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Ultrasonic beam propagation in periodic structures: verifying the existence of sonic crystals in triangular structures

2013/05/17 by Enrique Orduna-Malea, Orduna-Malea, Enrique
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1305.3910

Preprint unpublished, in Spanish. Working paper elaborated from a final project at Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). 24 pages, 26 figures, 4 tables

arxiv created 2013/05/17 · arxiv updated 2013/05/20

Abstract

When waves are propagated through a medium with scatters and these elements are positioned periodically, as in the crystal structures, multiple scattering leads to a phenomenon known as banded structures. This means that waves can propagate in a certain frequency range, according to rules of dispersion, while in other frequency ranges the propagation is cancelled. The first are called allowed bands and the last deaf bands. This work part in order to verify the existence of forbidden bands in the zone of ultrasonic frequency to triangular structures formed by cylinders (hollow and solid) of different diameters (8 and 16mm.). The results indicate that the triangular structure has selective attenuation zones, obtaining results similar to those theoretically predicted for the two main directions of symmetry (0 and 30).

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