Comparison of errors in the three- and four-microphone methods used in the measurement of the acoustic properties of porous materials

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 112-117

  Muehleisen, Ralph T ^a   Beamer IV, C Walter ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW RESISTIVITY; TWO-MICROPHONE METHOD; WAVENUMBERS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; MICROPHONES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 3042593902     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1498175     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. ASTM, "Standard test method for impedance and absorption of acoustical materials by the impedance tube method," ASTM C 384-98, American Society of Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA (1998).
2. ASTM, "Standard test method for impedance and absorption materials of acoustical materials using a tube, two microphones and a digital frequency analysis system," ASTM E 1050-98, American Society of Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA (1998).
3. J. E. McIntosh, M. T. Zuroski, and R. F. Lambert, "Standing wave apparatus for measuring fundamental properties of acoustic materials in air," J. Acous. Soc. Am., 88, 1929-1938 (1990).
4. Y. Champoux and M. R. Stinson, "Measurement of the characteristic impedance and propagation constant of materials having high flow resistivity," J. Acous. Soc. Am., 90, 2182-2191 (1991).
5. B. H. Song and J. S. Bolton, "A transfer-matrix approach for estimating the characteristic impedance and wave numbers of limp and rigid porous materials," J. Acous. Soc. Am., 107, 1131-1152 (2000).
6. H. Boden and M. Abom, "Influence of errors on the two-microphone method for measuring acoustic properties in ducts," J. Acous. Soc. Am., 79, 541-549 (1986).
7. M. Abom and H. Boden, "Error analysis of two-microphone measurements in ducts with flow," J. Acous. Soc. Am., 83, 2429-2438 (1988).
8. B. F. G. Katz, "Method to resolve microphone and sample location errors in the two-microphone duct measurement method," J. Acous. Soc. Am., 108, 2231-2237 (2000).
9. V. K. Kinra and V. R. Iyer, "Ultrasonic measurement of the thickness, phase-velocity, density or attenuation of a thin-viscoelastic plate.Part II: The inverse problem," Ultrasonics, 33, 111-122 (1995).
10. J. P. Dalmont, "Acoustic impedance measurement, part II: A new calibration method," J. Sound Vib., 243, 441-459 (2001).
11. N. Rott, "Damped and thermally driven acoustic oscillations in wide and narrow tubes," Z. Agnew. Math. Phys., 20, 230 (1969).
12. P. R. Bevington and D. K. Robinson, Data Reduction and Error Analysis for The Physical Sciences (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991).
13. M. E. Delany and E. N. Bazley, "Acoustic properties of fibrous absorbent materials," Appl. Acoust., 3, 105-116 (1971).