Accession Number:

AD0752776

Title:

On the Possibility of Detecting an Object Buried below an Interface using Totally Reflected Waves

Descriptive Note:

Technical memo.

Corporate Author:

TEXAS UNIV AT AUSTIN APPLIED RESEARCH LABS

Personal Author(s):

• Horton, Sr, Claude W.

Report Date:

1972-09-27

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

A preliminary survey of literature pertaining to the acoustic detection of objects buried at subcritical angles in sediments is presented. Although no general solution to this problem has been found, it is shown that theoretical solutions for similar problems provide a basis for the development of theory for subcritical target detection.

Descriptors:

• *ACOUSTIC DETECTORS
• *UNDERWATER OBJECTS
• PROPAGATION
• PENETRATION
• SOUND TRANSMISSION
• ACOUSTIC SIGNALS
• REFLECTIVITY
• ITERATIONS
• SEDIMENTATION

Subject Categories:

• Acoustics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE