Abstract
This Letter reports measurements of nonlinearity parameter B/A of water-saturated glass beads under uniaxial compression representative of the gravitational loading in seabed. The finite-amplitude method in conjunction with the multi-Gaussian beam model is used to determine B/A, in which the use of an accurate source function is found to be important in achieving the overall measurement accuracy. The estimated B/A is on the order of a hundred and decreases with increasing uniaxial compression up to 50 kPa, so that B/A could change as much as 20% over a depth of 5 m for a typical coarse sandy sediment.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | EL514-EL520 |
| Journal | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
| Volume | 145 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 Jun 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work has been supported by the Unmanned Technology Research Center (UTRC) sponsored by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) in the Republic of Korea. The authors thank Jae-Wan Lee and Taeyoung Park at Yonsei University for helpful discussion.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Acoustical Society of America.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics