Effect of Rotation on Rayleigh—Lamb Waves in an Isotropic Generalized Thermoelastic Diffusive Plate

The present investigation is aimed at studying the effect of rotation on propagation of Rayleigh—Lamb waves in a homogeneous isotropic thermoelastic diffusive plate of finite width in the framework of different theories of thermoelasticity, including the Coriolis and centrifugal forces. The medium is subjected to stress-free, thermally insulated, isothermal, and chemical potential boundary conditions and is rotating about an axis perpendicular to its plane. Secular equations corresponding to the symmetric and skew-symmetric modes of the plate are derived. Phase velocities and attenuation coefficients of various possible modes of wave propagation are computed from the secular equations. Amplitudes of displacements, temperature, and concentration for symmetric and skew-symmetric modes of plate vibrations are computed numerically. The computed results are presented graphically.     

Effect of rotation on Rayleigh waves in piezothermoelastic half space

The present paper deals with the study of rotation effect on the characteristics of Rayleigh waves propagating in a homogeneous, transversely isotropic piezothermoelastic half space in the framework of linear theory including Coriolis and Centrifugal forces. The medium is subjected to stress free, thermally insulated, electrically shorted/charge free boundary conditions and is rotating about an axis perpendicular to its plane. Characteristics of surface waves propagating in thermoelastic piezoelectric solids and their dependence upon various geometric and physical parameters are derived. After deriving secular equations in closed form and isolated mathematical conditions, the effect of rotation on dispersion curves and attenuation profiles is studied. The specific loss factor and relative frequency shift are also obtained in case of open and closed circuit electric surface conditions. Finally, in order to illustrate and verify the analytical results, numerical solution of various secular equations and other relevant relations are derived for cadmium selenide (6 mm) class material. The analysis shows that the rotation sensitivity at long wavelengths (in the vicinity of the surface) is substantially greater than those at short wavelengths (deep into the half space). The study is very helpful in the development of rotation sensors and other piezoelectric devices.     

Surface waves in a piezoelectric–semiconductor composite structure

The present work deals with the propagation of interfacial surface waves in a composite consisting of homogeneous, transversely isotropic, piezoelectric halfspace underlying a thin layer of non-piezoelectric semiconductor material. The mathematical model of the problem is depicted by partial differential equations of motion for the structure and boundary conditions to be satisfied at the interface and free surface of the composite. After obtaining formal wave solution of the model the secular equation that governs the propagation of surface waves in the considered composite structure has been derived in compact form. The numerical solution of secular equation is being carried out for the composites Si–CdSe, Ge–CdSe and Ge–PZT by employing functional iteration method along with irreducible Cardano method using MATLAB programming. The computer simulated results in respect of dispersion curves, attenuation coefficient and specific loss factor of energy dissipation are presented graphically for Si–CdSe composite to illustrate the analytical developments. We have extended our analysis to Ge–CdSe and Ge–PZT composites also. However, to avoid clustering of profiles and also to have clear understanding of the variations, the computer simulated values of phase velocity and attenuation coefficient are presented in tabular form for all three considered composite structures. This work may be useful for designing and construction of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices and electronics industry.     

Axisymmetric free vibrations of infinite thermoelastic plate

The propagation of axisymmetric free vibrations in an infinite homogeneous isotropic micropolar thermoelastic plate without energy dissipation subjected to stress free and rigidly fixed boundary conditions is investigated. The secular equations for homogeneous isotropic micropolar thermoelastic plate without energy dissipation in closed form for symmetric and skew symmetric wave modes of propagation are derived. The different regions of secular equations are obtained. At short wavelength limits, the secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric modes of wave propagation in a stress free insulated and isothermal plate reduce to Rayleigh surface wave frequency equation. The results for thermoelastic, micropolar elastic and elastic materials are obtained as particular cases from the derived secular equations. The amplitudes of displacement components, microrotation and temperature distribution are also computed during the symmetric and skew symmetric motion of the plate. The dispersion curves for symmetric and skew symmetric modes and amplitudes of displacement components, microrotation and temperature distribution in case of fundamental symmetric and skew symmetric modes are presented graphically. The analytical and numerical results are found to be in close agreement.     

