Impact of Low Sonic Boom Exposure on Psychophysical and Cognitive Performance

Frederic Marmel , Claudia Fritz (1) , Léo Cretagne , Linh-Thao Thuong , Carlos Garcia Armijos , François Ollivier (2) , Uwe Muller (3) , François Coulouvrat (2)

1 IJLRDA-LAM - Lutheries - Acoustique - Musique
2 DALEMBERT - Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
3 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

The RegUlation and norM for low sonic Boom Levels (RUMBLE) European project aims to quantify the effects of low sonic boom exposure on human responses in representative situations for European citizens, so as to inform policy, establish standards and develop protection concepts for a new generation of supersonic commercial aircraft that should emit a reduced but perceivable boom (a ‘low boom’) while flying overland.With this in view, we built a low boom simulator, affixed to the windows of a two-story house, that can reproduce realistic signals inside the house, with or without rattle noise. We used the simulator to conduct a study that evaluated the annoyance caused by low booms, as well as their impact on performance in psychophysical and cognitive tasks. We compared low booms of two different sound levels in three conditions with different degrees of rattle

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Vibrations [physics.class-ph]

Frederic Marmel, Claudia Fritz, Léo Cretagne, Linh-Thao Thuong, Carlos Garcia Armijos, et al.. Impact of Low Sonic Boom Exposure on Psychophysical and Cognitive Performance. eForum Acusticum 2020, Dec 2020, Lyon, France. pp.999-1000, ⟨10.48465/fa.2020.0362⟩. ⟨hal-03229478⟩