Determining the volume fraction in 2-phase composites and bodies using time varying applied fields

DOI10.1016/J.JMPS.2023.105292arXiv2207.09932MaRDI QIDQ6405552FDOQ6405552

Authors: Ornella Mattei, Graeme W. Milton, Mihai Putinar 

Publication date: 20 July 2022

Abstract: A body $Theta$ containing two phases, which may form a periodic composite with microstructure much smaller that the body, or which may have structure on a length scale comparable to the body, is subjected to slowly time varying boundary conditions that would produce an approximate uniform field in $Theta$ were it filled with homogeneous material. Here slowly time varying means that the wavelengths and attenuation lengths of waves at the frequencies associated with the time variation are much larger than the size of $Theta$, so that we can make a quasistatic approximation. At least one of the two phase does not have an instantaneous response but rather depends on fields at prior times. The fields may be those associated with electricity, magnetism, fluid flow in porous media, or antiplane elasticity. We find, subject to these approximations, that the time variation of the boundary conditions can be designed so boundary measurements at a specific time $t=t_0$ exactly yield the volume fractions of the phases, independent of the detailed geometric configuration of the phases. Moreover, for specially tailored time variations, the volume fraction can be exactly determined frommeasurements at any time $t$, not just at the specific time $t=t_0$. We also show how time varying boundary conditions, not oscillating at the single frequency $omeg{a}_0$, can be designed to exactly retrieve the response at $omeg{a}_0$.

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