A bending wave simulator for investigating directional vibration sensing in insects

Substrate vibrations are important in social and ecological interactions for many insects and other arthropods. Localization cues include time and amplitude differences among an array of vibration detectors. However, for small species these cues are greatly reduced, and localization mechanisms remain unclear. Here we describe a method of simulating the vibrational environment that facilitates investigation of localization mechanisms in small species. Our model species was the treehopper Umbonia crassicornis (Membracidae; length 1 cm), which communicates using bending waves that propagate along plant stems. We designed a simulator consisting of a length of dowel and two actuators. The actuators were driven with two time signals that created the relationship between slope and displacement characteristic of steady-state bending wave motion. Because the surface of the dowel does not bend, as would a natural stem, close approximation of bending wave motion was limited to a region in the center of the dowel. An example of measurements of the dynamic response of an insect on the simulator is provided to illustrate its utility in the study of directional vibration sensing in insects.     

激光诱导AZ31B镁合金薄板动态响应实验研究

为分析在激光冲击波作用下AZ31B镁合金薄板背面的动态响应,采用聚偏氟乙烯贴片传感器与数字示波器对强激光诱导的冲击波进行测量,得到压电波形,结合冲击波的传播特性,对弹塑性双波的传播规律进行了研究。结果表明:激光诱导的材料动态响应是快速的;压电波形图反映出的弹性前驱波与塑性加载波传播到靶材背面的时间与理论时间相符;弹性前驱波能量小引发的波形振幅较小,紧随着的塑性加载波能量大并引起较大振幅波动,弹塑性双波卸载过程与紧接着的加载过程导致了压电信号的波动振幅提高。     

Surface scattering in media with time and spatial dispersion

Scattering of scalar and vector waves from a randomly rough interface between media, in which several types of waves (modes) exist due to the time and spatial dispersion, has been studied in the Kirchhoff approximation. As a wave of a certain type is reflected from the interface, it transforms into other modes not only in the diffusive fields but in the coherent components as well. We have calculated the mean (coherent) field and the angular diagram of the diffusively scattered intensity. It is shown that the coherent components of the waves generated on reflection (cross-modes) propagate in directions that are different from the specular one. The dispersion gives rise to the frequency dependence of the scattering diagram even in the geometric-optics approximation.     

Surface scattering in media with time and spatial dispersion

Scattering of scalar and vector waves from a randomly rough interface between media, in which several types of waves (modes) exist due to the time and spatial dispersion, has been studied in the Kirchhoff approximation. As a wave of a certain type is reflected from the interface, it transforms into other modes not only in the diffusive fields but in the coherent components as well. We have calculated the mean (coherent) field and the angular diagram of the diffusively scattered intensity. It is shown that the coherent components of the waves generated on reflection (cross-modes) propagate in directions that are different from the specular one. The dispersion gives rise to the frequency dependence of the scattering diagram even in the geometric-optics approximation.     

Reflection of spin and spin-elastic waves at the interface of a ferromagnetic half-space

This paper considers the reflection of pure spin and spin-elastic (or magneto-elastic) waves at the interface of a ferromagnetic half-space and a vacuum. For pure spin waves two cases are considered, with exchange effects, and without. It is shown that when exchange effects are taken into account, volume spin waves in the ferromagnetic half space incident at the boundary with the vacuum generate a reflected volume spin wave, and an accompanying compound surface wave propagating along the boundary and consisting of two partial inhomogeneous spin waves in the ferromagnetic half-space and a partial magneto-static inhomogeneous surface wave in the vacuum. When exchange effects are neglected the incident wave generates only a reflected volume wave in the ferromagnetic half-space.

Reflection and transmission of spin-elastic (or magneto-elastic) waves has been considered only in the case of the absence of exchange effects. An incident volume wave generates a volume spin-elastic reflected wave and one inhomogeneous magneto-static accompanying surface wave.

