A continuum model with microstructures for wave propagation in ultra-thin films

Ultrasonic waves are powerful and popular methods for measuring mechanical properties of solids even at nanoscales. The extraction of material constants from the measured wave data requires the use of a model that can accurately describe the wave motion in the solid. The objective of this paper is to develop a continuum theory with microstructures that can capture the effect of the microstructure or nanostructure in ultra-thin films when waves of short wavelengths are used. This continuum theory is developed from assumed displacement fields for microstructures. Local kinematic variables are introduced to express these local displacements and are subjected to internal continuity conditions. The accuracy of the present theory is verified by comparing the results with those of the lattice model for the thin film. Specifically, dispersion curves for surface wave propagation and wave propagation in a thin film supported by an elastic homogeneous substrate are studied. The inadequacy of the conventional continuum theory is discussed.     

Stress channelling in extreme couple-stress materials Part II: Localized folding vs faulting of a continuum in single and cross geometries

The antiplane strain Green's functions for an applied concentrated force and moment are obtained for Cosserat elastic solids with extreme anisotropy, which can be tailored to bring the material in a state close to an instability threshold such as failure of ellipticity. It is shown that the wave propagation condition (and not ellipticity) governs the behaviour of the antiplane strain Green's functions. These Green's functions are used as perturbing agents to demonstrate in an extreme material the emergence of localized (single and cross) stress channelling and the emergence of antiplane localized folding (or creasing, or weak elastostatic shock) and faulting (or elastostatic shock) of a Cosserat continuum, phenomena which remain excluded for a Cauchy elastic material. During folding some components of the displacement gradient suffer a finite jump, whereas during faulting the displacement itself displays a finite discontinuity.     

Long wavelength impact of izod fracture specimens: An experimental/numerical investigation

Elastic wave propagation fields for a stationary crack in an Izod fracture specimen have been investigated. Moiré interferometry was used to obtain the asymptotic cracktip displacement fields under Hopkinson bar loading at sampling rates on the order of 100 kHz. Mixed-mode stress-intensity factors as a function of time were extracted from the displacement data using local asymptotic extrapolation. Two-dimensional continuum finite elements were employed and agreement was found between actual experiment and two-dimensional computation.     

反平面V形切口塑性应力奇异性分析

论文提出了用插值矩阵法计算幂硬化塑性材料反平面V形切口和裂纹尖端区域的应力奇异性.首先在切口和裂纹尖端区域采用自尖端径向度量的渐近位移场假设,将其代入塑性全量理论的基本微分方程后,推导出包含应力奇异性特征指数和特征角函数的非线性常微分方程特征值问题.然后采用插值矩阵法迭代求解导出的控制方程,得到一般的塑性材料反平面V形切口和裂纹的前若干阶应力奇异阶和相应的特征角函数,该法的重要优点是以上求解的特征角函数和它们各阶导函数具有同阶精度,并且一次性地求出前若干阶特征对.同时,插值矩阵法计算量小,易于和其他方法联合使用,这些优点在后续求解尖端区域完全应力场非常优越.论文方法的计算结果与现有结果对照,发现吻合良好,表明了论文方法的有效性.     

Time harmonic waves in thermoelastic material with microtemperatures

The present study deals with the propagation of time harmonic waves in an infinite thermoelastic medium with microtemperatures within the context of the theory developed by Iesan and Quintanilla (2000). There exist three sets of coupled dilatational waves and a shear wave propagating at distinct speeds. Each set of coupled dilatational waves consists of displacement, micro and macrotemperature fields, while the lone shear wave is no different from that exist in classical elasticity. The reflection phenomenon of these waves from a plane boundary of a thermoelastic half space has been investigated.     

成层半空间出平面自由波场的一维化时域算法

提出了一种计算出平面SH波斜入射时弹性水平成层半空间中自由波场时域计算的一维化有 限元方法. 在进行有限元网格划分时，竖向单元取满足有限元模拟精度的任意尺寸，水平向 网格尺寸由时间离散步长和水平视波速确定，并自动进行虚拟网格划分. 基底设置人工边界， 并将波动输入转化为等效荷载施加在边界节点上. 然后将集中质量有限元法和中心差分法相 结合建立节点运动方程，并将水平方向相邻节点的运动用该节点相邻时刻的运动表示，从而 将求解节点运动的二维方程组转化为一维方程组. 求解此方程组，即得到自由场中竖向一列 节点的运动. 最后根据行波传播的特点，可方便地确定全部自由波场. 理论分析和数值算例 表明，该方法具有较高的精度和良好的稳定性.     

