Investigation of wave propagation in double cylindrical rods considering the effect of prestress

Abstract This paper presents the investigation of guided wave propagation in prestressed double-cylinder structure. Based on Hertzian contact theory, the interaction between two rods is treated as a plane strain problem and the stress state in the waveguide under the static load is obtained. The stress state is considered as a prestressed configuration for elastic wave propagation analysis in double cylindrical rods. The elastodynamic equation of the prestressed structure is established with the updated Lagrangian formulation and the wave finite element (WFE) method. Firstly, the equation is verified by the application on an aluminum rod compared with the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory. Then, dispersion curves for single rod and double cylindrical rods without prestress are computed. Besides, at the dimensionless frequency 0.25 the propagating modes in double cylindrical rods are identified with mode shapes and displacement vectors. The guided waves in double rods consist of the modes different from single rod. Particularly, there exist two kinds of torsional-like modes, one of which has a twist center and the other has two. The latter changes obviously with the increase of prestress in the waveguide. At low frequencies, torsional-like modes are very sensitive to the variation of prestress; in addition, the prestress configuration has little influence on propagating modes at mid-frequencies but some at high frequencies.

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