Ingenuity, creativity and knowledge are the cornerstones of innovation. DHDI’s design process employs a variety of disciplines from Art & Architecture to Physics & Materials Science, a diverse and thorough base of knowledge is essential in gestating new ideas and concepts. Please enjoy the use of this Reference Library and feel free to suggest additions which may seem appropriate at info@deltahdesign.com
Inspiration
- Forbidden Crystal Symmetry in Mathematics and Architecture at The Royal Institute | Roger Penrose
- Architecture | Frank Llloyd Wright
- Architecture | Zaha Hadid
- Architecture | Le Corbusier
- Codex Atlanticus | Leonardo DaVinci
- Art | Wassily Kandinsky
- Art | Vincent Van Gogh
- Art & Architecture | Antonio Gaudi
- Architecture & Engineering | Santiago Calatrava
- Architecture | Oscar Niemeyer
- Architecture | Eero Saarinen
- Art & Design | Faberge: A Life of its Own
- NPR | What does sound look like?
- WEb Ecoist | 17 Captivating Fractals Found in Nature
- Research Gate | Examples of Fractals in Nature
- Physics Central | Electrons follow Fractals through Semiconductors
- TED Talks | Evelyn Glennie shows us how to truly Listen
- University of Tokyo | Three dimensional mid air acoustic manipulation
- HD Net World Report | Blind Man Rides Bicycle
- Quantum Physics | Dr. Shohini Ghose
- Set Design | Es Devlin
- Architecture | Zaha Hadid
- Opera | Luciano Pavarotti
- Automotive | Bruce McClaren
- Design | Dieter Rams
- Architecture | Le Corbusier
- Design | Jonathan Ive
- Space | Voyager
- Thermodynamics | Carnot’s Motive Power of Heat
- Probability Theory | Ludwig Boltzmann
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History
- Encyclopedia Brittanica | Origins of Acoustics
- ASA | A Little History
- Wikipedia | Acoustics including History
- Max Planck Institute | From Sound to Knowledge
- Springer | Springer Handbook of Acoustics
- Siemens Inc. | An incomplete and humorous History of Acoustics
- Acoustics Today | Psychoacoustics History
- Etymology | Origin of the term “Acoustics”
University Research Labs
- BYU | Acoustics Research Group
- Cornell | Bioacoustics Research Group
- Southampton | Institute of Sound and Vibration
- University of Mississippi | National Center for Physical Acoustics
- Cambridge | Acoustic Lab
- Stanford | Music & Acoustics
- Salford Manchester | Acoustics and Audio Research
- Purdue | Noise Control MultiDisciplinary
- Stanford | CCRMA
- RPI | Architectural Acoustics
- University of Texas | Acoustics Mechanical Engineering
- University of Hartford | Acoustic Engineering Laboratory
- McGill University | Multiple Acoustic Research Labs
- Duke | Acoustics, Aeronautics & Aeroelasticity
Organizations
- NASA | Shape Effects on Drag
- European Commission | Environmental Noise Directive
- NOISE | Noise Observation and Information Service for Europe
- WHO | Environmental Noise Issues
- European Commission | Noise Research and Projects
- WHO | World Health Organization | Noise Data
- Polish Society of Acoustics | Quantum Acoustics Winter School
- EAA | European Acoustics Association
- DEGA | Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Akustiks
- IOA | Institute of Acoustics UK
- ASA | Acoustical Society of America
- ICA | International Commission for Acoustics
- MIPT | Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology
- WHO Occupational Health Noise | Fundamentals of Acoustics
- WHO | Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise
- NAP | National Academies Press | Standards and Regulations for Products Noise Emissions
- Interactions Organization | Particle Physic News & Resources
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Statistics, News & Reports
- Rolling Stone | Article 13 You Tube or Music Industry?
