Natural Science Forum / Physics / Acoustics / March 2006

Do a Google search on Geoff Leventhall.  While he is a foul-mouthed and
personally-unethical piece of human waste (my opinon), he has done a great
deal of work and is an internationally recognized authority in the area of
infrasound.
 

You are correct not to believe much of what you read on the internet about
infrasound

A review I wrote on low frequency noise is available on
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/noise/research/lowfrequency/pdf/lowfreqnoise.pd
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I prefer not to use the word "infrasound", although it is difficult to avoid
it, since it implies inaudibility, which is not correct.  Thresholds have
been measured down to 4Hz (107dB) for chamber listening and even lower for
earphone listening.  Infrasound should be kept for the very low frequency
atmospheric sounds.

A rather old book is "Infrasound and Low Frequency Vibration"  edited by
W.Tempest, Academic Press 1976.
There is  also the Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active
Control, published quarterly by MultiScience Publishing Co Ltd
www.multi-science.co.uk

There is a conference held about every two years: the International
Conference on Low Frequency Noise and Vibration and its Control. Proceedings
of the more recent ones are still available from MultiScience.

The next conference in the series will be the 12th one, to be held in
Bristol, UK, September 18-20 2006.  See www.lowfrequency2006.org  for
further information.

Geoff