Validation of finite element computations for the quantitative prediction of underwater noise from impact pile driving

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-81

  Zampolli, Mario ^a   Nijhof, Marten J J ^a   De Jong, Christ A F ^a   Ainslie, Michael A ^a   Jansen, Erwin H W ^a   Quesson, Benoit A J ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENERGY; ACOUSTIC RADIATION; AXISYMMETRIC; FINITE ELEMENT COMPUTATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FORCE INPUT; IMPULSIVE SOUNDS; MODEL RESULTS; NOISE LEVELS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; SHALLOW WATER WAVEGUIDE; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SOUND EXPOSURE; STRUCTURAL ACOUSTICS; STRUCTURAL-ACOUSTIC MODEL; TEST PILE; UNDERWATER NOISE;

ACCELEROMETERS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; HAMMERS; HYDROPHONES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

PILES;

WATER;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NOISE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

EID: 84872064023     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4768886     Document Type: Article

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