Optimization of structural variables of a flextensional transducer by the statistical multiple regression analysis method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1454-1461

  Kang, Kookjin ^a   Roh, Yongrae ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FLEXTENSIONAL TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0043193979     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1600725     Document Type: Article

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