Miguel C. Junger, an inspirational mentor in structural acoustics

Abstract

When Lord Rayleigh wrote his book, The Theory of Sound in the 19th century, he treated vibrations of structures and sound radiation in two separate volumes. In the last half of the 20th century, the field of structural acoustics, i.e., the theory of acoustic radiation and scattering from elastic structures, was developed in response to Navy needs. Miguel C. Junger is one of the seminal contributors to this field of structural acoustics, and has been the inspirational mentor to myself and others associated with him at Cambridge Acoustical Associates. This presentation discusses how this mentoring proceeded, the resulting research derived from this, and the circumstances leading to our book Sound, Structures and their Interaction originally published by MIT Press, and now published by the Acoustical Society of America.