Hysteretic linear and nonlinear acoustic responses from pressed interfaces

An analysis of the linear and nonlinear acoustic responses from an interface between rough surfaces in elastoplastic contact is presented as a model of the ultrasonic wave interactions with imperfect interfaces and closed cracks. A micromechanical elastoplastic contact model predicts the linear and second order interfacial stiffness from the topographic and mechanical properties of the contacting surfaces during a loading–unloading cycle. The effects of those surface properties on the linear and nonlinear reflection/transmission of elastic longitudinal waves are shown. The second order harmonic amplitudes of reflected/transmitted waves decrease by more than an order of magnitude during the transition from the elastic contact mode to the elastoplastic contact mode. It is observed that under specific loading histories the interface between smooth surfaces generates higher elastoplastic hysteresis in the interfacial stiffness and the acoustic nonlinearity than interfaces between rough surfaces. The results show that when plastic flow in the contacting asperities is significant, the acoustic nonlinearity is insensitive to the asperity peak distribution. A comparison with existing experimental data for the acoustic nonlinearity in the transmitted waves is also given with a discussion on its contact mechanical implication.     

Propagation of surface waves in a half-space with vertical,inclined or curved interfaces

The paper reviews the author's theoretical studies on reflection and transmission of surface waves at vertical and near-vertical boundaries. For estimation of reflection and transmission coefficients a new approximate method based on the Green function technique is proposed. The method is valid if a body waves field arised at the boundary is approximately orthogonal to the fields of reflected and transmitted normal modes. It may be used for normal as well as for oblique incidence. A Green function in each quarterspace is assumed to be the same as in a halfspace with the same vertical distribution of elastic parameters. For large angles of incidence when the reflected wave field is strong enough, the Green function may be corrected for the reflected wave. The results of calculation for some models by means of this method are discussed.     

Short-wave modes for wave ducts in quasi-stratified media

Propagation of harmonic waves in three-dimensional ducts, with slowly varying properties in the horizontal directions, is treated. The wave length is assumed to be small in comparison with the width of the duct. A set of asymptotic solutions to the wave equation (generalisations of normal modes of horizontally homogeneous wave-guides) is constructed. The method extends the applicability region of the method of “vertical modes and horizontal rays” and gives a simple estimation of the latter. Oscillations bounded by the wave-guide's boundaries or by the caustics are treated, and a unified formal procedure for construction of appropriate asymptotic solutions is proposed. The vicinity of ‘horizontal caustics’ is investigated. The analysis is carried out for the examples of acoustic and internal gravitational waves in fluids.     

两层流体中水波在垂直薄板上的反射与透射

研究在两层流体中表面波模态和内波模态的波浪与半潜式刚性垂直薄板 相互作用的问题. 基于特征函数展开理论,建立了两种模态入射波作用下,半潜式刚性垂直 薄板的反射与透射能量的计算方法,证明了对每一种模态的入射波,另一种模态波浪的反射 与透射能量是相等的. 对水面漂浮和座底半潜式薄板的反射与透射能量,以及作用在其上的 水平波浪力进行了数值计算分析,表明在某个频率范围内,流体的分层效应对这些水动力 量的影响是不可忽视的. 特别地,当薄板的一端位于两层流体的内界面上时,两种模态波浪 的能量转化是最大的.     

Analysis of nonlinear acoustoelastic effect of surface acoustic waves in laminated structures by transfer matrix method

The propagation of surface acoustic waves in a layered half-space is investigated in this paper, where a thin cubic Ge film is perfectly bonded to an isotropic elastic Si half-space. Application of the transfer matrix and by solving the coupled field equations, solutions to the mechanical displacements are obtained for the film and elastic substrate, respectively. The phase velocity equations for surface acoustic waves are obtained. Effects of the homogeneous initial stresses induced by the mismatch of the film and substrate are discussed in detail. The results are useful for the design of acoustic surface wave devices.     