- American Geophysical Union | Antartica Ice “Sings”
- Washington Post | Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says
- Japan Today | Toyo Tire & Rubber cuts road noise by 75%
- European Commission | Environmental Directive
- RIVM | Health Implication of road, railway and aircraft noise in the European Union
- European Environmental Agency | Environmental Statistics
- WHO | World Health Organization | Nightime Noise
- Live Science | Scientists Regrow Sound-Sensing Cells
- Phys.Org | New EM Wave – Linewave
- San Juan Island | Noise Impact on Killer Whales
- Phys.Org | Acoustic Analysis of Freddie Mercury’s Voice
- Scotland | Anti-Loitering Sound Devices
- BBC | Cuba Acoustic Attack
- Phys.Org | Research on Chart-Toppers
- Irish Times | Sound Bounce – Hearing Protection Innovation
- Phys.Org | Auroral Sounds
- CNRS IFFSTAR | Sound Map on Android
- Music Business Research | UK Music Market 1975-2016
- Transparent Market Researcy | Acoustic Materials Projections
- Washington Post | Human Echolocation
- Phys.Org | Animal Acoustic Activity Decline…
- Flex Acoustics | Inflatable Acoustics for Concert Halls
Research
- Cornell University | Nonlinear Dynamics Chaos – Steven Strogatz
- ISRA | Review of objective room acoustics measures and future needs
- Akutek | Phase Coherence as a Measure of Acoustic Quality, part one: the Neural Mechanism
- ASA | What is “clarity”, and how it can be measured?
- MIT Technology News | The man turning China into a Quantum Superpower
- Nature | Proposal to test quantum wave-particle superposition on massive mechanical resonators.
- Beth Roars Blog | The Resonant Voice
- Chalmers University | Sound at the quantum level using Surface Acoustic Waves
- Cambridge University | The use of SAW’s to manipulate Quantum Bits
- Yale Scientific | The Sound of Qubits: How Acoustics and Qubits Will Contribute to the Next Computing Revolution
- Stanford University | Lithium Niobate Devices for Quantum Processors
- University of Chicago | Quantum sound waves to open doors for more powerful sensors
- Nature | Quantum control of surface acoustic-wave phonons
- Cornell | Quantum Acoustics with Surface Acoustic Waves
- Science | Quantum Acoustics with Supercomputing Qubits
- KAIST | Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensor for speech recognition
- Cymatics | Science of Sound made visible
- University of Sussex | Acoustic Tractor Beam
- Argonne National Labs | Scientists find unusual behavior in topological material
- European Commission | Evaluation of Environmental Noise Directive
- AcouTrain | Virtual Certification of Acoustics with Trains
- EEA | Noise Exposure Map
- NHSTA | Electric Vehicle Noise Standards
- Nature | Controlling Sound with Acoustic Metamaterials
- Phys.Org | Graphene Plasmons
- Oxford University | Quantum Physics: what is really real?
- NASA | Acoustic Effects in Classical Nucleation Theory
- UFABC | Black Hole Acoustics in deformation of de Laval nozzle – Abstract | Full Text
- Griffin University | Quantum Entanglement Verified
- Yale | Acoustics & Quantum Computing
- Oakridge Research Labs | Acoustic Nanoscale Testing
- Rice University | Acoustic cooling of Microelectronics
- Lawrence Livermore Labs | Acoustics & Thz Radiation
- MIT | Violin Acoustics
- University of Torino | Metamaterial Spider Web Isolator
- NIH | Physiology and Acoustics of Inspiratory Phonation
- Stanford | Magneto Acoustic Imaging
- CNRS | Ear Shape & 3D Virtual Reality Acoustics
- NASA | Acoustics of Vehicle Cavity
- CalTech | Sound Bullets for Imaging
- Institute of Physics | Schroedinger Acoustic Wave Function Collapse | Full Article
- North Carolina State University | Metamaterial Imaging
- ASA | Plane Wave Decomposition
- University of Hull | Acoustic Cosmology
- NASA | Webb Telescope Noise & Vibration Testing
- University of Texas | Coating for Scattering Cancellation
- NIST | New Micro-Clock Resonators
- University of Queenland | Noise & Whale Behaviour
- UFPA | Acoustic Clouds & Black Holes
- Duke & Soochow Universities | Metasurface Diffusors
