Computing leaky Lamb waves for waveguides between elastic half-spaces using spectral collocation
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Author(s)
Georgiades, Evripides
Lowe, Michael JS
Craster, Richard V
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In non-destructive evaluation guided wave inspections, the elastic structure to be inspected is often embedded within other elastic media and the ensuing leaky waves are complex and non-trivial to compute; we consider the canonical example of an elastic waveguide surrounded by other elastic materials that demonstrates the fundamental issues with calculating the leaky waves in such systems. Due to the complex wavenumber solutions required to represent them, leaky waves pose significant challenges to existing numerical methods, with methods that spatially discretise the field to retrieve them suffering from the exponential growth of their amplitude far into the surrounding media. We present a spectral collocation method yielding an accurate and efficient identification of these modes, leaking into elastic half-spaces. We discretise the elastic domains and, depending on the exterior bulk wavespeeds, select appropriate mappings of the discretised domain to complex paths, in which the numerical solution decays and the physics of the problem are preserved. By iterating through all possible radiation cases, the full set of dispersion and attenuation curves are successfully retrieved and validated, where possible, against the commercially available software disperse. As an independent validation, dispersion curves are obtained from finite element simulations of time-dependent waves using Fourier analysis.
Date Issued
2024-01
Date Acceptance
2024-01-05
Citation
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024, 155 (1), pp.629-639
ISSN
0001-4966
Publisher
Nature Research
Start Page
629
End Page
639
Journal / Book Title
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume
155
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2024 Acoustical Society of America.
This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in Evripides Georgiades, Michael J. S. Lowe, Richard V. Craster; Computing leaky Lamb waves for waveguides between elastic half-spaces using spectral collocation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 January 2024; 155 (1): 629–639. and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0024467
This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in Evripides Georgiades, Michael J. S. Lowe, Richard V. Craster; Computing leaky Lamb waves for waveguides between elastic half-spaces using spectral collocation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 January 2024; 155 (1): 629–639. and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0024467
Identifier
https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-abstract/155/1/629/3061582/Computing-leaky-Lamb-waves-for-waveguides-between?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Subjects
Acoustics
ATTENUATION
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
COMPUTATION
ELASTODYNAMICS
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
MODES
PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYERS
PML
PROPAGATION
RAYLEIGH-WAVES
Science & Technology
SYSTEMS
Technology
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2024-01-23