Abstract
Statistical energy analysis procedures have been successfully employed for prediction of acoustic transmission properties of finite cylindrical shells in air in the work of White and of Manning and his associates. Extensive studies of Crocker and Price and their associates have dealt with acoustic transmission properties of plane panels in air. The present study directs attention to essential adaptations to these analytic methods that are necessary to account for fluid loading effects due to the presence of a dense fluid surrounding the exterior of a finite air-filled cylindrical shell. Attention is directed to the relative importance of the resonant and nonresonant acoustic transmission paths. The resonant response and transmission path is based upon resonant modal response properties, whereas nonresonant transmission is estimated upon the basis of transmission properties characterizing an infinite plane interface between two acoustic media. The nonresonant transmission path appears to be dominant for the uniform shells included in this study. Experimental measurements of the acoustic transmission properties of two uniform cylindrical shells have indicated good agreement between analytic and experimental data.
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