On the Larsen effect to monitor small fast changes in materials

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1894-1905

  Lobkis, Oleg I ^a   Weaver, Richard L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENT PASTES; CURING PROCESS; FEEDBACK CIRCUITS; HIGH PRECISION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MESO-SCALE; NON-LINEAR MATERIALS; SLOW DYNAMICS; SOLID BODIES; TRANSIENT LOADS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

DYNAMICS;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 64649101103     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3081530     Document Type: Article

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