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Roadside pillars on an origami-inspired folding base could block traffic noise without restricting a driver’s view. That’s the hope for a new kind of “sonic barrier” proposed by Manoj Thota and ...

Managing traffic noises has challenged researchers for some time, largely because different types of vehicles produce a broad range of sounds frequencies on roads. At the moment, only heavy, wall-like ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 -- Managing traffic noise pollution has vexed researchers in large part because of the broad range of frequencies we encounter on the road. Currently, only heavy, ...

Illustrations of different folding configurations of origami sonic barrier and their corresponding cross section views. The pink polygons in cross section views identify different lattice patterns and ...