TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Background
• The RCNM
  • RCNM Main Page
    • File Menu
    • Edit Menu
    • View Menu
    • Options Menu
    • Help Menu
  • Input Data
    • Receptors
    • Equipment
    • Noise Metric and Noise Limit Criteria - Part 1
    • Noise Metric and Noise Limit Criteria - Part 2
    • Noise Metric and Noise Limit Criteria - Part 3
• Results
• Calculations in the RCNM
  • Metric Calculation
  • Exceedance Calculation
  • Totals Calculation
• References
• Appendix A: Best Practices for Calculating Estimated Shielding for Use in the RCNM
• Endnotes

List of Figures

1. The RCNM main page
2. File Menu 5
3. Edit Menu
4. View Menu
5. Options menu
6. Equipment list modification dialogue box
7. Units modification pull-down menu
8. Equipment dialogue box, with pull-down menu shown
9. Noise Metric pull-down menu 10
10. Noise Limit Criteria pop-up dialogue box 11
11. The Noise Limit Criteria "Clear" command button 12
12. Noise Limit Criteria pull-down menu
13. Noise Limit Criteria "Value" dialogue box
14. Noise Limit Criteria "Maximum" dialogue box
15. Noise Limit Criteria "Baseline +" dialogue box
16. Noise Limit Criteria "Conditional" dialogue box
17. L10 Adjustment dialogue box
18. Noise Limits display window
19. The RCNM main-page Results display

List of Tables

1. CA/T equipment noise emissions and acoustical usage factors database
2. Default Noise Limit Criteria