Use of focused ultrasonic receivers for remote measurements in biological tissues

The feasibility of using a focusing ultrasonic transducer as a sound pressure receiver is discussed. It is shown theoretically that, at certain angular apertures of the receiver, its output signal is proportional to the sound pressure in the field point coincident with the receiver center of curvature. The receivers of this type have been demonstrated suitable for remote measurements of field spatial distribution of plane and focused ultrasonic radiators. Data are presented on the experimental testing of focused receivers in measuring acoustic fields in water, air, and certain samples of biological tissues. The instruments are sufficiently universal and allow the measurement not only of acoustic fields, but also of temperature increments in locally heated media, as well as permit one to follow the initiation and development of ultrasonic cavitation and study nonlinear effects. The remote sensing ability and high sensitivity of focused ultrasonic receivers allow their practical use in biomedical acoustics for noninvasive measurements.     

Attenuation of sound in wide ducts with flow at elevated pressure and temperature

At ambient conditions the acoustic losses within the fluid are two orders of magnitude smaller than those occurring at a duct wall, so that they are commonly neglected in duct acoustics. Recent measurements revealed an increasing sound attenuation at elevated pressure and temperature, which cannot be justified by the viscothermal losses at the wall alone. In the first part, this paper compiles available models to pursue a comprehensive treatment of the sound attenuation in a duct at elevated pressure and temperature. The second part presents an experimental study of the attenuation. The measurements have been performed at the Hot Acoustic Test Rig, where pressure and temperature can be independently adjusted from their ambient values up to 1100 kPa and 823 K, respectively. The theoretical prediction of the total losses matches the experimental data, thus confirming that the losses within the fluid cannot be neglected in ducts at elevated pressure and temperature.     

无氧铜冲击熔化温度的辐射法测量

 在发生冲击熔化的情况下，金属样品/窗口界面压力下的熔化温度与卸载温度数值相等，且十分接近于界面温度值。根据这一结论，利用二级轻气炮加载手段和光辐射法测温技术，用氟化锂（LiF）单晶作透明窗口，获得了110~140 GPa压力范围内无氧铜的熔化温度。实验表明，无氧铜的高压熔化温度数据与文献发表的无氧铜高压声速实验结果是一致的，铜的高压熔化规律可用Lindemann熔化定律近似描述。采用的熔化温度测量方法不必反演出冲击温度，简化了冲击熔化温度的数据处理方法，为金属冲击熔化温度测量提供了一种潜在的技术途径。     

Acoustical analysis of pipes with flow using invariant field functions

An analysis of the pressure field within a pipe is carried out using simplified formulations of pipe acoustics. The fluid contained within the pipe is considered non-viscous, while the flow velocity of the fluid is assumed to be smaller than the speed of sound.The analysis is limited to frequencies which are well below the pipe ring frequency, i.e., at which only simple waves can propagate. Expressions and diagrams are given which specify the applicable frequency range in each particular case.Three invariant functions of the internal pressure field are evaluated. These functions allow for the determination of the following quantities: base pressure spectrum (spatial mean r.m.s. value), lower and upper bounds of the pressure spectrum for the entire pipe, pressure spectrum at an arbitrary position, speed of sound in the contained fluid and fluid flow velocity.Experimental identification of these quantities requires simultaneous measurement at three points. A few measurements carried out on one air-filled and one water-filled pipe have demonstrated the potential of pipe invariant functions for acoustical analysis.     

Sound velocities of compressed Fe3C from simultaneous synchrotron X‐ray diffraction and nuclear resonant scattering measurements

The applications of nuclear resonant scattering in laser‐heated diamond anvil cells have provided an important probe for the magnetic and vibrational properties of ⁵⁷Fe‐bearing materials under high pressure and high temperature. Synchrotron X‐ray diffraction is one of the most powerful tools for studying phase stability and equation of state over a wide range of pressure and temperature conditions. Recently an experimental capability has been developed for simultaneous nuclear resonant scattering and X‐ray diffraction measurements using synchrotron radiation. Here the application of this method to determine the sound velocities of compressed Fe₃C is shown. The X‐ray diffraction measurements allow detection of microscale impurities, phase transitions and chemical reactions upon compression or heating. They also provide information on sample pressure, grain size distribution and unit cell volume. By combining the Debye velocity extracted from the nuclear resonant inelastic X‐ray scattering measurements and the structure, density and elasticity data from the X‐ray diffraction measurements simultaneously obtained, more accurate sound velocity data can be derived. Our results on few‐crystal and powder samples indicate strong anisotropy in the sound velocities of Fe₃C under ambient conditions.     

