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Introduction to Acoustics

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This does not include the case where the acoustic<br />

power is not known, and has <strong>to</strong> be estimated by<br />

measurements of the acoustic intensity in the fluid,<br />

for example.<br />

Link Between Sound Power<br />

and Free-Vibration Decay Times<br />

For a single-DOF system, an alternative method for<br />

estimating the sound power consists of estimating the<br />

decay times of free vibrations through experiments<br />

or numerical calculations. Let us take the example of<br />

the previously described oscilla<strong>to</strong>r loaded by the semiinfinite<br />

tube. We consider the case F(t) = 0, with the<br />

mass initially moved from equilibrium by a quantity<br />

ξ(0) = ξ0 and released with zero velocity at t = 0. The<br />

equation of motion is written as<br />

d2ξ dξ<br />

+ 2ζω0<br />

dt2 dt + ω20 ξ = 0 (22.33)<br />

with<br />

R + Ra<br />

ζ = .<br />

2Mω0<br />

The Laplace transform of the displacement is given by<br />

s + 2ζω0<br />

ξ(s) = ξ0<br />

s2 + 2ζω0s + ω2 (22.34)<br />

0<br />

from which the time evolution of the mass displacement<br />

is obtained (assuming ζ

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