Wave Propagation in a Viscoelastic Material With Temperature-Dependent Properties and Thermomechanical Coupling

1964 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Petrof ◽  
Serge Gratch

A numerical method is developed for the analysis of one-dimensional wave propagation in viscoelastic media with temperature-dependent properties when thermomechanical coupling is significant. The method is applied to a specific case of longitudinal wave propagation in a finite rod with essentially sinusoidal stress variation at the two ends. The results show that, contrary to the usual assumption, such a system does not have the same response as a single-degree-of-freedom elastic system with viscous damping, as long as a realistic stress-strain relation is used.

1965 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Wolosewick ◽  
Serge Gratch

The transient response of a semi-infinite, viscoelastic rod after application of a sinusoidal stress variation at one end has been investigated by a numerical method. Account has been taken of temperature dependence of properties and of thermomechanical coupling. It is found that, with values of physical properties typical for polymeric materials, temperature approaches steady state several orders of magnitude more slowly than would be the case for stress and strain in the absence of thermomechanical coupling.


Author(s):  
Vladislav S. Sorokin

The paper deals with the analysis of wave propagation in a general one-dimensional (1D) non-uniform waveguide featuring multiple modulations of parameters with different, arbitrarily related, spatial periods. The considered quasi-periodic waveguide, in particular, can be viewed as a model of pure periodic structures with imperfections. Effects of such imperfections on the waveguide frequency bandgaps are revealed and described by means of the method of varying amplitudes and the method of direct separation of motions. It is shown that imperfections cannot considerably degrade wave attenuation properties of 1D periodic structures, e.g. reduce widths of their frequency bandgaps. Attenuation levels and frequency bandgaps featured by the quasi-periodic waveguide are studied without imposing any restrictions on the periods of the modulations, e.g. for their ratio to be rational. For the waveguide featuring relatively small modulations with periods that are not close to each other, each of the frequency bandgaps, to the leading order of smallness, is controlled only by one of the modulations. It is shown that introducing additional spatial modulations to a pure periodic structure can enhance its wave attenuation properties, e.g. a relatively low-frequency bandgap can be induced providing vibration attenuation in frequency ranges where damping is less effective.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunbao Xiong ◽  
Ying Guo

A one-dimensional generalized magnetothermoelastic problem of a thermoelastic rod with finite length is investigated in the context of the fractional order thermoelasticity. The rod with variable properties, which are temperature-dependent, is fixed at both ends and placed in an initial magnetic field, and the rod is subjected to a moving heat source along the axial direction. The governing equations of the problem in the fractional order thermoelasticity are formulated and solved by means of Laplace transform in tandem with its numerical inversion. The distributions of the nondimensional temperature, displacement, and stress in the rod are obtained and illustrated graphically. The effects of the temperature-dependent properties, the velocity of the moving heat source, the fractional order parameter, and so forth on the considered variables are concerned and discussed in detail, and the results show that they significantly influence the variations of the considered variables.


Author(s):  
Ilyes Lacheheb ◽  
Salim A. Messaoudi ◽  
Mostafa Zahri

AbstractIn this work, we investigate a one-dimensional porous-elastic system with thermoelasticity of type III. We establish the well-posedness and the stability of the system for the cases of equal and nonequal speeds of wave propagation. At the end, we use some numerical approximations based on finite difference techniques to validate the theoretical results.


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