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Publications in peer reviewed international Journals, Djamel Ouis
 
1.  D. Ouis, Scattering by a Barrier in a Room. view paper
     Applied Acoustics, 56, pp 1-24, Jan. 1999.

2.  D. Ouis, Scattering of a Spherical Wave by a Thin Hard Strip. view paper
     Journal of Sound and Vibration, 219, pp 837-857, 1999.

3.  D. Ouis, Vibrational and Acoustical Experiments on Logs of Spruce. view paper
     Wood Science and Technology, 33, pp 151-184, 1999.

4.  D. Ouis, Exposure to Nocturnal Road Traffic Noise: Sleep Disturbance
     and its After Effects.
view abstract
     Noise & Health, 4, pp 11-36, 1999.

5.  D. Ouis, Scattering of a Spherical Wave by a Thin Hard Barrier on a
     Reflecting Plane.
view paper
     Applied Acoustics, 59, pp 19-66, 2000.

6.  D. Ouis, Potential Use of a Piezoelectric Wire Sensor for Monitoring the Flexural
     Vibrations of Logs
. view abstract
     Forest Products Journal, 50(4), pp 61-64, 2000.

7.  D. Ouis, Detection of Decay in Logs Through Measuring the Dampening of
     Bending Vibrations by Means of a Room Acoustical Technique
. view paper
     Wood Science and Technology, 34, pp 221-236, 2000.

8.  D. Ouis, Noise Shielding by Simple Barriers: Comparison Between Using Either
     a Spherical or a Cylindrical Sound Source
.
     Journal of Computational Acoustics, 8, pp 495-502, 2000.

9.  D. Ouis, Annoyance from Road Traffic Noise: a Review. view paper
     Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21, pp 101-120, 2001.

10. D. Ouis, Detection of Rot in Standing Trees by Means of an Acoustical Technique.
      Arboricultural Journal, 25, pp 117-152, 2001.

11. D. Ouis, Diffraction by a Hard Half Plane: Useful Approximations to an
      Exact Formulation
. view paper
      Journal of Sound and Vibration, 252, pp 191-222, 2002.

12. D. Ouis, Scattering by a Hard Half Plane: Experimental Evidence of the
      Edge Diffracted Wave
. view paper
      Journal of Sound and Vibration, 252, pp 469-477, 2002.

13. D. Ouis, On the Frequency Dependence of the Modulus of Elasticity
      of Wood
. view paper
      Wood Science and Technology, 36, pp 335-346, 2002.

14. D. Ouis, Annoyance Caused by Exposure to Road Traffic Noise: An Update.
      Noise and Health,4(15), pp. 69-79, 2002.

15. D. Ouis, An Acoustical Technique for Determining the Loss Factor of Solid Materials.
      ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, 30(6), pp 497-500, 2002.

16. D. Ouis, Effect of Structural Defects on the Strength and Damping Properties
      of a Solid Material.
view paper
      The European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids: 22, pp 47-54, 2003.

17. D. Ouis, Noise Attenuation by a Hard Wedge Shaped Barrier. view paper
      Journal of Sound and Vibration, 262, pp 347-364, 2003.

18. D. Ouis, Sound Propagation over a Flat Ground with an Impedance Discontinuity.
      the International Journal on Acoustics and Vibration, 8, pp120-125, 2003.

19. D. Ouis, Study on the Relationship Between some Room Acoustical Descriptors.
     Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 51(6), pp 518-533, 2003.

20. D. Ouis, Non-Destructive Techniques for Detecting Decay in Standing Trees.  view paper
      Arboricultural Journal, 27(2), pp 159-177, 2003.

21. D. Ouis, The Performance of a Finite Impedance Wedge Barrier view paper
      Noise Control Engineering Journal, 53(5), pp 285-291, 2003.

22. D. Ouis, Assessment of Severity and Localisation of a Crack in a Wood Beam
      through a Study of its Natural Modes of Vibration
.
      the European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, 62, pp 17-22, 2004.

23. D. Ouis, Characterization of Polymers by means of a Standard Viscoelastic
      Model and Fractional Derivate Calculus
. view paper
      International Journal of Polymeric Materials, 53(8), pp 633-644, 2004.

24. D. Ouis, A. Zerizer, Modelling Rot in Wood by Sand: an Experimental Study. view paper
      Journal of the Japanese Wood Research Society, 52(3), pp 208-212, 2006.

25. D. Ouis,  Acoustical Parameters used for the Subjective Assessment of Musical
      Performance Spaces.
view paper
      Journal of New Music Research, 35(4), pp 333-345, 2006.


Publications in peer reviewed international Conference Proceedings,
Djamel Ouis

1.   D. Ouis, Scattering in Room Acoustics.
      Proceedings of the Nordic Acoustical Meeting, p 105, Aarhus, Denmark, June 6-8 1994.

2.  D. Ouis, Scattering and Spatial Hearing.
     Proceedings of ICA95, the 15th International Congress in Acoustics, Trondheim,
     Norway, June 26-30 1995, Vol II, pp 605.