Some properties on far-field pattern of scattering by penetrable obstacle in ocean waveguide

This paper is concerned with the properties of propagation fax-field patterns corresponding to the scattering of time harmonic acoustic waves by a bounded penetrable obstacle in an ocean waveguide. The sets of solutions to the transmission problem are constructed such that the restriction of these solutions to the boundary of the penetrable obstacle is dense in a Hilbert space. Then conditions under which a set of propagation far-field patterns is complete in a Hilbert space are determined. These properties are important in investigating inverse transmission problems in an ocean waveguide.     

圆弧形超表面对透射声波的可调控制与功能转换

基于"螺丝?螺母"的工作原理,设计了可调的透射型三通道螺旋单元,通过调节螺丝的旋拧深度来改变声通道的长度,从而实现对透射声波相位的调节.利用有限元方法计算了单元的透射波相位差和透射系数随频率和旋拧深度的变化规律.在平面广义Snell定律基础上推导了适用于圆弧形曲面的广义Snell定律.设计了圆弧形超表面,包括弧状和圆环...     

Thermal Fatigue Damage Assessment in an Isotropic Pipe Using Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Waves

The use of nonlinear ultrasonic waves has been accepted as a potential technique to characterize the state of material micro-structure in solids. The typical nonlinear phenomenon is generation of second harmonics. Second harmonic generation of ultrasonic waves propagation has been vigorously studied for tracking material micro-damages in unbounded media and plate-like waveguides. However, there are few studies of launching second harmonic guided wave propagation in tube-like structures. Considering that second harmonics could provide useful information sensitive for material degradation condition, this research aims at developing a procedure for detecting second harmonics of ultrasonic guided wave in an isotropic pipe. The second harmonics generation of guided wave propagation in an isotropic and stress-free elastic pipe is investigated. Flexible polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) comb transducers are used to measure fundamental wave and second harmonic one. Experimental results show that nonlinear parameters increase monotonically with propagation distance. This work experimentally verifies that the second harmonics of guided waves in pipe have the cumulative effect with propagation distance. The proposed procedure is applied to assessing thermal fatigue damage indicated by nonlinearity in an aluminum pipe. The experimental observation verifies that nonlinear guided waves can be used to assess damage levels in early thermal fatigue state by correlating them with the acoustic nonlinearity.     

Reflection and refraction of acoustic waves at the interface between a gas and a disperse systems

The reflection and refraction of acoustic waves at different angles of incidence on the interface between a vapor-gas-droplet system and air are studied. From an analysis of analytical solutions, it has been found that in the case of incidence on the interface from the side of the vapor-gas-droplet medium, there is a critical angle of incidence at which the wave is completely reflected from the boundary, i.e., total internal reflection takes place. It is shown that for a certain angle of incidence on the interface both from the air side and from the mixture side and for a certain volume fraction of water in the disperse system, complete transmission of the acoustic wave through the medium is observed.     

Artificial boundary conditions for out-of-plane motion in penta-graphene

In this paper, artificial boundary conditions are designed for out-of-plane waves in penta-graphene, a newly proposed allotrope of carbon. By matching the dispersion relation for acoustic branch phonons in the long wave limit, we determine parameters in proposed linear constraints among displacements and velocities at the boundary and nearby atoms. Reflection analysis for normal incidences and a numerical test demonstrate the effectiveness of the artificial boundary conditions. These conditions may be used for studying mechanical behaviours of the novel complex lattice of penta-graphene.     

Phase Shift Adjustment for Harmonic Balance Method Applied to Vibro-impact Systems

This work addresses the phase shift adjustment between the external forcing and the responses for strongly non-linear dynamic systems calculated by Harmonic Balance Method (HBM). The HBM offers fast and robust solutions for strongly non-linear systems operating in periodic regimes, however, the phase information when applying the harmonic balance method is lost. In this paper, a practical scheme for calculating the phase difference for a piecewise oscillator mimicking a vibro-impact system is proposed.     

