Fluid-filled passive sonar calibration spheres: Design, modeling, and measurement

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-100

  Deveau, David M ^a   Lyons, Anthony P ^b  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic target strength; Fluid filled sphere; Modeling; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SCATTERINGS; ACOUSTIC TARGET STRENGTH; BACK-SCATTERED; FLUID-FILLED SPHERE; FOCUSING EFFECTS; FREQUENCY RANGES; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCIES; HIGH DENSITIES; HOLLOW SPHERES; INDEPENDENT SCATTERINGS; MEASURED DATUM; MECHANICAL SUPPORTS; MODELING; PASSIVE SONARS; RIGID SPHERES; SCATTERING STRENGTHS; SPHERICAL SHAPES; SURFACE AREAS; TARGET STRENGTHS; THEORETICAL MODELS; THIN-WALLED; UNDERWATER SONARS; UNDERWATER TARGETS;

FLUIDS; SONAR; SPHERES; TARGETS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 65249107712     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2008.2010755     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. D. J. Shirley and K. J. Diercks, "Analysis of the frequency response of simple geometric targets," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 48, pp. 1275-1282, 1970.
2. D. M. Deveau, "Fabrication, testing, and installation of fluid-filled target spheres for AUTEC's passive sonar calibration system," in Proc. OCEANS Conf., Jun. 2000, vol. 3, pp. 1481-1487.
3. M. C. Junger and D. Feit, Sound, Structures, and Their Interaction Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 318-321.
4. S. Temkin, Elements of Acoustics. Mellville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2001, pp. 2372-44.
5. E. G. Williams, Fourier Acoustics: Sound Radiation and Nearfield Acoustical Holography. London, U.K.: Academic, 1999, pp. 231-232.
6. G. Kaduchak and C. M. Loeffler, "Relationship between material parameters and target strength of fluid-filled spherical shells in water: Calculations and observations," IEEE J. Ocean. Eng., vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 26-30, Jan. 1998.
7. D. L. Folds, "Target strength of focused liquid-filled spherical reflection," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 49, pp. 1596-1599, 1971.
8. R. J. Urick, Principles of Underwater Sound, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983, p. 113.
9. R. H. Wallace, H. V. Hillery, G. R. Barnard, B. M. Marks, and C. M. McKinney, "Experimental investigation of several passive sonar target," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 57, pp. 862-865, 1975.
10. B. M. Marks and E. E. Mikeska, "Reflections from focused liquid-filled spherical reflectors," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 49, pp. 813-817, 1976.