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Christophe Aristégui1, Yves C Angel
1Université Bordeaux 1; CNRS; UMR 5469, Laboratoire de Mécanique Physique, Talence, F-33405 France.
Abstract:
The effective dynamic properties of composites made of elastic cylindrical fibers randomly distributed in another elastic solid can be evaluated with plane shear-horizontal acoustic waves. In this paper, it is shown that the effective mass density and the effective shear stiffness are complex valued and frequency dependent. Simple formulas are derived for these effective quantities. The low-frequency limit of these formulas is found to be in agreement with physical expectations. The derivation is based on the multiple-scattering approach of Waterman and Truell, where each cylinder of finite cross section is replaced with an equivalent line scatterer. Numerical results are presented for the effective mass density and effective shear stiffness for various values of frequency, cylinder concentration, and elastic properties of the cylinders and matrix.
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