Excitations of the magnetic field are not transmitted into the vacuum in both cases when the exchange effect is neglected. In all cases the reflection of a spin wave has the character of a full internal reflection.     

圆极化波反射聚焦超表面

基于圆极化波入射条件下的高效同极化反射超表面实现了对圆极化反射波相位的自由调控, 设计了一维圆极化波反射聚焦超表面. 在中心频率f=16 GHz附近, 右旋圆极化平面波入射时, 反射波聚焦于焦距L=200 mm的实焦点; 左旋圆极化波入射时, 反射波近似聚焦于焦距L=-200 mm的虚焦点. 仿真计算得到聚焦波束的波束宽度、焦深. 结果表明, 这种圆极化反射聚焦超表面具有很好的聚焦效果, 同时具有长焦深和宽带特性.     

Calculations of the reflection and transmission of ultrasound by cracks in steel filled with solid sodium

The reflection and transmission coefficients are calculated for 2.25 MHz compression and shear waves incident on idealized cracks (ie, a slot with smooth, flat, parallel faces) in steel filled with solid sodium. The coefficients are calculated as a function of crack width and angle of incidence. Both polarizations (SV and SH) of shear wave are considered, as well as compression wave incidence. It is concluded that a crack of width 0.01 mm or greater, full of solid sodium, will return at least 10% of the incident compression wave amplitude. With a suitable choice of inspection angle, 40% reflection of the incident amplitude can be achieved for either compression or shear (SV) waves. The use of shear waves with the uncommon SH polarization also looks promising.     

Propagation of magnetostatic backward surface waves in ferrite-insulator-metal structures magnetized by linearly nonuniform magnetic fields

A theoretical study is made of the trajectories and of the changes in magnitude and direction of the wave vectors of magnetostatic backward surface waves with different frequencies propagating in ferrite-insulator-metal structures with different insulating layer thicknesses and magnetized by a linearly nonuniform static field. It is shown that both forward and backward magnetostatic surface waves (MSSWs) propagate in a waveguide channel, on one side of which MSSWs undergo mirror reflection and on the other side of which their propagation direction is rotated, independently of the thickness of the insulator in the structure. It is shown that when MSSWs propagate in a nonuniform field, the forward wave is converted into a backward wave and, under certain conditions, the backward wave is converted into a forward wave. Some features of the propagation characteristics of magnetostatic backward surface waves are determined. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 70–77 (February 1999)     

Acousto-optic study of the unusual cases of reflection of bulk elastic waves in a paratellurite crystal

The propagation and reflection of bulk ultrasonic waves in a paratellurite crystal have been investigated by the acousto-optic method. Simultaneous excitation of two acoustic waves by one piezoelectric transducer has been observed in a cell of complex, specially chosen configuration. Maximally efficient conversion of the energy of a quasi-longitudinal wave into a single reflected quasi-shear wave with a walkoff angle 72° is implemented for the reflection from a free crystal boundary. The wave beam compression by a factor of 7 is observed for this reflection. A reflection (close to backward) of waves with an angle of spatial separation of the incident and reflected beams equal to 8° is also implemented. The acousto-optic figure of merit values of the medium are calculated for arbitrary propagation and polarization directions of the interacting light and ultrasonic waves. Possible applications of the effects studied in acousto-optics and acoustoelectronics are indicated.     

On the electrodynamics of an absorbing uniaxial nonpositive determined (indefinite) medium

It is shown that a surface plasmon, whose decay length infinitely increases as it approaches the threshold frequency, can propagate over the surface of a half-space filled with a uniaxial indefinite absorbing metamaterial. At the threshold frequency itself, a new phenomenon is observed-upon incidence of a TM-polarized wave on the absorbing material, a real Brewster angle exists, and in the case of a plate made of such a metamaterial, ??reflectionless?? reflection is observed when two plane waves are incident on the plate from two sides. In the latter case, complete destructive interference of reflected and transmitted waves occurs.