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Reduced-scale ultrasonic modelling of Rayleigh wave transmission over seismic barriers formed by periodic arrays of vertical holes

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posted on 2018-03-15, 11:33 authored by Abdelhalim Azbaid El Ouahabi, Victor V. Krylov
Seismic barriers are used widely to protect buildings from traffic-induced ground vibrations, mainly from propagating Rayleigh surface waves. Experimental investigations of real size seismic barriers at frequencies typical for traffic-induced ground vibrations, i.e. at 10-100 Hz, are costly and time consuming. In the present work, an alternative and much less expensive approach is proposed - a reduced-scale experimental modelling using ultrasonic Rayleigh wave propagation over very small-scale replicas of real seismic barriers. Experimental investigations of propagation of Rayleigh wave pulses with the central frequency of 1 MHz have been carried out for seismic barriers formed by periodic arrays of vertical holes in Aluminium samples. Measurements of transmission and reflection coefficients of Rayleigh waves for different types of arrays and for different incident angles have been carried out and compared with the earlier published results obtained for real seismic barriers.

Funding

EPSRC grant EP/K038214/1.

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

Noise Control Engineering Journal

Volume

66

Issue

1

Pages

33 - 44

Citation

AZBAID EL OUAHABI, A. and KRYLOV, V.V., 2018. Reduced-scale ultrasonic modelling of Rayleigh wave transmission over seismic barriers formed by periodic arrays of vertical holes. Noise Control Engineering Journal, 66 (1), pp.33-44.

Publisher

© Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-01-12

Publication date

2018-01-01

Notes

This article was published in the Noise Control Engineering Journal [© Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA)] and the definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.3397/1/37664

ISSN

0736-2501

Language

  • en

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