Pressure measurement in supersonic air flow by differential absorptive laser-induced thermal acoustics

Nonintrusive, off-body flow barometry in Mach 2 airflow has been demonstrated in a large-scale supersonic wind tunnel using seedless laser-induced thermal acoustics (LITA). The static pressure of the gas flow is determined with a novel differential absorption measurement of the ultrasonic sound produced by the LITA pump process. Simultaneously, the streamwise velocity and static gas temperature of the same spatially resolved sample volume were measured with this nonresonant time-averaged LITA technique. Mach number, temperature, and pressure have 0.2%, 0.4%, and 4% rms agreement, respectively, in comparison with known free-stream conditions.     

Possibilities and limits of sound power measurements with a real-time intensity analyzer

The sound power of a number of test objects was determined from spatially averaged intensity measurements. The results show that the influence of room acoustics is insignificant even for rooms of widely different room constants, if the measuring surfaces are exactly defined and if a good space-averaging technique is used. The intensity integrated over a closed surface defining a source-free space compared to the sound pressure integrated over the same surface gives a measure of the capability of a specific intensity measuring system to suppress external noise. For the test arrangements measured with broad band noise, this suppression was found to be 14–18 dB(A). A similar value of 15 dB was found from sound power measurements on a source with high external sound and an analysis of the results in one-third octave bands. From these measurements an analytical function was derived which describes the average error of the spatially averaged intensity as a function of the difference between the external sound level and the source sound level. For practical measurement situations a further analytical function was derived which gives this intensity error as a function of the difference between the measured (spatially averaged) pressure and intensity levels. Thus it is possible to estimate the error of intensity measurements directly from measured intensity and pressure data.     

一种高密度玻璃的多形性高压相变和物态方程研究

在二级轻气炮上用无氧铜飞片直接撞击重玻璃平板样品(密度为4.817 g/cm³,材料牌号:ZF6)开展了冲击压缩实验研究,压力范围为52.1—167.8 GPa,并采用多通道瞬态辐射高温计和光分析技术测量了其雨贡纽线、高压声速和冲击波温度等动态特性.实验结果显示,上述性质在三个不同压力区间出现不连续性变化,表明冲击压缩下该样品材料存在多形性高压相变,相变起始压力分别为23,78和120 GPa.实测声速先是随冲击压力的增高而增加,并在78 GPa附近出现急剧下降,之后又随压力增长,并在120 GPa之后下降到体波声速,表明材料进入高压熔化相.温度数据同样在78和120 GPa处出现明显的不连续变化,并在120 GPa之后变化趋于平缓与计算的Lindeman熔化线相符,进一步印证了上述相变行为.实测雨贡纽数据与LASL数据库中的重玻璃数据相符,结果显示除23 GPa附近有一明显的突变外,高压区数据几近线性变化,表明重玻璃的两个高压相变均为二级相变.本文报道的重玻璃材料高压物性数据和序列相变认识对于发展反向加载技术、提高材料声速测量精度和适用压力范围具有实用价值. 关键词： 重玻璃 冲击温度 卸载声速 冲击相变     

How can humans, in air, hear sound generated underwater (and can goldfish hear their owners talking)?

The air/water interface at the top of a body of water is often treated from below as a pressure release boundary, which it closely matches. The small discrepancy in that match, however, is enough to enable humans in air to hear sounds generated underwater, which would not be possible across a pressure release boundary. A discussion of this phenomenon, designed for teaching purposes and using no more acoustics than would be contained in a first-year undergraduate syllabus in acoustics, leads to a discussion of whether goldfish can hear their owners speaking. The analysis is then used to illustrate the care needed when comparing sound levels in air and water, a process which continues to lead to erroneous statements in the media and some academic articles.     

