Capped ceramic underwater sound projector: The 'cymbal' transducer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 591-600

  Tressler, James F ^a,b   Newnham, Robert E ^a   Hughes, W Jack ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; MOLYBDENUM; POLYURETHAN; TITANIUM; WATER;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TRANSDUCER; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 0032890662     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426249     Document Type: Article

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