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Citation: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 69, 307 (1981); doi: 10.1121/1.385314
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Cross-spectral method of measuring acoustic intensity without error caused by instrument phase mismatch
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 64, 1613 (1978); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.382145
Measurement of acoustic intensity using the cross-spectral density of two microphone signals
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 62, 1057 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.381601
(Received
5 February
1980;accepted
forpublication
24September
1980)
Theaccuracy
ofmeasuring
acoustic
intensity
using
twoclosely
spacedmicrophones
isexamined.
Thephase
andgainmismatch
errorsarecorrected
by measuring
thetransfer
function
between
thetwomicrophone
systems
exposing
themto thesamesound(phase
andpressurelevels)
overa widerangeof frequencies.
The
accuracy
of themeasurement
methodwasverified
by creating
a soundfieldin an anechoicroomandby
generating
plane-wave
propagation
insidea longlengthof pipewith an anechoictermination.The
measurement
accuracies
wereverysatisfactory.Thismethod hastheadvantage
of eliminating
therecording
andprocessing
oftwosetsofdatarequired
in thecircuitswitching
technique.
PACS numbers:43.85.Dj, 43.50.Yw, 43.20.Mv, 43.88.Kb
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, ,
P(f)
P(f)
Vx(f) - 45 e
(b)
ß0 e
FIG. 1. Transfer function between two instrumentation sys-
tems.
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mining the acoustic characteristics of the duct systems. FIG. 3. Gain and phase shift between two microphone systems.
The measured cross-spectral density can be corrected
as indicated by the following analysis.
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FIG. 2. Experimental arrangement for relative calibration of FIG. 4. Microphone arrangement for acoustic intensity meas-
microphone systems. urements.
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Noise-intensity measurements of the acoustic driver
FIG. 6. Comparison of acoustic intensity measurements inside unit excited by the random-noise generator were also
an anechoic room. carried out in an anechoic room. The two microphones
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nificant indicating the importance of correcting for the
phase and gain differences. These errors appear to be
in the range of 2-3 dB at frequencies above 200 Hz in
the figures.
III. CONCLUSIONS
I
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1500 20 •0 I
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5000
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