Associate Professor

Bio

My research content spanning over twenty years, University of Bradford, University of Southampton in the UK and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden has covered the mathematical prediction of environmental noise and vibration and I have also dabbled in using nonlinear analysis to study the solutions of phase equilibria in physics, but more recently the measurement and impact of these to reveal how these factors affect human health and learning. This included major advances in human response to noise-shield prediction in urban environments, noise prediction over an outdoor environment and ground surface vibration mitigation. This interest has overlapped significantly with my work as an environmental consultant (2008-2012) and principal vibration engineer in the UK in and Sweden recent years (2012-2015). 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

• 1990-1993 University of Bradford, UK

• 1993-1998 University of Southampton, UK

• 1998-2001 University of the West of England, UK

• 2001-2008 Royal Technical Institute, KTH, Sweden

• 2008-2012 Hoare Lea Acoustics, UK

• 2012-2015 Atlas Copco Rock Drilling, Sweden

Office

Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi Campus, FF2-1-010

Phone:

+971-2-599-38-93

Email:

Teaching Areas

• Physics
• Research Methods
• Applied Mathematics.

Research and Professional Activities

Zayed University RIF and SU award 2016-Environmental Noise and Vibration in Abu Dhabi

In 2006, the UAE conducted an ambient noise survey of various sources around Abu Dhabi, which helped provide baseline data for levels in the city. The noise level in Abu Dhabi appears to be in excess of national and international standards, and residents may be at risk from one or more of serious health effects. According to the Abu Dhabi noise strategy report 2006, road traffic is the major source of noise in urban Abu Dhabi. The research proposed concerns mitigating all modes of traffic induced noise and vibrations using original “screening” methods that could be adopted in the UAE.

Noise-watch : citizen sourcing

One in five citizens is regularly exposed to sound levels at night that could significantly damage their health, leading to cardiovascular diseases, sleep disturbance and stress. Until recently, monitoring these noise levels has been left up to local municipalities, but we are interested in developing an app that allows everyone who downloads it the ability to measure the amount of noise they’re exposed to by transforming their smartphone into a sound level meter. An innovative approach we shall integrate noise metrics into an existing Sound Level Meter mobile app which can measure and ultimately analyze ambient noise.

Public Health  

Noise pollution is a major challenge to a growing urban development.  Children in schools under airport flightpaths have more difficulty learning to read and score less well in memory tests, researchers reported in the Lancet medical journal.  The effect of loud aircraft noise impaired their reading comprehension. As a result, schools near big international airports were "not healthy educational environments", say the team from Queen Mary's School of Medicine, London Clark C and Stansfeld S. Those closest to the flightpaths experienced the most noise. Children at primary schools near Heathrow lost two months in reading age for every extra five decibels in the noise level, while the children near Schiphol had their reading age delayed by one month. This work will summarize and consolidate the strength of the evidence for aircraft noise effects on cardiovascular health, sleep disturbance, annoyance, psychological well-being, and effects on children’s cognition and learning, as well as discussing guidelines for environment noise exposure in the UAE.

Clark C and Stansfeld S et al. (2005) Aircraft and road traffic noise and children’s cognition and health: a cross-national study. Lancet. 365. 1942-49.

CONSULTANCY & INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

At Atlas Copco, Sweden I was responsible for all aspects of noise and vibration within the surface exploration drilling group from CE-Marking, operator and environmental noise, sound power measurements and Operator Noise general vibration modelling to new developments on lifetime estimates using fatigue damage spectrum. Previously I have been an engineering consultant for Hoare Lea Acoustics in Bristol and since joining Hoare Lea in 2008 he became involved with a wide range of projects from building acoustics, building vibration and environmental noise including projects on Wind Turbines, residential sound insulation performances, Schools and Hospital designs.

Recently I have contributed chapters to "Wind Turbine Noise" Eds Leventhall & Bowdler. 2012 and to "Computational Acoustics : Finite and Boundary Element Methods" Eds Marburg Nolte Springer 2008.

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• Member Institute of Acoustics
• Editor : Advances in Acoustics and Vibration

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Gonçalves, P.J.P., Peplow, A., Brennan, M.J. 2018. Exact expressions for numerical evaluation of high order modes of vibration in uniform Euler-Bernoulli beams. Applied Acoustics Vol 141. 10.1016/j.apacoust.2018.05.014
• Langer, P., Sepahvand, K., Guist, C., Bär, J., Peplow, A., Marburg, S. 2018. Matching experimental and three dimensional numerical models for structural vibration problems with uncertainties. Journal of Sound and Vibration. Vol 417. 10.1016/j.jsv.2017.11.042
• Peplow, A.T., Andersen, L.V., Bucinskas, P. 2017. Environmental vibration reduction utilizing an array of mass scatterers. Procedia Engineering. Vol 199. 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.359
• Peplow, A., Andersen, L., Bucinskas, P. 2017. Variations within simple models for structure-soil interaction. 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2017, London, UK.
• Andersen, L.V., Peplow, A., Bucinskas, P. 2017. Efficiency of nearly periodic structures for mitigation of ground vibration . COMPDYN 2017 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Vol 1. 10.7712/120117.5439.18112
• Andersen, L.V., Peplow, A., Bucinskas, P., Persson, P., Persson, K. 2017. Variation in models for simple dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction problems. Procedia Engineering. Vol 199. 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.190
• Peplow, A., Environmental vibration reduction using mass-resonant scatterers. (2016) 6th Int. Conference Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.
• Peplow, A., Forssén, J., Lundén, P., Nilsson, M.E. Exterior auralization of traffic noise within the LISTEN project. (2012) Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, pp. 665-669.
• Peplow, A.T. Engineering solutions using acoustic spectral finite element methods (2011) Perspectives in Theoretical Physics, pp. 161-178.
• Peplow, A.T., Finnveden, S. Uniform radiation conditions for a sound propagation model (2009) Journal of Computational Acoustics, 17 (2), pp. 135-157.
• Peplow, A.T.  A wave-based finite element analysis for acoustic transmission in fluid-filled elastic waveguides (2009) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125 (4), pp. 2053-2063.
• Peplow, A. A wave-based analysis for acoustic transmission for fluid-filled elastic waveguides (2009) 8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 31 (PART 3).
• Peplow, A. Acoustic propagation in variable sound speed profiles (2009) 8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 31 (PART 3).
• Peplow, A. Waveguide boundary spectral finite elements (2008) Computational Acoustics of Noise Propagation in Fluids -Finite and Boundary Element Methods, pp. 387-408.
• Peplow, A.T., Chandler-Wilde, S.N.  Existence and uniqueness of solutions for acoustic scattering over infinite obstacles (2008) Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 345 (1), pp. 305-321.
• Peplow, A.T., Finnveden, S. Calculation of vibration transmission over bedrock using a waveguide finite element model (2008) International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32 (6), pp. 701-719.