Effects of shear elasticity on sea bed scattering: Numerical examples

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 346-354

  Ivakin, Anatoliy N ^a   Jackson, Darrell R ^b  

^a Andreev Acoustics Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b Applied Physics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; SAND; SCATTERING; SEA BED; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHEAR ELASTICITY; SHEAR WAVE;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; SHEAR STRESS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ELASTICITY; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 0031982735     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421094     Document Type: Article

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