压电材料反平面界面裂纹的杂交元分析

基于奇异性电弹场数值特征解开发了一种新型反平面界面裂纹尖端单元。将新型单元与四节点压电P-S单元组装,求解从绝缘到导通的任意电边界条件下,压电结构反平面界面裂纹尖端电弹场的数值解。考察了层厚、载荷类型和裂纹面间电边界条件等对反平面界面裂纹尖端断裂参数的影响。算例证明新型单元能使P-S单元数显著降低,计算结果更为精确。     

Wave propagation in elastic laminates using a second order microstructure theory

A generalization of the simpler microstructure theory developed earlier for elastic laminates by Sun, Achenbach and Herrmann is used to analyze steady state plane wave propagation. This new version incorporates higher-order thickness variations in the displacement functions and includes restrictions on both displacement and stress at the laminate interfaces.To assess the potential of a second-order microstructure theory for accurate modeling of mechanical processes in laminates, dispersion results and especially mode shape data for both displacements and stresses are obtained and compared to corresponding solutions obtained by the theory of elasticity. The comparisons indicate that while dispersion results may be nearly identical, extremely significant differences may be observed in the mode shapes.     

Antiplane elastic wave propagation in pre-stressed periodic structures; tuning,band gap switching and invariance

The effect of nonlinear elastic pre-stress on antiplane elastic wave propagation in a two-dimensional periodic structure is investigated. The medium consists of cylindrical annuli embedded on a periodic square lattice in a uniform host material. An identical inhomogeneous deformation is imposed in each annulus and the theory of small-on-large is used to find the incremental wave equation governing subsequent small-amplitude antiplane waves. The plane-wave-expansion method is employed in order to determine the permissable eigenfrequencies. It is found that pre-stress significantly affects the band gap structure for Mooney–Rivlin and Fung type materials, allowing stop bands to be switched on and off. However, it is also shown that for a specific class of materials, their phononic properties remain invariant under nonlinear deformation, permitting some rather interesting behaviour and leading to the possibility of phononic cloaks.     

A numerical study of shock wave reflections on low density foam

A continuum mixture theory is used to describe shock wave reflections on low density open-cell polyurethane foam. Numerical simulations are compared to the shock tube experiments of Skews (1991) and detailed wave fields are shown of a shock wave interacting with a layer of foam adjacent to a rigid wall boundary. These comparisons demonstrate that a continuum mixture theory describes well the shock interactions with low density foam.This article was processed using Springer-Verlag T_EX Shock Waves macro package 1.0 and the AMS fonts, developed by the American Mathematical Society.     

Constructing an analytical solution for lamb waves using the cosserat continuum approach

The problem of propagation of a Lamb elastic wave in a thin plate is considered using the Cosserat continuum model. The deformed state is characterized by independent displacement and rotation vectors. Solutions of the equations of motion are sought in the form of wave packets specified by a Fourier spectrum of an arbitrary shape for three components of the displacement vector and three components of the rotation vector which depend on time, depth, and the longitudinal coordinate. The initial system of equations is split into two systems, one of which describes a Lamb wave and the second corresponds to a transverse wave whose amplitude depends on depth. Analytical solutions in displacements are obtained for the waves of both types. Unlike the solution for Lamb waves, the solution obtained for the transverse wave has no analogs in classical elasticity theory. The solution for the transverse wave is compared with the solution for the Lamb wave. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 143–150, January–February, 2007. An erratum to this article is available at .     

电弹性体力学中的偏场方法及其应用

主要综述了当前有关叠加于偏场之上的电弹性体小位移问题的求解方法,即偏场方法.首先介绍了作为偏场方法理论基础的非线性电弹性力学理论,接着总结了偏场方法的研究进展以及受偏场作用后,电弹性梁、板、壳结构的分析方法,随后综述了偏场方法的诸多应用:其中,包括在薄壁电弹性结构屈曲分析中的应用、在记时与通信压电谐振器和基于频率漂移原理所设计的声波传感器的频率稳定性分析方面的应用、在非线性电弹性材料系数的测定以及偏场作用下电致伸缩陶瓷特征的分析等方面的应用.最后给出了该领域当前和未来的一些可能的研究课题.全文参考文献166篇.      

Size-dependent elastic behavior of FGM ultra-thin films based on generalized refined theory

A generalized refined theory including surface effects is developed for functionally graded ultra-thin films with different surface properties. The classical generalized shear deformable theory is adopted to model the film bulk, while the bulk stresses along the surfaces of the bulk substrate are required to satisfy the surface balance equations of the continuum surface elasticity. As a result, the shape function also shows size-dependence on the film thickness. Since the film is non-homogeneous through the thickness, the state space method and approximate laminate model are employed to derive the variation of shape function through the thickness direction. A simply supported thin film in cylindrical bending is considered as an example to illustrate the application of the present theory. By comparing to the Kirchhoff plate theory including surface effects, the necessity of the present theory for FGM thin films is solidly validated. It is established that the present FGM thin films exhibit significant size-dependence when the thickness approaches to micro-scale. As the gradient index changes, the extent of size-dependence varies accordingly.     

