Abstract
Acoustic nonlinearity (which is quantified in terms of an absolute material parameter, the acoustic nonlinearity parameter, β) can be caused by several sources, one of which is the elastic-plastic deformation of the material. This paper develops a model to quantify the acoustic nonlinearity parameter due to elastic-plastic deformation. This new model is applicable to general anisotropic elastic-plastic materials with existing microplasticity strains due to either monotonic or cyclic loading. As an example, the developed model is applied to calculate the acoustic nonlinearity parameter of a single crystal copper specimen subjected to cyclic fatigue loading. It is found that the acoustic nonlinearity parameter of this specimen increases monotonically with increasing fatigue cycles.
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