Axisymmetric free vibrations of infinite micropolar thermoelastic plate

The propagation of axisymmetric free vibrations in an infinite homogeneous isotropic micropolar thermoelastic plate without energy dissipation subjected to stress free and rigidly fixed boundary conditions is investigated. The secular equations for homogeneous isotropic micropolar thermoelastic plate without energy dissipation in closed form for symmetric and skew symmetric wave modes of propagation are derived. The different regions of secular equations are obtained. At short wavelength limits, the secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric modes of wave propagation in a stress free insulated and isothermal plate reduce to Rayleigh surface wave frequency equation. The results for thermoelastic, micropolar elastic and elastic materials are obtained as particular cases from the derived secular equations. The amplitudes of displacement components, microrotation and temperature distribution are also computed during the symmetric and skew symmetric motion of the plate. The dispersion curves for symmetric and skew symmetric modes and amplitudes of displacement components, microrotation and temperature distribution in case of fundamental symmetric and skew symmetric modes are presented graphically. The analytical and numerical results are found to be in close agreement.     

Propagation of Lamb waves in transversely isotropic thermoelastic diffusive plate

The constitutive relations and field equations for anisotropic generalized thermoelastic diffusion are derived and deduced for a particular type of anisotropy, i.e. transverse isotropy. Green and Lindsay (GL) theory, in which, thermodiffusion and thermodiffusion–mechanical relaxations are governed by four different time constants, is selected for study. The propagation of plane harmonic thermoelastic diffusive waves in a homogeneous, transversely isotropic, elastic plate of finite width is studied, in the context of generalized theory of thermoelastic diffusion. According to the characteristic equation, three quasi-longitudinal waves namely, quasi-elastodiffusive (QED-mode), quasi-massdiffusive (QMD-mode) and quasi-thermodiffusive (QTD-mode) can propagate in addition to quasi-transverse waves (QSV-mode) and the purely quasi-transverse motion (QSH-mode), which is not affected by thermal and diffusion vibrations, gets decoupled from the rest of the motion of wave propagation. The secular equations corresponding to the symmetric and skew symmetric modes of the plate are derived. The amplitudes of displacements, temperature change and concentration for symmetric and skew symmetric modes of vibration of plate are computed numerically. Anisotropy and diffusion effects on the phase velocity, attenuation coefficient and amplitudes of wave propagation are presented graphically in order to illustrate and compare the analytically results. Some special cases of frequency equation are also deduced from the existing results.     

Effect of rotation on generalized thermo-viscoelastic Rayleigh–Lamb waves

The present paper is aimed at studying the effects of rotation on the thermoelastic interaction in an infinite Kelvin–Voigt-type viscoelastic, thermally conducting plate rotating about the normal to its faces with uniform angular velocity. This facilitates the decoupling of anti-plane/in-plane motion which is not possible, in general. The upper and lower surfaces of the plate are subjected to stress-free, thermally insulated or isothermal conditions. The formulation is applied according to three theories of the generalized thermoelasticity: Lord-Shulman with one relaxation time, Green–Lindsay with two relaxation times, as well as the coupled theory. Secular equations are derived for the plate in closed form isolated mathematical conditions for symmetric and skew-symmetric wave mode propagation in completely separate terms. In the absence of mechanical relaxations (Rotation and viscous effects), the results for generalized and couple theories of thermoelasticity were obtained as particular cases from the derived secular equations. In the absence of thermomechanical coupling, the analysis for a viscoelastic plate can be deduced from the present one. Finally the numerical solution is carried out for copper material. The function iteration numerical scheme is used to solve the complex secular equations, in order to obtain phase velocity and attenuation coefficients of propagating wave mode. The dispersion curves and attenuation coefficients profiles so obtained for symmetric and skew-symmetric wave modes are presented graphically to illustrate and compare the theoretical results in the presence and absence of rotation. The study may be useful in the construction and design of gyroscopes and rotation sensors as well as in the application in diverse fields.     

功能梯度材料板中Lamb波传播特性研究

对材料性能参数沿厚度连续变化的横观各向同性热应力缓和型功能梯度材料板中Lamb波的传播问题,采用幂级数法,求得其相速度方程.借助数值算例,分析了参数梯度变化对Lamb波频散曲线的影响,并与相应陶瓷板和金属板中的频散曲线进行了对比.进一步研究了参数梯度变化对波结构的影响,揭示了Lamb波在这种非均质板中的传播行为,所得结果可以为功能梯度材料及结构的超声表征与检测提供理论依据.     

Propagation of Rayleigh waves on free surface of transversely isotropic generalized thermoelastic diffusion

The present paper is devoted to the study of Rayleigh wave propagation in a homogeneous, transversely isotropic, thermoelastic diffusive half-space, subject to stress free, thermally insulated/isothermal, and chemical potential boundary conditions in the context of the generalized thermoelastic diffusion theory. The Green-Lindsay（GL） theory is used in the study. In this theory, thermodiffusion and thermodiffusion mechanical relaxations are governed by four different time constants. Secular equations for surface wave propagation in the considered media are derived. Anisotropy and diffusion effects on the phase velocity, attenuation coefficient are graphically presented in order to present the analytical results and make comparison. Some special cases of frequency equations are derived from the present investigation.     