复合材料尖劈和接头端部奇性场的反平面问题研究

提出了一个基于位移的分析尖劈端部奇性位移场和应力场反平面问题的非协调元特征法．该方法与过去原有求解裂纹尖端近似场的有限元特征法有几点不同：(1)导出虚功原理的出发点为二维扇区的散度原理;(2)有限元的单元形式为非协调元;(3)尖劈端部邻域内的位移场假定没有采用奇异变换技术．运用该方法给出了求解正交各向异性复合材料尖劈端部附近奇性应力指数、奇性位移和应力角分布函数的算例．计算结果表明,该方法较原来的有限元特征法所用的单元少而且精度高．     

Second-gradient homogenized model for wave propagation in heterogeneous periodic media

The paper is focused on a homogenization procedure for the analysis of wave propagation in materials with periodic microstructure. By a reformulation of the variational-asymptotic homogenization technique recently proposed by Bacigalupo and Gambarotta (2012a), a second-gradient continuum model is derived, which provides a sufficiently accurate approximation of the lowest (acoustic) branch of the dispersion curves obtained by the Floquet–Bloch theory and may be a useful tool for the wave propagation analysis in bounded domains. The multi-scale kinematics is described through micro-fluctuation functions of the displacement field, which are derived by the solution of a recurrent sequence of cell BVPs and obtained as the superposition of a static and dynamic contribution. The latters are proportional to the even powers of the phase velocity and consequently the micro-fluctuation functions also depend on the direction of propagation. Therefore, both the higher order elastic moduli and the inertial terms result to depend by the dynamic correctors. This approach is applied to the study of wave propagation in layered bi-materials with orthotropic phases, having an axis of orthotropy parallel to the direction of layering, in which case, the overall elastic and inertial constants can be determined analytically. The reliability of the proposed procedure is analysed by comparing the obtained dispersion functions with those derived by the Floquet–Bloch theory.     

Modeling micro-inertia in heterogeneous materials under dynamic loading

A continuum model including micro-inertia for heterogeneous materials under dynamic loading is proposed using a micro-mechanics method. The macro strain and stress are defined as the volume averages of the strain and stress fields in the representative volume element (RVE). The macro equations of motion are derived by using Hamilton’s principle together with the strain energy density and kinetic energy density involving the micro-inertia terms. The new macro equations of motion are used to study harmonic and transient wave propagation in layered media. Using a simple linear displacement field for the RVE, the dispersion curves obtained from the present model agree with the exact solutions very well for a range of wavelengths. The present model is also applied to analyze the transient response of layered media subjected to a triangular pulse loading. Comparison is made between the results of the present model and a finite element analysis.     

压电材料反平面裂纹自相似扩展分析

通过对耦合的波动方程和方程解耦,用自模拟方法研究了压电材料中反平面裂纹的自相似扩展问题。研究表明：对反平面问题,介质内的耦合场与裂纹扩展速度有关,在裂纹尖端有r^-1/2阶的奇异性;动态应力强度因子与电位称载荷有关,与静态结论不同;电位移强度因子与机械载 荷无关,与静态结果的表达形式一致。     

Antiplane time-harmonic green’s functions for a circular inhomogeneity with an imperfect interface

Two-dimensional antiplane time-harmonic Green’s functions for a circular inhomogeneity with an imperfect interface are derived. Here the linear spring model with vanishing thickness is employed to characterize the imperfect interface. Explicit expressions for the displacement and the stress fields induced by time-harmonic antiplane line forces located both in the unbounded matrix and in the circular inhomogeneity are presented. When the circular frequency approaches zero, our results reduce to those for the static case. Numerical results are presented to show the influence of the frequency and the imperfection of the interface on the stress and displacement fields.     

Analysis of micropolar elastic beams

In this paper, a linear theory for the analysis of beams based on the micropolar continuum mechanics is developed. Power series expansions for the axial displacement and micro-rotation fields are assumed. The governing equations are derived by integrating the momentum and moment of momentum equations in the micropolar continuum theory. Body couples and couple stresses can be supported in this theory. After some simplifications, this theory can be reduced to the well-known Timoshenko and Euler–Bernoulli beam theories. The nature of flexural and longitudinal waves in the infinite length micropolar beam has been investigated. This theory predicts the existence of micro-rotational waves which are not present in any of the known beam theories based on the classical continuum mechanics. Also, the deformation of a cantilever beam with transverse concentrated tip loading has been studied. The pattern of deflection of the beam is similar to the classical beam theories, but couple stress and micro-rotation show an oscillatory behavior along the beam for various loadings.     

Size-dependent response of ultra-thin films with surface effects

A modified continuum model of elastic films with nano-scale thickness is proposed by incorporating surface elasticity into the conventional nonlinear Von Karman plate theory. By using Hamilton’s principle, the governing equations and boundary conditions of the ultra-thin film including surface effects are derived within the Kirchhoff’s assumption, where the effects of non-zero normal stress and large deflection are taken into account simultaneously. The present model is then applied to studying the bending, buckling and free vibration of simply supported micro/nano-scale thin films in-plane strains and explicit exact solutions can be obtained for these three cases. The size-dependent mechanical behavior of the thin film due to surface effects is well elucidated in the obtained solutions.