Flowing suspensions of solid particles in gas can be found in various industrial applications, as a method for transporting powdered solids (known as "pneumatic conveying"). The problem of measuring the mass concentration of the solid fraction has not yet been satisfactorily resolved. This thesis explores acoustic techniques to measure the particle concentration. Controlled suspensions -- both flowing and quasi-static - were generated in cylindrical tubes, and their acoustic properties were measured over three frequency ranges, requiring a variety of different measuring techniques: Plane wave region (200 -4 kHz): the attenuation of plane waves travelling along the flow tube was measured. A simple method of measuring the characteristic impedance of the suspension was also devised and preliminary measurements were made. Reverberant region (4 - 20 kHz). Three parameters were measured: the decay rate of the reverberant field in certain frequency bands; the level of actively-excited steady state sound; and the frequency of transverse resonant modes of the pipe. Ultrasonic region (40 - 75 kHz): the attenuation of ultrasound was measured across the pipe diameter. The measurements were compared with theoretical predictions. They showed the predicted linearity of acoustic attenuation with concentration, although the frequency dependence was less well predicted. In general, the larger particle sizes produced the greatest discrepancy; an explanation is proposed. Ultrasonic measurements showed significant differences from the predicted frequency dependence. A method of isolating acoustic transducers from the flow with a column of clean air is described. However, measurements may be complicated by interactions at the orifice into the flow pipe. Further work is needed in this area. It is concluded that acoustic methods could be used to measure particle concentration. However, to remain insensitive to changes in the properties of the particles - size in particular - measurements must be made at more than one frequency.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107).

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-69).

Crickets provide a useful model system to study how animals analyze sound frequency. While much is known about how sound frequency is represented by central neurons and in behavior, little is yet known about auditory receptor neurons. I investigated physiological and anatomical properties of auditory receptor fibers (ARFs) and functional organization of their axon terminals, using single-unit recording and staining techniques. Behavioral experiments suggest that crickets are sensitive to two broad frequency ranges, centered at 4--5 kHz for acoustic communication and at 25--50 kHz for predator detection. However, cricket ARFs fall into three distinct populations, based on characteristic frequency (CF; low frequency, ∼3--5.5 kHz; mid frequency, 9--12 kHz; ultrasound, ≥18 kHz). One striking characteristic of single ARFs is the occurrence of multiple sensitivity peaks at different frequencies, which implies that the wide audible range of crickets is mediated by these multiple sensitivity peaks, even though CFs of ARFs are clustered at the three small ranges. To understand how populations of ARFs code sound intensity, level-response functions are examined. Physiological parameters derived from level-response functions are diverse, and are systematically related to threshold within each population. Low-frequency ARFs comprise two distinct anatomical types, based on the distributions of axon terminals, which also differ physiologically. Thus, based on CF and anatomy, cricket ARFs can be classified into four distinct populations. To understand how information flows from peripheral to central neurons, the positions of varicosities, i.e. output sites, of ARF axon terminals are mapped on a two-dimensional coordinate system. In crickets, the ARF axon terminals are functionally organized with respect to frequency and intensity. Anatomical organization with respect to threshold is related to physiological organization, which may reduce non-linear effects in postsynaptic

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Spårledning används inom järnvägen för att lokalisera var tåg befinner sig. Detta examensarbete behandlar en modell av tonfrekvensspårledningar från Alstom. Teoridelen behandlar de båda modellerna DTC – 921 och DTC- 24 medan uträkningarna enbart behandlar den tidigare. Tonfrekvensspårledningar separeras med elektroniska skarvar genom förbindningar i spåret. Den förbindning som examensarbetet undersökt är av typ S-förbindning som idag består av en kopparkabel. Arbetet gick ut på att undersöka hur funktionen är uppbyggd och hur den skulle påverkas vid ett byte av material då koppar är stöldbegärligt. Undersökningar har gjorts på tre olika alternativ: aluminium, järn och safecable från safetrack.  Genom att studera S-förbindningens funktion och hur den agerar med tillhörande tuningbox har materialets eventuella påverkan utvärderats. Med teoretiska uträkningar har parametrarna räknats ut för de olika materialen. För att bekräfta funktionen har simuleringar i Pspice utförts. / Track circuits are used to detect where the trains are along the railway. This report contains a study of two models of audio frequency track circuit from Alstom called DTC – 921 and DTC - 24. The calculations made in the result section are made on only DTC-921. The different frequencies between two track circuits are divided by an S-bond. The S-bond is made of cupper which is a material that is theft-prone. The purpose of the project was to investigate the functionality of the S-bond and how  a cable with a different kind of material would affect the function. Three different kinds of materials have been investigated: aluminum, iron and safecable from safetrack.   By studying the function of the S-bond and how it interacts with the tuning box the affect off the different materials have been evaluated. The parameters of the materials have been calculated and the function has been simulated in Pspice.

This study investigates the effects of frequency variance on duration perception, using musically trained subjects. In the experiment three silent duration intervals were examined (4.75, 5.00, and 5.25 seconds); each interval was preceded and followed by tone markers. The onset marker was preceded by seven discrete tones one second apart, on the frequency 174.968 Hertz. This established a pulse or an external standard time measure. The subjects made judgments as to whether the offset marker fell "before," "on," or "after," the pulse. The offset marker had a variable frequency. In the study, the direction of the frequency change, the distance of frequency change, and the mathematical intervallic relationships of the two frequencies show possible influence on duration perception.

Sources of flicker noise generation in the cross-coupled negative resistance oscillator (NMOS, PMOS, and CMOS) are explored. Also, prior and current work in the area of phase noise modeling is reviewed, including the work of Leeson, Hajimiri, Hegazi, and others, seeking the mechanisms by which flicker noise is upconverted. A Figure of Merit (FOM) methodology suitable to the 1/f3 phase noise region is also developed, which allows a new quantity, FOM1, to be defined. FOM1 is proportional to flicker noise upconverted, thus allowing the effectiveness of flicker noise upconversion suppression techniques to be evaluated, despite possibly changing bias points or tank Q, which would change phase noise and FOM in the 1/f2 region. The work of Hajimiri is extended with a simple Amplitude ISF DC component estimator for the special case of LC CMOS oscillators. A method of adaptive control of an oscillator core is presented, as well, comprised of a CMOS oscillator with a digitally adjustable N and P width, and a circuit (which is essentially a tracking ADC) which repeatedly adjusts the relative N to P width dependent on the estimate to maintain the condition of minimum flicker noise upconversion. A fixed calibration constant is sufficient to allow convergence to within 0.7dB of optimal FOM1 for all cases of N width, for a varactorless oscillator test cell. Finally, a circuit is proposed which would allow the flicker noise reduction technique of cycling to accumulation to be applied to continuous time oscillators, but is not rigorously vetted.

This thesis deals with voltage disturbances in audio-frequency propagated in distribution networks. In the theoretical part, a creation and effect of these interferences are discussed as well as current methods of their measurement. In the practical part of the thesis, a measurement device based on a frequency filter was developed. This measurement device is able to measure audio-frequency disturbances up to 250kHz without suppresion of audio-frequency disturbances. The maximum frequency on the output is limited by either 125kHz or 250 kHz filter.