{"title":"Wave attenuations in solids with perfectly aligned cracks","authors":"Liyong Yang, J. Turner","doi":"10.1121/1.1861092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1861092","url":null,"abstract":"The theory of wave propagation and scattering in cracked media is applied to study the wave attenuations in an isotropic solid medium containing perfectly aligned penny-shaped microcracks. The unit normals of all cracks are assumed parallel to a given direction. The wave scattering model is formulated using an anisotropic Green’s dyadic approach. Explicit expressions are derived for attenuations of the three wave modes in terms of the microcrack density. Numerical results are presented and discussed. In particular, comparisons of the attenuation results presented in this letter with previous results for the Rayleigh limit are given.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"13 1","pages":"99-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86786504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of acoustic prior information for confidence measure in ASR (automatic speech recognition) applications","authors":"Erhan Mengusoglu, C. Ris","doi":"10.1121/1.1843171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1843171","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new acoustic confidence measure of automatic speech recognition hypothesis is proposed and it is compared to approaches proposed in the literature. This approach takes into account prior information on the acoustic model performance specific to each phoneme. The new method is tested on two types of recognition errors: the out-of-vocabulary words and the errors due to additive noise. An efficient way to interpret the raw confidence measure as a correctness prior probability is also proposed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"75 1","pages":"92-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86127759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The acoustic heartbeat of Hurricane Juan","authors":"D. F. Jones, C. Fogarty","doi":"10.1121/1.1850951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1850951","url":null,"abstract":"When Hurricane Juan made landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada in September 2003, meteorological and acoustical measurements were made independently. The meteorological data yielded surface wind speeds and directions while wind gust frequencies and noise from damage events were extracted from the acoustical data. By establishing a timeline for damage-related noise using acoustics, greater insight into when and how damage occurred near the audio recording site became possible. Examples of wind-induced damage to local maple and spruce trees are used to illustrate the value of acoustics in high-wind storm events like hurricanes.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"124 1","pages":"85-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72723727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measures of articulatory variability in VCV sequences","authors":"J. Lucero, A. Löfqvist","doi":"10.1121/1.1850952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1850952","url":null,"abstract":"Functional data analysis is used to examine articulatory variability across repetitions in normal speech, under different movement constraints. A temporal normalization technique is applied to align trajectories of lips, jaw, and tongue in vowel-consonant-vowel sequences. Next, an index of amplitude variability is computed, defined as the mean standard deviation between peak velocities of the consonantal closure by the active articulator, in each VCV sequence. The results show that articulatory variability varies as a function of both the phonetic requirements of the consonant and the biomechanical characteristics of the articulatory structures involved.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"22 1","pages":"80-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81797137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualizing acoustic displacements of capacitive micromachined transducers using an interferometric microscope","authors":"L. Davis, D. Billson, D. Hutchins, R. A. Noble","doi":"10.1121/1.1851391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1851391","url":null,"abstract":"The modification of a commercial Wyko optical profilometer to operate stroboscopically has been demonstrated. This has then been applied to the characterization of a micro-mechanical device subjected to high frequency periodic excitation. It is demonstrated that displacement amplitudes can be mapped across the surface of a micromachined transducer at ultrasonic frequencies.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"26 1","pages":"75-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78263778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Holland, R. Roberts, D. Chimenti, Michael Strei
{"title":"Two-sensor ultrasonic spacecraft leak detection using structure-borne noise","authors":"S. Holland, R. Roberts, D. Chimenti, Michael Strei","doi":"10.1121/1.1855351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1855351","url":null,"abstract":"Micrometeorite hits can create air leaks in manned spacecraft. Leak-generated-guided ultrasonic waves can be monitored within the platelike spacecraft skin to detect and locate leaks. Cross-correlation techniques allow measurement of the deterministic behavior of the leak-generated noise. Measured leak-into-vacuum cross-correlations of noise signals from two adjacent transducers are recorded as the transducer pair is rotated to determine the relative phase delay as a function of rotation angle. The direction to the leak is found from the variation of phase with angle or from synthetic aperture analysis. The leak is then located through triangulation from two or more sensor-pair locations.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"32 1","pages":"63-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72634017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laboratory measurement of noise generation by shoaling breakers","authors":"S. L. Means, P. Gendron","doi":"10.1121/1.1839611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1839611","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous measurements of the surface gravity wave field and the generated acoustic spectra were made in a sandy beached wave tank. A video camera captured the evolution of the breaking waves. Generated acoustic power levels as a function of the wave crest slope and frequency are presented. An empirical model relating the acoustic energy to the measured wave crest slope for different surface wave frequencies is developed based on a linear regression. It is determined that the wave crest slope is a good predictor of generated acoustic energies. [Work supported by ONR base funding at NRL.]","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"652 1","pages":"69-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79240304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Direct ultrasonic holography: Feasibility demo","authors":"Changhe Huang, G. Auner, H. Caulfield, J. Rather","doi":"10.1121/1.1815252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1815252","url":null,"abstract":"Holography is potentially the most powerful method for high spatial resolution real time 3D ultrasound imaging and diagnostics. Although versions of ultrasound holography have existed since the 1970s, they use laser reconstruction, thus losing 3-D resolution. By using transmissive ultrasound with a scanning needle hydrophone, full 3D holographic imaging is proved to be possible, if both amplitude and time delay phase information can be obtained.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"103 1","pages":"30-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90653739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frequency modulation of the sounds produced by the AQUAmark 200® deterrent devices","authors":"L. Rossi, Jean-Louis Rossi","doi":"10.1121/1.1815040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1815040","url":null,"abstract":"The AQUAmark 200® device is used to reduce the incidental by-catch of small cetaceans in fishing gear. Little information is known about the signal features of this system despite the fact that such knowledge is important to evaluate its efficiency. The AQUAmark 200 device emits eight different signals composed of one fundamental and several others harmonics with energy in the 5-160 kHz band. The mathematical equation of the temporal evolution of the frequency of each signal has been determined by the authors, and the resulting function has been used to build the six nonconstant evolutions.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"138 1","pages":"20-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79738296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reduced-order modeling of vortex-driven excitation of acoustic modes","authors":"K. Matveev","doi":"10.1121/1.1815253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1815253","url":null,"abstract":"Vortex shedding that occurs in ducts with baffles in the presence of mean flow often leads to excitation of acoustic modes. Resulting flow oscillations may feed back to the process of vortex formation. A simple model is proposed for describing this complex interaction using the hypotheses for a quasi-steadiness of vortex shedding and for a short-period acoustic perturbation at the moment of vortex collision with a downstream baffle. The model is capable of predicting typical real-system phenomena, such as the lock-in of a dominant frequency of the vortex-acoustic instability in some ranges of the mean flow velocity.","PeriodicalId":87384,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics research letters online : ARLO","volume":"22 6S 1","pages":"14-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76524278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}