對(duì)低頻噪聲和振動(dòng)現(xiàn)象及其對(duì)人、動(dòng)物和環(huán)境的強(qiáng)大影響的大量和日益增長(zhǎng)的興趣跨越了幾個(gè)學(xué)科；目前，在聲學(xué)、地球物理學(xué)、建筑學(xué)、土木和機(jī)械工程、心理學(xué)和動(dòng)物學(xué)等學(xué)科的期刊文獻(xiàn)中，都有對(duì)這些課題的研究。本季刊匯集了本應(yīng)分散的材料：本季刊是建立關(guān)于這一主題的統(tǒng)一知識(shí)庫的基石。該雜志涵蓋的主題包括：次聲和低頻噪聲和振動(dòng)的來源：檢測(cè)、測(cè)量和分析；大氣中次聲和低頻噪聲的傳播振動(dòng)在地面和結(jié)構(gòu)中的傳播；人與動(dòng)物對(duì)次聲、低頻噪聲和振動(dòng)的感知對(duì)人和動(dòng)物的影響；低頻噪聲與振動(dòng)的相互作用：噪聲引起的振動(dòng)、振動(dòng)結(jié)構(gòu)噪聲的輻射；低頻噪聲與振動(dòng)控制：?jiǎn)栴}與解決方案。

The considerable and growing interest in the phenomena of low frequency noise and vibration and their powerful effects on man, animals and the environment, spreads across several disciplines; studies of these topics are to be found at present in the periodical literature of acoustics, geophysics, architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, psychology and zoology.This quarterly journal brings together material which otherwise would be scattered: the journal is the cornerstone of the creation of a unified corpus of knowledge on the subject. Among the topics covered by the journal are: sources of infrasound and low frequency noise and vibration: detection, measurement and anlysis; propagation of infrasound and low frequency noise in the atmospere; propagation of vibration in the ground and in structures; perception of infrasound, low frequency noise and vibration by man and animals; effects on man and animals; interaction of low frequency noise and vibration: vibrations caused by noise, radiation of noise from vibrating structures; low frequency noise and vibration control: problems and solutions.