AN ACOUSTIC METHOD OF DETERMINATION
OF THE COEFFICIENT OF PERMEABILITY
AND THE PORE VELOCITY OF SOUND IN SNOW

M. K. Zhekamukhov and L. M. Malkandueva

UDC 534.6, 551.578.4

Using an experimental setup that allows one to distinguish 
resonance frequencies of vibrations of the studied specimen of snow, 
we showed the possibility of determining the coefficient of permeability 
of snow and the velocity of sound in the air confined in its pores.

Kabardino-Balkar State University, 173 Chernyshevskii 
Str., Nal'chik, 360000, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 6, pp. 131-140, November-December, 2004. 
Original article submitted August 6, 2003.