Effect of uniaxial stress on the propagation of higher-order Lamb wave modes

On the basis of the non-linear theory of elasticity and the invariant based formulation developed by Ogden, we analyse the effect of homogeneous stress on the propagation of Lamb waves. Using the theory of incremental deformations superimposed on large deformations, we derive the equations governing the propagation of small amplitude waves in a pre-stressed plate. By enforcing traction-free boundary conditions at the surfaces of the plate, we further obtain the characteristic equations for symmetric and anti-symmetric Lamb wave modes and investigate the effect of stress on the phase velocity, i.e. the acoustoelastic effect. A comparison with experimental data exhibits a better correlation than previously published results. The outcomes of this study can be utilised in the development of new techniques for the measurement of applied stresses based on the acoustoelastic effect. In particular, a strong sensitivity of the phase velocity to the applied stress near the cut-off frequencies of higher-order Lamb wave modes is a very promising option, which seems to have been overlooked in previous studies.     

Effect of relaxation times on circular crested waves in thermoelastic diffusive plate

The propagation of circularly crested thermoelastic diffusive waves in an infinite homogeneous transversely isotropic plate subjected to stress free, isothermal/insulated and chemical potential conditions is investigated in the framework of different thermo- elastic diffusion theories. The dispersion equations of thermoelastic diffusive Lamb type waves are derived. Some special cases of the dispersion equations are also deduced.     

Rayleigh lamb waves in micropolar isotropic elastic plate

The propagation of waves in a homogeneous isotropic micropolar elastic cylindrical plate subjected to stress free conditions is investigated. The secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric wave mode propagation are derived. At short wave limit, the secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric waves in a stress free circular plate reduces to Rayleigh surface wave frequency equation. Thin plate results are also obtained. The amplitudes of displacements and microrotation components are obtained and depicted graphically. Some special cases are also deduced from the present investigations. The secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric modes are also presented graphically.     

The effect of rotation and initial stress on the propagation of waves in a transversely isotropic elastic solid

In this paper the equations governing small amplitude motions in a rotating transversely isotropic initially stressed elastic solid are derived, both for compressible and incompressible linearly elastic materials. The equations are first applied to study the effects of initial stress and rotation on the speed of homogeneous plane waves propagating in a configuration with uniform initial stress. The general forms of the constitutive law, stresses and the elasticity tensor are derived within the finite deformation context and then summarized for the considered transversely isotropic material with initial stress in terms of invariants, following which they are specialized for linear elastic response and, for an incompressible material, to the case of plane strain, which involves considerable simplification. The equations for two-dimensional motions in the considered plane are then applied to the study of Rayleigh waves in a rotating half-space with the initial stress parallel to its boundary and the preferred direction of transverse isotropy either parallel to or normal to the boundary within the sagittal plane. The secular equation governing the wave speed is then derived for a general strain–energy function in the plane strain specialization, which involves only two material parameters. The results are illustrated graphically, first by showing how the wave speed depends on the material parameters and the rotation without specifying the constitutive law and, second, for a simple material model to highlight the effects of the rotation and initial stress on the surface wave speed.     

Characteristic analysis for stress wave propagation in transversely isotropic fluid-saturated porous media

According to generalized characteristic theory, a characteristic analysis for stress wave propagation in transversely isotropic fluid-saturated porous media was performed. The characteristic differential equations and compatibility relations along bicharacteristics were deduced and the analytical expressions for wave surfaces were obtained. The characteristic and shapes of the velocity surfaces and wave surfaces in the transversely isotropic fluid-saturated porous media were discussed in detail. The results also show that the characteristic equations for stress waves in pure solids are particular cases of the characteristic equations for fluid-saturated porous media.     

