scholarly journals The Effect of Micro-Inertia and Flexoelectricity on Love Wave Propagation in Layered Piezoelectric Structures

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2270
Author(s):  
Olha Hrytsyna ◽  
Jan Sladek ◽  
Vladimir Sladek

The non-classical linear governing equations of strain gradient piezoelectricity with micro-inertia effect are used to investigate Love wave propagation in a layered piezoelectric structure. The influence of flexoelectricity and micro-inertia effect on the phase wave velocity in a thin homogeneous flexoelectric layer deposited on a piezoelectric substrate is investigated. The dispersion relation for Love waves is obtained. The phase velocity is numerically calculated and graphically illustrated for the electric open-circuit and short-circuit conditions and for distinct material properties of the layer and substrate. The influence of direct flexoelectricity, micro-inertia effect, as well as the layer thickness on Love wave propagation is studied individually. It is found that flexoelectricity increases the Love-wave phase velocity, while the micro-inertia effect reduces its value. These effects become more significant for Love waves with shorter wavelengths and small guiding layer thicknesses.

2006 ◽  
Vol 306-308 ◽  
pp. 1211-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Peng ◽  
Hua Rui Liu ◽  
S.Y. Hu

This paper is addressed to the Love wave propagation in a layered piezoelectric structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The layered piezoelectric structure consists of an isotropic layer and a relatively thicker transversely isotropic piezoelectric substrate. The velocity of the Love waves changes due to the presence of the viscous fluid. The exact theory is accurate but not convenient to apply because it is generally difficult to get an explicit relation between the quantities we interest. In this paper, the perturbation approach is applied to obtain the explicit relations for the phase velocity and attenuation of Love waves. The result is useful for the measurement of the viscosity and mass density in Love wave sensors.


Author(s):  
Kunikazu Yoshida ◽  
Hirotoshi Uebayashi

ABSTRACT The most popular array-based microtremor survey methods estimate velocity structures from the phase velocities of Rayleigh waves. Using the phase velocity of Love waves improves the resolution of inverted velocity models. In this study, we present a method to estimate the phase velocity of Love waves using rotational array data derived from the horizontal component of microtremors observed using an ordinal nested triangular array. We obtained discretized spatial derivatives from a first-order Taylor series expansion to calculate rotational motions from observed array seismograms. Rotational motions were obtained from a triangular subarray consisting of three receivers using discretized spatial derivatives. Four rotational-motion time histories were calculated from different triangular subarrays in the nested triangular arrays. Phase velocities were estimated from the array of the four rotational motions. We applied the proposed Love-wave phase-velocity estimation technique to observed array microtremor data obtained using a nested triangular array with radii of 25 and 50 m located at the Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University. The phase velocities of rotational and vertical motions were estimated from the observed data, and results showed that the former were smaller than those of the latter. The observed phase velocities obtained from vertical and rotational components agreed well with the theoretical Rayleigh- and Love-wave phase velocities calculated from the velocity structure model derived from nearby PS logs. To show the ability of the rotation to obtain Love wave, we estimated apparent phase velocities from north–south or east–west components. The apparent velocities resulted in between the theoretical velocities of Rayleigh and Love waves. This result indicates that the calculated rotation effectively derived the Love waves from a combination of Love and Rayleigh waves.


2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil El Baroudi

This work presents a theoretical method for surface love waves in poroelastic media loaded with a viscous fluid. A complex analytic form of the dispersion equation of surface love waves has been developed using an original resolution based on pressure–displacement formulation. The obtained complex dispersion equation was separated in real and imaginary parts. mathematica software was used to solve the resulting nonlinear system of equations. The effects of surface layer porosity and fluid viscosity on the phase velocity and the wave attenuation dispersion curves are inspected. The numerical solutions show that the wave attenuation and phase velocity variation strongly depend on the fluid viscosity, surface layer porosity, and wave frequency. To validate the original theoretical resolution, the results in literature in the case of an homogeneous isotropic surface layer are used. The results of various investigations on love wave propagation can serve as benchmark solutions in design of fluid viscosity sensors, in nondestructive testing (NDT) and geophysics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 1359-1371
Author(s):  
Lun Li ◽  
Yuanyuan V. Fu

ABSTRACT An understanding of mantle dynamics occurring beneath the Tibetan plateau requires a detailed image of its seismic velocity and anisotropic structure. Surface waves at long periods (>50  s) could provide such critical information. Though Rayleigh-wave phase velocity maps have been constructed in the Tibetan regions using ambient-noise tomography (ANT) and regional earthquake surface-wave tomography, Love-wave phase velocity maps, especially those at longer periods (>50  s), are rare. In this study, two-plane-wave teleseismic surface-wave tomography is applied to develop 2D Rayleigh-wave and Love-wave phase velocity maps at periods between 20 and 143 s across eastern and central Tibet and its surroundings using four temporary broadband seismic experiments. These phase velocity maps share similar patterns and show high consistency with those previously obtained from ANT at overlapping periods (20–50 s), whereas our phase velocity maps carry useful information at longer periods (50–143 s). Prominent slow velocity is imaged at periods of 20–143 s beneath the interior of the Tibetan plateau (i.e., the Songpan–Ganzi terrane, the Qiangtang terrane, and the Lhasa terrane), implying the existence of thick Tibetan crust along with warm and weak Tibetan lithosphere. In contrast, the dispersal of fast velocity anomalies coincides with mechanically strong, cold tectonic blocks, such as the Sichuan basin and the Qaidam basin. These phase velocity maps could be used to construct 3D shear-wave velocity and radial seismic anisotropy models of the crust and upper mantle down to 250 km across the eastern and central Tibetan plateau.


Author(s):  
Mohan D. Sharma

ABSTRACT Propagation of Love wave is considered in a two-layered stratum of isotropic viscoelastic solids. The complex dispersion equation for this wave is solved through a complex analysis technique. This gets an analytical expression for complex velocity, as a function of real frequency rather than the complex wavenumber. This complex (phase) velocity is used further to calculate the (complex) group velocity. Numerical example is solved to analyze the dispersion in speed and attenuation of the viscoelastic Love waves.


2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (05) ◽  
pp. 1450050 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANTIMOY KUNDU ◽  
SHISHIR GUPTA ◽  
SANTANU MANNA ◽  
PRALAY DOLAI

The present paper is devoted to study the Love wave propagation in a fiber-reinforced medium laying over a nonhomogeneous half-space. The upper layer is assumed as reinforced medium and we have taken exponential variation in both rigidity and density of lower half-space. As Mathematical tools the techniques of separation of variables and Whittaker function are applied to obtain the dispersion equation of Love wave in the assumed media. The dispersion equation has been investigated for three different cases. In a special case when both the media are homogeneous our computed equation coincides with the classical equation of Love wave. For graphical representation, we used MATLAB software to study the effects of reinforced parameters and inhomogeneity parameters. It has been observed that the phase velocity increases with the decreases of nondimensional wave number. We have also seen that the phase velocity decreases with the increase of reinforced parameters and inhomogeneity parameters. The results may be useful to understand the nature of seismic wave propagation in fiber reinforced medium.


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