PREFACE
Chapter 9 HAMILTON-S PRINCIPLE AND SOME OTHER VARIATIONAL METHODS
9.1 Hamilton's principle
9.2 Flexural vibrations of slender beams
9.3 Equation of motion for honeycomb beams in flexure
9.4 Plates with constrained viscoelastic layer
9.5 Timoshenko beams
9.6 Mindlin plates
9.7 Cylindrical shells
9.8 Lagrange's equation
9.9 Garlekin's method
9.10 An example using Garlekin's method
Problems
Chapter 10 STRUCTURAL COUPLING BETWEEN SIMPLE SYSTEMS
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Coupled mass-spring systems
10.3 Coupled systems with losses
10.4 Example
10.5 Rubber mounts, some material parameters
10.6 Wave propagation in rubber mounts, approximate solutions
10.7 Equivalent stiffness of simple mounts-approximate methods
10.8 Static defiection of cylindrical rubber mounts
10.9 Wave propagation in circular rods, exact solutions
10.10 Measurements of effective stiffness of mounts
10.11 Structural coupling via resilient mounts
10.12 Simple transmission model
10.13 Multi-point coupling
10.14 Multi-point coupling, low and high frequency limits
10.15 Source strength
Problems
Chapter 11 WAVES IN FLUIDS
11.1 Wave equation
11.2 Energy and intensity
11.3 Losses
11.4 Basic solutions to wave equation
11.5 Green's function
11.6 Dipole and other multipole sources
11.7 Additional sources and solutions
11.8 Moving monopole sources
11.9 Reflection from a plane surface
11.10 Reflection from a water surface
11.11 Influence of temperature and velocity gradients
11.12 Acoustic fields in closed rooms
11.13 Geometrical acoustics
11.14 Near and reverberant acoustic fields in a room
11.15 Measurement of the sound transmission loss of a wall
Problems
Chapter 12 FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION AND RADIATION OF SOUND
12.1 Radiation and fiuid loading of infinite plates
12.2 Radiation-general formulation
12.3 Green's function-rigid plane boundary
12.4 Spatial Fourier transforms-several variables
12.5 Radiation from infinite point excited plates
12.6 Mobilities of fiuid loaded infinite plates
12.7 Discussion of results-infinite fluid loaded plates
12.8 Radiation from finite baffled plates
12.9 Radiation ratios-finite baffled plates
12.10 Radiation from point excited plates
12.11 Sound radiation ratios-cylinders
12.12 Losses due to radiation
12.13 Radiation from fluid loaded finite plates
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Chapter 13 SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS OF PANELS
Chapter 14 WAVEGUIDES
Chapter 15 RANDOM EXCITATION OF STRUCTURES
Chapter 16 TRANSMISSION OF SOUND IN BUILT-UPSTRUCTURES
REFERENCES
Appendix A SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS OF SINGLE LEAF PANELS
Appendix B VELOCITY LEVEL OF SINGLE LEAF PANELS EXCITED BY AN ACOUSTIC FIELD
Appendix C INPUT DATA FOR NOISE PREDICTION ON SHIPS
INDEX