Tensioned-sheet acoustic impedance

ID: tensioned-sheet-acoustic-impedance

A sheet of mass per area and elastic-sheet tension backed by an identical outgoing fluid half-space presents the stated surface acoustic impedance to the other half-space, using upward sheet velocity . The fluid term is its normal acoustic impedance; the remaining term is structural. Infinite elastic-sheet tension suppresses every fixed nonzero spatial wavenumber, but not , whereas infinite mass suppresses even spatially uniform motion. A massless untensioned sheet between identical fluids is transparent.

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