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Robust Matched Field Processing Using an Empirical Characteristic Function Approach Under Impulsive Noise Environments 脉冲噪声环境下经验特征函数鲁棒匹配场处理

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-023-00287-8

Mohsen Asghari, Mohammad Zareinejad, Seyed Mehdi Rezaei, Hamidreza Amindavar

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Evaluation of the Speech Intelligibility of the Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse 锡拉丘兹酒神耳朵的言语清晰度评价

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2023-01-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-023-00286-9

Gino Iannace, Antonella Bevilacqua, Giuseppe Ciaburro, Amelia Trematerra

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Sonar Self-noise and Acoustic Transmission of Acoustic Window Made from Functionally Gradient Materials 声纳自噪声与功能梯度材料声窗的声传输

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-12-05 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00283-4

Fulin Zhou, Bing Li, Zilong Peng, Jun Fan, Bin Wang

{"title":"Sonar Self-noise and Acoustic Transmission of Acoustic Window Made from Functionally Gradient Materials","authors":"Fulin Zhou, Bing Li, Zilong Peng, Jun Fan, Bin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s40857-022-00283-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40857-022-00283-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The sonar self-noise characteristics of an acoustic window made from multilayer functionally gradient materials (FGMs) under external turbulent pulsating pressure excitation were theoretically modeled using the multilayer plate (MLP) transfer function method and the turbulent pulsating pressure wavenumber–frequency spectrum. An MLP transfer matrix was used to determine acoustic transmission loss of the multilayer FGM plate under plane wave excitation. The theoretical model was verified by the finite element method. The FGM was fabricated from rubber and fiberglass-reinforced plastics (FRP)/carbon fiber. The acoustical transmission loss of the multilayer FGM plate and noise reduction patterns of the multilayer FGM acoustic windows were assessed at different gradients. The acoustic effect of the window on external sound waves and its spatial filtering effect on external turbulent fluctuation excitations can be adjusted by regulating the proportions of rubber and FRP, which changes the gradient variation pattern.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54355,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40857-022-00283-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50009095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Scoping Review of the Effect of Classroom Acoustic Conditions on Primary School Children’s Numeracy Performance and Listening Comprehension 课堂声学条件对小学生算术成绩和听力理解影响的范围综述

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-11-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00284-3

Kiri Mealings

{"title":"A Scoping Review of the Effect of Classroom Acoustic Conditions on Primary School Children’s Numeracy Performance and Listening Comprehension","authors":"Kiri Mealings","doi":"10.1007/s40857-022-00284-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40857-022-00284-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Obtaining adequate numeracy skills and listening comprehension skills at primary school are vital for children’s future success. However, classrooms are often noisy and reverberant which may interfere with learning these skills. Two scoping reviews were conducted to synthesise research assessing the effect of different classroom acoustic conditions on (1) children’s numeracy performance and (2) children’s listening comprehension and to identify areas for future research. The PRISMA-ScR protocol was used for these scoping reviews. A comprehensive search of four online databases was conducted in September 2021 using the search term <i>classroom AND</i> (<i>noise OR reverberation OR acoustics</i>) <i>AND</i> (<i>numeracy OR math* OR arithmetic</i>) for the first scoping review, and in May 2022 using the search term <i>classroom AND</i> (<i>acoustic* OR noise OR reverb*</i>) <i>AND</i> (\"<i>listening comprehension\" OR \"auditory comprehension\" OR \"spoken language comprehension\" OR \"speech comprehension</i>”) for the second scoping review. The effect of the acoustic conditions on children’s numeracy was varied with most studies showing a negative or no effect of noise, but two showed a positive effect. Therefore, future research is needed to better understand the effect of different classroom acoustic conditions on children’s numeracy performance. For listening comprehension overall, signal-to-noise ratios below + 10 dB mostly had a negative effect on children’s listening comprehension compared to quiet conditions; however, variables such as the noise type, signal-to-noise ratio tested, the listening comprehension domain examined, the population studied, and the voice used for the stimuli affected this. Future research avenues to better understand these effects are proposed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54355,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40857-022-00284-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50032922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Small Sample Size and Experience-Independent Hydrate and Pipeline Leakage Identification Technique for Natural Gas Pipelines Based on Deep Forest 基于深森林的天然气管道水合物与管道泄漏小样本非经验识别技术

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-11-10 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00285-2

