Deduction of tortuosity and porosity from acoustic reflection and transmission measurements on thick samples of rigid-porous materials

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 607-624

  Umnova, Olga ^a   Attenborough, Keith ^a   Shin, Ho Chul ^a   Cummings, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Characteristic lengths; Granular materials; Porosity; Porous materials; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; GRANULAR MATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POROSITY;

ACOUSTIC PULSES; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTHS; POLYMERIC FOAM MATERIALS; TORTUOSITY;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 13444306563     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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