A noise protection element for the insulation and absorption of sound emissions from vehicles, more particularly road vehicles and railway vehicles and also aeroplanes moving along a traffic route. The noise protection element includes a plate having a transparent material, where a noise-absorbing material has been applied on at least one of the two surfaces of the plate, where the noise-absorbing material is a closed-pore polymer foam.

Disclosed is a rail vibration absorber, comprising an elastic element (4), a mass (3) and at least one coupling frame (2). The coupling frame (2) has the same surface shape as a non-working surface coupling portion of a steel rail. The coupling frame (2) comprises at least one vibration absorption cavity (100). The mass (3) is at least partially disposed in the vibration absorption cavity (100) of the coupling frame (2). The elastic element (4) is arranged between the mass (3) and a wall of the vibration absorption cavity (100). The rail vibration absorber has a simple structure, stable performance and good weatherability, and can effectively slow wear to the steel rail and prolong the service life thereof.

Diffractor for diffracting sound of traffic on a travel surface with at least one diffraction plate disposed laterally beside the travel surface. The diffraction plate is provided with a pattern of recesses in the upper surface thereof for the purpose of diffracting the traffic noise in a direction which differs from the lateral direction. Each of the recesses is divided into individual resonators by intermediate walls provided in the recesses. The recesses have acoustically substantially non-absorbing walls and are free of acoustically absorbing material. The intermediate walls between adjacent resonators have at least one throughflow opening along which the rainwater can flow from the one resonator to the other.

A special trackwork assembly including a special trackwork body formed to support wheels of a train moving over a running surface portion of an exterior surface of the special trackwork body that generate traffic-related vibrations of the special trackwork body having one or more frequencies of interest. The special trackwork assembly also includes one or more tuned mass dampers secured to the special trackwork body and formed to vibrate, in response to the traffic-related vibrations of the special trackwork body, at the frequency of interest, to at least partially dampen the traffic-related vibrations of the special trackwork body.

A noise damper for reducing noise from a vibrating element which vibrates at a vibrational frequency, wherein the noise damper is configured to be in contact with the vibrating element such that when the noise damper is in contact with the vibrating element a noise amplitude at a point in a surrounding of the vibrating element is given by an attenuation factor times the noise amplitude at the point in the surrounding when the noise damper is disconnected from the vibrating element, the noise damper comprising: a polymer matrix, the polymer matrix being in a solid phase and forming a shape; a plurality of hollow particles dispersed in the polymer matrix, each hollow particle having a shell encapsulating a gas filled cavity, each hollow particle having a hollow particle size, and the plurality of hollow particles being dispersed at a hollow particle concentration in the polymer matrix; wherein the hollow particle size and the hollow particle concentration are configured to set the attenuation factor below an attenuation factor threshold at the vibrational frequency of the vibrating element, the hollow particle size being in a range wherein the largest dimension is between 20 m and 2000 m.

Disclosed is a novel methodology for vibration and noise control using modular rail particle damper in rail transit systems, which comprises steps: determining a target damper module corresponding to a vibration frequency content of a rail system, multiple target damper modules are adopted; connecting target damper module by adopting a connecting module so as to form a rail particle damper; and installing rail particle damper at rail web to conduct vibration and noise control on the rail system. Target damper modules are connected through connecting modules to form an integrated rail particle damper, a wide vibration mitigation frequency range is formed by adopting different target damper modules, and therefore rail particle damper is suitable for reducing broadband vibration and noise generated in rail systems under different operating environments.

A rail damper mounting apparatus including a clipping device adapted to clip onto a rail, and a mounting device adapted to allow an oscillator to secure thereto. The rail damper mounting apparatus forms at least three clipping points with a rail when the rail damper mounting device is installed to the rail. A rail damping system containing one or more such rail damper mounting apparatus is also disclosed. With at least three clipping points/areas in the mount apparatus, it provides a strong clipping force compressing the wedge-liked rail foot by a very stiff clip.