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Improving Simulations Of Sonic Booms Heard Indoors And Outdoors And Explore How The Sound Characteristics Affect Annoyance, Yingxiang Jiang, Patricia Davies Oct 2013

Improving Simulations Of Sonic Booms Heard Indoors And Outdoors And Explore How The Sound Characteristics Affect Annoyance, Yingxiang Jiang, Patricia Davies

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Supersonic flights can greatly shorten the flight time in the world and provide convenience for people all over the world. However, commercial supersonic flights over US territories are banned by Federal Aviation Administration in 1973 due to the intolerably loud noise of sonic booms. Recently, a few demonstrator aircraft have been built that produce much quieter booms. To determine whether the new boom is acceptable, many laboratory researchers are using simulated sonic boom signals for subjective test because the method is easy and cost-efficient, whereas it might not have enough fidelity to address the effect of the original one. In …


Lincoln Highway: Nation's First Transcontinental Highway, Dennis E. Horvath Mar 2013

Lincoln Highway: Nation's First Transcontinental Highway, Dennis E. Horvath

Purdue Road School

The centennial of the organizing meeting creating the nation’s first transcontinental highway will be celebrated in July 2013. This is generally considered to be the birth of the federal highway system. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Association will discuss the Lincoln Highway and its upcoming celebration.