Dr Thilo Bein This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.abcclassics.com

   www.abcclassics.com/science/ne - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/5/2007   Last Visited: 5/28/2007

   If you control the vibration of the window, you can control transmitted noise in such a way that it is not acting like a membrane or a loudspeaker," says Dr Thilo Bein, head of the business unit for energy, environment and health at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt, Germany.
   
   To make windows work less like loudspeakers, engineers thicken the glass to double or even triple panes. But that can drive up the cost of construction. Ideally they'd like to stop the sound waves in their tracks.
   
   Bein and his team developed a method to do just that.
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   Bein and his team will be working over the next year to make the system reliable and bring the cost down.

2. 2. CALM

   www.calm-network.com/preports0 - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/16/2005   Last Visited: 5/5/2007

   Thilo Bein, Fraunhofer Institute, Darmstadt, Germany