Liquid crystal flexoelectric actuation uses an imposed electric field to create membrane bending and it is used by the Outer Hair Cells (OHC) located in the inner ear, whose role is to amplify sound through generation of mechanical power. Oscillations in the OHC membranes create periodic viscoelastic flows in the contacting fluid media. A key objective of this work on flexoelectric actuation re...

Dynamic shear test on simulated phantom can be used to validate magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) measurements. Phantom gel has been usually utilized for the cell culture of cartilage and soft tissue and also been used for mechanical property characterization using imaging systems. The viscoelastic property of the phantom would be important for dynamic experiments and analyses. In this stud...

An extension of the O'Doherty and Anstey theory [R. F. O'Doherty and N. A. Anstey, Geophys. Prosp. 19, 430458 (1971)] is derived for waves in finely layered, anisotropic, viscoelastic media. Multiple scattering effects cause the direct wave to be delayed and broadened, subject to a deterministic integrodifferential delay equation. The kernel depends upon time-domain autocorrelations of reflecti...

Two concepts of plane waves in anisotropic viscoelastic media are studied. One of these concepts allows for the use of methods based on the theory of complete Bernstein functions. This allows for a deeper study of frequency-domain asymptotics of the attenuation function and timedomain regularity at the wavefronts. A relation between the direction of the energy flux density and the attenuation v...

Abstract We investigate the specific attenuation factor for Bessel models of viscoelasticity. find that quality this class can be expressed in terms Kelvin functions and its asymptotic behaviours confirm analytical results found previous studies rheological properties these models.

In this paper, the reflection and refraction of longitudinal wave from a plane surface separating a micropolar viscoelastic solid half space and a fluid saturated incompressible half space is studied. A longitudinal wave (P-wave) impinges obliquely at the interface. Amplitude ratios for various reflected and transmitted waves have been obtained. Then these amplitude ratios have been computed nu...