Two-dimensional generalized thermoelasticity problem for a half-space subjected to ramp-type heating

In this paper, we will consider a half-space filled with an elastic material, which has constant elastic parameters. The governing equations are taken in a unified system from which the field equations for coupled thermoelasticity as well as for generalized thermoelasticity can be easily obtained as particular cases. A linear temperature ramping function is used to more realistically model thermal loading of the half-space surface. The medium is assumed initially quiescent. Laplace and Fourier transform techniques are used to obtain the general solution for any set of boundary conditions. The general solution obtained is applied to a specific problem of a half-space subjected to ramp-type heating. The inverse Fourier transforms are obtained analytically while the inverse Laplace transforms are computed numerically using a method based on Fourier expansion techniques. Some comparisons have been shown in figures to estimate the effect of the ramping parameter of heating with different theories of thermoelasticity.     

荷载作用下多孔饱和地基的热-水-力耦合动力响应分析

基于广义热弹性理论,结合达西定律,对Biot波动方程进行修正,研究了一个受到荷载作用的多孔饱和地基的热-水-力多场耦合动态响应问题。建立了多孔饱和地基在荷载作用下的热-水-力耦合模型及控制方程,该模型可退化为热弹性耦合模型。采用正则模态法求解,得到了问题的解析解,讨论了热-水-力耦合模型和热弹性耦合模型的区别,分析了荷载频率变化对地基中各物理量的影响。最终给出了无量纲的竖向位移、超孔隙水压力、竖向应力和温度等物理量的分布规律。     

The effect of fractional parameter on a perfect conducting elastic half-space in generalized magneto-thermoelasticity

Recently, Sherief et al. (Int. J. Solids Struct. 47:269–275, 2010) proposed a model in generalized thermoelasticity based on the fractional order time derivatives. The propagation of electro-magneto-thermoelastic disturbances in a perfectly conducting elastic half-space is investigated in the context of the above fractional order theory of generalized thermoelasticity. There acts an initial magnetic field parallel to the plane boundary of the half-space. Normal mode analysis together with the eigenvalue approach technique is used to solve the resulting non-dimensional coupled governing equations of the problem. The obtained solution is then applied to two specific problems for the half-space, whose boundary is subjected to (i) thermally isolated surfaces subjected to time-dependent compression and (ii) a time-dependent thermal shock and zero stress. The effects of fractional parameter and magnetic field on the variations of different field quantities inside the half-space are analyzed graphically.     

Wave propagation in dual-phase-lag anisotropic thermoelasticity

The present paper is concerned with the propagation of plane waves in a transversely isotropic dual-phase-lag generalized thermoelastic solid half-space. The governing equations are solved in x–z plane to show the existence of three plane waves. Reflection of these plane waves from thermally insulated as well as isothermal stress-free surfaces is studied to obtain a system of three non-homogeneous equations in reflection coefficients of reflected waves. For numerical computations of speeds and reflection coefficients, a particular material is modeled as transversely isotropic dual-phase-lag generalized thermoelastic solid half-space. The speeds of plane waves are computed numerically for a certain range of the angle of propagation and are shown graphically against the angle of propagation for the cases of dual-phase-lag (DPL) thermoelasticity, coupled thermoelasticity and Lord–Shulman generalized thermoelasticity. Reflection coefficients of various reflected plane waves are computed numerically for thermally insulated as well as isothermal cases and are shown graphically against the angle of incidence for the cases of DPL thermoelasticity, coupled thermoelasticity and Lord–Shulman generalized thermoelasticity.     

State-space approach of two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity of one-dimensional problem

In this paper, we will consider a half-space filled with an elastic material, which has constant elastic parameters. The governing equations are taken in the context of the two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity theory [Youssef, H., 2005a. The dependence of the modulus of elasticity and the thermal conductivity on the reference temperature in generalized thermoelasticity for an infinite material with a spherical cavity, J. Appl. Math. Mech., 26(4), 4827; Youssef, H., 2005b. Theory of two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity, IMA J. Appl. Math., 1–8]. The medium is assumed initially quiescent. Laplace transform and state space techniques are used to obtain the general solution for any set of boundary conditions. The general solution obtained is applied to a specific problem of a half-space subjected to thermal shock and traction free. The inverse Laplace transforms are computed numerically using a method based on Fourier expansion techniques. Some comparisons have been shown in figures to estimate the effect of the two-temperature parameter.     

