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18/30355496 DC : DRAFT APR 2018

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BS EN 60565-1 UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS - HYDROPHONES - CALIBRATION OF HYDROPHONES - PART 1: PROCEDURES FOR FREE-FIELD CALIBRATION
Published date

20-05-2018

1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Symbols and abbreviated terms
5 General procedures for calibration
6 Electrical measurements
7 Preparation of transducers
8 Free-field three-transducer spherical-wave
   reciprocity calibration
9 Free-field calibration by comparison with an
   acoustic reference device
10 Verification, checks and limitations in free-field
   calibrations
11 Reporting of results
12 Recalibration periods
Annex A (informative) - Directional response of a hydrophone
        or projector
Annex B (informative) - Measurement of electrical impedance
        of hydrophones and projectors
Annex C (informative) - Calculation of electrical
        loading corrections
Annex D (informative) - Pulsed techniques in free-field
        calibrations
Annex E (informative) - Assessment of uncertainty in the
        calibration of hydrophones
Annex F (informative) - Derivation of the formulae for
        three-transducer spherical-wave reciprocity
        calibration
Annex G (informative) - Calibration using travelling wave-tubes
Annex H (informative) - Calibration of hydrophones using optical
        interferometry
Bibliography

BS EN 60565-1.

Committee
EPL/87
DocumentType
Draft
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current

IEC 60050-801:1994 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 801: Acoustics and electroacoustics
IEC 60500:2017 Underwater acoustics - Hydrophones - Properties of hydrophones in the frequency range 1 Hz to 500 kHz
ANSI/ASA S1.20 : 2012 American National Standard Procedures for Calibration of Underwater Electroacoustic Transducers
IEC 62127-2:2007+AMD1:2013+AMD2:2017 CSV Ultrasonics - Hydrophones - Part 2: Calibration for ultrasonic fields up to 40 MHz

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