基于Riesz势空间分数阶算子的非局部粘弹性力学元件

将幂函数引入Eringen非局部线粘弹性本构,导出Riesz势形式的应力-应变关系。利用该关系,构造非局部弹簧和非局部阻尼器两类元件;利用元件的串联和并联,建立非局部Kelvin和非局部Maxwell粘弹性模型,推导模型的松弛模量和蠕变柔量。进一步,给出非局部粘弹性模型在生物组织超声波耗散建模中的应用。     

Non-local continuum modeling of carbon nanotubes: Physical interpretation of non-local kernels using atomistic simulations

The longitudinal, transverse and torsional wave dispersion curves in single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are used to estimate the non-local kernel for use in continuum elasticity models of nanotubes. The dispersion data for an armchair (10,10) SWCNT was obtained using lattice dynamics of SWNTs while accounting for the helical symmetry of the tubes. In our approach, the Fourier transformed kernel of non-local linear elastic theory is directly estimated by matching the atomistic data to the dispersion curves predicted from non-local 1D rod theory and axisymmetric shell theory. We found that gradient models incur significant errors in both the phase and group velocity when compared to the atomistic model. Complementing these studies, we have also performed detailed tests on the effect of length of the nanotube on the axial and shear moduli to gain a better physical insight on the nature of the true non-local kernel. We note that unlike the kernel from gradient theory, the numerically fitted kernel becomes negative at larger distances from the reference point. We postulate and confirm that the fitted kernel changes sign close to the inflection point of the interatomic potential. The numerically computed kernels obtained from this study will aid in the development of improved and efficient continuum models for predicting the mechanical response of CNTs.     

一维声子晶体带隙的非局部辛分析

周期性弹性复合结构(声子晶体)中传播的弹性波存在特殊的色散关系:弹性波只能在某段频率范围内无损耗的传播,该频率范围称为通带.一维声子晶体的色散问题可以看作分层介质中弹性波的传播问题,利用二维弹性理论予以分析.为了研究非局部效应对声子晶体带隙特性的影响,将Eringen的二维非局部弹性理论引入到Hamilton体系下,利用精细积分与扩展的Wittrick Williams算法可获取任意频率范围内的本征解.通过对不同算例的数值计算,分析和对比了非局部理论方法与传统局部理论方法的差别.并进一步指出了该套算法的适用性和优势所在.     

On a theory of nonlocal elasticity of bi-Helmholtz type and some applications

A theory of nonlocal elasticity of bi-Helmholtz type is studied. We employ Eringen’s model of nonlocal elasticity, with bi-Helmholtz type kernels, to study dispersion relations, screw and edge dislocations. The nonlocal kernels are derived analytically as Green functions of partial differential equations of fourth order. This continuum model of nonlocal elasticity involves two material length scales which may be derived from atomistics. The new nonlocal kernels are nonsingular in one-, two- and three-dimensions. Furthermore, the nonlocal elasticity of bi-Helmholtz type improves the one of Helmholtz type by predicting a dispersion relationship with zero group velocity at the end of the first Brillouin zone. New solutions for the stresses and strain energy of screw and edge dislocations are found.     

The integral representation of fractionally exponential functions and their application to dynamic problems of linear visco-elasticity

Fractionally exponential functions are written in the integral form and distribution functions with an Abelian singularity are obtained for the corresponding relaxation and retardation spectra. A principle is stated, defining the dynamic problems for which weakly singular functions can be used as the kernels of the integral operators. A one-dimensional sound wave traveling in a semiinfinite visco-elastic medium is considered. The generalized exponential functions of fractional order, proposed by Yu. N. Rabotnov [1, 2] as the kernels of Boltzmann-Volterra integral relations, have found wide applications in theory of linear visco-elasticity. This is explained partly by the great mathematical flexibility of the F-operators when applying the Volterra principle to the solution of elastically hereditary problems and partly by the fact that almost all weakly singular kernels possessing an Abelian singularity are connected in some way or other with the F-functions. For example, the resolvent of the elementary weakly singular Abelian kernel is an F-function. The product of an exponential function with an Abelian kernel represents a particular case of the product of two F-functions with different fractional parameters, while the resolvent of such a kernel is the product of an exponential function with an F-function [3, 4]. Since the e-functions are defined by slowly convergent series, their various asymptotic forms [2, 5–8] are commonly used in practical calculations. The theory of F-functions can be developed further in the context of their integral representations, which enables a more exact physical interpretation to be given to their parameters and on occasion simplifies computational operations.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 103–110, January–February, 1970.In conclusion, the author thanks Yu. N. Rabotnov for discussion.     