横观各向同性饱和地基上中厚圆板的非轴对称振动

研究横观各向同性饱和土地基上中厚弹性圆板的非轴对称振动问题。基于横观各向同性饱和介质Biot波动方程的一般解,按混合边值问题建立了饱和地基与弹性中厚圆板非轴对称动力相互作用的对偶积分方程,并将对偶积分方程转化为易于计算的第二类Fredholm积分方程;采用数值方法求解该积分方程。数值算例结果表明,当h/a>0.05时,饱和半空间体上中厚度圆板在不同频率下的振动特性与相应频率下的刚性板的振动特性基本相同,当h/a<0.05时,板中心的位移将随h/a的减小而增大。     

Two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity under ramp-type heating by finite element method

In this work, a general finite element model is proposed to analyze transient phenomena in thermoelastic half-space filled with an elastic material, which has constant elastic parameters. The governing equations are taken in the context of the two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity theory (Youssef in IMA J. Appl. Math. 71(3):383–390, 2006). A linear temperature ramping function is used to more realistically model thermal loading of the half-space surface. The medium is assumed initially quiescent. A finite element scheme is presented for the high accuracy numerical purpose. The numerical solutions of the non-dimensional governing partial differential equations of the problem have been shown graphically and some comparisons have been shown in figures to estimate the effect of the ramping parameter of heating and the parameter of two-temperature.     

Dynamic Response of a Multilayered Poroelastic Half-Space to Harmonic Surface Tractions

The propagator matrix method is developed to study the dynamic response of a multilayered poroelastic half-space to time-harmonic surface tractions. In a cylindrical coordinate system, a method of displacement potentials is applied first to decouple the Biot’s wave equations into four scalar Helmholtz equations, and then, general solutions to those equations are obtained. After that, the propagator matrix method and the vector surface harmonics are employed to derive the solutions for a multilayered poroelastic half-space subjected to surface tractions. It is known that the original propagator algorithm has the loss-of-precision problem when the waves become evanescent. At present, an orthogonalization procedure is inserted into the matrix propagation loop to avoid the numerical difficulty of the original propagator algorithm. Finally, a high-order adaptive integration method with continued fraction expansions for accelerating the convergence of the truncated integral is adopted to numerically evaluate the integral solutions expressed in terms of semi-infinite Hankel-type integrals with respect to horizontal wavenumber. Furthermore, to validate the present approach, the response of a uniform poroelastic half-space is examined using the formulation proposed in this article. It is shown that the numerical results computed with this approach agree well with those computed with the analytical solution of a uniform half-space.     

Stress solutions to the three-dimensional problem of elasticity

New representations of the stress tensor in the linear theory of elasticity and thermoelasticity are proposed. These representations satisfy the equilibrium equations and the strain compatibility equation. The stress tensor is expressed in terms of a harmonic tensor or a harmonic vector. The second boundary-value problem for an elastic half-space and an elastic layer is solved as an example __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 3–35, August 2006.     

State-space approach to two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity without energy dissipation of medium subjected to moving heat source

In this work,a model of two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity without energy dissipation for an elastic half-space with constant elastic parameters is constructed.The Laplace transform and state-space techniques are used to obtain the general solution for any set of boundary conditions.The general solutions are applied to a specific problem of a half-space subjected to a moving heat source with a constant velocity.The inverse Laplace transforms are computed numerically,and the comparisons are shown in figures to estimate the effects of the heat source velocity and the two-temperature parameter.     

