Laboratory measurements of sound scattering from a buried sphere above and below the critical angle (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-42

  Simpson, Harry J ^a   Houston, Brian H ^a   Lin, Raymond ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SAND;

INSONIFICATION;

STAINLESS STEEL;

STAINLESS STEEL;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; SCATTEROMETER; SOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; LABORATORY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037237606     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1523310     Document Type: Article

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