Publications & Presentations

Transducers Fail…Eventually.

Presented at the 145th AES Convention, New York, October 2018
Product Development: PD06 – Loudspeaker Life Testing and Power Amplifier Requirements
Author: Richard Little

Material Science in the Design of a Shallow Woofer

International Symposium of Electroacoustic Technologies 2017
November 2017
Authors: Richard Little, Daniel Liu

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Constructing Electroacoustic Circuit Models for Analysis – A Review

2017 International Symposium on Electroacoustic Technologies
November 2017
Author: Richard Little

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Designing Durable Audio Transducers

2017 COMSOL Conference Boston – Keynote speech
October 2017
Author: Richard Little

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A Discussion of Transducer Power Testing

Presented at the 2014 Acoustic Block Symposium
November 2014
Author: Richard Little

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An Overview of Moving Coil Transducer Motor Design

Seminar presented at the 2013 ALMA Winter Symposium
January 6, 2013
Author: Richard Little

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An Indirect Study of Compliance and Damping in Linear Array Transducers

Audio Engineering Society 133rd Convention
October 2012
Author: Richard Little

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An Examination of Acoustic Performance Characteristics of Linear Array Transducers

Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium of ElectroAcoustic Technologies
November 12, 2011
Author: Richard Little

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An Examination of Compliance and Mechanical Damping in Linear Array Transducers

Proceedings of the 2011 Acoustics Block
October 30, 2011
Author: Richard Little

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Observations of Directivity in Transducers

Acoustic Block 2010 Symposium
November 2010
Author: Richard Little

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Introduction to Transducer Motor Design

ALMA Asia 2010 Symposium
October 2010
Author: Richard Little

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Thermal Demagnetization

Presented at ISEAT 2009, Shenzhen
November 2009
Author: Richard Little

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Thermal Demagnetization

Acoustic Block 2009 Symposium
November 2009
Author: Richard Little

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Workshop 16: Loudspeaker FE/BE Modeling – Transducer Design and Modeling, Tymphany TC6 Overview

Audio Engineering Society 126st Convention
May 2009
Author: Richard Little

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An Extended Small Signal Parameter Loudspeaker Model for the Linear Array Transducer

Audio Engineering Society 121st Convention
October 2006
Authors: Richard Little, Ali Jabbari, Andy Unruh, Christopher J. Struck, Jens-Peter Axelsson

High Resolution Read Head Sensors for Magnetic Flux Leakage Systems

CSNDT J., Vol. 18, No. 1, 9-15, Jan 1997.
January 1997
Authors: Richard Little, David Atherton

Effect of Stress Concentration on Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals from Blind-Hole Defects in Stressed Pipeline Steel

Res. Nondestr. Eval., Vol. 8, 83-100, 1996.
August 1996
Authors: Richard Little, Thomas Krause, David Atherton, R. Barnes, R.M. Donaldson, B. Ma

The Design of Ultra-High Resolution Read Head Sensors for Pipeline Steel Defect Detection

M.Sc. thesis, Queen’s University
April 1995
Author: Richard Little

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Effects of Line Pressure Stress, Magnetic Properties and Test Conditions on Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals

Annual Report for the Gas Research Institute, May 1993 – April 1994, GRI Contract #5093-260-2605.
April 1994
Authors: Richard Little, David Atherton, Thomas Krause, R.M. Donaldson, R. Barnes

Laser Speckle Photography: Flow Field Analysis by Spatial Fourier Transform

University of British Columbia B.Sc. Thesis
April 1992
Author: Richard Little

Aspects of Ion Motor Propulsion

Presented at the 27th Annual Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference, the University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
November 1991
Authors: Richard Little, Mark Kepke