Effective elastic wave transmission through a periodically voided interface

TL;DR

This paper derives effective interface conditions for elastic wave transmission across a thin, periodically perforated layer, revealing different models depending on material stiffness scaling.

Contribution

It introduces a unified approach using the unfolding method to derive distinct effective interface conditions for various material parameter scalings.

Findings

Different scalings lead to membrane or plate interface models.

In the critical regime, the interface condition depends on microscopic variables.

The method provides a systematic way to model wave transmission through perforated interfaces.

Abstract

Effective interface conditions for a periodically voided thin layer separating two homogeneous bulk regions are derived for the elastic wave equation by taking the simultaneous limit of vanishing layer periodicity and layer thickness. The limit problems are obtained using the unfolding method for thin perforated domains. We consider three different scalings of the material parameters in the layer that characterise its stiffness, each leading to a distinct type of interface condition and requiring the solution of scaling-dependent cell problems. Depending on the scaling, the resulting effective model yields either a membrane equation or a Kirchhoff-Love plate equation. In the critical regime of reduced stiffness, the interface equation additionally depends on the microscopic variable. By selecting appropriate cell problems, this equation can be reformulated as an effective interface condition between the bulk domains.