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Hauke Gravenkamp1, Jens Prager, Albert A Saputra

  • 1Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, 12200 Berlin, Germany. hauke.gravenkamp@bam.de

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|September 18, 2012
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