Abstract
MIL-STD-1474E uses the Auditory Hazard Assessment Algorithm for Humans (AHAAH) model to calculate hazard from intense impulses, its theoretic basis providing greatly increased power and accuracy. It is an electro-acoustic analog paralleling the ear’s physiology, including the ear’s critical non-linearities and it calculates hazard from basilar membrane displacements. Successfully developed and tested first with an animal model, a parallel version for the human ear was developed and validated with human data. Given a pressure history as input, AHAAH predicts hazard for the 95%ile susceptible ear. It also makes a movie that allows engineering insight into amelioration of hazard. Hearing protection is accommodated by using input from an acoustic manikin or by implementation of a mathematical protector model using REAT data to calculate input waveforms from free field data. The AHAAH model is also currently used by the Society of Automotive Engineers for calculation of airbag noise hazard, by the Israeli Defense Forces for impulse noise analysis and is being considered by ANSI's S3 Bioacoustics Committee Working Group 62 (Impulse Noise with Respect to Hearing Hazard) as a basis for an ANSI impulse noise standard.
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