Study of second-harmonic generation of shear horizontal modes using modal analysis

In this work a modal analysis was employed to study generation of the second harmonics of shear horizontal (SH) modes in a solid plate. Under second order perturbation, second-harmonic generation will occur accompanying SH mode propagation due to the bulk elastic non-linearity of plate material. In solid plate the total second-harmonic fields of a SH mode propagation are regarded as sum of the fields of a series of double frequency Lamb modes (DFLMs). The contribution of each DFLM component to the total second-harmonic fields is dependent of the difference of phase velocities of the corresponding DFLM and SH mode. The analysis results show that the DFLM field component may have cumulative growth effect once its phase velocity exactly or approximately equals that of a SH mode. It is also found that the fields of the total second harmonics of a SH mode are only symmetrical. The examples of field distributions of several DFLMs on the plate surface are considered.