- Sori Sound Engineering Lab | Korean Architectural Acoustics
- University of Illinois | Sound clarifying Optics
- Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology | Acoustic Resonance at Microwave Frequencies
- University of Cambridge | Owl Acoustics Applications
- NASA | Rocket Noise
- Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University | Bat Symbiosis Acoustic Plant Reflector
- The Conversation | Archaeoacoustics
- Nanjing University | Density Near Zero Membrane
- DOE ALCF | Jet Noise
- NASA | Acoustics Research of Propulsion Systems
- University Sao Paolo | Acoustic Levitation made Simple
- American Institute of Physics | Spiral Absorption at 1.27Khz
- University of Bristol | Levitation & 3D Printing
- ETH Zurich | Acoustic Edge Detection
- Phys.Org | Sound & NanoMagnetism
- MIT | Acoustic-Gravity Waves
- UK Research | Acoustic Tractor Beam
- Yale | Quantum Data on Sound Waves
- Unversity of Texas | NonReciprocal Acoustic Circulator
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center | Acoustics of Earth’s Liquid Core
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Acoustic Imaging of Ocean
- Nanjing University | Acoustic Diode
- Duke | Blood testing via Sound Waves
- Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum | Acoustic Waves in Plasma
- Georgia Tech Research Institute | Radar Acoustic Delay Phase Arrays
- Singapore | Acoustic Structure could evade Sonar | More Detail
- KU Leuven | Intelligibility via De-Reverberation
- University of Buenos Aires | Non-Linear Physics in Birdsong
- Great Lakes Research Center | Arctic Hydrophone Data
- Xiamen Institute & Penn State | Dolphin Sonar overcomes Size Wavelength Limitation
- Max Planck Institure | Gaps in Echolocation of Bats
- NASA | Launch Vehicle Acoustics
- Technical University of Denmark | Acoustic Energy predictions of building structures
- ASA | Cognition & Perception
- Nanjing Institute of Acoustics | Metamaterial Acoustic Rotor
- AIP | Acoustically Induced Transparency
- NASA HASP | Low Frequency at High Altitudes
- ESA | Large European Acoustic Facility
- Journal of the Royal Society | Solitary Acoustic Waves in Lipid Membrane
- NRL | Acoustic Laser Propagation
- NASA | Acoustic Simulations of Liftoff Simulators
- Technical University of Denmark | Thermoviscous Nonlinear Acoustics
- UPC | Noise Trauma in Cephalapods
- EU Radio Astronomy Institute | Tsunami Acoustic Warning
- NASA | Acoustic Kappa-Density Fluctuation Waves in Suprathermal Kappa Function Fluids
- Phys.Org | Good Acoustics Subjective
- Ohio State University | Acoustic Neuroma & Loud Noise?
- University of Bristol | Acoustic Tractor Beam Could One Day Levitate Humans
- Duke University | Thin Engineered Material Perfectly Redirects and Reflects Sound
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Testing Laboratories
- NPL | Calibration using Particle Motion Laser Methods
- Riverbank | 1st in America
- Chesapeake | Testing Labs East Coast
- ETS | Milspec Test Labs
- WEAL | Veneklasen Test Lab
- NWAA | Test Labs Old Nuclear Power Plant
- NASA | Glenn Research Facilities
Commercial
- AMD | What is NRC – STC – SAA
- Bruel & Kjaer | Test & Measurement
- Cedar-Audio | De-Noise
- EASE | Acoustical Software
- NTI Noise Curves | Overview of Curves
- Navy Island.com | Micro Perf
- Disney Research | Research Labs
- 3D Printing | How to Print with PETG
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Experimental
- Sonic Magic | The Wonder and Science of Sound
- Coburg University | Acoustics & Sensor/Actuator Technology Workshop
- UBC | Experimental Acoustics
- Japan Times | Savauge Freedom through Sound
Government / Military
- US Navy | History of Acoustics Division and Quantum Acoustics
- European Environmental Agency | Noise
- NHSTA | Sound Requirements for Electric Vehicles
- Science Portal | US Government
- HUD STC | Sound Transmission Class Guidance
- Air Force Research Labs | Auditory & Acoustic Research
- DTIC | Underwater Marine Life Acoustics
- Navy | NAVSEA
- CIA | Acoustic Kitty
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