Scope
The Structural Acoustics & Vibration Technical Committee includes the study of motions and interactions of mechanical systems with their environments and the methods of their measurement, analysis, and control. A recent article in Acoustics Today reviewed the scope of this committee. Principal topics considered are:
- Responses of mechanical systems to dynamic excitations,
- Instrumentation, including calibration techniques, for measurement and analysis of shock and vibration,
- Resonances of structures,
- Damping and internal friction,
- Isolation of mechanical systems from shock and vibration,
- Mechanical impedance (mobility),
- Modal analysis,
- Simulation of environmental factors,
- Development and application of analytical techniques,
- Active control of structural acoustics and vibration.
Applications
- Aircraft or launch vehicles moving through the atmosphere
- Underwater vehicles or surface ships moving through water
- Vibration from transit systems propagating through the ground and into buildings (and radiated as sound inside those buildings)
- Vibration of buildings caused by sources on or within (mechanical, transportation, or human generated)
- Musical instruments (Excitation, response and sound radiated)
- Methods for determining soil composition and detecting subsurface resources
- Consumer products (Noise-Vibration-Harshness)
- Transducers that measure or generate sound and vibration
- Biomedical devices
- Hearing aide design
- Vibration generated and sound radiated by mechanical equipment
- Health monitoring and nondestructive evaluation of machines and structures
- Response of pipes to fluctuations within the entrained fluid
- Metamaterials
Chair
Christina Naify
University of Texas at Austin
Applied Research Laboratories
Austin, TX 78712
christina.naify@gmail.com