The axisymmetric Rayleigh waves in a semi-infinite elastic solid

It is well-known that Rayleigh wave, also known as surface acoustic wave(SAW), solutions in semiinfinite solids are plane waves with signatory properties like the distinct velocity and exponentially decaying deformation in the depth. Applications of Rayleigh waves are focused on the deformation and energy in the vicinity of surface of solids and less loss in the propagation. A generalized model of Rayleigh waves in axisymmetric mode is established and solutions are obtained with cylindrical coordinates. It is found that the Rayleigh waves also propagate in the axisymmetric mode with slow decay in radius, confirming the existence of surface acoustic waves is irrelevant to coordinate system. On the other hand, the solutions can be treated as plane waves in regions far away from the source. Furthermore, the particle trajectory of axisymmetric SAW is a line with constant slope rather than the signatory ellipse in Cartesian coordinate case.     

Love waves in functionally graded piezoelectric materials

To investigate the features of Love waves in a layered functionally graded piezoelectric structure, the mathematical model is established on the basis of the elastic wave theory, and the WKB method is applied to solve the coupled electromechanical field differential equation. The solutions of the mechanical displacement and electrical potential function are obtained for the piezoelectric layer and elastic substrate. The dispersion relations of Love waves are deduced for electric open and short cases on the free surface respectively. The actual piezoelectric layer–elastic substrate systems are taken into account, and some corresponding numerical examples are proposed comparatively. Thus, the effects of the gradient variation about material constants on the phase velocity, the group velocity, the coupled electromechanical factor and the cutoff frequency are discussed in detail. So the propagation behaviors of Love waves in inhomogeneous medium is revealed, and the dispersion and the anti-dispersion are analyzed. The conclusions are significant both theoretically and practically for the surface acoustic wave devices.     

Wave mixing in coupled phononic crystals via a variable stiffness mechanism

We investigate wave mixing effects in a phononic crystal that couples the wave dynamics of two channels – primary and control ones – via a variable stiffness mechanism. We demonstrate analytically and numerically that the wave transmission in the primary channel can be manipulated by the control channel's signal. We show that the application of control waves allows the selection of a specific mode through the primary channel. We also demonstrate that the mixing of two wave modes is possible whereby a modulation effect is observed. A detailed study of the design parameters is also carried out to optimize the switching capabilities of the proposed system. Finally, we verify that the system can fulfill both switching and amplification functionalities, potentially enabling the realization of an acoustic transistor.     

Nonreflecting boundary conditions based on nonlinear multidimensional characteristics

Nonlinear characteristic boundary conditions based on nonlinear multidimensional characteristics are proposed for 2‐ and 3‐D compressible Navier–Stokes equations with/without scalar transport equations. This approach is consistent with the flow physics and transport properties. Based on the theory of characteristics, which is a rigorous mathematical technique, multidimensional flows can be decomposed into acoustic, entropy, and vorticity waves. Nonreflecting boundary conditions are derived by setting corresponding characteristic variables of incoming waves to zero and by partially damping the source terms of the incoming acoustic waves. In order to obtain the resulting optimal damping coefficient, analysis is performed for problems of pure acoustic plane wave propagation and arbitrary flows. The proposed boundary conditions are tested on two benchmark problems: cylindrical acoustic wave propagation and the wake flow behind a cylinder with strong periodic vortex convected out of the computational domain. This new approach substantially minimizes the spurious wave reflections of pressure, density, temperature, and velocity as well as vorticity from the artificial boundaries, where strong multidimensional flow effects exist. The numerical simulations yield accurate results, confirm the optimal damping coefficient obtained from analysis, and verify that the method substantially improves the 1‐D characteristics‐based nonreflecting boundary conditions for complex multidimensional flows. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Lamb wave scattering by a symmetric pair of surface-breaking cracks in a plate

