The Reflection Coefficients Measurement Method for the Underwater Acoustic Materials Based on the Single Vector Hydrophone

Abstract

In order to obtain the normal acoustic reflection coefficients of underwater acoustic materials in the free field with the wideband pulse signal, a new measuring method with a single vector hydrophone and the post-processing inverse filtering is put forward. Numerical simulations had been conducted to comparatively analyze the measurement performances of the measuring method. The simulation results show that the present method should be established on the high ratio of signal to the noise and it is not sensitive to the system error. The experiment result shows that the post-processing inverse filtering measuring method is more effective comparing with the method without the post-processing inverse filtering, especially the measurement consequence of the post-processing inverse filtering measurement method tends to the theoretical value when the frequency is higher than 2.5 kHz, because limitation of the transducer.

Keywords

• single vector hydrophone
• post-processing inverse filtering
• wide band pulse signal
• acoustic reflection coefficients