3.  D. Ouis, Diffraction by a Hard Half Plane: Useful and Simple Frequency Forms
     to an Exact Time-Domain Solution.

     Proceedings of ICA98, the 16th International Congress in Acoustics, Seattle,
     Washington, USA, 20-26 June 1998, pp 1927-1928.

4.  D. Ouis, Scattering by a Horizontal Strip on a Hard Side Wall.
     Proceedings of ICA98, the 16th International Congress in Acoustics, Seattle,
     Washington, USA, 20-26 June 1998, pp 2813-2814.

5.  D. Ouis, Vibro-Acoustical Studies on Logs of Wood.
     Proceedings of WCTE98, the 5th World Congress on Timber Engineering,
     Lausanne, Switzerland, 17-20 august 1998, pp 812-813.

6.  D. Ouis, Experimental Studies on the Possibility of Detecting Rot in Trees and
     Wood Logs by Means of Conventional Acoustical Techniques
.
     Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Nondestructive Testing of
     Wood, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 9-11 September 1998, pp 201-202.

7.  D. Ouis, Preliminary Theoretical Investigation on the Performance of a Tilted   
     Thin Hard Noise Barrier
.
     Proceedings of Euro-Noise98, Munich, Germany, 4-7 October 1998, Vol. II, pp 1135-1138.

8.  D. Ouis, On the use of a Piezoelectric Wire Sensor for Monitoring the Flexural
     Vibrations of Wood Elements
.
     Proceedings of Euro-Noise98, Munich, Germany, 4-7 October 1998, Vol. II, pp 795- 798.

9.  D. Ouis, Sound Scattering by a Thin Hard Immovable Strip.
     Proceedings of INTERNOISE98, the 27th International Congress on Noise
     Control Engineering, Christchurch, New Zealand, 16-18 November 1998.

10. D. Ouis, Optimal Inclination of a Hard Half Plane for Minimum Field Level
      in the Shadowed Zone
.
      Proceedings of INTERNOISE98, the 27th International Congress on Noise
      Control Engineering, Christchurch, New Zealand, 16-18 November 1998.

11. D. Ouis, Noise Screening by Simple Barriers: Comparison Between Using
      Either a Spherical or a Cylindrical Sound Source
.
      4th International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics,
      Trieste, Italy, May 10-14, 1999.

12. D. Ouis, Measurement of Damping in Solid Materials by Means of a Room
      Acoustical Technique.

      Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Nondestructive Characteri-
      zation of Materials, Sydney, Australia, June 28 - July 2, 1999, pp 587-592.

13. D. Ouis, Scale Model Experiments on New Types of Road Traffic Noise Barriers.
      Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Transport Noise and Vibration,
      St Petersburg, Russia, 5-7 June 2000.

14. D. Ouis, Sound Screening by an Angle Wedged Hard Barrier.
      Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Sound and Vibration, 4-7
      July 2000, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, pp 2607-2614.

15. D. Ouis, Effect of Artificial Structural Defects on the MOE and Damping
      Properties of a Wood Element
.
      Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on Timber Engineering, Wristler, BC,
      Canada, July 31st, August 3rd, 2000, pp 7.5.4-1 - 7.5.4-8

16. D. Ouis, Annoyance Caused by Exposure to Road Traffic Noise: an Update.
      Proceedings of NOPHER 2001, the International Symposium on Noise Pollution
      and Health, 2001 April 6-8, Cambridge, UK, pp 55-64.

17. D. Ouis, Characterisation of Rubber by Means of a Modified Zener Model.
      Proceedings of IRC 2001, the International Rubber Conference, 12-14 June 2001,
      Birmingham, UK, pp 559-570.

18. D. Ouis, Theory and Experiment on the Performance of a Wedge Shaped Noise Barrier.
      Proceedings of ICSV8, the 8th International Congress on Sound and Vibration,
      2-6 July 2001, Hong Kong, China, pp1331-1338.

19. D. Ouis, Diffraction of a Cylindrical Wave by a Two-Impedance Ground.
      Proceedings of ICA2001, the 17th International Congress on Acoustics, 2-7
      September 2001, Rome, Italy, Vol III, Noise, pp 34-35.

20. D. Ouis, Combination of a Standard Viscoelastic Model and Fractional Derivative
      Calculus to the Characterization of Polymers
.
      Presented at POLYCHAR-10, the World Forum on Polymer Applications and Theory,
      January 8 - 11, 2002, University of North Texas (UNT), Texas, USA. Materials
      Research Innovations, 7, pp 42-46, 2003, POLYCHAR-10 special issue.

21. D. Ouis, Identification of Crack Severity and Localisation in a Wood Element
      Through Studying its Vibration Modes
.
      Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Timber Engineering, Shah Alam,
      Malaysia, August 12th- 15th 2002, Vol I, pp 350-358.

22. D. Ouis, Sounding Standing Trees by Vibrations for the Detection of Rot.
      Proceedings of ICPP 2003, the 8th International Congress on Plant Pathology,
      February 2-7, 2003, Christchurch, New Zealand. Available on DR-ROM.

