Attenuation of vehicle noise over short grass

Field experiments to investigate the attenuation of noise from single vehicles over short grass indicate that for a microphone height of 1·2 m and a source/receiver distance <30 m, the rate of attenuation is 4·8 dB(A) per doubling of distance. Some evidence is presented to suggest that for source/receiver distances >30 m the rate of attenuation increases with distance.     

海洋信道随机性引起的船舶噪声线谱衰减

阐述准周期性随机声脉冲序列作为船舶噪声模型的普适性,侧重讨论船舶噪声准周期性随机声脉冲序列所产生的线谱经随机海洋信道传输后的变化。指出在大多数工况下,船舶噪声并不是以几种不同频率的加性正弦波直接叠加在宽带连续谱噪声上,而是一类本身并不含有任何有限强度加性正弦波分量的信号。研究结果表明:海洋信道多途效应引起船舶噪声脉冲序列信号时域上时延扩展;海洋信道的随机性使船舶噪声随机声脉冲序列信号准周期性下降,导致船舶噪声线谱相对幅度“额外”快速衰减,对于存在大范围不均匀水团的海洋信道,50 km传播距离上其介质随机起伏引起的船舶噪声线谱“额外”衰减最高可达11 dB。海洋信道随机性引起的船舶噪声线谱衰减不可忽视。      

Attenuation of high-level impulses by earmuffs

Attenuation of high-level acoustic impulses (noise reduction) by various types of earmuffs was measured using a laboratory source of type A impulses and an artificial test fixture compatible with the ISO 4869-3 standard. The measurements were made for impulses of peak sound-pressure levels (SPLs) from 150 to 170 dB. The rise time and A duration of the impulses depended on their SPL and were within a range of 12-400 mus (rise time) and 0.4-1.1 ms (A duration). The results showed that earmuff peak level attenuation increases by about 10 dB when the impulse's rise time and the A duration are reduced. The results also demonstrated that the signals under the earmuff cup have a longer rise and A duration than the original impulses recorded outside the earmuff. Results of the measurements were used to check the validity of various hearing damage risk criteria that specify the maximum permissible exposure to impulse noise. The present data lead to the conclusion that procedures in which hearing damage risk is assessed only from signal attenuation, without taking into consideration changes in the signal waveform under the earmuff, tend to underestimate the risk of hearing damage.     

Shadowing of directional noise sources by finite noise barriers

The present study investigates the shadowing effect of barriers of infinite or finite length in the presence of directional noise sources. The diffraction model termed [Directive Line Source Model (DLSM) J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107 (2000) 2973-2986] is employed. DLSM is appropriately modified and extended to include the effects of ground reflection, diffraction by the side edges of a finite length barrier, and diffraction by directional noise sources. Results obtained are shown to be in good agreement with available experimental data and known analytical solutions. An application of the enhanced DLSM is illustrated using helicopter type noise, which is highly directive. The noise source is modeled as a directional point source with far field directivity data and the enhanced DLSM is employed to compare the noise field with and without the barrier present for three different directivity patterns, various source locations and orientations, as well as, for various barrier lengths.     

Attenuation measurement uncertainties caused by speckle statistics

Attenuation measurements can be derived from the decay of backscattered signal with depth in an inhomogeneous material. In cases such as liver tissue, where many small inhomogeneities are likely to be included in sample volumes defined by pulse and beam widths, Rayleigh statistics describe the random nature of the magnitude of backscattered pressure. The statistics of speckle underlie the uncertainties in estimates of attenuation at discrete frequencies, and of the magnitude and frequency dependence of attenuation over a bandwidth. This paper derives expressions for the standard deviations of attenuation magnitude and frequency dependence in terms of parameters such as the dimensions of the region of interest, and the bandwidth of the ultrasonic system. Practical examples are given using published data, and comparisons to other techniques which measure "attenuation slope" are made. The analysis yields insights into trade-offs among variables such as the dimensions and shape of regions of interest, and the segmenting of data in time and frequency domain.     

Selective Attenuation of Optical Radiation by Aerodisperse Media

The possibility of creating aerodisperse media that selectively attenuate optical radiation by generating aerosols, whose substance has distinct regions of anomalous dispersion, is justified numerically.     

非均匀等离子体对平面电磁波的衰减

利用荧光灯排列形成非均匀等离子体层（面积约60 cm×52 cm,消耗功率约400 W）,研究了其对1～8 GHz E波（电矢量方向平行于灯轴方向的入射波）的反射和透射的影响。结果表明,该等离子体对1～4 GHz的E波具有强吸收和弱反射的特性,单程衰减最高可达8 dB。利用2维分段线性电流密度递归卷积时域有限差分计算式,模拟了E波传播及其在非均匀等离子体内推进的瞬态过程,计算了等离子体对电磁波的反射和透射衰减,并与实验结果拟合,得到等离子体电子数密度峰值约9.72×1016 m-3-3,电子与中性粒子碰撞频率约4 GHz。     

非均匀等离子体对平面电磁波的衰减

利用荧光灯排列形成非均匀等离子体层(面积约60cm×52cm,消耗功率约400W),研究了其对1～8GHzE波(电矢量方向平行于灯轴方向的入射波)的反射和透射的影响。结果表明,该等离子体对1～4GHz的E波具有强吸收和弱反射的特性,单程衰减最高可达8dB。利用2维分段线性电流密度递归卷积时域有限差分计算式,模拟了E波传播及其在非均匀等离子体内推进的瞬态过程,计算了等离子体对电磁波的反射和透射衰减,并与实验结果拟合,得到等离子体电子数密度峰值约9.72×1016m-3,电子与中性粒子碰撞频率约4GHz。     

