Laboratory Measurements of the Speed of Sound in Water-Saturated Granular Sediments

Friday, September 5, 2008 4:00 p.m., ETC 4.120 Theodore F. Argo IV Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin http://www.me.utexas.edu A better understanding of sound propagation in water-saturated granular sediments is required for improved shallow-water sonar performance and mine detection. For example, no existing first-principles model has accurately…