Broad frequency acoustic response of ground/floor to human footsteps

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6241, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ekimov, Alexander ^a   Sabatier, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Footstep; Friction; Sound; Ultrasonic frequency; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; FRICTION; GAIT ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VIBRATION CONTROL;

FOOTSTEPS; FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 33747330163     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.663978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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