海底表层沉积物声速的环境因素影响特性

应用声速通用模型开展理论分析,结合温度-压力可控实验测量分析,研究地声反演、海底原位声学测量和采样样品声学测量3种主要的海底表层沉积物声学特性测量方法中,存在的环境因素影响机制和特性。理论计算与实验测量研究具有一致性,揭示温度和静水压力对海底表层沉积物的压缩波声速的影响机制主要是通过影响孔隙海水的密度、黏度、体积弹性模量体现的。在海底4000 m以内的表层海底沉积物通常存在的海底温度和静水压力范围内,发现声速比不为常数,随着温度升高和静水压力增大而呈现出细微减小趋势,理论计算海底沉积物与底层海水声速比波动度在2%以内,实验测量声速比波动度在2.73%以内。基于声速比不为常数,提出修正声速比校正模型,为减小温度和静水压力影响因素误差,更准确地实现不同原位、实验室环境状态下的海底沉积物声速的分析和比较提供了改进方法。      

Application of the Transmission Line Matrix method for outdoor sound propagation modelling – Part 2: Experimental validation using meteorological data derived from the meso-scale model Meso-NH

Outdoor sound prediction is both a societal concern and a scientific issue. This paper deals with numerical simulations of micrometeorological (temperature and wind) fields for environmental acoustics. These simulations are carried out using the reference meso-scale meteorological model at the Meteo-France weather agency (Meso-NH). Meso-NH predictions at very fine scales (up to 3 m), including new developments (drag force approach), are validated both numerically and experimentally under stable, unstable and neutral conditions. Then, this information can be used as input data for the acoustic propagation model. The time-domain acoustic model is based on the Transmission Line Matrix method. Its development has also been promoted for application to outdoor sound propagation, i.e. to take into account topography, ground impedance, meteorological conditions, etc. In part 1, the presentation and evaluation of the Transmission Line Matrix method showed the relevance of this method’s use in the context of environmental acoustics. Finally, simulated noise levels under different propagation conditions were compared to in situ measurements. Satisfactory results were obtained regarding the variability of the observed phenomena.     

Spatial correlation and coherence in reverberant acoustic fields: Extension to microphones with arbitrary first-order directivity

Spatial correlation and coherence functions in reverberant sound fields are relevant to the acoustics of enclosed spaces and related areas. Theoretical expressions for the spatial correlation and coherence functions between signals representing the pressure and/or the components of the particle velocity vector in a reverberant sound field are established in the literature and most of these have also been corroborated with measurements [F. Jacobsen, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 108, 204-210 (2000)]. In the present paper, these expressions are generalized to microphones of first-order directivity, whereby the directivity can be expressed in terms of pressure and pressure gradient. It is shown that the resulting spatial correlation and coherence functions can be expressed in terms of the established spatial correlation and coherence functions. The derived theoretical expression for the spatial coherence function is validated with a modeled diffuse sound field. Further, it is compared with the experimental coherence obtained from the reverberant tails of room impulse responses measured with two common surround sound microphone setups in a concert and a lecture hall.     

微穿孔板和小孔喷注——马大猷教授对声学的特殊贡献

微穿孔板吸声体是马大猷教授提出的一项特殊的设计技术,自上世纪80年代以来被广泛地应用在音质处理和噪声控制中。微穿孔板吸声体是一种无纤维的宽带吸声材料,它不仅能够应用在传统的建筑声学和噪声控制等领域中,更有意义的是它适用于高温、高速气流、高洁净、需要透明采光等一些极端条件下。当微穿孔板后面有一定的空腔时,它可以在低频的几个频程内具有很高的吸声系数。在喷注噪声控制理论方面,马教授根据小孔喷注噪声与其压力和直径的关系,根据人的听觉生理和心理特性,提出了在气流或者蒸汽出口的颈部处设计合适的小孔结构,可以大大减少气流噪声对人的干扰作用可听声频段内的声辐射,降噪量一般来说可以达到20~60 dBA的降噪量。这就是小孔喷注理论。本文回顾了马大猷教授在他学术生涯第二个春天里结出的这两颗硕果——微穿孔板和小孔喷注,关于微穿孔板在声场和声源噪声控制中的声学特性理论,主要回顾和讨论了微穿孔板结构的研究进展及其在噪声控制中的实际应用,以及小孔喷注噪声的主要能量转移到超声波频段内的物理概念,这一概念对现代喷注噪声控制的发展依然具有重要意义。      

