Allard J., Atalla N. Propagation of Sound in Porous Media: Modelling Sound Absorbing Materials

John Wiley & Sons, 2009. — 358 p. — ISBN: 0470746610 9780470746615.This book offers an indisputable reference to a diverse audience; including graduate students and academics in mechanical & civil engineering, acoustics and noise control, as well as practicing mechanical, chemical and materials engineers in the automotive, rail, aerospace, building and civil industries.Collating ‘must-have’ information for engineers working in sound and vibration.Plane waves in isotropic fluids and solids
Acoustic impedance at normal incidence of fluids. Substitution of a fluid layer for a porous layer
Acoustic impedance at oblique incidence in fluids. Substitution of a fluid layer for a porous layer
Sound propagation in cylindrical tubes and porous materials having cylindrical pores
Sound propagation in porous materials having a rigid frame
Biot theory of sound propagation in porous materials having an elastic frame
Point source above rigid framed porous layers
Porous frame excitation by point sources in air and by stress circular and line sources - modes of air saturated porous frames
Porous materials with perforated facings
Transversally isotropic poroelastic media
Modeling multilayered systems with porous materials using the transfer matrix method
Extensions to the transfer matrix method
Finite element modeling of poroelastic materials