Prosperetti, Andrea2020-03-102020-03-101977-01Copyright 1977 The Journal of the Acoustal Society of America. Recommended citation: Prosperetti, Andrea. "Application of the subharmonic threshold to the measurement of the damping of oscillating gas bubbles." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 61, no. 1 (1977): 11-16. DOI: 10.1121/1.381273 URL: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.381273 Reproduced in accordance with the original publisher’s licensing terms and with permission from the author(s).https://hdl.handle.net/10657/6114It is suggested that the damping affecting the forced radial oscillations of gas bubbles can be determined very accurately through the measurement of the subharmonic threshold for the oscillations. The advantage of the method is that, while the subharmonic oscillations have a large amplitude and can be easily detected, the theory can be accurately based on a perturbation approach. The theoretical basis for the subharmonic generation is also reviewed and its results illustrated for the case of an air bubble in water.en-USMusical analysisPerturbation theoryarticle