Hongping Gao, Xiaocen Wang, Yang An, Zhigang Qu

{"title":"Small Sample Size and Experience-Independent Hydrate and Pipeline Leakage Identification Technique for Natural Gas Pipelines Based on Deep Forest","authors":"Hongping Gao, Xiaocen Wang, Yang An, Zhigang Qu","doi":"10.1007/s40857-022-00285-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40857-022-00285-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hydrate blockage and pipeline leakage are two common factors that threaten the safety of natural gas pipelines. However, most of the current research focuses on nonintrusive, passive-like techniques that can only detect one of these abnormal events, with occasional attention to identification technique. This paper introduces an active method to simultaneously detect hydrate blockage and pipeline leakage using intrusive sensors, and further presents a deep forest-based classification method for two types of abnormal events, which aims to avoid the problem that the classification of traditional deep learning depends on huge number of hard-to-acquire samples. Besides, network structure and parameters in deep learning affect the classification performance, and deep forest is just a better solution to this problem. The parameter tuning experiments results of deep forest show that the classification accuracies are mostly 100% whatever in training and testing, proving that different parameter settings have little effect on the classification accuracy. The stability and portability of the classification method are tested, and it is verified that this classification method is easy to implement and has strong universality, which is expected to be applied to other types of natural gas pipeline event classification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54355,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50017989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On the Applicability of Cold Acoustic Measurements to High-Amplitude Hot Pulsating Flows 冷声测量在高振幅热脉动流中的适用性研究

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00282-5

A. J. Torregrosa, P. Piqueras, E. J. Sanchis, Á. Redondo

{"title":"On the Applicability of Cold Acoustic Measurements to High-Amplitude Hot Pulsating Flows","authors":"A. J. Torregrosa, P. Piqueras, E. J. Sanchis, Á. Redondo","doi":"10.1007/s40857-022-00282-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40857-022-00282-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The experimental characterization of the acoustic characteristics of engine exhaust devices is usually carried out through measurements in cold conditions, due to the intrinsic difficulties associated with proper temperature control in an acoustic rig. While those measurements may be sufficiently indicative for the cold end of the exhaust (the silencing elements) their significance for the hot end (the aftertreatment system) is more doubtful, as a result of the high temperatures and, eventually, the higher amplitude of pressure waves acting on the system. In this paper, a direct assessment is provided on the significance of acoustic measurements in cold conditions for representing the actual behaviour of an aftertreatment system in a hot pulsating, engine-like flow. Making use of wave decomposition techniques, the measured characterization was convoluted with the hot-flow excitation and the device responses were directly compared. The results indicate that, while it is not possible to fully reproduce the behaviour observed in hot pulsating flow, the tendencies are reproduced, at least qualitatively. In particular, the effect of soot loading is fairly reproduced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54355,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50019944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00281-6

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Assessment of Two Audio-Recording Methods for Remote Collection of Vocal Biomarkers Indicative of Tobacco Smoking Harm 两种录音方法对远程采集烟草危害生物标志物的评价

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-09-26 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00279-0

Marewa Glover, Marie-France Duhamel

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Numerical and Experimental Study of the Effect of the Bridge of Sarasvati Veena on its Timbre 琴桥对其音色影响的数值与实验研究

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00280-7

Chandrashekhar Chauhan, Pravin Singru, Radhika Vathsan

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Application of Dual-Source Modal Dispersion and Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo Method for Local Geoacoustic Inversion in Weakly Range-Dependent Shallow Water 双源模态色散和变分贝叶斯蒙特卡罗方法在弱距离相关浅水局部地声反演中的应用

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Acoustics Australia Pub Date : 2022-08-25 DOI: 10.1007/s40857-022-00277-2

Wang Hao, Rui Duan, Kunde Yang

{"title":"Application of Dual-Source Modal Dispersion and Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo Method for Local Geoacoustic Inversion in Weakly Range-Dependent Shallow Water","authors":"Wang Hao, Rui Duan, Kunde Yang","doi":"10.1007/s40857-022-00277-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40857-022-00277-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Most of the continental shelf area is a weakly range-dependent shallow-water environment. Compared with range-independent Bayesian geoacoustic inversion, range-dependent inversion usually has problems with the complex forward model and low efficiency for posterior analysis. According to the adiabatic normal-mode theory, the weakly range-dependent shallow-water environment can be divided into a series of range-independent segments; thus, this paper proposes a dual-source modal dispersion inversion method for local geoacoustic parameters of a segment based on a range-independent forward model. In addition, considering that the computational cost of the forward model limits the application of sampling-based methods for posterior analysis, a novel approximate variational inference, namely variational Bayesian Monte Carlo, is applied in this study. It has superior efficiency and shows similar accuracy compared with Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. This work is demonstrated in the shallow-water experiment in the continental shelf area of the East China Sea, and the results indicate that the local and range-dependent geoacoustic parameters are well-estimated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54355,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50102554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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