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Carlos I Mendoza1, J Adrián Reyes2
1Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CdMx, Mexico.
Abstract:
We consider an elastic helical medium formed by uniformly rotating a triclinic crystal around a given axis to constitute a helical medium giving rise to a material whose tensor stiffness rotates uniformly and varies along the helix axis. A detailed analysis of its elastic properties has been done previously. Here, we are concerned in analyzing the role of thermal coupling with heat flow through the dilatation tensor. Starting from a general dynamic description of the thermoelastic phenomena which takes into account the finite speed of propagation of thermal waves, we establish a set of equations for the strains, stresses, temperature and heat flow. These equations allow to calculate the band structure and the logarithmic ratio between longitudinal and transverse strains. We express our results for different values of the thermoelastic coupling and period of the helix which show remarkable modifications when compared with the case in which no thermoelastic coupling is present.
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