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Near-Field Pressure Distributions To Enhance Sound Transmission Into Multi-Layer Materials, Andrew Martin Jessop
Near-Field Pressure Distributions To Enhance Sound Transmission Into Multi-Layer Materials, Andrew Martin Jessop
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The large impedance difference between air and most solids prevents significant energy transfer from incident acoustic waves across the air-material interface. Refraction also plays a role in preventing acoustic transmission, as the wave speed difference between air and solid materials results in an increase of the resulting propagation angles, creating near-field pressure distributions in the solid material. By utilizing evanescent pressure distributions, which decay normal to the usual direction of propagation and are represented as plane waves propagating with complex angles, energy propagation through the interface can be increased in the subsonic region of wave propagation: i.e., where waves typically …