Sound-power flow : a practitioner's handbook for sound intensity / Robert Hickling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hickling, Robert, 1931-2017, author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 3.

IOP concise physics

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

[IOP release 3]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acoustics.

Sound--Measurement.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2016]

Other Title:

Practitioner's handbook for sound intensity.

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]

System Details:

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader. or Kindle reader.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Robert Hickling is the owner and president of Sonometrics Inc. His main area of research is engineering acoustics with particular focus on the application of sound-intensity measurement, motor vehicle and environmental noise, and noise and overpressure due to airbags. He has been an industry consultant for Delphi, Autoliv and Takata, and is a member of the SAE, ASME, Institute of Noise Control Engineering and the Acoustical Society of America.

Summary:

Sound-Power Flow: A practitioner's handbook for sound intensity is a guide for practitioners and research scientists in different areas of acoustical science. There are three fundamental quantities in acoustics: sound pressure, sound particle velocity, and sound intensity. This book is about sound intensity and demonstrates the advantages and uses of acoustical sensing compared with other forms of sensing. It describes applications such as: measuring total sound power; directional hearing of humans and mammals; echolocation; measuring sound-power flow in ducts; and uses of non-contact, focused, high-frequency, pulse-echo ultrasonic probes. This book presents computational approaches using standard mathematics, and relates these to the measurement of sound-power flow in air and water. It also uses linear units rather than logarithmic units -- this making computation in acoustics simpler and more accessible to advanced mathematics and computing. The book is based on work by the author and his associates at General Motors, the University of Mississippi, and Sonometrics.

Contents:

Preface

1. Mathematics and measurement of sound-power flow in fluids

2. Calibration and normalization of probes in air

3. Mathematics of sound-power flow in solids

4. Sound sources and methods of exciting sound

5. Sound-power flow over the ground, and in the atmosphere and ocean

6. Sound-power flow in the Earth's structure

7. The sound power of a source measured on a hypothetical enclosing surface

8. The sound power of a source measured at its surface

9. Enhancement of sound power by sound from other correlated sources

10. Transfer-function methods applied to incident and reflected components of sound-power flow in a duct

11. Determining the direction of a sound source in fluids

12. Computer-visualation of the free vibrations of metal spheres and shells

13. Computer visualation of acoustic scattering and response of spheres in water

14. Acoustic scattering and focusing by spheres in water

15. Computed results compared with experimental data

16. Mathematical model of head impact

17. Sound-power flow during airbag deployment in a motor vehicle compartment

18. Uses of high-frequency, focused, pulse-echo ultrasonic probes

19. Detecting insect pests in agricultural commodities

20. Holography of liquid droplets

21. Wooden sounding boards

22. Use of deturbulators to improve performance of wind farms

23. Sound-power flow in medical ultrasonics

24. Metamaterials

25. Cosmic sound waves

Appendices.

A. Linear units versus decibels

B. Physical properties of some gases, liquids, and solids.

Notes:

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 13, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781681744537

9781681744551

OCLC:

971508921

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.