Numerical analysis of the isolation of the vibration due to Rayleigh waves by using pile rows in the poroelastic medium

The isolation of the vibration due to harmonic Rayleigh waves using pile rows embedded in a saturated poroelastic half-space is investigated in this study. Based on Biot’s theory and the potential function method, the free field solution for Rayleigh waves along the surface of the poroelastic half-space is derived first. The fundamental solution for a harmonic circular patch load applied in the poroelastic half-space are obtained in terms of Biot’s theory and the integral transform method. Using Muki’s method and the fundamental solution for the circular patch load as well as the Rayleigh waves solution for the poroelastic half-space, the second kind of Fredholm integral equations in the frequency domain for pile rows are derived. Numerical solution of the integral equations yields the dynamic response of the pile–soil system to incident Rayleigh waves. Influences of various parameters on the vibration isolation effect of piles rows are investigated numerically. Numerical results suggest that for the same vibration source, the same pile rows will produce a better vibration isolation effect for the poroelastic medium than for a single phase elastic medium. Also, stiffer piles tend to have better vibration isolation effect than flexible piles. Moreover, the pile length and the spacing between neighboring piles in each pile row have significant influence on the vibration isolation effect of pile rows.     

Response of railway track system on poroelastic half-space soil medium subjected to a moving train load

Based on the dynamic poroelastic theory of Biot, dynamic responses of a track system and poroelastic half-space soil medium subjected to moving train passages are investigated by the substructure method. The whole system is divided into two separately formulated substructures, the track and the ground, and the rail is described by introducing the Green function for an infinitely long Euler beam subjected to the action of moving axle loads of the train and the reactions of the sleeper. Sleepers are represented by a continuous mass and the effect of the ballast is considered by introducing the Cosserat model for granular medium. Using the double Fourier transform, the governing equations of motion are then solved analytically in the frequency-wave-number domain. The time domain responses are evaluated by the inverse Fourier transform computation for a certain train speed. Computed results show that the shape of the rail displacements of the elastic and poroelastic soil medium are in good agreement with each other of the low train velocity, but the result of the poroelastic soil medium is significantly different to that of the elastic soil medium for the high train velocity which is higher than Rayleigh-wave speed in the soil. The influence of the soil intrinsic permeability on soil responses is discussed with great care in both time domain and frequency domain. The dynamic responses of the soil medium are considerably affected by the fluid phase as well as the load velocity.     

Upscaling of the Coupling of Hydromechanical and Thermal Processes in a Quasi-static Poroelastic Medium

We undertake a formal derivation of a linear poro-thermo-elastic system within the framework of quasi-static deformation. This work is based upon the well-known derivation of the quasi-static poroelastic equations (also known as the Biot consolidation model) by homogenization of the fluid-structure interaction at the microscale. We now include energy, which is coupled to the fluid-structure model by using linear thermoelasticity, with the full system transformed to a Lagrangian coordinate system. The resulting upscaled system is similar to the linear poroelastic equations, but with an added conservation of energy equation, fully coupled to the momentum and mass conservation equations. In the end, we obtain a system of equations on the macroscale accounting for the effects of mechanical deformation, heat transfer, and fluid flow within a fully saturated porous material, wherein the coefficients can be explicitly defined in terms of the microstructure of the material. For the heat transfer we consider two different scaling regimes, one where the Péclet number is small, and another where it is unity. We also establish the symmetry and positivity for the homogenized coefficients.     

Plane waves in a fractional order micropolar magneto-thermoelastic half-space

This paper deals with the problem of magneto-thermoelastic interactions in an unbounded, perfectly conducting half-space whose surface suffers a time harmonic thermal source in the context of micropolar generalized thermoelasticity with fractional heat transfer allowing the second sound effects. The medium is assumed to be unstrained and unstressed initially and has uniform temperature. The Laplace–Fourier double transform technique has been used to solve the resulting non-dimensional coupled field equations. Expressions for displacements, stresses and temperature in the physical domain are obtained using a numerical inversion technique. The effects of fractional parameter, magnetic field and micropolarity on the physical fields are noticed and depicted graphically. For a particular model, these fields are found to be significantly affected by the above mentioned parameters. Some particular cases of interest have been deduced from the present problem. Numerical results predict finite speed of propagation for thermoelastic waves.     