Laser-induced thermal-acoustic velocimetry with heterodyne detection

Laser-induced thermal acoustics (LITA) was used with heterodyne detection to measure simultaneously and in a single laser pulse the sound speed and flow velocity of NO>(2) -seeded air in a low-speed wind tunnel up to Mach number M =0.1 . The uncertainties of the velocity and the sound speed measurements were ~0.2 m/s and 0.5%, respectively. Measurements were obtained through a nonlinear least-squares fit to a general, analytic closed-form solution for heterodyne-detected LITA signals from thermal gratings. Agreement between theory and experiment is exceptionally good.     

An equation of state and non-linear parameter from sound velocity measurements for liquid alkali metals

In the present paper, an equation of state has been obtained in case of liquid alkali metals like Na, K, Rb and Cs from sound velocity measurements. The theory developed gives very good agreement for both the sound velocity and the volume as a function of pressure at different temperatures in these liquid alkali metals. Further, the variation of non-linear parameter,B / A, as a function of pressure and temperature is also studied.     

钒的高压声速测量

采用反向碰撞方法进行了钒冲击实验,利用激光干涉测速技术对V/LiF窗口界面粒子速度剖面进行测量.通过对粒子速度剖面的分析获得了32—88 GPa压力范围内钒的高压声速.实验获得的声速-冲击压力关系在约60 GPa存在间断,表明钒发生了冲击相变.相变压力与静高压实验结果及第一性原理计算结果基本一致.     

运用液体声学理论研究超临界二氧化碳的声特性

利用液体声学模型,根据美国国家标准局提供的二氧化碳声速、密度、摩尔体积和绝热压缩系数数据,计算了气态、液态和超临界态二氧化碳在不同温度和压力条件下的摩尔声速、摩尔压缩系数及Van der Waals 常数. 分析发现,在较宽的温度和压力范围内,液体中的声学模型能够很好地运用于超临界态二氧化碳的研究. 并在液体声学模型适用范围内,计算了超临界二氧化碳在不同温度及压力状态下的表面张力、粘度、自扩散系数,为超临界流体技术提供了参考数据,并分析了这些参量的变化规律. 关键词： 超临界二氧化碳 声速 摩尔声速 摩尔压缩系数     

运用液体声学理论研究超临界二氧化碳的声特性

利用液体声学模型，根据美国国家标准局提供的二氧化碳声速、密度、摩尔体积和绝热压缩系数数据，计算了气态、液态和超临界态二氧化碳在不同温度和压力条件下的摩尔声速、摩尔压缩系数及Van der Waals 常数. 分析发现，在较宽的温度和压力范围内，液体中的声学模型能够很好地运用于超临界态二氧化碳的研究. 并在液体声学模型适用范围内，计算了超临界二氧化碳在不同温度及压力状态下的表面张力、粘度、自扩散系数，为超临界流体技术提供了参考数据，并分析了这些参量的变化规律.     

Optical measurement of the speed of sound in air over the temperature range 300-650 K

Using laser-induced thermal acoustics (LITA), the speed of sound in room air (1 atm) is measured over the temperature range 300-650 K. Since the LITA apparatus maintains a fixed sound wavelength as temperature is varied, this temperature range simultaneously corresponds to a sound frequency range of 10-15 MHz. The data are compared to a published model and typically agree within 0.1%-0.4% at each of 21 temperatures.     

Determination of physicochemical properties of diacylglycerol oil at high pressure by means of ultrasonic methods

The purpose of the paper is to address, using ultrasonic methods, the impact of temperature and pressure on the physicochemical properties of liquids on the example of diacylglycerol (DAG) oil. The paper presents measurements of sound velocity, density and volume of DAG oil sample in the pressure range from atmospheric pressure up to 0.6 GPa and at temperatures ranging from 20 to 50 °C.