Monday 20th November

Room A
0900 0920 1020 Welcome Stuart Camp, NZAS President
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Chair: Alec Duncan) Sounds interesting: Wavefronts, caustics, whales and reefs. Chris Tindle, University of Auckland

Room B

Room C

Tea BUILDING ACOUSTICS

Chair: Terry Mc Minn

AIRCRAFT NOISE
Chair: Stuart Camp Adelaide airport noise insulation program - noise control for college buildings Ivailo Dimitrov, Elizabeth Cheng Problems with the INM: Part 1 Lateral attenuation Steven Cooper Aircraft noise intrusion: A practical study of glazing performance under high aircraft noise conditions for residential developments Ross Leo What airspace management planners are doing to minimise aircraft noise Kevin Bethwaite

ACTIVE NOISE AND VIBRATION

Chair: Jie Pan The elusive cost function for tuning adaptive Helmholtz resonators Colin Hansen, Sarabjeet Singh, Carl Howard Spatial control of far-field structural sound radiation using structural sensors for broadband applications Dunant Halim, Ben Cazzolato Active random vibration control for stochastic piezoelectric truss structures Wei Gao Control of the spatially-weighted vibration of an arbitrary structure using an adaptive control strategy Dunant Halim, Ben Cazzolato Feasibility study of localised active noise control using an audio spotlight and virtual sensors Mike Kidner, Dick Petersen, Anthony Zander

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The directivity of sound radiated from a panel or opening excited by sound incident on the other side. John Davy, Vladimir Pavasovic Following sound through a crack Charles Don, G. Swenson Experimental validation of a model for the transmission loss of a plate with an array of lumped masses Carl Howard, Mike Kidner Modelling of light weight floor/ceiling structures Hyuck Chung Comparison of low frequency sound insulation field measurement methods Sandy Marshall, Doheon Lee, Densil Cabrera

Lunch

Monday 20th November

Room A
WIND FARMS
Chair: Norm Broner

Room B
OCCUPATIONAL NOISE
Chair: Damian Ellerton Occupational noise criteria and 'Action Levels' Marion Burgess, Warwick Williams Quantifying the risk from listening to personal stereos Warwick Williams, Noise control in a sample preparation room Jingnan Guo, Jie Pan Acoustics laboratory fire at the University of Sydney Ken Stewart, Densil Cabrera

Room C
UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS - Marine Bioacoustic Remote Sensing
Chair: Chris Tindle Statistical analysis of high-frequency multibeam backscatter data in shallow water. Justy Siwabessy, Alexander Gavrilov, Alec Duncan, Ian Parnum Current technology of fisheries acoustics based on analysed acoustic data using SonarDatas Echoview Myounghee Kang Spawning sounds of the Mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) Miles Parsons, Rob McCauley, Mike Mackie Passive acoustics for monitoring marine animals - progress and challenges. Douglas Cato, Rob McCauley, Tracey Rogers, Michael Noad

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Acoustic assessment of wind farms - A practical perspective Peter Teague, Rachel Foster Complaints from noise of wind turbines - Australian and New Zealand experience Colin Tickell Review of the application of NZS6808 to wind farms in Australia Les Huson Wind turbine and wind farm sound levels - a prototype journey Geoff Henderson Tea

BUILDING CODE
Chair: Stephen Chiles

AIRCRAFT NOISE
Chair: Mike Latimer Problems with the INM: Part 2 Atmospheric attenuation Steven Cooper Effects of an acoustically absorptive ceiling on the aircraft noise reduction of an open and semi-enclosed outdoor structure. Michael Caley, John Savery Problems with the INM: Part 3 Derivation of NPD curves Steven Cooper Experimental outdoor sound propagation Najah Ishac, Rob Bullen

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS Signal Processing

Chair: Alec Duncan High frequency performance of arc arrays using adaptive beamforming Chaoying Bao, Derek Bertilone Multichannel communication based on adaptive equalization in very shallow water acoustic channels. Tan Bien Aik, Mehul Motani, Mandar Chitre, Swee Sen Quek Inversion of Lloyd Mirror Field for source track information Mike Wilmut, Ross Chapman Techniques for the extraction of the waveguide invariant from interference patterns in spectrograms Laura Brooks, Mike Kidner, Anthony Zander, Colin Hansen, Yong Zhang

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Making and using building insulation measurements George Dodd, G. Schmid, M. Li Communicating performance effectively - the only hope of solving the problem of noise transference between attached domestic dwellings? Robert Hanson A review of the New Zealand Building Code Peter Thorby Revisions to the noise requirements of the Building Code and Compliance Documents Peter Thorby

Coaches leave Clearwater for the Conference Dinner Conference Dinner Christchurch Town Hall Guest speakers: Sir Miles Warren and Dr Harold Marshall

Tuesday 21st November

Room A
0840 1140 1240 TECHNICAL VISITS
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Chair: George Dodd) Building acoustics: From prediction models to auralisation Michael Vorlnder, RWTH Aachen University

Room B

Room C

Lunch ROAD NOISE

Chair: Norm Broner

ROOM ACOUSTICS
Chair: Densil Cabrera Classroom acoustics - Controlling the Cafe Effect... is the Lombard Effect the key? James Whitlock, George Dodd, Richard Francis Caf and Restaurant Acoustic Index Stuart Camp Improving the upright piano Martin Keane A statistical approach to concert hall acoustic design Fergus Fricke, Joseph Nannariello

