Finite-element analysis of non-collinear mixing of two lowest-order antisymmetric Rayleigh-Lamb waves.

Recently, a perturbation approach was adopted for the non-collinear mixing of plate waves in an isotropic elastic plate with quadratic nonlinearity by Ishii, Biwa, and Adachi [J. Sound Vib. 419, 390-404 (2018)] and a resonance condition was derived theoretically, namely, that a significant scattered plate wave is generated when its frequency and wavevector coincide with the sum/difference of those of its primary waves. However, that analysis assumed monochromatic plane waves that interacted everywhere in the plate. To apply the non-collinear mixing of plate waves to nondestructive evaluation of plate-like structures, the influence of the spatial and temporal finiteness of the primary waves on the generation of the scattered wave must be elucidated. To that end, the present study conducts three-dimensional dynamic finite-element analyses on the mixing of lowest-order antisymmetric Rayleigh-Lamb waves that have finite beam widths and time durations. The generation of scattered lowest-order symmetric Rayleigh-Lamb and shear horizontal waves with sum frequencies is discussed for various beam widths, intersection angles, and primary frequencies. The resonance condition derived originally for monochromatic plane waves in the aforementioned study is found to be valid even when the wave interaction is allowed only within limited space and time.