對低頻噪聲和振動現象及其對人、動物和環(huán)境的強大影響的大量和日益增長的興趣跨越了幾個學科；目前，在聲學、地球物理學、建筑學、土木和機械工程、心理學和動物學等學科的期刊文獻中，都有對這些課題的研究。本季刊匯集了本應分散的材料：本季刊是建立關于這一主題的統一知識庫的基石。該雜志涵蓋的主題包括：次聲和低頻噪聲和振動的來源：檢測、測量和分析；大氣中次聲和低頻噪聲的傳播振動在地面和結構中的傳播；人與動物對次聲、低頻噪聲和振動的感知對人和動物的影響；低頻噪聲與振動的相互作用：噪聲引起的振動、振動結構噪聲的輻射；低頻噪聲與振動控制：問題與解決方案。

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.