MODULE 4 Flashcards

NOISE

1
Q

_________ is any undesirable or unwanted sound.

A

Noise

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2
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The first-generation jet aircraft in the ________ led to a rapid expansion in
commercial aviation and their engines created__________

A

1950S
significant noise.

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3
Q

To allay public concerns in the
1960s, authorities put in place __________ as traffic grew at major
airports such as ______________________

A

airport-specific noise limits
London/Heathrow and New York/Kennedy.

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4
Q

In the 1970s, the _____________ introduced the first noise certification standards
and the ______________promoted similar standards
globally (Smith, 1989)

A

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

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5
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Chapter _ of ICAO’s ____________ to
the Convention on International Civil Aviation” (ICAO, 2008a) defined noise standards
for aircraft certified before October 6, 1977 (with some exemptions)

A

2
Environmental Protection/ Annex 16

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6
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Chapter _______ for aircraft certified between then and December 31, 2005

A

3

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7
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Chapter _ for aircraft
certified thereafter.

A

4

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8
Q

______________
correspond to ICAO Chapters 2/3 I 4. The standards outline noise limits at approach,
sideline and flyover certification points nd cumulative across all three points

A

U.S. Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 36 Stages 2/3/ 4

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9
Q

Sound level is measured in ________

A

decibels (dB)

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10
Q

each new ICAO chapter
imposes increasingly stringent noise limits, resulting in a ___________cumulative
reduction in allowable noise.

A

10- to 20-dB

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11
Q

airframe sources

A

fuselage
wing including high-lift devices)
landing gear
vertical/horizontal tail

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12
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engine sources

A

fan
core
exhaust
nacelles
Aucillary Power Units APU

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13
Q

two general sources of noise from aircraft

A

engine
airframe

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14
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Aircraft generate noise whenever there is:

A

1.high-speed or turbulent airflow and/
2.high-speed mechanical movement and rotation.

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15
Q

____________comes from the flow of air through and rapid rotations of the various
components of the engine fan and core elements, as well as the high-speed gases in
the engine exhaust being expelled into the outside air.

A

Turbofan engine noise [and noise
from auxiliary power units (APUs)used to provide power when aircraft are on the
ground]

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16
Q

__________includes the turbulent air shed from each blade and the interactions
between the blades.

A

Turboprop (propeller) engine

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17
Q

is caused by the flow of air over the surfaces of
the aircraft and the turbulent flows created by the structure and cavities introduced by
the deployment of high-lift devices and landing gear.

A

airframe noise

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18
Q

_________ tends to dominate on the ground, especially during takeoff when
the engines are at very high thrust level, on landing when using thrust reversers and
when taxiing at low speed.

A

Engine noise

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19
Q

By contrast, airframe and engine noises are about equally
important during approach and landing operations when aircraft are at low altitudes in
____________ with high-lift devices and landing gear extended
and engines at lower thrust levels than at takeoff

A

11 dirty” aerodynamic configuration

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20
Q

Another source of aircraft noise is
the ________ created by aircraft flying at supersonic speeds which can be very
disruptive to activities on the ground.

A

sonic boom

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21
Q

This issue severely limited the market for
supersonic commercial aircraft introduced in the ________

A

1970s

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22
Q

Only the ___________ found a niche market serving transatlantic routes (overland flights were
banned due to the sonic boom concerns) until its retirement in _______ on economic
grounds.

A

Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde
2003

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23
Q

The increasingly stringent noise certification standards have spurred the
development of________ for new aircraft.These have significantly
reduced noise impacts

A

low-noise technologies

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24
Q

Most reductions in aircraft noise have
been achieved through improvements in _______, especially the transition
from ________________ to

