Correlation between helical surface waves and guided modes of an infinite immersed elastic cylinder

Scattering of obliquely incident plane acoustic waves from immersed infinite solid elastic cylinders is a complex phenomenon that involves generation of various types of surface waves on the body of the cylinder. Mitri [F.G. Mitri, Acoustic backscattering enhancement resulting from the interaction of an obliquely incident plane wave with an infinite cylinder, Ultrasonics 50 (2010) 675-682] recently showed that for a solid aluminum cylinder, there exist acoustic backscattering enhancements at a normalized frequency of ka?0.1. The incidence angle α_c at which these enhancements are observed lies between the first (longitudinal) and second (shear) coupling angles of the cylinder. He also confirmed the observations previously reported by the authors that there exist backscattering enhancements of the dipole mode at large angles of incidence where no wave penetration into the cylinder is expected. In this paper, physical explanations are provided for the aforementioned observations by establishing a correlation between helical surface waves generated by oblique insonification of an immersed infinite solid elastic cylinder and the longitudinal and flexural guided modes that can propagate along the cylinder. In particular, it is shown that the backscattering enhancement observed at ka?0.1 is due to the excitation of the first longitudinal guided mode travelling at the bar velocity along the cylinder. It is also demonstrated that the dipole resonance mode observed at incidence angles larger than the Rayleigh coupling angle is associated with the first flexural guided mode of the cylinder. The correlation established between the scattering and propagation problems can be used in both numerical and experimental studies of interaction of mechanical waves with cylinders.     

Capillary waves in an inhomogeneous three-layer liquid with a free surface

In the domain of capillary waves, a bicubic dispersion relation is derived and analyzed for surface and internal capillary–gravitational waves in a three-layer liquid with a free surface. It is shown that the ratio of the internal wave amplitudes to the surface wave amplitudes is fairly large if the trivial condition of a “homogeneous liquid” is discarded. The amplitude ratio between the internal waves themselves (generated at different interfaces) may be both greater and smaller than unity depending on the physical parameters of the system. Specifically, it strongly depends on the densities of the layers and their thicknesses.     

Diffraction of sound by an elastic cylinder near the surface of an elastic halfspace

Diffraction of an acoustic wave by an elastic cylinder near the surface of an elastic halfspace is considered. The solution relies on a Helmholtz-type integral equation and uses the Green function of an elastic halfspace. The latter function is represented in the form of an integral over the Sommerfeld contour on the plane of a complex variable that has the meaning of the angle of the wave incidence on the halfspace boundary. An integral equation for the sound pressure distribution over the cylinder surface is derived. This equation is reduced to an infinite system of equations for the Fourier-series expansion coefficients of this distribution. The results obtained are valid for the diffraction of a cylindrical wave and a plane wave. They also describe the diffraction of a spherical wave when the transmitter and receiver are far from the cylinder and lie in one plane that is orthogonal to the cylinder axis.     

Propagation of elastic waves in an anisotropic functionally graded hollow cylinder in vacuum

As a non-destructive, non-invasive and non-ionizing evaluation technique for heterogeneous media, the ultrasonic method is of major interest in industrial applications but especially in biomedical fields. Among the unidirectionally heterogeneous media, the continuously varying media are a particular but widespread case in natural materials. The first studies on laterally varying media were carried out by geophysicists on the Ocean, the atmosphere or the Earth, but the teeth, the bone, the shells and the insects wings are also functionally graded media. Some of them can be modeled as planar structures but a lot of them are curved media and need to be modeled as cylinders instead of plates. The present paper investigates the influence of the tubular geometry of a waveguide on the propagation of elastic waves. In this paper, the studied structure is an anisotropic hollow cylinder with elastic properties (stiffness coefficients c_ij and mass density ρ) functionally varying in the radial direction. An original method is proposed to find the eigenmodes of this waveguide without using a multilayered model for the cylinder. This method is based on the sextic Stroh’s formalism and an analytical solution, the matricant, explicitly expressed under the Peano series expansion form. This approach has already been validated for the study of an anisotropic laterally-graded plate (Baron et al., 2007; Baron and Naili, 2010) [6] and [5]. The dispersion curves obtained for the radially-graded cylinder are compared to the dispersion curves of a corresponding laterally-graded plate to evaluate the influence of the curvature.Preliminary results are presented for a tube of bone in vacuum modelling the in vitro conditions of bone strength evaluation.     

