Low-frequency acoustic scattering by a cube: Experimental measurements and theoretical predictions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2571-2582

  Chinnery, Paul A ^a   Humphrey, Victor F ^a   Zhang, Jingdong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 0030929904     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418499     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. J. Sheng and A. E. Hay, "An examination of the spherical scatterer approximation in aqueous suspensions of sand," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 83, 598-610 (1988).
2. A. E. Hay and A. S. Schaafsma, "Resonance scattering in suspensions," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 1124-1138 (1989).
3. A. E. Hay, "Sound scattering from a particle-laden, turbulent jet," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 2055-2074 (1991).
4. A. E. Hay and J. Sheng, "Vertical profiles of suspended sand concentration and size from multifrequency acoustic backscatter," J. Geophys. Res. 97, 661-677 (1992).
5. C. He and A. E. Hay, "Broadband measurements of the acoustic backscatter cross section of sand particles in suspension," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 2247-2254 (1993).
6. A. M. Crawford and A. E. Hay, "Determining suspended sand size and concentration from multifrequency acoustic backscatter," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 3312-3324 (1993).
7. P. D. Thorne, P. J. Hardcastle, and R. L. Soulsby, "Analysis of acoustic measurements of suspended sediments," J. Geophys. Res. 98, 899-910 (1993).
8. P. D. Thorne, K. R. Waters, and T. J. Brudner, "Acoustic measurements of scattering by objects of irregular shape," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 242-251 (1995).
9. P. D. Thorne, L. Hayhurst, and V. F. Humphrey, "Scattering by nonmetallic spheres," Ultrasonics 30, 15-20 (1992).
10. M. Ramirez and I. K. Bjørnø, "Experimental investigations of acoustic backscattering from particles in water," in Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Vol. 2, Copenhagen, edited by L. Bjørnø (European Commission, Luxembourg, 1994), pp. 1005-1009.
11. N. D. Veksler, Resonance Acoustic Spectroscopy (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993).
12. D. T. DiPerna and T. K. Stanton, "Sound scattering by cylinders of non-circular cross section: A conformal mapping approach," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 3064-3079 (1994).
13. PAFEC VibroAcoustics, from Pafec Ltd., Strelley Hall, Nottingham N68 6PE, UK.
14. V. F. Humphrey, "The measurement of acoustic properties of limited size panels by use of a parametric source," J. Sound Vib. 98, 67-81 (1985).
15. C. Beckett, "Acoustic backscattering from specific targets," University of Bath internal reports (unpublished, 1986-1989); "Studies of acoustic scattering using a parametric array," Ph.D. thesis, University of Bath, 1992.
16. C. Beckett, "Acoustic backscattering from specific targets," University of Bath internal reports (unpublished, 1986-1989); "Studies of acoustic scattering using a parametric array," Ph.D. thesis, University of Bath, 1992.
17. P. J. Westervelt, "Parametric acoustic array," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 35, 535-537 (1963).
18. H. O. Berktay, "Possible exploitation of nonlinear acoustics in underwater transmitting applications," J. Sound Vib. 2, 435-461 (1965).
19. M. B. Moffet and J. E. Blue, "Hydrophone nonlinearity measurements," N.U.S.C. Technical memorandum 801150, 1980.
20. V. F. Humphrey and C. H. Hsu, "Nonlinearity of cylindrical hydrophones used for the measurement of parametric arrays," in Transducers for Sonar Applications: An Institute of Acoustics Conference, University of Birmingham, December 1980.
21. J. Davenport, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath (private communication, 1995).
22. H. C. van de Hulst, Light Scattering by Small Particles (Dover, New York, 1981).
23. Acoustic, Electromagnetic and Elastic Wave Scattering: Focus on the T-Matrix Approach: International Symposium Held at the Ohio State University, 1979, edited by V. K. Varadan and V. V. Varadan (Pergamon, New York, 1980).
24. J. Mackerle, "Finite and boundary element techniques in acoustics - A bibliography," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 15, 263-272 (1994).
25. D. B. Woyak, Acoustics and Fluid-Structure Interaction ANSYS (5.0) Tutorial (Swanson Analysis System, Inc., 1992).
26. PAFEC Manual (Theory) from PAFEC Ltd., Strelley Hall, Nottingham NG8 6PE, United Kingdom (1984).
27. S. Sun, P. D. Thorne, I. K. Bjørnø, and T. Mazoyer, "Observations of acoustic backscattering by elastic cubes," in Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Vol. 1, Crete, edited by J. S. Papadakis (FORTH-IACM, Crete, 1996), pp. 51-56.
28. P. A. Chinnery, J. D. Zhang, and V. F. Humphrey, "Acoustic scattering by nonmetallic and metallic cubes in the elastic resonance regime: Experimental measurements and combined finite element/boundary element modeling," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (in press).
29. P. D. Thorne, S. Sun, J. D. Zhang, I. Bjørnø, and T. Mazoyer, "Measurements and analysis of acoustic backscattering by elastic cubes and irregular polyhedra," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (in press).
30. K. Gipson and P. L. Marston, "Retroreflective backscattering of ultrasound due to Rayleigh waves on an elastic solid rectangular parallelepiped," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 3325 (1994).