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Relation between stress and resonance

Physics Asked by Kareem Ahmed on December 26, 2020

I am working on a project to measure the stress in metals so I am looking for a variable that changes directly with stress. I noticed that when hitting a metal (unstressed) (say iron) by another metal (say copper) a sound is generated with a unique wavelength. When I retry the same experiment, but this time applying some stress to the metal (iron), and hit it again (with copper), will the sound generated have different wavelength?

If what I said is right I aim to use this property to measure the stress in any metal. So if you have any idea on how can I build such a measuring tool please share it with me.
Thank you in advance.

One Answer

For an elastic rod under uniaxial stress is valid the relation for the longitudinal vibration:

$$frac{partial sigma_{xx}}{partial x} = rho a_x = rho frac{partial^2 u_x}{partial t^2}$$ where $rho$ is the density and $u_x(x,y,z)$ is the displacement at the point to the $x$ direction.

As $sigma_{xx} = Eepsilon_{xx} = Efrac{partial u_x}{partial x}$, we have a wave equation:

$$frac{partial^2 u_x}{partial x^2} = frac{rho}{E} frac{partial^2 u_x}{partial t^2}$$

with a solution of the type: $$u_x = Acosleft(kx - ksqrt{frac{E}{rho}}tright)$$

$$sigma_{xx} = -kEAsinleft(kx - ksqrt{frac{E}{rho}}t right)$$

$omega = ksqrt{frac{E}{rho}}$, so the stress is linearly proportional to the frequency, for the same material and geometry.

But it is only valid for an uniaxial case (and longitudinal vibration). In a generic 3D situation, and where the stress is not constant (a shrinking fit assembly for example) it may be hard to derive a relation frequency x stress state.

Answered by Claudio Saspinski on December 26, 2020

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