Overall dynamic properties of locally resonant viscoelastic layered media based on consistent field integration for oblique anti-plane shear waves

TL;DR

This paper develops a homogenization method for analyzing oblique anti-plane shear waves in viscoelastic layered media, accurately capturing micro-structure effects and providing a consistent macro-scale description.

Contribution

It introduces a homogenization approach that accounts for asymmetric unit cells and wave-vector dependence, improving modeling of layered micro-structured media.

Findings

Diagonal terms converge to Voigt/Reuss averages at long wavelengths

Full constitutive tensor needed for asymmetric RUCs

Off-diagonal parameters vanish in symmetric RUCs

Abstract

In this work, the analysis of oblique anti-plane shear waves propagation and scattering in low frequency resonant micro-structured layered media with viscoelastic constituent layers is presented. The band structure of the infinitely periodic systems and scattering off a finite thickness slab of such media are determined using the transfer matrix method. A consistent dynamic field homogenization approach is applied, in which the micro-scale field equations are integrated and the overall macro-scale quantities are defined to be compatible with these integral forms. A reduced set of constitutive tensors is presented for general asymmetric repeating unit cells (RUC), utilizing the proposed homogenized macro-scale quantities combined with Onsager's principle and presumed material form of elastodynamic reciprocity. This set can be further restricted by studying the form of the dispersion equation leading to a unique constitutive tensor. It is shown that for an asymmetric RUC, the full constitutive tensor are required to match the scattering and band structure of the micro-structured media, but all the off-diagonal parameters vanish for a symmetric RUC. Therefore, it is possible to create an equivalent homogenized representation with a uniquely determined diagonal constitutive tensor for a symmetric RUC, though, as is the case also with asymmetric RUCs, all non-zero components will be wave-vector dependent. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the application and consistency of the proposed method. All the diagonal terms are converging to their appropriate Voigt or Reuss averages at the long-wavelength limit for all wave directions. The wave-vector dependent nature of the off-diagonal coupling constants can still be observed even in this limit. The conditions for lossy or lossless systems are presented and are shown to impose weak requirements on overall constitutive tensors.