Nonlinear effects of micro-cracks on long-wavelength symmetric Lamb waves
- For an elastic medium containing a homogeneous distribution of micro-cracks, an effective one-dimensional stress-strain relation has been determined with finite element simulations. In addition to flat micro-cracks, voids were considered that contain a Hertzian contact, which represents an example for micro-cracks with internal structure. The orientation of both types of micro-cracks was fullyFor an elastic medium containing a homogeneous distribution of micro-cracks, an effective one-dimensional stress-strain relation has been determined with finite element simulations. In addition to flat micro-cracks, voids were considered that contain a Hertzian contact, which represents an example for micro-cracks with internal structure. The orientation of both types of micro-cracks was fully aligned or, for flat micro-cracks, totally random. For micro-cracks with Hertzian contacts, the case of random orientation was treated in an approximate way. The two types of defects were found to give rise to different degrees of non-analytic behavior of the effective stress-strain relation, which governs the nonlinear propagation of symmetric (S0) Lamb waves in the long-wavelength limit. The presence of flat micro-cracks causes even harmonics to grow linearly with propagation distance with amplitudes proportional to the amplitude of the fundamental wave, and gives rise to a static strain. The presence of the second type of defects leads to a linear growth of all harmonics with amplitudes proportional to the power 3/2 of the fundamental amplitude, and to a strain-dependent velocity shift. Simple expressions are given for the growth rates of higher harmonics of S0 Lamb waves in terms of the parameters occurring in the effective stress-strain relation. They have partly been determined quantitatively with the help of the FEM results for different micro-crack concentrations.…
Document Type: | Article (reviewed) |
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Zitierlink: | https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/3303 | Bibliografische Angaben |
Title (English): | Nonlinear effects of micro-cracks on long-wavelength symmetric Lamb waves |
Author: | Marek Rjelka, Bernd Köhler, Andreas MayerStaff MemberGND |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam [u.a.] |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
First Page: | 98 |
Last Page: | 108 |
Parent Title (English): | Ultrasonics |
Volume: | 90 |
ISSN: | 0041-624x |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2018.06.001 |
Language: | English | Inhaltliche Informationen |
Institutes: | Fakultät Wirtschaft (W) |
Institutes: | Bibliografie | Formale Angaben |
Open Access: | Closed Access |
Licence (German): | ![]() |