摘要
The theme of the 1991 Noise Conference,NOISE-CON 91,held 14 -16,July,1991,in Tarrytown,NY,was"Noise Control:Twenty Years of Progress andfuture Trends",marking the twentieth anniversary of the Institute of Noise Con-trol Engineering(INCE/USA).The Proceedings contain all papers presented inthe Conference,among which five plenary lectures address the theme of the Confer-ence by reviewing the recent developments and some thoughts about the futuretrends,while the other eighty-some papers in ten organized sessions reflect the pro-gress in different fields to the arts and sciences of the reduction of sound and ofthe use of sound for diagnosis.