23. D. Ouis, Noise Reduction of Branched Barriers: an Experimental Study.
      Proceedings of EURONOISE 2003, the fifth European Conference on Noise Control,
      May 19-21, 2003, Naples, Italy, paper 005, pp 1-6.

24. D. Ouis, Potential Hasards in Listening to Radio or Music through Headsets in
      Highly Noisy Environments
.
      Proceedings of ICBEN 2003, the 8th International Congress on Noise as a Public
      Health Problem, June 29-July3 2003, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, pp 22-24.

25. D. Ouis, Theoretical Study and Experimental Verification of the Effects of a
      Vertical Flaw on the Vibration Modes of a Beam
.
      Proceedings of ICSV10, the 10th International Congress on Sound and Vibration,
      7-10 July 2003, Stockholm, Sweden, pp 1259-1266.

26. D. Ouis, Estimation of Some Physical Room Acoustical Measures from
      Convolving HRTF’s with the Room Impulse Response
.
      Proceedings of ICA2004, the 18th International Congress on Acoustics, 4-9 April
      2004, Kyoto, Japan, pp III-2397 – 2400.

27. D. Ouis, Noise Reduction Capacity of Green Roofs.
      Presented at EAAA/ARCC 2004, European Association for Architectural
      Education and Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Dublin, Ireland, June
      2nd- 4th 2004. EAAE Transactions on Architectural Education, Vol 23, pp 281-288.

28. D. Ouis, Experimental Study on the Effects of a Longitudinal Crack on the
      Strength of a Wooden Beam
.
      Proceedings of WCTE2004, the 8th World Conference on Timber Engineering,
      Lahti, Finland, June 14th- 17th 2004, Vol III, pp 619-622.

29. D. Ouis, Simulation of the Response of an Enclosure in View of Evaluating
      Parameters for Acoustical Quality Assessment
.
      Proceedings of the IC-SCCE, the 1st International Conference “From Scientific
      Computing to Computational Engineering " Athens, Greece 8-10 September,
      2004, paper nr 029.

30. D. Ouis, Frequency Dependence of Strength and Damping Properties of Wood
      and their Influence by Structural Defects and Rot
.
      Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Non Destructive Testing of
      Wood, Hannover, Germany, May 2nd-4th 2005, pp 257-264.

31. D. Ouis, Performance of a Simple Noise Barrier in Presence of a Helmholtz
      Resonator Buried in the Ground
.
      Proceedings of Internoise 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 7th-10th 2005,
      paper No 1709.

32. D. Ouis, Modelling the Mechanical Properties of Rubber by Means of a Five-
      Parameter Dispersive Model
.
      Proceedings of IRC2005, the International Rubber Conference, Yokohama,
      Japan, October 24th-28th 2005, paper 28-G8-05.

      Experimental Study on the Scattering of a Spherical Wave by a Thin Hard Strip.
      Submitted for publication at Applied Acoustics.

      Prediction of the shielding Performance of an Inclined Noise Barrier.
      Submitted for publication at Journal of Noise Control Engineering.

      Noise Reduction Capacity of Green Roofs.
      Submitted for publication at Building and Environment

      Influence of Cracks and Delaminations on the Strength and Damping of a Beam
      of Solid Material
.
      Submitted for publication at The International Journal of Structural Engineering
      and Mechanics.

      A Five-Parameter Viscoelastic Model for Characterizing the Dispersive
      Mechanical Properties of Rubber.
      Submitted
for publication at the International Journal of Polymer Sciences;
      Part B: Physics of Polymers

   Internal Technical University Reports

•  Mechanical Properties of Cork for Sound and Vibration Isolation Applications
   and for the Manufacturing of a light-Weight Building Material

   Report TS 21-2005/237, Malmö University, March 2005.

•  Scale Model Experiments on New Types of Noise Barriers
   Report TVBA-3106, Lund Institute of Technology, March 2000.

•  Experiments Using an Acoustical Technique for the Detection of Rot in Wood 
   Logs and in Standing Trees

   Report TVBA-3100, Lund Institute of Technology, September 1998.

•  Theory and Experiment on the Diffraction by a Hard Half Plane
   Report TVBA-3094, Lund Institute of Technology, December 1997.

•  Road Traffic Noise and its Effects on Man’s Well-being
   Report TVBA-3091, Lund Institute of Technology, Mars 1997.

•  Non-destructive Testing of Wood by Sonic and Vibrational Methods
  
Report SPR-38, ISSN 1100-8105, Lund Institute of Technology, December 1996.

•  Scattering by Thin Strip-Like Elements and applications in Room Acoustics
  
PhD thesis, Report TVBA-1005, ISSN 0281-8477, Lund, Sweden, 1996.

•  Scattering by a Barrier on a Plane
  
Tekn. Lic thesis. Report TVBA-3076, ISSN 0281-8477, Lund, Sweden, 1991.

•  Structural Acoustics of Composite and Sandwich Structures
  
Report TVBA-3041, ISSN 0281-8477, Lund, Sweden, 1987.