Résumé: The acoustic field excited by flexural vibrations of a thin elastic plate and the perturbations of this field caused by a homogeneous circular inclusion with other elastic properties are considered. Because the density of air widely differs from that of a metal, this problem can be solved with fair accuracy in two steps: first, by considering the vibrations of the plate in a free space, and, then, by calculating the acoustic field excited by the field of plate?fs vertical deflections. The main results of this work are the asymptotic expressions for the far acoustic field excited by each of the Fourier components Fm(r)cosm. of the flexural wave scattered by the inclusion.

Langue: Anglais