【Title】Measurement of insertion loss for underwater acoustic passive materials with the time reversal technique (2014 No.2) 

【Author】YAN Xiaowei; LI Jianlong; KONG Xiangdong 

【Abstract】 A method using the time reversal(TR) technique to measure the insertion loss(IL) of passive materials is presented.Firstly the received signals are focused according to the TR theory when there is not a sample between the source and the received array.Then,the sample is placed near the received array and the TR processing is again employed to realize the focus of the received signal.Finally,the IL of the sample is evaluated from these focusing signals.Because the TR processing can focus the energy in spatial domain and time domain,the method can be used to measure acoustic properties of passive materials in a waveguide tank with reflections induced by boundaries or with low source frequencies.Two samples with the same size of 1.1 m×1.0 m×5 mm are tested in the waveguide tank.The method is demonstrated by the comparison of the theoretical and the experimental results in the measured frequency range of 1-20 kHz.