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A reed switch as a source of elastic waves in laboratory experiments

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Acoustic signals arising due to the contacting-breaking of reed switches are analyzed. They are compared with other acoustic signal sources. Recommendations for using reed switches as a source of calibrated signals in laboratory experiments on hard material samples are given.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Ponomarev, V.A. Lutskii, A.A. Khromov, 2012, published in Seismicheskie Pribory, 2012, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 58–66.

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Ponomarev, A.V., Lutskii, V.A. & Khromov, A.A. A reed switch as a source of elastic waves in laboratory experiments. Seism. Instr. 49, 81–86 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0747923913010088

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