Adjunct Professor John Davy

• Conducting research and supervising research students in the areas of the prediction of diffuse field sound insulation, the prediction of sound absorption, the directivity of sound insulation, the directivity of the radiation of sound from openings, reverberant and anechoic sound fields, microphone turbulence screens, building acoustics measurements, vibration, computer recognition of squeak and rattle sounds in vehicles and wind turbine noise
• Supervision of final year undergraduate students in science and engineering undertaking their final year projects in the area of acoustics
• Consulting to industry in the area of acoustics

• BSc(Hons) La Trobe, PhD ANU
• FELLOW, Australian Acoustical Society
• FELLOW, Institute of Acoustics, United Kingdom
• MEMBER, Acoustical Society of America
• MEMBER, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, USA
• Member, International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration
• Member, Australian Mathematical Society

• Chairman of the Australian Government Independent Scientific Committee on Wind Turbines
• Director of the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering
• Director of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration
• Member of the Physical Performance Testing Accreditation Advisory Committee of the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
• Australian representative on the International Standards Organisation working group ISO/TC 43/SC 2/WG 18 "Measurement of sound insulation in buildings and of building elements"
• Australian representative on the International Standards Organisation working group ISO/TC 43/SC 2/WG 35 "Sound Absorption"
• Is a part time CSIRO employee
• Has consulted for USG Boral

Recent Publications

• Pogorilyi, O, FARD, M, Taylor, D and Davy, J 2020, 'Landmark-based audio fingerprinting system applied to vehicle squeak and rattle noises', Noise Control Engineering Journal, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 113-124. 
• Liu, Z, FARD, M and Davy, J 2020, 'Prediction of the acoustic effect of an interior trim porous material inside a rigid-walled car air cavity model', Applied Acoustics, vol. 165, pp. 1-10. 
• Davy, J, Fard, M, Zhang, Q, Lyu, Y and Yang, J 2019, 'Prediction of the sound absorption of micro-perforated panels whose holes are extended in length by tubes', in Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, integrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019, Aachen, Germany, 9-13 September 2019, pp. 4067-4074.
• Davy, J, Cambridge, J and Pearse, J 2019, 'The directivity of sound radiated from openings and single leaf panels exited by incident sound', in Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV 26), Montreal, Canada, 7-11 July 2019, pp. 1-8.    
• Nolan, M and Davy, J 2019, 'Two definitions of the inner product of modes and their use in calculating non-diffuse reverberant sound fields', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 145, no. 6, pp. 3330-3340.
• Davy, J, Fard, M, Dong, W and Loverde, J 2019, 'The effective mass-air-mass resonance frequency of cavity stud walls', in Proceedings of the 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, Madrid, Spain, 16-19 June 2019, pp. 1-12.
• Davy, J, Cambridge, J and Pearse, J 2019, 'The directivity of sound radiated from openings and single leaf panels exited by incident sound', in Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV 26), Montreal, Canada, 7-11 July 2019, pp. 1-8.
• Davy, J, Fard, M, Dong, W and Loverde, J 2019, 'Empirical corrections for predicting the sound insulation of double leaf cavity stud building elements with stiffer studs', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 145, no. 2, pp. 703-713.
• Davy, J, Fard, M, Zhang, Q, Lyu, Y and Yang, J 2019, 'Prediction of the sound absorption of micro-perforated panels whose holes are extended in length by tubes', in Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, integrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019, Aachen, Germany, 9-13 September 2019, pp. 4067-4074.
• Nolan, M and Davy, J 2019, 'Two definitions of the inner product of modes and their use in calculating non-diffuse reverberant sound fields', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 145, no. 6, pp. 3330-3340.

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