Title: The absorption coefficient measurement of underwater materials in a water tube by using the wide-band pulse method

Author(s): DAI Yang;YANG Jianhua;HOU Hong;CHEN Jianping;SUN Liang;SHI Jing

Affiliation(s): Northwestern Polytechnical University, et al.

Abstract: The existing absorption coefficient measurement in a water tube is limited in low frequency due to the limitation of the pulse tube length.A wide-band pulse tube method based on the post-processing inverse filter is proposed.After obtaining the response of the entire system,the transducer is excited with wide-band,short-duration signals.Then,the received signals are processed with inverse filters and the "blurred" reflective signals of standard reflector and test sample are recovered respectively,finally,the reflection coefficient and absorption coefficient are calculated.Simulation work is implemented to verify the advantage of postprocessing inverse filter over pre-processing inverse filter in terms of low frequency measurement.To verify the proposed method,two different wide-band pulses in the separate frequency ranges are adopted to measure the same rubber material.The experimental results indicate that the wide-band pulse method and CW(Continuous Wave) pulse method have good agreement in both low frequency range and high frequency range.Wide-band pulse method is of high efficiency,and the low frequency reaches 350 Hz,which is able to extend the low frequency range.