...Bahadır Cinoğlu Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine propeller damage based on acoustic recordings taken from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) propellers operated at different thrust conditions on a test bench. Propeller damage is especially critical for fixed-wing UAVs to sustain a safe...

...K. Todd Lowe; Raul Otero, Jr; Wing Ng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an acoustics-based method for measuring turbofan nozzle exhaust thrust, while assessing the potential of scaling the methods for in-flight measurements. Design/methodology/approach Although many methods...

...Tadej Kosel; Igor Grabec; Franc Kosel In Part I, an intelligent acoustic emission (AE) locator is described while the Part II discusses a blind source separation, time delay estimation and location of two continuous AE sources. AE analysis is used for characterization and location of developing...

... UP Limited 2002 --> IAC Acoustics Employment Keywords: IAC, Acoustics, Employment Due to the impending retirement of George Dawson, IAC, the acoustics specialist with plants in Winchester, UK; Copenhagen, Denmark and Niederkruchten, Germany – has appointed Mr. Brian...

...Arup Guha Niyogi; M.K. Laha; P.K. Sinha The structural acoustic problem, wherein an acoustic domain is confined within a partly flexible laminated composite enclosure is presented. From the finite element free vibration analysis of the laminated folded plate structure a mobility relation is derived...

... © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Acoustics Publication Handbook of Acoustics Edited by Dr Malcolm J. CrockerJohn Wiley & SonsChichester1998ISBN 0 471 25293 X1,461 pp, hardback£95.00 Keywords Acoustics,Publication Acoustics is defined generally as the science...