板厚对无障薄板声辐射特性影响的分析

分析无障薄板的声辐射特性时通常忽略板厚对格林函数的影响而采用双层势计算.本文考虑板厚引起的声辐射阻抗,采用混合势计算结构表面声压与振速,并分析板厚对声辐射参数的影响。根据交界相容性条件,采用边界积分方程分别表示平板上下表面的声压和振速,并合并同类项.进一步将结构的动力方程代入混合势形式的振速方程中,离散声压差值和板的位移为振动模态叠加的形式,获得二重积分形式的声辐射阻抗,从而求解振动模态系数,确定声辐射特性参数.以水下简支矩形板为例计算对比了声辐射参数,并讨论了其对板厚的敏感性。结果表明:板厚引起的声辐射阻抗对声辐射参数的大小影响较小,但随着频率的增加致使共振频率发生较大偏移;在相同阶数的共振频率范围内,板厚度越大,采用双层势计算的误差越大。     

Acoustic radiation from a shell-encapsulated baffled cylindrical cap

An exact study of radiation of an acoustic field due to radial/axial vibrations of a baffled cylindrical piston, eccentrically positioned within a fluid-filled thin cylindrical elastic shell, into an external fluid medium is presented. This configuration, which is a realistic idealization of a liquid-filled cylindrical acoustic lens with a focal point inside the lens when used as a sound projector, is of practical importance with a multitude of possible applications in underwater acoustics and ocean engineering. The formulation utilizes the appropriate wave field expansions along with the translational addition theorems for cylindrical wave functions to develop a closed-form solution in the form of an infinite series. Numerical results reveal the key effects of excitation frequency, cap angle, radiator position (eccentricity), dynamics of the elastic shell, and cap surface velocity distribution on sound radiation.     

Elastic characterization of porous silicon by acoustic microscopy

Acoustic microsocopy methods and particularly microechography have made it possible to determine porosity and mechanical properties of porous silicon. Nevertheless, these techniques are limited when porosity becomes important or when the layer thickness is too thin. This problem can be solved by detecting and analysing guided waves in the layers (Lamb's waves) which are contained in the acoustic signature V(z).     

Principal surface wave velocities in the point focus acoustic materials signature V(z) of an anisotropic solid

This paper deals with the point focus beam (PFB) acoustic materials signature V(z) of an anisotropic solid, and in particular how it tends to be dominated by a limited number of principal surface rays. These rays are associated with propagation directions in which the Rayleigh wave (RW), pseudo-surface acoustic wave (PSAW) or a lateral wave slowness has an extremum. The phenomenon is interpreted in terms of the complex azimuthally averaged reflectance function of the surface, and also explained on the basis of a ray model. We illustrate the phenomenon with a number of examples, pertaining to the surfaces of single crystal copper and a carbon-fibre epoxy composite. In the case of copper, which has a much larger acoustic impedance than the water couplant, the oscillations in V(z) are dominated by principal RW and PSAW, whereas for the composite there is no RW or pseudo-SAW to be discerned with acoustic microscopy (AM), and V(z) is dominated by principal lateral waves. The utility of PFB AM in the study of anisotropic solids is further elaborated with examples showing how V(z) is sensitive to surface orientation, and how V(z) is affected by the presence of a surface over layer. The phenomena examined in this paper expand the scope for determining materials characteristics, such as elastic constants, crystallographic orientation, residual stress and over layer properties, from PFB V(z) measurements.     

水声材料横波声速和衰减系数参量源法测量系统

提出了测量10-100 kHz频段水声材料平均横波声速和衰减系数的测量系统,系统具有低频、小尺寸、窄波束的特点。测量装置应用截断参量源作为声源,结合了精密的坐标系统。在对平板声压透射系数的平面波模型进行理论修正和实验研究的基础上,测量平板样品的透射系数(插入损失)的频谱和角谱,并采用曲线拟合方法来估计样品在测量频段的平均横波声速和衰减系数。在2 m×1 m×1.5 m消声水槽中,对一些典型样品(尺寸500 mm×600 mm)进行了测量实验,结果表明,水声材料样品在声波不同入射角时的声学性能有较大差异,不能用声波垂直入射时的声学性能数据代替;横波声速和衰减系数是评定水声材料声学性能的重要参数,尤其在声波斜入射情况下;在研究材料构件或复杂器件的声学性能时它们也是必不可少和不能不考虑的。实验还验证了测量方法和系统的可行性,也表明仅在这一频段的测量还远不能满足水声工程的实际需求,有必要将测量方法应用扩展到更低或更高的频段。     

Filamentary coagulation of heavy particles suspended in water in an ultrasonic field