A higher-order nonlocal elasticity and strain gradient theory and its applications in wave propagation

In recent years there have been many papers that considered the effects of material length scales in the study of mechanics of solids at micro- and/or nano-scales. There are a number of approaches and, among them, one set of papers deals with Eringen's differential nonlocal model and another deals with the strain gradient theories. The modified couple stress theory, which also accounts for a material length scale, is a form of a strain gradient theory. The large body of literature that has come into existence in the last several years has created significant confusion among researchers about the length scales that these various theories contain. The present paper has the objective of establishing the fact that the length scales present in nonlocal elasticity and strain gradient theory describe two entirely different physical characteristics of materials and structures at nanoscale. By using two principle kernel functions, the paper further presents a theory with application examples which relates the classical nonlocal elasticity and strain gradient theory and it results in a higher-order nonlocal strain gradient theory. In this theory, a higher-order nonlocal strain gradient elasticity system which considers higher-order stress gradients and strain gradient nonlocality is proposed. It is based on the nonlocal effects of the strain field and first gradient strain field. This theory intends to generalize the classical nonlocal elasticity theory by introducing a higher-order strain tensor with nonlocality into the stored energy function. The theory is distinctive because the classical nonlocal stress theory does not include nonlocality of higher-order stresses while the common strain gradient theory only considers local higher-order strain gradients without nonlocal effects in a global sense. By establishing the constitutive relation within the thermodynamic framework, the governing equations of equilibrium and all boundary conditions are derived via the variational approach. Two additional kinds of parameters, the higher-order nonlocal parameters and the nonlocal gradient length coefficients are introduced to account for the size-dependent characteristics of nonlocal gradient materials at nanoscale. To illustrate its application values, the theory is applied for wave propagation in a nonlocal strain gradient system and the new dispersion relations derived are presented through examples for wave propagating in Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko nanobeams. The numerical results based on the new nonlocal strain gradient theory reveal some new findings with respect to lattice dynamics and wave propagation experiment that could not be matched by both the classical nonlocal stress model and the contemporary strain gradient theory. Thus, this higher-order nonlocal strain gradient model provides an explanation to some observations in the classical and nonlocal stress theories as well as the strain gradient theory in these aspects.     

The Peierls stress in non-local elasticity

The effect of non-locality on the Peierls stress of a dislocation, predicted within the framework of the Peierls-Nabarro model, is investigated. Both the integral formulation of non-local elasticity and the gradient elasticity model are considered. A modification of the non-local kernel of the integral formulation is proposed and its effect on the dislocation core shape and size, and on the Peierls stress are discussed. The new kernel is longer ranged and physically meaningful, improving therefore upon the existing Gaussian-like non-locality kernels. As in the original Peierls-Nabarro model, lattice trapping cannot be captured in the purely continuum non-local formulation and therefore, a semi-discrete framework is used. The constitutive law of the elastic continuum and that of the glide plane are considered both local and non-local in separate models. The major effect is obtained upon rendering non-local the constitutive law of the continuum, while non-locality in the rebound force law of the glide plane has a marginal effect. The Peierls stress is seen to increase with increasing the intrinsic length scale of the non-local formulation, while the core size decreases accordingly. The solution becomes unstable at intrinsic length scales larger than a critical value. Modifications of the rebound force law entail significant changes in the core configuration and critical stress. The discussion provides insight into the issue of internal length scale selection in non-local elasticity models.     