A

engine technology
turbojets
high bypass ratio turbofan engines

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The ___________ is the ratio between the amount of air drawn in by the fan that bypasses the engine core relative to that passing through the core.
bypass ratio
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Large modem turbofan engines have a bypass ratio of around ________
10:1
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Although bypass ratios have generally increased over time for modem turbofan engines, a limit is being reached which manifests as the _________
plateauing in the noise reduction curve
28
Higher bypass ratios require_____ fan diameters that increase the weight and drag of the engine and thus increase fuel burn. This implies a tradeoff between environmental impacts of noise and climate change from fuel bum emissions discussed later in this chapter
larger
29
Meeting future noise targets [such as the ____________________________________________ in perceived aircraft noise level relative to _____ from_____(EC, 2011) and NASA's long-term goal for a cumulative 62 dB reduction below Chapter 4 standards (NSTC, 2010)] will require new noise reduction technologies.
European Commission's goal for a 65 percent reduction to 2000 levels by 2050
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Near-term incremental technology enhancements include ___________,____________ (which increase the mixing of the core and bypass air, reducing engine exhaust noise), and __________(but these also increase weight and hence have fuel burn impacts).
engine core nacelle chevrons streamlined landing gear fairings
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UHBR and its other term
streamlined landing gear fairings unducted fan
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In the medium-term (possibly by 2020), ________________AND __________ (UHBR, also called unducted fan) engines are being promoted for significant fuel savings, but their impact on noise needs to be carefully monitored.
geared turbofans and ultrahigh bypass ratio
33
Longer-term (unlikely to be available commercially until at least 2025), more _______________are being explored. These absorb or heavily shield engine noise, leading to significantly lower noise impacts on the ground.
integrated airframe/engine designs afforded by blended-wing body configurations
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___________ radiated by such sources is transmitted through the air in sound waves which are tiny pressure fluctuations just above and below atmospheric pressure.
Sound energy
35
These __________, called________, impinge on the ear, creating audible sound.
pressure fluctuations sound pressures
36
.____________ are quantified by the root-mean-square (RMS) value, that is, the square root of the average squared pressure fluctuation over some brief period of time (about 1 s for aircraft noise purposes)
Sound pressures
37
root mean square sound pressure
prms
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deviation from atmospheric pressure at time t
p(t)
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averaging time, 1 s for airport noise purposes
T
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The______________ is sensitive to a very wide range of RMS sound pressures.
human auditory system
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The loudest sounds people can hear without pain have about __________times the RMS sound pressure as the faintest sounds people can hear.
1million
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____________ is the way the auditory system perceives changes in loudness
Equally remarkable
43
To a first approximation, ___________ percentage changes in RMS sound pressure are perceived as equal changes in loudness
equal
44
Hence, at ___________ RMS sound pressures, larger absolute changes in RMS sound pressure are required to make a noticeable difference in loudness than at lower RMS sound pressures.
higher
45
The smallest difference in RMS sound pressure the human auditory system can detect is about ____ percent.
10
46
For these reasons a ______________, is well suited for quantifying sound in a manner which relates to human perception.
logarithmic, or decibel scale
47
In its logarithmic form, RMS sound pressure is called the _______________
RMS sound pressure level (SPL).
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______________l is the logarithm of the ratio of two squared pressures, the numerator containing the pressure of the sound source of interest and the denominator containing a reference pressure
Sound pressure level
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The units of sound pressure level are _________).
decibels (dB
50
RMS sound pressure level
Lp
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RMS sound pressure
prms
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p0 is the reference pressure of
20 × 10−6 newtons per square meter or 2.90 × 10−9 pounds per square inch
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logarithm to the base 10
log
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The value of __ has been chosen to approximate the lowest RMS sound pressure a healthy young adult can hear.
p0
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In contrast, an RMS sound pressure 1 million times greater produces a sound pressure level of _______ dB.
120
56
Most sounds in our day-to-day environment have sound pressure levels on the order of _______ dB.
30 to 100
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Two useful rules of thumb for comparing sound pressure levels are that, on an average, people perceive a __ to __ increase in the sound pressure level as a doubling of subjective loudness and changes of less than_________are not readily detectable outside of a laboratory environment.
6 to 10 dB 2 or 3 dB
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Another important attribute of sound is its ___________.
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For a __________ this is the number of times per second the sound pressure oscillates back and forth about atmospheric pressure.
pure tone
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The unit of frequency is ____ but may also be referred to as ________in references predating the adoption of hertz as an international standard.
hertz (Hz) cycles per second
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The normal frequency range of hearing for a young adult extends from _____ to______
a low of 16 Hz to a high of about 16,000 Hz.
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Frequencies in the range of _____to_____sound louder than lower or higher frequencies when heard at the same RMS sound pressure level.
2000 to 4000 Hz
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Thus, it is possible for two different sounds with the same __________ to ________ in loudness.
sound pressure level sound different
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Incorporated in almost every commercially available sound level meter, a standardized __________ adds gain or attenuation to different frequencies in a manner approximating the sensitivity of the human ear.
A-weighting filter
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The frequency response of the filter has a ____ effect in the mid frequency range between _______ and increasing attenuation outside this range.
±3 dB 500 and 10,000 Hz
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the ________________ represents a significant improvement over the overall (unweighted) sound pressure level.
A-weighted sound level
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All federal agencies dealing with community noise, including transportation, have adopted the____________ as the basic unit for analysis of environmental impacts.
A-weighted sound level
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A-weighted sound levels are measured in __________-
decibels
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Although not meeting current acoustical terminology standards, A-weighted sound levels may be reported in the literature as ____________
dBA, dB(A), or simply A-weighted
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A convenient metric is the _______________. This value is convenient to measure as it requires an observer to simply note the maximum reading on a sound level meter. It is also convenient to describe since most people can relate to the loudest part of a noise event.
maximum A-weighted sound level
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While being a very useful metric of aircraft noise events, the_______ does not address the time element, or duration, of the event.
maximum level
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All other things being equal, it was found that ____________ resulted in greater perceived noisiness.
increased duration
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On average, the studies determined that people were willing to trade a doubling of duration for a _________ in maximum A-level sound. This finding supported a simple model for subjective noisiness, noise events with equal time integrated A-weighted sound energy are rated as equally noisy.
3-dB reduction
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the ___________ is defined as the total A-weighted sound energy contained in the noise event.
sound exposure level (SEL)
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units of sound exposure level
decibels
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Theoretically, this integral in equation of sound exposure level could approach _______ as T becomes large. If the integration takes place over the top 20 dB, the computation will be only ___________ dB less than the theoretical maximum.
infinity 0.1
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Lae
sound exposure level
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T0
1 s to maintain a dimensionless argument for the logarithm
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For measurement purposes, the continuous integral presents two difficulties, namely:
1. a continuous, mathematical function for the A-weighted sound level time history is never known, 2. and the time limits of integration are nebulous since there is no precisely defined beginning or end to an aircraft noise event which slowly emerges from, and then blends back, into a time-varying background.
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s, ith A-weighted sound level measured every _____ and Δt is 0.5 s.
0.5 s
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The limits of i from 1 to N are sufficient to perform the summation over at least the top ___________ of the noise event.
10 dB
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An accepted sampling interval Δt is __-
0.5 s
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