A stable formation of long thin filaments involving heavy particles (heavier than water) suspended in water in an acoustic resonator was observed. The filaments consisted of regularly spaced thin disks formed by coalescent particles. The particles in the disks were tightly packed forming almost solid structures. The disks were arranged perpendicularly to the filament axis and were spaced at half-sound-wavelength intervals. The diameter of the disks was about half-wavelength. The length of the filaments was about hundreds of the sound wavelength. Experiments were performed with particles of different natures and sizes. The filaments were not destroyed under wide variations of sound frequency, acoustic power, length of resonator, size and configuration of the mirror, or its angle of rotation. The particles suspended in water not only visualized the acoustic field but also affected its configuration. The formation of filaments was explained by a nonthermal self-focusing of sound in the resonator, which was caused by the decrease in sound velocity in the region of maximum concentration of particles due to coagulation in the inhomogeneous sound field.     

Nondestructive testing in human teeth using a leaky Lamb wave device

A Lamb wave interdigital transducer mounted on a layered substrate composed of two plates, a thin piezoelectric ceramic plate and an acrylic plate, operating at a liquid-solid boundary, is investigated for ultrasonic nondestructive testing of the layer thickness in human teeth. A higher-order mode having a phase velocity higher than the longitudinal wave velocity in the human teeth can be used for nondestructive testing. In the combination of the two layers, the fourth mode of leaky Lamb wave is most favorable for a frequency-controllable radiation angle of an ultrasound beam into a water layer as an acoustic coupler. In the configuration of an acoustic delay line, the layer-thickness measurement in vivo, evaluated from the time interval between two reflected ultrasound echoes, is successfully realized under a thin water layer as the acoustic coupler.     

Interaction of a spherical acoustic wave with an elastic spherical shell

The interaction of a spherical acoustic wave with an elastic spherical shell is treated analytically. The solution includes the coupling between the acoustic sound field and vibration of the shell with any degree of fluid loading. The formulation for the far-field acoustic pressure is derived in terms of natural spherical wave functions, the properties of the acoustic medium, and the material constants of the shell. The far acoustic field is computed for a thin aluminum shell and several sound source locations over a large range of ka, where k is the wavenumber, and a is the shell radius. It is shown that the acoustic pressure depends significantly on whether the shell is in air or is submerged in water, particularly when the sound source is very near the surface. In air, the sound field of the shell is nearly identical to that of a rigid sphere but, in water, the shell is more compliant, which results in a damped radiation field that is characterized by vibrational resonances throughout the range of frequencies considered. As the sound sources is moved further away from the surface, however, this resonance response decreases very rapidly, and the sound field corresponds more closely to that of the shell in air.     

Observation of ultrasound velocity gradient in fullerene ceramics by acoustic microscopy

A scanning acoustic microscope is used to study the distribution of elastic properties in small samples (O 3 x 2 mm3) of new hard phases of C60. The specimens under investigation were synthesized from pure C60 powder under pressure P = 8 GPa in the temperature range 500-1650 K. The time-of-flight mode was used for bulk sound wave velocity determination in a direction parallel to the cylinder's axis. Longitudinal sound wave velocities greater than 10,000 m/s were found for all specimens treated at temperatures higher than 1000 K. Using the B-scan mode allowed us to observe the velocity gradient in the sample's periphery. The heterogeneous internal structure of the specimen is visualized in the images formed in C- and B-scan modes.     

Effect of the sound velocity stratification in the bottom sediment layer on the diffraction focusing of an acoustic field in a shallow sea

It is shown that an increase in the sound velocity gradient in the bottom sediment layer results in the formation of additional zones of diffraction focusing of the acoustic field generated by a vertical line array in the water layer. It is also established that, depending on the sound velocity step at the upper boundary of the sediment layer, the diffraction focusing of the acoustic field in the main focusing zones can be enhanced or reduced.     

A reliable acoustic path： Physical properties and a source localization method

<正>The physical properties of a reliable acoustic path(RAP) are analysed and subsequently a weighted-subspacefitting matched field(WSF-MF) method for passive localization is presented by exploiting the properties of the RAP environment.The RAP is an important acoustic duct in the deep ocean,which occurs when the receiver is placed near the bottom where the sound velocity exceeds the maximum sound velocity in the vicinity of the surface.It is found that in the RAP environment the transmission loss is rather low and no blind zone of surveillance exists in a medium range. The ray theory is used to explain these phenomena.Furthermore,the analysis of the arrival structures shows that the source localization method based on arrival angle is feasible in this environment.However,the conventional methods suffer from the complicated and inaccurate estimation of the arrival angle.In this paper,a straightforward WSF-MF method is derived to exploit the information about the arrival angles indirectly.The method is to minimize the distance between the signal subspace and the spanned space by the array manifold in a finite range-depth space rather than the arrival-angle space.Simulations are performed to demonstrate the features of the method,and the results are explained by the arrival structures in the RAP environment.     

