Topological sensitivity of energy cost functional for wave-based defect identification

Abstract

This article is concerned with establishing the topological sensitivity (TS) against the nucleation of small trial inclusions of an energy-like cost function. The latter measures the discrepancy between two time-harmonic elastodynamic states (respectively defined, for cases where overdetermined boundary data is available for identification purposes, in terms of Dirichlet or Neumann boundary data for the same reference solid) as the strain energy of their difference. Such cost function constitutes a particular form of error in constitutive relation and may be used for e.g. defect identification. The TS is expressed in terms of four elastodynamic fields, namely the free and adjoint solutions for Dirichlet or Neumann data. A similar result is also given for the linear acoustic scalar case. A synthetic numerical example where the TS result is used for the qualitative identification of an inclusion is presented for a simple 2D acoustic configuration.