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Acoustic impedance measurements

Submitted by BMEstudent on

Hi all,

I need to model the acoustic impedance response of an elastic tube ( Acoustic-solid interaction) in the frequency domain. The acoustic impedance is :Pressure/volume velocity.

Here is the idea:

The geometry is a simple closed-end elastic tube. The acoustic load is generated by a piston on one end, sliding inside the tube. To have the frequency response, a unit step function of the displacement is applied to the piston (i.e., DZ=U(t)) and the pressure of the air inside the tube is measured in a time domain (i.e., P(t)) in front of the piston.

Then I need to calculate the derivative of P(t), (i.e., P'(t)) and do Fourier transformation to find the pressure in the frequency domain.

 

  1. Since the tube is elastic, the volume deformation itself is a function of time. Do I need to divide the pressure to the volume deformation? (i.e., Pressure(t)/volume velocity(t)) or I just need to divide pressure to the constant volume velocity, because the initial deformation is caused by the piston?

  2. How the acoustic pressure is measured? I can measure the stress components on the piston surface, but how I can calculate the acoustic pressure? This pressure is supposed to be the microphone pick-up, so should it be only in the tube direction or I need to calculate the hydrostatic pressure (i.e., 1/3(Sxx+Syy+Szz))?

  3. Should I do FFT (Fast fourier transform) on both V(t) and P(t) and then divide them to calculate the impedance (i.e., FFT(P)/FFT(V)), or I should do FFT(P(t)/V(t))?

I really appreciate any imput or a reference for a similar problem.

Regards,

 

bme