ANOMALIES OF THE BOUNDARY REFLECTION OF ULTRASOUND FROM THE FILM OF A DISSIPATIVE MEDIUM
D. A. Kostyuka and Yu. A. Kuzavkob UDC 621.9.08 Theoretical consideration has been given to the reflection of continuous and pulsed longitudinal and transverse acoustic waves from the film of a dissipative medium which is in contact with a solid-state half-space. It has been shown that the reflection coefficient and its phase substantially depend on the coefficient of attenuation of ultrasound in the dissipative-medium film and on its phase thickness. The shape of the reflected acoustic pulsed signal has been calculated using software. The application of the results obtained to investigation of the acoustic properties of viscous fluids is discussed. aBrest State Technical University, Brest, Belarus; bInstitute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; email: kuzavko@newmail.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 181-186, July-August, 2002. Original article submitted March 3, 2001; revision submitted February 11, 2002. JEPTER7492020021 JEPTER749201