Volume 4, Number 1, March, 1996 - Noise News International

Table 1. Dates and locations of past and future congressesof the International Commission on AcousticsDate2001 Rome, Italy1998 Seattle, USALocation1995 Trondheim, Norway1992 Beijing, Orina1989 Belgrade, Yugoslavia1986 Toronto, Canada1983 Paris,France1980 Sydney, Australia1977 Madrid, Spain1974 London, UnitedKingdom1971 Budapest, Hungary1968 Tokyo,Japan1965 Liege,Belgium1962 Copenhagen, Denmark1959 Stuttgart, Gennany1956 Cambridge, USA1953 Delft,The Netherlandsvibrations, but there is little cooperation betweenthem.Another nongovernmental international organizationdealing with acoustics is the InternationalCouncilfor Building Research (CIB), where cmstands for Conseil International du Batiment. cmhas some 30 working groups, one of which is onacoustics. The cm working group on acoustics hasbeen meeting every other year since 1970.Of the intergovernmental organizations, twoshould be mentioned. The International CivilAviationOrganization (lCAO) with headquarters inMontreal, Canada has responsibility for aviationregulations. ICAO is very much involved with aircraftnoise. The NorthAtlanticTreaty Organization(NATO) with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium hasa Scientific Affairs Division with a Committee onthe Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS).NATO/CCMS sponsors symposia from time to timeon noise prediction, modeling and effects.Table 2. Refereed technical journals published bynot-for-proflt societiesNameofjournal, Approximate Approximate Approximatefrequency, and lint annualnumber percentof circulationyear of publication of pages noise articlesJournalof the Acoustical 7500 5 9000Societyof America(JASA)(monthly)1930NoiseControl 400 100 2000Engineering Journal(NCEI)(bimonthly)1973ActaAcustica 700 10 3500(published bytheEAA)(bimonthly)1993ASMEJournalof 800 50 3200Vibrations and Acoustics(quarterly)retitled 1990for many years, and at times has participated withthe ICA in the sponsorship of joint symposia, but notrecently. Today, nearly a half-century after the establishmentof the ICA, acoustics is no longer recognizedas an integral sub-field of physics. Instructionin acoustics is most often given today by the engineeringdepartments of the world's universities. Theacademics concerned with theoretical and appliedmechanics consider acoustics and vibrations to bepart of their discipline. Hence, IUPAP and IUTAMare in a competitive situation. The situation is, indeed,comparable to the competition on a nationalscale that exists between the Acoustical Society ofAmerica (ASA) and the American Society of MechanicalEngineers (ASME). Both organizationshave members who are interested in acoustics andPublicationsThis section describes those publications with technicalarticles on acoustics and noise control whichconstitute the current literature of the field. Theprincipal concern is with international refereedjournals.By international is meant those journals thathave a significant circulation outside the country oforigin. There are two kinds of journals: those publishedby not-for-profit professional societies andthose published by for-profit commercial organizations.It should be pointed out that most professionalsocieties have one or more publications. Exceptwhen a professional society has a significant numberof foreign members, most of the circulation of thesociety's publications is likely to be within the countryin which its headquarters is located. For thisreason, publications of professional societies arelisted only when they are published in the Englishlanguage, and when it is known that the foreigncirculation is more than a few hundred copies.The most important journals and publications inacoustics and noise control are listed in Tables 2, 3and 4. The technical literature published outside theUSA is controlled to a far greater extent by for-profitcommercial publishers. These publishers are unlikelyto be affiliated with or to represent a not-forprofitsociety of professionals.Acoustics is a broadly inter-disciplinary subject.Technical articles appear from time to time on topicsrelated to acoustics and noise control in journals ofmechanical, electrical, and civil engineering, as wellas the journals of other fields. No attempt has beenmade here to include these occasional publicationsin the literature of acoustics and noise control.In addition to the technical articles appearing in18NoiselNews International1996 March