The scattering problem of a Lamb wave incident on a symmetric pair of surface-breaking transverse cracks in a plate is considered. The Lamb wave is assumed to be obliquely incident on the crack plane. Since the cracks are part-through, the scattered field will contain reflected as well as transmitted waves. The energy of the incoming wave is partitioned into reflected and transmitted wave modes. Energy coefficients of the reflected and transmitted waves are calculated as a function of incident frequency and crack depth. The incidence angle of the incoming wave is also treated as a parameter. Both the reflected and transmitted wave fields are considered as linear superpositions of all real and complex wave modes in the plate. Decomposition of modes is achieved with the help of an orthogonality condition based on the principle of reciprocal work. Continuity of displacement and stress fields is imposed at the crack plane. Energy coefficients for reflection and transmission are obtained from the mode amplitudes. Energy coefficients are shown to be a strong function of incident frequency and crack depth. Experiments are conducted with a PZT transducer network interacting with a symmetric pair of machined cracks in an aluminum plate. Trends predicted by the analysis are reflected in the experimental results.     

Wave dispersion in randomly layered materials

Wave scattering in materials composed of two kinds of alternating layers with different elastic properties and randomly distributed thicknesses has been modeled. The general form of the dispersion equation is derived for the unbounded layered medium. It defines two basic macroscopic characteristics of the scattered wave: phase velocity and attenuation, which are explicit functions of wave frequency and microscopic parameters of the system: acoustic properties of the layers and stochastic characteristics of their thickness distributions. The analytical expressions are derived for three special cases: for long waves; for a periodic medium composed of layers with constant thicknesses and for random medium with uniform distribution of layer thicknesses. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the frequency dependence of the wave parameters. It was shown that the predictions of the model for long waves and for periodic medium are compatible with the results obtained in the literature.Moreover, comparison of theoretical results for frequency dependent wave parameters with numerical simulations of pulse transmission through the slab of the randomly layered medium shows good qualitative and quantitative agreement in wide frequency range.     

双周期加筋微穿孔板的振动响应及声透射的研究

本文主要研究了水下无穷大双周期加筋微穿孔薄板,在平面声波斜入射下的振动响应和声透射,并提出了一种半解析半数值的计算方法。利用微穿孔板的声阻抗以及薄板表面的振速边界条件,建立了加筋穿孔薄板的振动方程,并根据傅立叶变换及空间波数法将振动位移表达为波数分量的迭加形式。采用数值计算的方法对波数分量进行求解并通过傅里叶逆变换,最终得到了双周期加筋穿孔薄板的振动响应及透射系数。通过与Takahashi穿孔板声压结果的对比,证明了本方法的正确性。在算例中,分析了加强筋及穿孔率对薄板结构的振动和声透射的影响。     

An experimental digital communication scheme based on chaotic time-delay system

We develop an experimental system for secure communication with nonlinear mixing of information signal and chaotic signal of a time-delay system. The proposed scheme is based on programmable microcontrollers with digital transmission line. The scheme allows one to transmit and receive speech and musical signals in real time without noticeable distortion. A high quality of extraction of hidden information signal is achieved due to the use of digital elements in the scheme, which ensures identity of the parameters and high stability to noise. We study a possibility of hidden message extraction from a chaotic carrier by a third party in the case of mismatch of the receiver and transmitter parameters.     

Optimum transmission of elastic waves through joints

An elastic wave transmitting system (e.g. a nonuniform elastic rod) consisting of an input section with constant impedance, a joint with variable impedance, and an output section with constant impedance is considered. The efficiency of energy transmission (the ratio of transmitted to incident elastic wave energy) is determined and the following optimization problem is solved for two sample cases: Given the properties of the wave transmitting system and a limited duration of the incident wave, determine the shape of this wave such that the efficiency of energy transmission is maximized. In the first case (a joint with constant impedance) the optimization problem leads to a matrix eigenvalue problem. In the second case (a joint with concentrated mass) it leads to an eigenvalue problem for an integral equation. The efficiencies obtained for the optimum incident waves are compared with those obtained for rectagular incident waves an it is found that the differences are generally small. The results, which are discussed with particular reference to the transmission of elastic wave energy through drill rod joints, can also be interpreted for e.g. shallow water waves and electromagnetic waves in a transmission line.