Acoustic phonon engineering in coated cylindrical nanowires

We have theoretically investigated the effect of a coating made of the elastically dissimilar material on the acoustic phonon properties of semiconductor nanowires. It is shown that the acoustic impedance mismatch at the interface between the nanowire and the barrier coating affects dramatically the phonon spectra and group velocities in the nanowires. Coatings made of materials with a small sound velocity lead to compression of the phonon energy spectrum and strong reduction of the phonon group velocities. The coatings made of materials with a high sound velocity have opposite effect. Our calculations reveal substantial re-distribution of the elastic deformations in coated nanowires, which results in modification of the phonon transport properties, and corresponding changes in thermal and electrical conduction. We argue that tuning of the coated nanowire material parameters and the barrier layer thickness can be used for engineering the transport properties in such nanostructures.     

Two-dimensional analysis of the effect of an electrode layer on surface acoustic waves in a finite anisotropic plate

The effect of a metal layer over an elastic substrate on surface acoustic wave propagating in the structure can be evaluated precisely for semi-infinite solids and infinite plates, but there is no accurate analytical solution if the finite size of the plate has to be considered. By expanding displacements with eigensolutions of surface acoustic waves in a semi-inifite solid, a set of two-dimensional equations similar to the Mindlin plate theory are obtained. Then for a thin electrode layer, the effect is considered through the approximation of displacements in the metal layer with the ones in the substrate, and an integration over the thickness incorporated the properties of the metal layer into equations through the modification of material properties with the decaying indices of surface acoustic waves and the thickness of the metal layer. Using AT-cut quartz crystal as the substrate, we present the effect of silver electrode layers of finite thickness on the phase velocity of propagating surface acoustic waves.     

Spectral analysis of the flow sound interaction at a bias flow liner

The interaction between the flow field and the sound field is responsible for the sound absorption at perforated acoustic liners with bias flow and has to be investigated contactlessly. Based on the optically measured flow velocity spectrum, an energy analysis was performed. As a result, the generation of broadband flow velocity fluctuations in the shear layer surrounding the bias flow caused by the flow sound interaction has been observed. In addition, the magnitude of this acoustically induced flow velocity oscillation exhibits a correlation with the acoustic dissipation coefficient of the bias flow liner. This supports the assumption that an energy transfer between the flow field and the sound field is responsible for the acoustic damping.     

A wave field synthesis approach to reproduction of spatially correlated sound fields

This article discusses an open-loop wave field synthesis (WFS) approach for the reproduction of spatially correlated sound fields. The main application concerns laboratory reproduction of turbulent boundary layer wall pressure on aircraft fuselages and measurement of their sound transmission loss. The problem configuration involves reconstruction of random sound pressure distributions on a planar reproduction surface using a planar array of reproduction monopoles parallel to the reproduction plane. In this paper, the WFS formulation is extended to sound fields with imposed time and spatial correlation properties (or equivalently imposed cross-spectral density in the frequency and wave number domains). Numerical examples are presented for the reproduction of a propagating plane wave, diffuse acoustic field and wall pressure in subsonic or supersonic turbulent boundary layers. The reproduction accuracy is examined in terms of the size of the source plane and reproduction plane, their separation, and the number of reproduction sources required per acoustic wavelength. While the reproduction approach cannot reconstruct sub-wavelength correlation scales of subsonic turbulent boundary layers, it effectively reconstructs correlation scales larger than the acoustic wavelength, making it appropriate for diffuse acoustic field and supersonic turbulent layers.     

Measuring elastic properties of bones and silicon from V(z) curve generated by multiply reflected signals

Acoustic microscopes can be used to measure Rayleigh and longitudinal or P-wave speeds in a specimen at microscopic resolution. The wave speeds are obtained from the interference pattern as a function of the defocus distance or V(z) curve. The received signal voltage amplitude Vis generated by two beams--the normally reflected central beam and a non-specularly reflected beam that strikes the fluid-solid interface at critical angle. It is shown in this paper that instead of analyzing the interference pattern between these two beams if we consider two other beams that follow the same path but travel through the coupling fluid multiple times before interfering then the V(z) curve generated by this higher order interference gives more accurate values for the material properties. The spacing distance between two successive dips of the V(z) curve is smaller for the higher order interference. The higher order interference, although weaker, gives more accurate results. Justification for the greater accuracy of the higher order interference is given in the paper. Material properties of silicon and bone are obtained by the new technique. Bones are microscopically heterogeneous and anisotropic. Anisotropic properties of homogeneous specimens can be obtained by the line focus acoustic microscope; however, it does not work when the specimen is microscopically heterogeneous. An attempt has been made here to obtain anisotropic properties of bones using point focus lens.     

