Abstract
A Semi-Analytical Finite Element (SAFE) formulation is applied to determinethe dispersion curves in homogeneous and isotropic cylindrical waveguides subject touniaxial stress. Bulk waves are required for estimating the guided wave dispersion curvesand acoustoelasticity states a stress dependence of the ultrasound bulk velocities. Therefore,acoustoelasticity influences the wave field of the guided waves. Effective Elastic Constants(EEC) has emerged as a less complex alternative to deal with the acoustoelasticity; allowinga stressed material to be assumed as an unstressed material with EEC which considers thedisturbance linked to the presence of stress. In this approach the isotropic specimen subjectto load is studied by proposing an equivalent stress-free with a modified elasticity matrixwhich terms are the EEC. EEC provides an approximate stress-strain relation facilitating thedetermination of the dispersion curves using the well-studied numerical solution for the stressfreecases reducing the complexity of the numerical implementation. Therefore, a numericalmethod combining the SAFE and EEC is presented as a tool for the dispersion curve generationin stressed cylindrical specimens. The results of this methodology are verified by comparingthem with an approach previously reported in the literature based on SAFE including the fullstrain-displacement relation
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