偏压电场对压电板中Lamb波相速度的影响

本文研究了偏压电场作用下,Lamb波在压电板中的传播行为，首先给出了偏压电场作用时压电板中的应力场及电位移场，然后通过求解含初应力及初电位移的小幅波动问题的耦合方程，分别给出了Lamb波的对称模态和反对称模态的相速度方程，以典型的PZT－5H压电陶瓷板为例进行了数值计算,并讨论了偏压电场对Lamb波相速度及频散曲线的影响，结果表明，偏压电场可以显著地改变Lamb波的传播速度，借此可使声波器件获得延时效果。     

Propagation of wave at the boundary surface of transversely isotropic thermoelastic material with voids and isotropic elastic half-space

The purpose of this research is to study the effect of voids on the surface wave propagation in a layer of a transversely isotropic thermoelastic material with voids lying over an isotropic elastic half-space. The frequency equation is derived after developing a mathematical model for welded and smooth contact boundary conditions. The dispersion curves giving the phase velocity and attenuation coefficient via wave number are plotted graphically to depict the effects of voids and anisotropy for welded contact boundary conditions. The specific loss and amplitudes of the volume fraction field, the normal stress, and the temperature change for welded contact are obtained and shown graphically for a particular model to depict the voids and anisotropy effects. Some special cases are also deduced from the present investigation.     

Free vibration of microstretch thermoelastic plate with one relaxation time

The propagation of waves in microstretch thermoelastic homogeneous isotropic plate subjected to stress free thermally insulated and isothermal conditions is investigated in the context of conventional coupled thermoelasticity (CT) and Lord and Shulman (L–S) theories of thermoelasticity. The secular equations for both symmetric and skew-symmetric wave mode propagation have been obtained. At short wavelength limits, the secular equations for symmetric and skew-symmetric modes reduce to Rayleigh surface wave frequency equation. The amplitudes of dilatation, microrotation, microstretch and temperature distribution for the symmetric and skew symmetric wave modes are computed analytically and presented graphically for different theories of thermoelasticity. The theoretical and numerical computations are found to be in close agreement.     

Effect of a biasing electric field on the propagation of symmetric Lamb waves in piezoelectric plates

This paper is concerned with the effect of a biasing electric field on the propagation of Lamb waves in a piezoelectric plate. On the basis of three dimensional linear elastic equations and piezoelectric constitutive relations, the differential equations of motion under a biasing electric field are obtained and solved. Due to the symmetry of the plate, there are symmetric and antisymmetric modes with respect to the median plane of the piezoelectric plate. According to the characteristics of symmetric modes (odd potential state) and antisymmetric modes (even potential state), the phase velocity equations of symmetric and antisymmetric modes of Lamb wave propagation are obtained for both electrically open and shorted cases. The effect of a biasing electric field on the phase velocity, electromechanical coupling coefficient, stress field and mechanical displacement of symmetric and antisymmetric Lamb wave modes are discussed in this paper and an accompanying paper respectively. It is shown that the biasing electric field has significant effect on the phase velocity and electromechanical coupling coefficient, the time delay owning to the velocity change is useful for high voltage measurement and temperature compensation, the increase in the electromechanical coupling coefficient can be used to improve the efficiency of transduction.     

Three-dimensional analytical solution for a rotating disc of functionally graded materials with transverse isotropy

Based on the basic equations for axisymmetric problems of transversely isotropic elastic materials, the displacement components are expressed in terms of polynomials of the radial coordinate with the five involved coefficients, named as displacement functions in this paper, being undetermined functions of the axial (thickness) coordinate. Five equations governing the displacement functions are then derived. It is shown that the displacement functions can be found through progressive integration by incorporating the boundary conditions. Thus a three-dimensional analytical solution is obtained for a transversely isotropic functionally graded disc rotating at a constant angular velocity.The solution can be degenerated into that for an isotropic functionally graded rotating disc. A prominent feature of this solution is that the material properties can be arbitrary functions of the axial coordinate. Thus, the solution for a homogeneous transversely isotropic rotating disc is just a special case that can be easily derived. An example is finally considered for a special functionally graded material, and numerical results shows that the material inhomogeneity has a remarkable effect on the elastic field.     

Lamb waves in micropolar thermoelastic solid plates immersed in liquid with varying temperature

In the present paper the theory of micropolar generalized thermoelastic continua has been employed to study the propagation of plane waves in micropolar thermoelastic plates bordered with inviscid liquid layers (or half-spaces) with varying temperature on both sides. The secular equations in closed form and isolated mathematical conditions are derived and discussed. Thin plate and short wave length results have also been deduced under different cases and situations and discussed as special cases of this work. The results in case of conventional coupled and uncoupled theories of thermoelasticity can be obtained both in case of micropolar elastic and elastokinetics from the present analysis by appropriate choice of relevant parameters. The various secular equations and relevant relations have been solved numerically by using functional iteration method in order to illustrate the analytical developments. Effect of characteristic length and coupling factors have also been studied on phase velocity. The computer simulated results in case of phase velocity, attenuation coefficient and specific loss of symmetric and skew symmetric are presented graphically.