A nonlocal constitutive model generated by matrix functions for polyatomic periodic linear chains

We establish a discrete lattice dynamics model and its continuum limits for nonlocal constitutive behavior of polyatomic cyclically closed linear chains being formed by periodically repeated unit cells (molecules), each consisting of \({n \geq 1}\) atoms which all are of different species, e.g., distinguished by their masses. Nonlocality is introduced by elastic potentials which are quadratic forms of finite differences of orders \({m \in \mathbf{N}}\) of the displacement field leading by application of Hamilton’s variational principle to nondiagonal and hence nonlocal Laplacian matrices. These Laplacian matrices are obtained as matrix power functions of even orders 2m of the local discrete Laplacian of the next neighbor Born-von-Karman linear chain. The present paper is a generalization of a recent model that we proposed for the monoatomic chain. We analyze the vibrational dispersion relation and continuum limits of our nonlocal approach. “Anomalous” dispersion relation characteristics due to strong nonlocality which cannot be captured by classical lattice models is found and discussed. The requirement of finiteness of the elastic energies and total masses in the continuum limits requires a certain scaling behavior of the material constants. In this way, we deduce rigorously the continuum limit kernels of the Laplacian matrices of our nonlocal lattice model. The approach guarantees that these kernels correspond to physically admissible, elastically stable chains. The present approach has the potential to be extended to 2D and 3D lattices.     

On the functional form of non-local elasticity kernels

The functional form of non-local elasticity kernels is studied within the context of the integral formalism. The study is limited to linear isotropic elasticity. The kernels are derived analytically based on the discrete structure of the material at the atomic scale. Atomistic simulations are used to validate the results. Materials in which the interatomic interactions are represented by pair, as well as embedded atom-type potentials are considered. The derived kernels have a range which extends up to the cut-off radius of the interatomic potential, are positive at the origin, and become negative approximately one atomic distance away, thus departing from the commonly assumed Gaussian functional form. The functional form of the potential and the radial distribution function of interacting neighbors about a representative atom fully define their shape. This new continuum model involves two material length scales that are both derived from atomistics for a Morse solid and for Al. Two applications are considered in closure. It is shown that in strained superlattices, the non-local model predicts maximum stresses that are much larger than those obtained within the local theory. This observation has implications for defect nucleation in these structures. Furthermore, the new non-local model improves upon the Gaussian one by predicting a more realistic wave dispersion relationship, with essentially zero group velocity at the boundary of the Brillouin zone.     

考虑非局部效应和记忆依赖微分的广义热弹问题

现有的广义热弹理论主要适用于求解时间尺度极短但空间尺度仍属宏观尺度的广义热弹问题的动态响应,而当所研究的弹性体的特征几何尺寸也属微尺度时,弹性体的力学响应将呈现出强烈的尺寸相关性,现有的广义热弹理论不再适用. 本文基于通过非局部效应和记记依赖微分修正的广义热弹性理论,研究了两端固定、受移动热源作用的有限长热弹杆的动态响应. 建立了问题的控制方程,给出了问题的初始条件及边界条件,运用拉普拉斯变换及其数值反变换,对方程进行了求解. 数值计算中,首先考察了时间延迟因子对模型所预测各物理量分布的影响;然后对比了模型中的时间延迟因子在两种不同类别核函数下(通过归一化条件修正和未修正形式)对各物理量分布的影响效应;最后考察了考虑新的可以描述尺寸效应的非局部因子对无量纲温度、位移及应力的影响,并用图形进行了示例. 结果表明, 时间延迟因子增大,各物理量的峰值变大,传播距离变小,且时间延迟因子在归一化条件修正过的核函数下影响更加显著;非局部参数几乎不影响无量纲温度的分布,轻微影响无量纲位移的分布,但对无量纲应力的峰值的影响显著.      

类石墨烯二维原子晶体的微态理论模型

基于微态(Micromorphic) 连续介质理论,提出了针对类石墨烯二维原子晶体的新力学模型. 该模型以有限大小的布拉维单胞为基元体,考虑基元粒子的宏观位移和微观变形,依据微态理论基本方程,推导了全局坐标系下模型的主导方程. 然后针对布拉维单胞中含有两个原子的类石墨烯晶体,通过分析单胞中声子振动模式与基元体自由度的关系,获得了微态形式下声子色散关系的久期方程,并根据二维晶体声子色散特性对久期方程进行了简化,进而确定了类石墨烯晶体模型的本构方程. 最后,以石墨烯和单层六方氮化硼为例,利用简化的表达式拟合了它们面内声子色散关系数据,计算了模型材料的常数,石墨烯模型的等效杨氏模量、泊松比分别为1.05 TPa 和0.197,氮化硼分别为0.766 TPa 和0.225,均与已有的实验值相符合.      

