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Title: The design and operation of infrasonic microphones

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/481856· OSTI ID:481856

This report is intended as a guide to the design and operation of infrasonic microphones. It will emphasize general principles and the effects of parameter choices upon performance but will not provide details of design for specific microphones. The report will consider primarily the mechanical aspects that control the acoustic properties; it will not discuss the features of electronic design, which vary greatly among microphones. Here the authors define infrasonic microphones as sensors capable of detecting pressure variations in the period range of about 0.1 s to 1000 s with changes from about 0.1 {mu}bar (microbar = 1 dyne cm{sup {minus}2}) to about 1 mbar.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
481856
Report Number(s):
LA-13257; ON: DE97006375; TRN: 97:003655
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English