Acoustics  

Duncan Tamsett

A human listening to monophonic sound through headphones perceives the sound to emanate from a point inside the head at the auditory centre at effectively zero range. The extent to which this is predicted by synthetic-aperture calculation performed in res... see more

Oskar Bschorr and Hans-Joachim Raida

The method used to factorize the longitudinal wave equation has been known for many decades. Using this knowledge, the classical 2nd-order partial differential Equation (PDE) established by Cauchy has been split into two 1st-order PDEs, in alignment with ... see more

Erik Nilsson, Nikolaos-Georgios Vardaxis, Sylvain Ménard and Delphine Bard Hagberg

Ventilation ducts can have a negative effect on the sound reduction index between two rooms if they pass through the dividing structure without treatments. The overall sound reduction of a ventilation duct is dependent on several factors including the tra... see more

Arun Arjunan, Ahmad Baroutaji and John Robinson

Steel studs are an inevitable part of drywall construction as they are lightweight and offer the required structural stability. However, the studs act as sound bridges between the plasterboards, reducing the overall sound insulation of the wall. Overcomin... see more

Pedro Cobo

Although the original proposal of microperforated panels by Maa consisted of an array of minute circular holes evenly distributed in a thin plate, other hole geometries have been recently suggested that provide similar absorption curves to those of circul... see more

Ahmad Nayan and Tai Yan Kam

A new vibro-acoustic method is presented to analyze the sound radiation behavior of orthotropic panel-form sound radiators using strip-type exciters to exert line loads to the panels for sound radiation. The simple first-order shear deformation theory tog... see more

Sourabh Dogra and Arpan Gupta

Acoustic metamaterials are materials artificially engineered to control sound waves, which is not possible with conventional materials. We have proposed a design of an acoustic metamaterial plate with inbuilt Helmholtz resonators. The plate is made of Pol... see more

Mojgan Mirzaei Hotkani, Jean-Francois Bousquet, Seyed Alireza Seyedin, Bruce Martin and Ehsan Malekshahi

In this research, a new application using broadband ship noise as a source-of-opportunity to estimate the scattering field from the underwater targets is reported. For this purpose, a field trial was conducted in collaboration with JASCO Applied Sciences ... see more