应力波数值计算中的SPH方法

对一维波动方程的SPH(smoothed particle hydrodynamics)格式和有限差分格式进行比较,并采用SPH法模拟了一维应力/应变波, 获得1个可衡量SPH法模拟应力波准确性的重要指标。结果表明,SPH法模拟应力波传播中采用的光滑长度必须不小于粒子间距;采用B-样条核函数和高斯型核函数能够获得良好的应力波图像,而二次型核函数不能,因此二次型核函数不适用于冲击动力学的数值计算。     

Static and dynamic behaviour of nonlocal elastic bar using integral strain-based and peridynamic models

The static and dynamic behaviour of a nonlocal bar of finite length is studied in this paper. The nonlocal integral models considered in this paper are strain-based and relative displacement-based nonlocal models; the latter one is also labelled as a peridynamic model. For infinite media, and for sufficiently smooth displacement fields, both integral nonlocal models can be equivalent, assuming some kernel correspondence rules. For infinite media (or finite media with extended reflection rules), it is also shown that Eringen's differential model can be reformulated into a consistent strain-based integral nonlocal model with exponential kernel, or into a relative displacement-based integral nonlocal model with a modified exponential kernel. A finite bar in uniform tension is considered as a paradigmatic static case. The strain-based nonlocal behaviour of this bar in tension is analyzed for different kernels available in the literature. It is shown that the kernel has to fulfil some normalization and end compatibility conditions in order to preserve the uniform strain field associated with this homogeneous stress state. Such a kernel can be built by combining a local and a nonlocal strain measure with compatible boundary conditions, or by extending the domain outside its finite size while preserving some kinematic compatibility conditions. The same results are shown for the nonlocal peridynamic bar where a homogeneous strain field is also analytically obtained in the elastic bar for consistent compatible kinematic boundary conditions at the vicinity of the end conditions. The results are extended to the vibration of a fixed–fixed finite bar where the natural frequencies are calculated for both the strain-based and the peridynamic models.     

A Galerkin method for distributed systems with non-local damping

In this paper, a non-local damping model including time and spatial hysteresis effects is used for the dynamic analysis of structures consisting of Euler–Bernoulli beams and Kirchoff plates. Unlike ordinary local damping models, the damping force in a non-local model is obtained as a weighted average of the velocity field over the spatial domain, determined by a kernel function based on distance measures. The resulting equation of motion for the beam or plate structures is an integro-partial-differential equation, rather than the partial-differential equation obtained for a local damping model. Approximate solutions for the complex eigenvalues and modes with non-local damping are obtained using the Galerkin method. Numerical examples demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method for beam and plate structures with simple boundary conditions, for non-local and non-viscous damping models, and different kernel functions.     

Scattering of harmonic waves by a disk-shaped rigid inclusion in a three-dimensional elastic matrix

We consider a three-dimensional problem on the interaction of harmonic waves with a thin rigid movable inclusion in an infinite elastic body. The problem is reduced to solving a system of two-dimensional boundary integral equations of Helmholtz potential type for the stress jump functions on the opposite surfaces of the inclusion. We propose a boundary element method for solving the integral equations on the basis of the regularization of their weakly singular kernels. Using the asymptotic relations between the amplitude-frequency characteristics of the wave farzone field and the obtained boundary stress jump functions, we determine the amplitudes of the shear plane wave scattering by a circular disk-shaped inclusion for various directions of the wave incident on the inclusion and for a broad range of wave numbers.     

Strain analysis of nonlocal viscoelastic Kelvin bar in tension

Based on viscoelastic Kelvin model and nonlocal relationship of strain and stress, a nonlocal constitutive relationship of viscoelasticity is obtained and the strain response of a bar in tension is studied. By transforming governing equation of the strain analysis into Volterra integration form and by choosing a symmetric exponential form of kernel function and adapting Neumann series, the closed-form solution of strain field of the bar is obtained. The creep process of the bar is presented. When time approaches infinite, the strain of bar is equal to the one of nonlocal elasticity.     

