Measuring the porosity and the tortuosity of porous materials via reflected waves at oblique incidence

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2424-2433

  Fellah, Z E A ^a   Berger, S ^b   Lauriks, W ^b   Depollier, C ^c   Aristegui C ^a   Chapelon, J Y ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POROSITY;

TORTUOSITY;

POROUS MATERIALS;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; TORTUOSITY; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUE; WAVE REFLECTION;

ACOUSTICS; AIR; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0038372386     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1567275     Document Type: Article

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