Measurements and analysis of acoustic backscattering by elastic cubes and irregular polyhedra

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2705-2713

  Thorne, Peter D ^a   Sun, Shaobo ^b   Zhang, Jingdong ^c   Bjorno, Irina ^b   Mazoyer, Thierry ^d  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^d Metravid Res Development Service   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BACKSCATTER; ELASTIC CUBES; IRREGULAR POLYHEDRA;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030679612     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420324     Document Type: Article

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