SoundPLAN Essential 2.0 Noise Modeling Software

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SoundPLAN Essential 2.0 Noise Modeling Software

The majority of environmental noise simulations are small to medium projects tasked with checking the legal compliance of a planned road or an expansion to an industrial facility. These projects do not require the same complexity as is being offered in the full strength noise planning software products such as SoundPLAN. Noise modeling software suited for these projects must be specially designed to quickly acquire the model data via an import interface or allow digitizing the essential data on top of an aerial photography or plan bitmap. Results must be obtainable quickly without much formatting, yet it must be customizable enough so your company standard can be represented and you can be proud of your work.

SoundPLAN essential is now available in the version 2.0, combining the full strength SoundPLAN calculation core with a simplified data entry editor to offer the noise modeling market a tool that can be learned in minutes yet powerful enough to allow engineers to do most of the noise modeling jobs. If your project is smaller with one industrial facility or some roads/railway lines, then SoundPLAN essential is better suited than a program designed to handle the complexity of noise mapping for an entire country. The data entry facilities are less complex but with the data import interfaces and 2D / 3D solid model viewing and the standard Dynamic Search SoundPLAN calculation core, the program offers enough flexibility and power to build a noise model quickly and get the results print ready in a snap. As the data structures are shared with the full program, the upgrade paths for data and also for the software itself are a possibility in case you do get the gigantic noise modeling job.

SoundPLAN essential 2.0 offers:

Road / railway /industrial calculations
Road standards: RLS 90/VBUS/TNM/NMPB/CoRTN Leq/CoRTN L10/ Russian road/
Railway Standards: Schall03/VBUSch/RMR 2002/CoRRN/French Rail/ Russian Rail
Industrial standards: ISO9613 / BS 5228
Import interface
Data entry on top of bitmaps
Continuously triangulated Digital Ground Model as elevation base for screening and ground effect calculations and for the placement of receivers in a Grid Noise Map.
Calculation of single receivers
Calculation of noise contours
Calculation of grid based noise maps
Direct management of 2 variants: without / with noise control
Full Documentation of the results in tabular form
Pre-defined graphics for Grid Noise Maps and Noise Contour calculations.

Improvements and features since SoundPLAN essential 1.1 include:

New dynamic search calculation core with multi threaded -parallel- calculations on a multi core CPU.
Use the noise standard of your choice instead of using “country sets.”
Combine road, rail and industry projects instead of using just one noise type.
View spectra at the receiver in the documentation.
Improved export of noise maps and documentation to PDF.

Many small improvements are made to all areas of the program.

Following is a series of pictures taken from SoundPLAN essential 2.0.