Welcome to the Proceedings of ACOUSTICS 2016. This volume contains papers presented at the Second Joint Conference of The Australian Acoustical Society and The Acoustical Society of New Zealand, held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in November 2016. The conferences of the Australian Acoustical Society and The Acoustical Society of New Zealand have a long history and have developed as important fora for the dissemination of information relating to the science and practice of acoustics in Australasia.

The response to the call for papers from the acoustical community was outstanding. Over 180 abstracts were submitted for inclusion in the ACOUSTICS 2016 technical program. These covered a broad range of areas of acoustics and vibration. Many were submitted for topics in architectural acoustics and building services acoustics. Other major topics, included in the call for papers, for which abstracts were received, included aeroacoustics, wind turbine acoustics, underwater acoustics, marine bioacoustics, marine platforms, railway noise and vibration and road transport. Abstracts concerned with fundamentals of acoustics and vibration were also received. The abstract review committee reviewed the abstracts received and authors whose proposals were accepted for the conference were invited to submit full papers. The larger Technical Review Committee, which included over 80 academics and professionals active in acoustics and vibration, reviewed the full papers. Each paper was reviewed by two to three members of the Committee. After the outcome of the reviewing process, the final technical program for the conference included 126 papers.

Thirteen workshop panel discussion sessions were included in the conference technical program. These ranged across a broad range of topics spanning the scope of the Conference. In addition, three Short Courses entitled, "Classroom Acoustics - How Innovative Learning Environments are Changing the Educational Playing Field", "Sound Perception - Application to Acoustic Practice and Design" and "Noise Control Hints and Success" were held in conjunction with the conference. Two Technical Tours were included in the Conference Program. One technical tour took the participants to the St Lucia Campus of The University of Queensland to visit the University's Centre for Hypersonics. The other tour was a guided tour of some venues around the South Bank Parklands which have interesting acoustical properties.

The editors of these proceedings would like to thank all authors for their efforts in preparing their papers. Thanks also, go to the members of the technical review committee for their assistance in reviewing the large number of manuscripts received; their efforts are greatly appreciated.

As these proceedings are being published prior to the Conference, we look forward to an exciting technical program and to a successful ACOUSTICS 2016.

Bibliographic Information

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Proof of peer review

Each of the manuscripts accepted to 'ACOUSTICS 2016: The Second Australasian Acoustical Societies' Conference' was reviewed by at least two members of a technical review panel comprising of more than 80 members. The review panel comprised of a scientific committee, who typically reviewed multiple papers and a wider referee panel, who generally reviewed two to three papers. The names of referees were kept anonymous from the authors. The referees reviewed the papers to ensure they were of high standard for the conference and provided written feedback on the quality of the manuscripts. Where doubt remained after this process, the papers were reviewed by the technical review committee chairman and other members of the scientific committee. The referee criteria included: technical content, originality, clarity, English expression, technical significance. Papers were matched where possible to referees in the same field with similar interests and area of expertise as the authors. Authors were advised to make all changes recommended by the reviewers, or provide the editor with a technical justification for not making particular changes. The responses from authors were then reviewed by the editors.

The organising committee wishes to thank all members of the technical review committee and the authors for their cooperation and time to enable the review process to occur.

Technical Review Committee

Editors: David Mee and Ian Hillock

Scientific Committee

Referees

Acoustics 2016 Organisation

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