Wave-Particle Duality of Ultrasound: Acoustic Softening Explained by Particle Treatment of Ultrasonic Wave

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author Yang, Libin
Yang, Lixiang
author_facet Yang, Libin
Yang, Lixiang
contents When ultrasonic wave is irradiated on materials, a small static stress is required to get materials yielding and flowing. This is called acoustic softening effect, also known as Blaha effect for a long time. In the past, this effect was explained by several continuum scale or meso-scale solid mechanics theories such as stress superposition or energy superposition theory, or crystal/dislocation plasticity. Due to a lot of microscopic complexities happening inside the materials during ultrasonic vibration, fully understanding of acoustic softening effect is not easy. In this paper, traditional solid mechanics theory is expanded by introducing several concepts in semi-conductor physics. Four new aspects were introduced to understand acoustic softening effect. Firstly, contrary to most existed work in acoustic softening research area which treats ultrasound as waves, it was treated as particles. Secondly, crystal/dislocation plastic theory was simplified to a single equation. Thirdly, concepts of photoelectric effect or photo-voltaic effect were introduced. Analogy of electron movement due to light wave and defect movement due to ultrasonic wave was illustrated. Particularly, as light wave is treated as photon, ultrasonic wave is treated as phonon in this paper. Fourthly, defects such as point defects or line defects are assumed to have certain bonding energy. Their bonding energies are assumed to be quantized or discontinuous. The band gap theory used in photo-voltaic theory is embraced to understand defects movements in solid mechanics due to ultrasonic phonon.
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spellingShingle Wave-Particle Duality of Ultrasound: Acoustic Softening Explained by Particle Treatment of Ultrasonic Wave
Yang, Libin
Yang, Lixiang
Materials Science
Classical Physics
When ultrasonic wave is irradiated on materials, a small static stress is required to get materials yielding and flowing. This is called acoustic softening effect, also known as Blaha effect for a long time. In the past, this effect was explained by several continuum scale or meso-scale solid mechanics theories such as stress superposition or energy superposition theory, or crystal/dislocation plasticity. Due to a lot of microscopic complexities happening inside the materials during ultrasonic vibration, fully understanding of acoustic softening effect is not easy. In this paper, traditional solid mechanics theory is expanded by introducing several concepts in semi-conductor physics. Four new aspects were introduced to understand acoustic softening effect. Firstly, contrary to most existed work in acoustic softening research area which treats ultrasound as waves, it was treated as particles. Secondly, crystal/dislocation plastic theory was simplified to a single equation. Thirdly, concepts of photoelectric effect or photo-voltaic effect were introduced. Analogy of electron movement due to light wave and defect movement due to ultrasonic wave was illustrated. Particularly, as light wave is treated as photon, ultrasonic wave is treated as phonon in this paper. Fourthly, defects such as point defects or line defects are assumed to have certain bonding energy. Their bonding energies are assumed to be quantized or discontinuous. The band gap theory used in photo-voltaic theory is embraced to understand defects movements in solid mechanics due to ultrasonic phonon.
title Wave-Particle Duality of Ultrasound: Acoustic Softening Explained by Particle Treatment of Ultrasonic Wave
topic Materials Science
Classical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01513