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Studying Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Response of Soft Materials
Published on: April 25, 2019
Propagation of coherent shear waves in scattering elastic media
Alverède Simon1, Régis Wunenburger1, Tony Valier-Brasier1
1Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, F-75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We measure the reflection and transmission of shear waves by slabs of random dispersions of hard, dense spheres in a viscoelastic matrix. By modeling the slab as a Fabry-Pérot interferometer, we determine the effective wave number of coherent shear waves in this scattering medium and its effective mass density. We evidence the effect of the resonant rigid-body translation and rotation of the spheres on the propagation. We validate a vectorial model of multiple scattering for volume fractions of spheres up to 10%, revealing the signature of two modes of propagation.
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