The presence is and the future will be marked by the development of new hybrid polymer materials, which considerably are superior in terms of cost effectiveness in comparison to the old material generation. Increasing use of such materials leads in the area of the ultrasound based measuring technology both to new possibilities and to aggravating factors. Synthetic materials offer substantially more degrees of freedom to design constructive as well as acoustically functional elements. Their considerably more complex acoustic qualities are adverse. The frequency and mostly direction-dependent sound velocity, sound absorption and acoustical impedance vary considerably with the temperature, the age or the water content differently than at metals. It is important to know the range of these changed material properties to consider that during the design process. At present, such material characteristic quantities are neither standardized nor available on the necessary scale. With a wave guide based measurement system all relevant acoustical material properties shall be determined with only a well-conditioned, standardized test specimen and made available in a database.
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