Implementação de um algoritmo numérico para solução da equação de Christoffel generalizada em acustoelasticidade. / Implementation of a numerical algorithm for solution of the generalized Chistoffel equation in acoustoelasticity.
AUTOR(ES)
Fabricio Santos Velozo
FONTE
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
31/08/2012
RESUMO
Extensive studies carried out in the last decades on the propagation of ultrasonic waves in solids led to the development of nondestructive techniques for the assessment of the safety and integrity of industrial structures and components. The interest in the application of ultrasound techniques for stress measurement for example comes from the measurable change in the speed of the ultrasonic elastic waves in the presence of a stress field, a phenomenon known as acoustoelastic effect. An acoustoelastic theory provides an attractive way of non-destructively measuring the average stress along the waves path. The study of the propagation of ultrasonic waves in homogenous anisotropic bodies under stress leads to a nonlinear eigenvalue problem given by the generalized Christoffel equation. The nonlinearity characteristic of the problem derives from the interdependence between the materials effective elastic constants and the acting stresses. The experimental measurement of stresses using ultrasound techniques is an inverse problem of acoustoelasticity. This dissertation presents the implementation of a numeric algorithm, based on the method proposed by Degtyar and Rokhlin, for solution of the inverse problem of acoustoelasticity in orthotropic solids subjected to a plane stress state. The solution of the generalized Christoffel equation poses difficulties of numerical and practical order. The stability and precision of the algorithm developed, as well as the influence of the experimental uncertainties in the measurement of the speed of the ultrasonic waves, were thus investigated. Synthetic data for the speeds of ultrasonic waves of oblique incidence in a plane-stress plate were generated to illustrate the application of the algorithm developed. The main objective of this dissertation is to make available in the country a new numerical tool to support the use of ultrasonic waves for experimental stress analysis.
ASSUNTO(S)
acustoelasticidade equação de christoffel generalizada algoritmo numérico engenharia mecanica acoustoelasticity generalized christoffel equation numeric algorithm