梯度穿缝型双孔隙率多孔材料的吸声性能

在传统单一孔隙率多孔材料中引入宏观尺度的周期性梯度穿缝结构设计,构造出梯度穿缝型双孔隙率多孔材料,其包含多孔材料基体微孔尺度与穿缝尺度两个尺度。采用分层等效的理论建模方法,将复杂梯度渐变问题变为多层均匀等效层叠加问题。针对不同特征尺寸的多孔材料薄层,分别采用低、高两种渗透率对比度双孔隙率理论,给出了其等效密度和动态压缩系数,再应用传递矩阵方法得到了相邻薄层之间的声压和质点速度传递关系并求得其表面声阻抗,从而建立了梯度穿缝型双孔隙率多孔材料的吸声理论模型。发展了多尺度材料声学有限元数值模型,在所考虑的100~3000 Hz频段范围内数值模拟结果完全吻合理论模型结果。理论与模拟分析了多尺度结构参数对双孔隙率多孔材料吸声性能的影响,结果表明引入多尺度梯度结构设计能够显著提高单一孔隙率多孔材料的吸声性能,且穿缝尺度比穿缝梯度影响更为显著;精细数值模拟获得的声压和能量密度分布云图揭示了多尺度结构设计的吸声增强机制。该工作可用于指导双孔隙率多孔材料的多尺度结构设计,从而提高多孔材料的中低频吸声性能。     

Sound absorption performance of gradiently slit-perforated double-porosity materials

A gradiently slit-perforated double-porosity material is proposed by introducing macro-scale periodic gradient slit-perforations into traditional porous materials with singleporosity.This material is one kind of multiscale material since it includes two scales of matrix micro-pore size and slit-perforation size.A theoretical model is developed for the sound absorption of the gradiently slit-perforated double-porosity material.In the model,the material is divided into lots of thin layers and each layer is approximated to be straight slit-perforated material.The equivalent density and dynamic compressibility of each thin layer are given by using the low or high permeability contrast double-porosity theory.Then the sound pressure and particle velocity relations between adjacent thin layers are obtained by employing the transfer matrix method.Finally,the surface acoustic impedance and the sound absorption of the gradiently slit-perforated porous material can be calculated.A finite element model is further established to validate the accuracy of the theoretical model.In the considered frequency range of 100-3000 Hz,the simulation results agree well with theoretical results.The influence of multiscale structural parameters on the sound absorption performance of the porous materials is analyzed theoretically and numerically.It is proved that the multiscale structure design can significantly improve the sound absorption performance of porous materials.Compared to the slit-perforation gradient,the slit-perforation width plays a more significant influence on sound absorption.The sound absorption enhancement mechanism of the multiscale structure design is revealed by the analysis of the sound pressure and energy dissipation distributions in the material.This work provides a multiscale structural design method for improving the sound absorption performance of traditional porous materials at broadband frequency.     

海底薄地层和硬地层声速测量方法的研究(射线参数法和折射法分析)

应用T²-X²法测量海底薄地层和硬地层的声速常常不能得到满意的结果。为此,有必要在一个由声源和拖曳水听器阵组成的声速测量系统中设置接射线参数法和折射法测量海底地层声速的处理功能。本文从这两种方法的测量原理出发,着重研究了地层回波时距数据的处理方法,以及由各种因素(如回波时间随机抖动和地层界面倾斜角不确定性等)所引起的声速测量误差等问题。射线参数法和折射法测量声速的数据处理和运算过程已经用TURBO-PASCAL语言编程,并通过对典型实例的模拟计算作了验证。     

薄纤维层对穿孔板的声学影响研究

为了提高附着薄纤维层穿孔板的声学预测精度,通过实验及理论分析方法研究薄纤维层对穿孔板的声学影响。采用声学阻抗管系统测试穿孔饰面板及背腔的吸声系数。测试结果显示,薄纤维层对吸声层的吸声性能具有明显的提高作用。以穿孔板声阻抗模型为基础构建附着薄纤维层的穿孔饰面板等效声阻抗模型,以附加修正参数等效薄纤维层的声学影响。依据吸声系数测试结果计算薄纤维层的等效声学修正参数,结果显示薄纤维层造成的附加阻性修正比较显著。