Variability of low frequency sound transmission measurements

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2986-2997

  Bravo, Teresa ^a   Elliott, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; LOUDSPEAKERS;

ACOUSTIC POWER; SOUND REDUCTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 2942687188     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1738452     Document Type: Article

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