On the application of the Wiener–Hopf technique to problems in dynamic elasticity

Many problems in linear elastodynamics, or dynamic fracture mechanics, can be reduced to Wiener–Hopf functional equations defined in a strip in a complex transform plane. Apart from a few special cases, the inherent coupling between shear and compressional body motions gives rise to coupled systems of equations, and so the resulting Wiener–Hopf kernels are of matrix form. The key step in the solution of a Wiener–Hopf equation, which is to decompose the kernel into a product of two factors with particular analyticity properties, can be accomplished explicitly for scalar kernels. However, apart from special matrices which yield commutative factorizations, no procedure has yet been devised to factorize exactly general matrix kernels.

This paper shall demonstrate, by way of example, that the Wiener–Hopf approximant matrix (WHAM) procedure for obtaining approximate factors of matrix kernels (recently introduced by the author in [SIAM J. Appl. Math. 57 (2) (1997) 541]) is applicable to the class of matrix kernels found in elasticity, and in particular to problems in QNDE. First, as a motivating example, the kernel arising in the model of diffraction of skew incident elastic waves on a semi-infinite crack in an isotropic elastic space is studied. This was first examined in a seminal work by Achenbach and Gautesen [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61 (2) (1977) 413] and here three methods are offered for deriving distinct non-commutative factorizations of the kernel. Second, the WHAM method is employed to factorize the matrix kernel arising in the problem of radiation into an elastic half-space with mixed boundary conditions on its face. Third, brief mention is made of kernel factorization related to the problems of flexural wave diffraction by a crack in a thin (Mindlin) plate, and body wave scattering by an interfacial crack.     

Effective thermoelastic properties of graded doublyperiodic particulate matrix composites in varying externalstress fields

We consider a linear elastic composite medium, which consists of a homogeneousmatrix containing aligned ellipsoidal uncoated or coated inclusions arranged in a doubly periodicarray and subjected to inhomogeneous boundary conditions. The hypothesis of effective fieldhomogeneity near the inclusions is used. The general integral equation obtained reduces theanalysis of infinite number of inclusion problems to the analysis of a finite number of inclusions insome representative volume element (RVE) . The integral equation is solved by a modifiedversion of the Neumann series; the fast convergence of this method is demonstrated for concreteexamples. The nonlocal macroscopic constitutive equation relating the cell averages of stress andstrain is derived in explicit iterative form of an integral equation. A doubly periodic inclusion fieldin a finite ply subjected to a stress gradient along the functionally graded direction is considered.The stresses averaged over the cell are explicitly represented as functions of the boundaryconditions. Finally, the employed of proposed explicit relations for numerical simulations oftensors describing the local and nonlocal effective elastic properties of finite inclusion pliescontaining a simple cubic lattice of rigid inclusions and voids are considered. The local andnonlocal parts of average strains are estimated for inclusion plies of different thickness. Theboundary layers and scale effects for effective local and nonlocal effective properties as well as foraverage stresses will be revealed.     

Prediction of phonon properties of 1D polyatomic systems using concurrent atomistic–continuum simulation

In this work, we present the simulation results of phonon properties, including phonon dispersion relations, group velocities, phonon relaxation time and mode-specific thermal conductivity, of low-dimensional crystals using the newly developed concurrent atomistic–continuum (CAC) method. With significantly less number of degrees of freedoms than all-atom molecular dynamics, the CAC method predicts the phonon properties of one-dimensional (1D) polyatomic crystals at finite temperatures with the full anharmonicity of the atomic interactions being incorporated. Complete phonon branches of polyatomic crystals are obtained by CAC through the phonon spectral energy density analysis. It is shown that CAC allows medium to long-wavelength phonon transport from atomic to coarsely meshed finite element region without the need of special numerical treatment. The frequency-dependent phonon group velocities are explicitly measured in the simulation. Sub-THz phonon lifetimes in 100 -mm-long polyatomic chains containing 400 million of atoms are predicted. Analysis of the phonon mode-specific thermal conductivity shows that the medium to long-wavelength acoustic phonons are contributing to the majority of the heat transport in 1D crystal, suggesting that the long-wavelength phonons effectively act as thermal carriers in 1D system. This work provides a possible explanation for the anomalous heat transport observed in low-dimensional materials.