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David A Anderson1, Theodore F Argo1
1Applied Research Associates, Inc., Littleton, Colorado 80127, USA danderson@ara.com, targo@ara.com.
Abstract:
Hearing loss standards depend on noise power and duration but are incomplete when the noise is primarily impulsive in nature rather than maintaining a continuous power level. Calculating the kurtosis of a noise exposure captures information about its impulsivity, and high kurtosis values cause additional hearing damage. In this paper, a method for measuring the reduction of noise kurtosis through hearing protection is outlined, and measurements demonstrate that spectral insertion loss is independent of the noise kurtosis and that kurtosis loss is not related to either the mean or standard deviation of spectral attenuation.
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