Attenuation and protection provided by ossicular removal

Behavioral studies of hearing loss produced by exposure to ototraumatic agents in experimental animals, combined with the anatomical evaluation of end-organ pathology, have provided useful information about the relation between dysfunction and pathology. However, in order to attribute a given hearing loss to some pattern of cochlear damage, it is necessary to test each ear independently. The objective of the present study was to evaluate attenuation measured behaviorally and protection to the cochlea provided by removal of the malleus and incus in noise-exposed chinchillas. Results from one behaviorally trained chinchilla with ossicular removal indicated a conductive hearing loss that varied from 41 dB at 0.125 kHz to 81 dB at 4.8 kHz and averaged 60 dB. Counts of missing sensory cells in ears of seven chinchillas with unilateral ossicular removal and exposure to noise (octave band centered at 0.5 kHz, 95 dB SPL, for durations up to 216 days, or centered at 4.0 kHz, 108 dB SPL, for 1.75 h) showed no more cell loss on the protected side than in age-matched control ears. From these data it is concluded that ossicular removal provides enough attenuation to protect the chinchilla cochlea from damage during these noise exposures, and that it will insure monaural responses behaviorally as long as the hearing loss in the test ear does not exceed that in the ear with ossicular removal by approximately 50 dB at any frequency.     

Attenuation of phonon scattering intensities by point defects

The cross section of the coherent, inelastic neutron scattering is characteristically decreased in the presence of defect-induced lattice distortions. This effect is in analogy to the attenuation of Bragg intensities due to a static Debye-Waller factor. The integrated scattering intensities from transversal acoustic (TA-) phonons of the system NbN_0.014 have been measured and are shown to be attenuated with respect to the scattering intensities from the phonons of a pure Nb crystal. We discuss the obtained results through comparison with various model calculations.     

Noise suppression by noise

We have analyzed the interplay between an externally added noise and the intrinsic noise of systems that relax fast towards a stationary state, and found that increasing the intensity of the external noise can reduce the total noise of the system. We have established a general criterion for the appearance of this phenomenon and discussed two examples in detail.     

Localization stabilized by noise

We present a model which describes a quantum two-state system interacting with the environment represented by stochastic noise. We show that coherent tunneling between the two states survives if the interaction with the environment is weak. On the contrary, a strong interaction destroys quantum coherence and the system randomly jumps from one state to the other. Moreover, the jump probability rate becomes extremely small for very strong noise. The model is relevant for understanding the quantum properties of some mesoscopic systems.     

Attenuation of microwave electromagnetic radiation by means of buckypaper

A material based on carbon nanotubes (buckypaper) is prepared, and the size and structural characteristics of initial nanotubes and the prepared buckypaper are studied. The parameters of electromagnetic radiation-buckypaper interaction are derived for the range 25.5–73.3 GHz. Strong reflection and attenuation of the radiation in this range are discovered.     

Symmetry breakdown of stochastic potential by noise cross-correlations among colored noise sources

A nontrivial phenomenon in stochastic zero-dimensional systems, namely, the symmetry breakdown of stationary probability function due to the correlation between the noises is studied. As a model system to study this effect, we consider a generalized synergetic system of Lorenz type with Gaussian colored noise of each mode. In the frameworks of theoretical approximation and numerical simulations it is shown the fluctuation cross-correlations break the symmetry of bistable synergetic potential, producing an asymmetric effective potential. At that, cross-correlations play the twofold role: cross-correlations are the reason of symmetry breaking at small cross-correlation times on the one hand, and the reason of symmetry restoring at large values of cross-correlation times on the other hand. Moreover, it is shown that symmetry breakdown occurs only if one of multiplicative function is odd. Any other combinations of noises restore the symmetric form of potential.     

Intermittency driven by band-limited noise

Nonlinear systems driven by band-limited noise exhibit intermittent dynamics over a wide frequency domain, as revealed by high-pass filtering the system response at a cut-on frequency much higher than the noise cut-off frequency. The statistics of the stationary intermittency thus developed is investigated in detail by analogue simulation of a simple monostable system, the overdamped quartic oscillator, in the limit of strong nonlinearity. The mathematical interpretation of our results is provided in terms of a statistically refined singular-perturbation argument, which explains the occurrence of an intermittent burst in the high-pass filtered signal with the close coincidence of a signal inflection point with a noise zero-crossing. Our interest focuses on a characteristic frequency domain, where the intermittent phenomenon is sensitive to the nonlinear nature of the system, only, irrespective of the driving noise statistics (inertial range).     

Ratchet driven by quasimonochromatic noise

The currents generated by noise-induced activation processes in a periodic potential are investigated analytically, by digital simulation and by performing analog experiments. The noise is taken to be quasimonochromatic and the potential to be a smoothed sawtooth. Two analytic approaches are studied. The first involves a perturbative expansion in inverse powers of the frequency characterizing quasimonochromatic noise and the second is a direct numerical integration of the deterministic differential equations obtained in the limit of weak noise. These results, together with the digital and analog experiments, show that the system does indeed give rise, in general, to a net transport of particles. All techniques also show that a current reversal exists for a particular value of the noise parameters.