ACTIVE NOISE AND VIBRATION

Chair: Colin Hansen An industrial ANC application for an enclosure Guillaume Barrault, Arcanjo Lenzi, Dunant Halim, Colin Hansen Consideration of the power flow re-direction for creating a zone of quiet in structures Dunant Halim, Ben Cazzolato, Nobuo Tanaka Effect of reflecting surfaces on the performance of active noise control Jie Pan, Roshun Paurobally, Xiaojun Qiu An active control strategy for achieving general cluster control in structural-acoustic systems Dunant Halim, Ben Cazzolato, Nobuo Tanaka

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Effective noise barrier design & specification Giles Parker Assessing risks associated with simple algorithms for calculating effects due to partial enclosure of a road Neil Huybregts, Stephen Chiles Successful noise barrier case studies for transport and industrial sources Giles Parker Pavement surfaces and in-cabin noise levels Jeffrey Parnell, Stephen Samuels

Tea ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE

Chair: Jan Anderson

ROOM ACOUSTICS
Chair: Stephen Chiles Auditory room size perception: A Comparison of real versus binaural sound-fields. Densil Cabrera, Claudiu Pop, Daeup Jeong Acoustics and sound system of the university auditorium of Wyzsza Szkola Menedzerska in Warsaw design and results Michal Kaminski Some issues in measurement of the random-incidence scattering coefficients in a reverberation room Young-Ji Choi, Dae-Up Jeong, Ji-Young Kim Using sonification for teaching acoustics and audio Densil Cabrera, Sam Ferguson, Robert Maria

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS - Propagation

Chair: Douglas Cato Hydroacoustic observation of Antarctic ice disintegration events in the Indian Ocean Binghui Li, Alexander Gavrilov Directionality of acoustic T-phase signals in the South Fiji Basin Ross Chapman, Ralph Marrett Analysis and simulation of an extended data set of waveforms received from small explosions in shallow oceans Adrian Jones, Amos Maggi, Paul Clarke, Alec Duncan A consistent, user friendly interface for running a variety of underwater acoustic propagation codes Alec Duncan, Amos Maggi

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Dynamic measurement of tyre/road noise Gillian Adams, Stephen Pugh, Dave Claughton Carrying out noise assessments for proposed childcare facilities Ken Scannell Prediction of crowd noise Michael Hayne, Ron Rumble, D. Mee Assessment and regulation of environmental noise - an Australian and New Zealand comparison Rachel Foster

Australian Acoustical Society Annual General Meeting Exhibitors Reception

New Zealand Acoustical Society Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 22nd November

Room A
BUILDING ACOUSTICS
Chair: John Davy

Room B
ROAD NOISE
Chair:Peter Ibbotson A comparison of tyre/road noise generated on NSW pavements to international studies Jeffrey Parnell, Stephen Samuels The effects and significance of New Zealand road surfaces on traffic noise Vince Dravitzki, Darren Walton, Igor Kvatch The long term road traffic noise attributes of pavement surfaces in Queensland. Stephen Samuels, Arthur Hall Stone mastic asphalt The silent killer? Gayle Greer

Room C
VIBRATION
Chair: Marion Burgess Evaluation of footfall vibration in commercial buildings Tim Marks Mid-frequency modelling of the vibroacoustic responses of structures with uncertainties G. Lucas, Nicole Kessissoglou Simulation of the vibrations produced by extended bearing faults in gearboxes Bob Randall, Nader Sawalhi Investigation of speed variation on the growth of wear-type rail corrugation Paul Meehan, Paul Bellette, Bill Daniel

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Improving the impact insulation of light timber floors Grant Emms, Ken McGunnigle, Hyuck Chung, George Dodd Horizontal impact sound insulation: Field observations R.Finley, Michael Sullivan, A.Zaher Sound transmission through suspended ceilings beneath floors Thomas Scelo, Roger Halkyard Curing time required to achieve stable sound transmission loss through masonry walls Matthew Fishburn, Stephen Gauld

Tea ROAD NOISE

Chair: Stephen Chiles

ELECTROACOUSTICS AND THERMOACOUSTICS

Chair: George Dodd The control of early and late energy using the Variable Room Acoustics System. Mark Poletti, Steve Ellison, Roger Schwenke Speech intelligibility in a highly reverberant cathedral Larry Elliott, Miklin Halstead, Chris Cullinane Arbitrary audio FIR filter design by Bode plot smoothing using tuneable approximate piecewise linear regression Anthony Zaknich, Gareth Lee Modelling and optimisation of acoustic inertance segments for thermoacoustic devices. Luke Zoontjens, Carl Howard, Anthony Zander, Ben Cazzolato Impedance correction for a branched duct in a thermoacoustic airconditioner Carl Howard

INDUSTRIAL NOISE
Chair: Chris Tyson Calculation of insertion losses of pipe lagging: A Matlab computer program M Lacis, Sangarapillai Kanapathipillai Measurement of the sound transmission loss of a small expansion chamber muffler to consider the effects of mean flow and wall compliance Kerry Byrne, Michael Skeen, Nicole Kessissoglou Directivity loss at a duct termination Daniel Potente, Stephen Gauld, Athol Day Experimental and numerical investigation of noise generation from the two stage expansion of a round air jet James Neale Vibration is not the only method for balancing Byron Martin

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115: Noise camera: Automated detection technology to identify noisy vehicles Andrew Klos 48: Introduction to the revised Queensland Department of Main Roads Road Traffic Noise Management: Code of Practice Arthur Hall WORKSHOP: Improving the management of state highway traffic noise in New Zealand Rob Hannaby

14th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, July 2007 Nicole Kessissoglou

Closing Address AAS President