Sound-transparent anisotropic media for backscattering-immune wave manipulation

The scattering behavior of the anisotropic acoustic medium is analyzed to reveal the possibility of routing acoustic signals through the anisotropic layers with no backscattering loss. The sound-transparent effect of such medium is achieved by independently modulating the anisotropic effective acoustic parameters in a specific order, and experimentally observed in a bending waveguide by arranging the subwavelength structures in the bending part according to transformation acoustics. With the properly designed filling structures, the original distorted acoustic field in the bending waveguide is restored as if the wave travels along a straight path. The transmitted acoustic signal is maintained nearly the same as the incident modulated Gaussian pulse. The proposed schemes and the supporting results could be instructive for further acoustic manipulations such as wave steering, cloaking and beam splitting.

A Systematic Review on Recent Trends, Challenges, Privacy and Security Issues of Underwater Internet of Things

Owing to the hasty growth of communication technologies in the Underwater Internet of Things (UIoT), many researchers and industries focus on enhancing the existing technologies of UIoT systems for developing numerous applications such as oceanography, diver networks monitoring, deep-sea exploration and early warning systems. In a constrained UIoT environment, communication media such as acoustic, infrared (IR), visible light, radiofrequency (RF) and magnet induction (MI) are generally used to transmit information via digitally linked underwater devices. However, each medium has its technical limitations: for example, the acoustic medium has challenges such as narrow-channel bandwidth, low data rate, high cost, etc., and optical medium has challenges such as high absorption, scattering, long-distance data transmission, etc. Moreover, the malicious node can steal the underwater data by employing blackhole attacks, routing attacks, Sybil attacks, etc. Furthermore, due to heavyweight, the existing privacy and security mechanism of the terrestrial internet of things (IoT) cannot be applied directly to UIoT environment. Hence, this paper aims to provide a systematic review of recent trends, applications, communication technologies, challenges, security threats and privacy issues of UIoT system. Additionally, this paper highlights the methods of preventing the technical challenges and security attacks of the UIoT environment. Finally, this systematic review contributes much to the profit of researchers to analyze and improve the performance of services in UIoT applications.

Research of the Stegosignal Propagation through the Acoustic Environment

The paper considers two main applications of stegosystems: as a digital watermark, for copyright protection, and as a method for secretly transmitting information through an acoustic environment. A stegosystem is studied theoretically and experimentally when information is transmitted over different distances in an acoustic medium in the presence of extraneous noise. Nowadays great attention is paid to the protection of intellectual property. Illegal distribution of media content, including copies of musical compositions, is widespread and reaches unprecedented proportions. Protecting audio files from unauthorized copying and using becomes increasingly important. Digital watermarks are a promising method for solving this problem. The purpose of the article is to develop an effective method for protecting audio files from illegal use by embedding a digital watermark (DW). After detection the illegal distribution of their product, the copyright holder will be able to track the presence of the digital watermark and apply to the court for damages.

Transient processes in a gas/plate structure in the case of light loading

The problem of a pulse excitation in an acoustic half-space with a flexible wall described by a thin plate equation is studied. The solution is written as a double Fourier integral. A novel technique of estimation of this integral is developed. The surface of integration is deformed in such a way that the integrand is exponentially small everywhere except the neighbourhoods of several ‘special points’ that provide field components. Special attention is paid to the pulse associated with the coincidence point of the branches of the dispersion diagram of the acoustic medium and the plate. This pulse is shown to be a harmonic wave of a finite duration.

Oscillations of elastic plate, located at the end of semi-infinite cylindrical acoustic waveguide

Получено точное аналитическое решение задачи о гармонических изгибных колебаниях тонкой круглой упругой пластины, расположенной в торце полубесконечного цилиндрического акустического волновода. Кромка пластины жестко заделана в стенку волновода. Волновод с жестким корпусом заполнен идеальной сжимаемой акустической средой. Колебания пластины возбуждаются набегающими на неё нормальными волнами волновода, распределение акустического давления для которых имеет цилиндрическую симметрию. Проведено численное исследование смещения пластины на разных частотах возбуждения. Показано, что наличие сжимаемой среды существенно влияет на форму колебаний пластины. Совместные колебания акустической среды и упругой пластины носят резонансный характер. На резонансных частотах имеет место значительное увеличение амплитуды колебаний пластины. На форму колебания пластины влияют как распространяющиеся, так и неоднородные нормальные волны в волноводе, что приводит к увеличению узловых линий в распределении смещения пластины. An exact analytical solution to the problem of harmonic bending oscillations of a thin round elastic plate located at the end of a semi-infinite cylindrical acoustic waveguide has been obtained. Plate edge is rigidly embedded in waveguide wall. The waveguide with rigid housing is filled with an ideal compressible acoustic medium. The plate oscillations are excited by the normal waveguide waves running to the plate. The distribution of acoustic pressure for waves has cylindrical symmetry. Numerical study of plate displacement at different excitation frequencies was carried out. It has been shown that the presence of a compressible medium significantly affects the waveform of the plate oscillation. Joint oscillations of acoustic medium and elastic plate are resonant. There is a significant increase in amplitude of plate oscillations at resonant frequencies. The waveform of the plate oscillation is influenced by both propagating and inhomogeneous normal waves in the waveguide, which leads to an increase in the nodal lines in the displacement distribution of the plate.

Study on target energy transfer of 3D acoustic cavity - plate coupling system with the membrane nonlinear energy sink

The target energy transfer (TET) between a membrane nonlinear energy sink (NES) and the acoustic medium inside a rectangular cavity is studied. The acoustic medium is interacted with a plate and multi-order modes coupling of the 2 structure is considered. Based on the modal expansion approach, with Green's function, Helmholtz equation and the boundary conditions of the acoustic medium and the plate, the coupling coefficient matrix of the mode of 2 structures is derived. The equations of the membrane NES, multi-order modes of the acoustic medium and multi-order modes of the plate are established, and numerical analysis is used to investigate the TET phenomenon. The results show that in condition of a single-point excitation to the plate, under a certain range of excitation levels, the membrane can be seen as a kind of NES, and the energy in the acoustic medium can be unidirectionally transmitted to the membrane NES and attenuated, reducing the sound pressure level in the cavity. At the same time, it is found that the NES can suppress multi-order sound pressure of the acoustic medium at the same time, and realize the control of cascaded resonance noise.

An Overview of Acoustic Impedance Measurement Techniques and Future Prospects

In order to progress in the area of aeroacoustics, experimental measurements are necessary. Not only are they required for engineering applications in acoustics and noise engineering, but also they are necessary for developing models of acoustic phenomenon around us. One measurement of particular importance is acoustic impedance. Acoustic Impedance is the measure of opposition of acoustical flow due to the acoustic pressure. It indicates how much sound pressure is generated by the vibration of molecules of a particular acoustic medium at a given frequency and can be a characteristic of the medium.The aim of the present paper is to give a synthetic overview of the literature on impedance measurements and to discuss the advantage and disadvantage of each measurement technique. In this work, we investigate the three main categories of impedance measurement techniques, namely reverberation chamber techniques, impedance tube techniques, and far-field techniques. Theoretical principles for each technique are provided along with a discussion on historical development and recent advancements for each technique.