Overview
- Offers a highly comprehensive text which is more extensive than the first edition
- Casts new light on the basics of piezoelectric and magnetostrictive transducers
- Includes sections on transducer and array advancements, as well as descriptions of legacy and new transducers and materials
- Presents chapters in a systematic sequence for improved learning experience
- Provides a glossary of key terms and an extensive appendix which includes sections on transducer materials, magnetostrictive and piezoelectric coefficients, frequently used formulas, hydrophone noise, relevant mathematics, transducer publications, and much more
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This improved and updated second edition covers the theory, development, and design of electro-acoustic transducers for underwater applications. This highly regarded text discusses the basics of piezoelectric and magnetostrictive transducers that are currently being used as well as promising new designs. It presents the basic acoustics as well as the specific acoustics data needed in transducer design and evaluation. A broad range of designs of projectors and hydrophones are described in detail along with methods of modeling, evaluation, and measurement. Analysis of projector and hydrophone transducer arrays, including the effects of mutual radiation impedance and numerical models for elements and arrays, are also covered. The book includes new advances in transducer design and transducer materials and has been completely reorganized to be suitable for use as a textbook, as well as a reference or handbook. The new edition contains corrections to the first edition, end-of-chapter exercises, and solutions to selected exercises. Each chapter includes a short introduction, end-of-chapter summary, and an extensive reference list offering the reader more detailed information and historical context. A glossary of key terms is also included at the end.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Charles H. Sherman (1928-2009) received a B. S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. After his first job at TracerLab, Inc. in Boston, he became a research physicist at the Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory in New London, CT. He received M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Connecticut and was elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1974. He became a prominent expert in underwater transducers and arrays, presenting and publishing over thirty papers related to underwater acoustics. He also worked at Parke Mathematical Laboratories in Carlisle, MA, and taught advanced acoustics at the University of Connecticut and in the Ocean Engineering Department of the University of Rhode Island. He received the prestigious Decibel Award, which is presented to a scientist or engineer for outstanding contributions to sonar and underwateracoustics. After his retirement from the Sound Lab in 1988, he worked for Image Acoustics, Inc. and in 2007, co-authored the first edition of Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound, a technical monograph commissioned by the Office of Naval Research and the most comprehensive treatment to date of underwater transducers and arrays.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound
Authors: John L. Butler, Charles H. Sherman
Series Title: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39044-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39042-0Published: 09 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81802-3Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39044-4Published: 01 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2364-4915
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4923
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXV, 716
Number of Illustrations: 398 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: The ISBN for the first edition was 978-0-387-33139-3
Topics: Acoustics, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Engineering Acoustics, Oceanography, Geophysics and Environmental Physics