Acoustic wave dispersion in a cylindrical elastic tube filled with a viscous liquid

This paper deals with the study of the velocity and the attenuation of an acoustic wave propagating inside a cylindrical elastic tube filled with a viscous liquid. A theory describing the propagation of the axisymmetrical modes in such waveguides is presented, with special attention given to the absorption produced by the viscous mechanisms in the liquid. One of these mechanisms is related to the momentum transfer between the compression and rarefaction regions of a propagating wave. The other viscous mechanism is due to the momentum transport inside the viscous boundary layer, close to the tube wall. Numerical calculations were carried out to investigate the influence of different parameters (frequency, tube radii, viscosity coefficient) on the propagation of acoustic waves.     

Scattering of Rayleigh-Lamb waves by a surface breaking crack in an elastic plate

This work studies the problem of scattering of Rayleigh-Lamb waves by a thin surface-breaking crack. The problem is solved by the projection method, which exploits some orthogonality relations deduced from the reciprocal theorem. Numerical results obtained by the projection method are compared with the results obtained using a finite element method reported by other authors for the case of a flat crack, finding good agreement. From the numerical results it is observed that, as the wave number of the incident wave, so for instance, is smaller, the reflected and transmitted energy corresponding to the converted mode, A0 in this case, are almost equal to each other. An explanation for this result is given, based on the asymptotic nature of the modes S0 and A0 for small wave numbers.     

Surface waves and mode conversion at a surface coated with an elastic heavy layer

A surface wave of frequency lying within bulk band of transverse waves is found in an elastic medium coated with a thin layer endowed with a surface mass density, surface Young's modulus and surface bending modulus. The wave is a particular case of surface resonance with infinite lifetime. In materials with negative Poisson's ratio (auxetics) the wave exists even for coating material with zero bending modulus, whereas with positive Poisson's ratio it requires the surface bending modulus to be larger than the surface Young's modulus. The manifestation of this wave in the reflection coefficient seems promising for fabrication of devices showing monochromator properties.     

Nonstationary periodic spatial waves on the surface of a viscous liquid film falling down a vertical cylinder

The flows of viscous liquid film over the outer surface of a vertical cylinder are examined. Investigation of wave regimes in the case of low flow rates and large cylinder radii is reduced to the analysis of solutions to a nonlinear evolution equation for the film thickness. There are countable numbers of steady-state traveling solution families in the considered model. In turn, most of them are unstable to 2D and 3D perturbations. Thus, evolution of initial perturbations in different ranges of parameter values differs significantly. Some typical scenarios of perturbation development are presented in this work. Initial perturbations with some symmetries, kept in the process of evolution, are of a particular interest. In these cases, solutions are drawn up to the steady-state traveling solutions with similar symmetry.     

Time-harmonic torsional waves in a composite cylinder with an imperfect interface

In this paper, the propagation of time-harmonic torsional waves in composite elastic cylinders is investigated. An imperfect interface is considered where tractions are continuous across the interface and the displacement jump is proportional to the stress acting on the interface. A frequency equation is derived for the rod and dispersion curves of normalized frequency as a function of normalized wave number for elastic bimaterials with varying values for the interface constant F are presented. The analysis is shown to recover the dispersion curves for a bimaterial rod with a perfect (welded) interface (F = 0), and has the correct limiting behavior for large F. It is shown that the modes, at any given frequency, are orthogonal, and it is outlined how the problem of reflection of a torsional mode by a planar defect (such as a circumferential crack) can be treated.     