Numerical solution to a nonlinear,one-dimensional problem of thermoelasticity with volume force and heat supply in a half-space

A numerical solution is presented for a nonlinear, one-dimensional boundary-value problem of thermoelasticity with variable volume force and heat supply in a half-space. The surface of the body is subjected to a given periodic displacement. The volume force and bulk heating simulate the effect of a beam of particles infiltrating the medium. No phase transition is considered and the domain of the solution excludes any shock wave formation. The basic equations are formulated in material coordinates, making them adequate for dealing with moving boundaries. The used numerical scheme reproduces correctly the process of coupled thermomechanical wave propagation. The presented figures display the process of propagation of the coupled nonlinear thermoelastic waves. They also show the effects of volume force and heat supply on the distributions of the mechanical displacements and temperature inside the medium. Moreover, the interplay between these two factors and the applied boundary disturbance is outlined. The presented solutions, however, is not meant to capture the expected process of shock formation at the breaking distance.     

Effect of rotation on plane waves in generalized thermo-microstretch elastic solid with a relaxation time

The present paper is aimed at studying the effect of rotation on the general model of the equations of generalized thermo-microstretch for a homogeneous isotropic elastic half-space solid whose surface is subjected to a Mode-I Crack problem considered. The problem is in the context of the generalized thermoelasticity Lord-?hulman??s (L-S) theory with one relaxation time, as well as the classical dynamical coupled theory (CD) The normal mode analysis is used to obtain the exact expressions for the displacement components, force stresses, temperature, couple stresses and microstress distribution. The variations of the considered variables through the horizontal distance are illustrated graphically. Comparisons are made with the results in the presence and absence of rotation and in the presence and absence of microstretch constants between the two theories.     

Effect of the Initial Stresses on Waves in the System Consisting of a Viscous Fluid Layer and a Compressible Elastic Half-Space

International Applied Mechanics - The problem of acoustic wave propagation in a prestrained compressible elastic half-space that interacts with a layer of viscous compressible fluid is solved using...     

Propagation of Waves in an Elastic Half-Space Interacting with a Viscous Liquid Layer

International Applied Mechanics - The problem of the propagation of acoustic waves in a layer of a compressible viscous fluid that interacts with an elastic half-space is solved using the...     

Homogenized modeling for vascularized poroelastic materials

A new mathematical model for the macroscopic behavior of a material composed of a poroelastic solid embedding a Newtonian fluid network phase (also referred to as vascularized poroelastic material), with fluid transport between them, is derived via asymptotic homogenization. The typical distance between the vessels/channels (microscale) is much smaller than the average size of a whole domain (macroscale). The homogeneous and isotropic Biot’s equation (in the quasi-static case and in absence of volume forces) for the poroelastic phase and the Stokes’ problem for the fluid network are coupled through a fluid-structure interaction problem which accounts for fluid transport between the two phases; the latter is driven by the pressure difference between the two compartments. The averaging process results in a new system of partial differential equations that formally reads as a double poroelastic, globally mass conserving, model, together with a new constitutive relationship for the whole material which encodes the role of both pore and fluid network pressures. The mathematical model describes the mutual interplay among fluid filling the pores, flow in the network, transport between compartments, and linear elastic deformation of the (potentially compressible) elastic matrix comprising the poroelastic phase. Assuming periodicity at the microscale level, the model is computationally feasible, as it holds on the macroscale only (where the microstructure is smoothed out), and encodes geometrical information on the microvessels in its coefficients, which are to be computed solving classical periodic cell problems. Recently developed double porosity models are recovered when deformations of the elastic matrix are neglected. The new model is relevant to a wide range of applications, such as fluid in porous, fractured rocks, blood transport in vascularized, deformable tumors, and interactions across different hierarchical levels of porosity in the bone.     

Frequency domain fundamental solutions for a poroelastic half-space

In frequency domain, the fundamental solutions for a poroelastic half-space are re-derived in the context of Biot＇s theory. Based on Biot＇s theory, the governing field equations for the dynamic poroelasicity are established in terms of solid displacement and pore pressure. A method of potentials in cylindrical coordinate system is proposed to decouple the homogeneous Biot＇s wave equations into four scalar Helmholtz equations, and the general solutions to these scalar wave equations are obtained. After that, spectral Green＇s functions for a poroelastic full-space are found through a decomposition of solid displacement, pore pressure, and body force fields. Mirror-image technique is then applied to construct the half-space fundamental solutions.Finally, transient responses of the half-space to buried point forces are examined.