This textbook covers the range of essential topics for industrial noise control for undergraduates and professionals with no background in acoustics, and with detailed explanations of important concepts, with extensive worked examples. Now with 170 problems and solutions, and 80 problems with solutions only for instructors.

Colin Hansen is Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide and has spent his entire professional life consulting, teaching and researching in acoustics and noise control. He is a past President and Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Acoustical Society. He was awarded the Rayleigh Medal by the UK Institute of Acoustics, the Michell Medal by Engineers Australia and the Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education by the Acoustical Society of America.

Kristy Hansen is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Flinders University, Australia, and holder of the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for research on the effects of wind farm noise on rural communities.

1. Fundamentals. 2. Loudness, Descriptors of Noise, Noise Criteria and Instrumentation. 3. Sound Sources and Sound Power Measurement. 4. Sound Propagation Outdoors. 5. Sound Absorbing Materials: Properties and their Measurement. 6. Sound in Rooms. 7. Partitions, Enclosures and Barriers. 8. Muffling Devices. Appendix: Properties of Materials.