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Nonlinear shear wave interaction at a frictional interface: Energy dissipation and generation of harmonics
Analytical and numerical modelling of the nonlinear interaction of shear wave
with a frictional interface is presented. The system studied is composed of two
homogeneous and isotropic elastic solids, brought into frictional contact by
remote normal compression. A shear wave, either time harmonic or a narrow band
pulse, is incident normal to the interface and propagates through the contact.
Two friction laws are considered and their influence on interface behavior is
investigated : Coulomb's law with a constant friction coefficient and a
slip-weakening friction law which involves static and dynamic friction
coefficients. The relationship between the nonlinear harmonics and the
dissipated energy, and their dependence on the contact dynamics (friction law,
sliding and tangential stress) and on the normal contact stress are examined in
detail. The analytical and numerical results indicate universal type laws for
the amplitude of the higher harmonics and for the dissipated energy, properly
non-dimensionalized in terms of the pre-stress, the friction coefficient and
the incident amplitude. The results suggest that measurements of higher
harmonics can be used to quantify friction and dissipation effects of a sliding
interface.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figure
Effective speed of sound in phononic crystals
A new formula for the effective quasistatic speed of sound in 2D and 3D
periodic materials is reported. The approach uses a monodromy-matrix operator
to enable direct integration in one of the coordinates and exponentially fast
convergence in others. As a result, the solution for has a more closed form
than previous formulas. It significantly improves the efficiency and accuracy
of evaluating for high-contrast composites as demonstrated by a 2D example
with extreme behavior.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Anomalous absorption of bulk shear sagittal acoustic waves in a layered structure with viscous fluid
It is demonstrated theoretically that the absorptivity of bulk shear sagittal
waves by an ultra-thin layer of viscous fluid between two different elastic
media has a strong maximum (in some cases as good as 100%) at an optimal layer
thickness. This thickness is usually much smaller than the penetration depths
and lengths of transverse and longitudinal waves in the fluid. The angular
dependencies of the absorptivity are demonstrated to have significant and
unusual structure near critical angles of incidence. The effect of
non-Newtonian properties and non-uniformities of the fluid layer on the
absorptivity is also investigated. In particular, it is shown that the
absorption in a thin layer of viscous fluid is much more sensitive to non-zero
relaxation time(s) in the fluid layer than the absorption at an isolated
solid-fluid interface.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
Analytical formulation of 3D dynamic homogenization for periodic elastic systems
Homogenization of the equations of motion for a three dimensional periodic
elastic system is considered. Expressions are obtained for the fully dynamic
effective material parameters governing the spatially averaged fields by using
the plane wave expansion (PWE) method. The effective equations are of Willis
form (Willis 1997) with coupling between momentum and stress and tensorial
inertia. The formulation demonstrates that the Willis equations of
elastodynamics are closed under homogenization. The effective material
parameters are obtained for arbitrary frequency and wavenumber combinations,
including but not restricted to Bloch wave branches for wave propagation in the
periodic medium. Numerical examples for a 1D system illustrate the frequency
dependence of the parameters on Bloch wave branches and provide a comparison
with an alternative dynamic effective medium theory (Shuvalov 2011) which also
reduces to Willis form but with different effective moduli.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figure
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