine noise and vibration control.
      7. Noise from clay target shooting
      8. PPG 24 Planning and noise - new housing developments
      9. Assessment of industrial noise to BS 4142
      10. See also Process plant noise control: preventive versus remedial noise control
      11. See also Vibration in buildings

       

    2. Aircraft noise and vibration.
      1. Aeroacoustics, flow noise, and flow-induced vibration.
      2. Aircraft internal noise and communication.
        • Measurement of ambient noise levels and noise levels from crew headsets on the flight decks of civil aircraft.
        • Design of warning sounds for military and civil aircraft.
        • Development of a specification for passenger public address systems in helicopters.
        • Design assistance and testing of passenger public address in aeroplanes and helicopters.
        • Design and testing of an experimental system to guide passengers to exits of smoke filled cabins.
        • The effect of noise from cabin water sprays on the intelligibility of instructions shouted by cabin crew during aircraft evacuations.
        • Loudspeaker selection and layout for entertainment systems in VIP aircraft.
        • Electroacoustic measurements.


    3. Industrial and machinery noise.
      1. Prediction measurement and assessment of industrial noise and vibration.
      2. Aeroacoustics, flow noise, and flow-induced vibration
      3. The European Machinery Directive.
      4. Gas turbine noise and vibration control
      5. Noise from wind turbine generators
      6. Process plant noise control: preventive versus remedial noise control


    4. Automotive and Marine Group
      1. Noise transmission in vehicles
      2. Tailpipe and Intake Noise Simulator (TINS)
      3. Marine noise and vibration
      4. The SoundBoat project
      5. Measurement of torsional vibration
      6. Omni-directional sound sources
      7. The “Banger Rig”


    5. Workplace and occupational noise.
      1. Noise levels under motorcycle helmets.
      2. Noise exposures from headphones and earpieces.
      3. Call centre acoustics.
      4. Unusual occupational noise sources.
      5. Noise and hearing protection for firearms users
      6. The Noise at Work Regulations 1989.
      7. The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005


    6. Laboratory services and qualification testing.
      1. Sound power measurement.
      2. High intensity noise testing.
      3. Sound absorption measurement.
      4. Electroacoustic measurements.


    7. Expert witness services in civil and criminal cases


    8. Specialist measurement techniques
      1. Sound source location using microphone arrays
      2. See also Noise exposures from headphones and earpieces

    9. Noise and vibration engineering software development
      • GenView
      • EngWaves

    10. Vibration.
      1. Vibration in buildings
      2. Low-vibration environments for vibration-sensitive equipment
      3. Modal analysis and model verification
      4. see also Railway noise and vibration


    11. Architectural and building acoustics.
      1. Noise and vibration transmission in buildings.
      2. Acoustics in schools
      3. Whistling buildings; wind-induced noise.
      4. Call centre acoustics.

    12. Modelling and analysis.
      1. Statistical Energy Analysis - SEA.
      2. SEA modelling of a large ship.

    13. Communications and speech intelligibility.

    14. Leisure and recreational noise
      1. Noise from children's toys.

    15. Research and development projects, including
      1. Instrument for Soundscape recognition, identification and evaluation.
      2. Ear simulators and hearing aid testing (joint project with the National Physical Laboratory)
      3. The Black Country forge and foundry project

    16. Short courses

    17. Ultrasonic measurements.

    18. Useful documents reprinted (including)
      1. Instrument for soundscape recognition, identification and evaluation - an overview and potential use in legislative applications (pdf 63KB)
      2. Time domain measurement of sound power output from a vacuum facility. (pdf 180 KB)
      3. Noise source identification using microphone arrays (pdf)
      4. Sound Power Measurements for Hot Exhaust Stacks (pdf)
      5. Reducing noise from an oil refinery cat cracker. (pdf)
      6. Variation of young normal hearing thresholds measured using various patterns of audiometric earphone: Implications for the acoustic coupler and the ear simulator (artificial ear) (pdf)
      7. Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) Recordings of Explosions and Structural Failure Decompressions (pdf)
      8. Audiometric findings in call centre workers exposed to acoustic shock (pdf)
      9. Background information on Head and Torso Simulators and relevant standards (pdf)
      10. A Concise Vocabulary of Audiology and allied topics (html)
      11. Reducing Noise from Forges and Foundries - the Handbook of the Black country Forging and Foundry project
      12. Noise from Toys and its Effect on Hearing. (pdf)
      13. Noise levels and noise reduction under motorcyclist's helmets. (pdf)
      14. Noise levels and communications on the flight decks of civil aircraft. (pdf)
      15. Sources and levels of noise under motorcyclists' helmets. (pdf)
      16. Headphones and the Noise at Work Regulations Health & Safety at Work 1992 (pdf)

       

  2. Acoustic test facilities.
    1. Reverberation chambers.
      • Large reverberation chamber.
      • Small reverberation chamber.
      • Transmission suite
    2. Large anechoic chamber.
    3. Loudspeaker listening room.
    4. Downloadable guide to Test Facilities (Adobe pdf 316 KB)

  3. Contacting us. by post, e-mail, telephone or fax.

  4. Our most recent Annual Report - January to December 2008.
    Archive of our annual reports for previous years, from 1996/7 onwards

  5. How to find us. (with map)
    1. Directions to our main Highfield site and Rayleigh Laboratories
    2. Directions to our Chilworth Laboratories at the University Science Park
    3. List and details of local hotels

  6. Disclaimer and copyright notice.

  7. Search page (for both ISVR's and ISVR Consulting's sites)

  8. Site map / Contents page (- you are here -)

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For further information contact

ISVR Consulting,
University of Southampton,
Highfield,
Southampton,
SO17 1BJ,
United Kingdom

Telephone enquiries: 023 8059 2162 (+44 23 8059 2162 from outside the UK)
Fax: 023 8059 2728 (+44 23 8059 2728 from outside the UK)

Or E-mail: consultancy@isvr.co.uk

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