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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
The sensitivity of acoustic techniques to topological and morphological variations in SiC/porous SiC laminated ceramics is studied using a transfer matrix formalism. To implement this transfer matrix technique, the mechanical properties of the SiC porous layers are characterized using the effective medium approximation of Kuster and Toksoz. We show that topological defects have a stronger acoustic signature than morphological defects. Also, we observe that there are particular frequencies at which the defects do not present any acoustic signature.