Laser generation of surface waves on cylinder and coated cylinder

Analytical models of acoustic field excited by a pulsed-laser line source on a cylinder and a coated cylinder were presented.Surface wave dispersive behaviors for a cylinder with a slow coating were analyzed and compared with that of a bare cylinder.Based on this analysis, the laser-generated transient response of the cylindrical Rayleigh wave on cylinder and the perturbed cylindrical Rayleigh wave on coated cylinder and the higher modes were calculated from the models using residue theory and FFT technique.The theoretical results from the superposed waveform of the cylindrical Rayleigh wave and higher modes for both cylinder and coated cylinder agree well with the waveforms obtained from experiment.The transient response of perturbed Raleigh wave on coated cylinder is quite different with cylindrical Rayleigh wave on cylinder because of the guide of surface coating.The results show that the model and numerical method provide a useful technique for quantitatively characterizing coating parameters of coated cylinder by the laser generated surface waves.     

Skyrmions on an elastic cylinder

For a spin-polarized electron gas on an elastic cylinder in an external axial magnetic field and an axial electric field we find that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation is the double sine-Gordon (DSG) equation with an exact 2π-skyrmion solution. The DSG skyrmion is stabilized, without Coulomb repulsion, by the curvature of the cylinder. It adopts a characteristic length ξ which is smaller than the radius of the cylinder. For an elastic cylinder this mismatch of length scales causes a deformation of the cylinder in the region of the skyrmion. Received 23 October 2001 / Received in final form 8 March 2002 Published online 2 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: rossen.dandoloff@ptm.u-cergy.fr     

Sound radiation from a cylindrical transducer filled with an elastic medium

An approximate method is proposed for calculating the acoustic field produced by a finite-height cylindrical piezoceramic transducer with allowance for the radiation from the ends of its inner volume that is filled with an elastic medium characterized by an arbitrary Poisson’s ratio. Structural features of the transducer (the presence of a sealing compound and an inner baffle) are taken into account. Good agreement is obtained between calculations and experiment for two transducers (a short one with a height-to-radius ratio h/a≈1 and a long one with h/a≈3) whose inner cavities are filled with either water or foam plastic.     

Properties of elastic waves in quasiregular structures with planar defects

We have studied the elastic waves in quasiregular structures following the Fibonacci and Rudin–Shapiro sequences, and having planar defects, that is breaks of the quasiregular structure in different parts of the system. It is seen that the different kinds of defects produce effects on different ranges of the frequency spectrum, and can introduce more localized states in the gaps, or modify the frequencies of the states in the gaps. We have also studied the phase time and transmission coefficients, thus seeing how these localized modes can be used as frequency filters.     

Exact and approximate analysis of surface acoustic waves in an infinite elastic plate with a thin metal layer

For an accurate approximation of the effect of a thin layer over a finite substrate, we consider the displacements are continuous across the interface, while the stress components are obtained from derivatives of displacements. As a result, the stress boundary conditions are transformed to a relationship between stresses in the vicinity of the interface of two layers and density of the metal layer. Through this approximation, we eventually have four equations to solve for the surface acoustic wave dispersion relation of the two-layer structure. The approximate and accurate results are compared with good agreement for small thickness of the metal layer. These results are intended for periodic structures with separate solutions for electroded and unelectroded regions, which can be connected by the continuity boundary conditions for the analysis of the complete structure of typical surface acoustic wave resonators.     

Standing waves in an elastic layer loaded with a finite mass

Standing shear waves in a plane-parallel rubberlike layer fixed without slippage between two rigid plates with finite masses are investigated. The lower plate, which underlies the layer, oscillates in the direction parallel to its surface under an external harmonic force, whereas the upper plate freely overlies the layer. It is shown both theoretically and experimentally that such a system exhibits resonances at frequencies the values of which depend on the mass of the free plate and the shear modulus of the layer. The shapes of the resonance curves are calculated and measured for different values of parameters of the layer and different masses of the upper plate. From the measured resonance curves, it is possible to determine the dynamic shear modulus and the shear viscosity of the rubberlike material.