The dynamical investigation of two-component poroelastic media is important for practical applications. Analytic solution methods are often not available since they are too complicated for the complex governing sets of equations. For this reason, often some existing numerical methods are used. In this work results obtained with the finite element method are opposed to those obtained by Schanz u...

Employing the poroelastic theory of acoustic waves in gels, the ultrasound (US) propagation in a gel medium filled by poroelastic spherical cells is studied. The equation of fast compressional wave, the phase velocity and the attenuation as a function of the elasticity, porosity and concentration of the cells into the gel matrix are investigated. The outcomes of the theory agree with the prelim...

Exact time domain solutions for displacement and porepressure are derived for waves emanating from a pressurized spherical cavity, in an infinitely permeable poroelastic medium with a permeable boundary. Cases for blast and exponentially decaying step pulse loadings are considered; letter case, in the limit as decay constant goes to zero, also covers the step (uniform) pressure. Solutions clear...

Groundwater is a hugely important resource in both developed and developing countries and makes up over 90% of the world’s freshwater. The idea behind our work is to use wave scattering in saturated porous media to quantify aquifer state and hydraulic properties. We initially focused on solving related inverse problem using the Specfem software to model coupled elastic/poroelastic waves. Of par...

To reduce the noise and vibration perturbations, it is beneficial to use the dissipative properties of poroelastic materials. These materials are generally not used alone, but rather inserted in composite mechanical assemblies made of elastic structures, poroelastic materials and air insertions. If these structures are assemblies of layers of materials, they are called multilayer complexes. If ...

We consider some basic principles of fluid-induced lubrication at soft interfaces. In particular, we quantify how a soft substrate changes the geometry of and the forces between surfaces sliding past each other. By considering the model problem of a symmetric nonconforming contact moving tangentially to a thin elastic layer, we determine the normal force in the small and large deflection limit,...

This paper aims to develop semi-analytical results of the poromechanical fields in a hollow cylinder subjected an asymmetric loading condition. The poroelastic properties vary radial direction. heterogeneous is approximated by multilayer structure which each cylindrical layer assumed be homogeneous. analytical field are first established transformed Laplace space, and then ones time space obtai...

The equations of motion and the nonlinear constitutive theory of fluid-filled poroelastic media are derived from the fundamental equations of elasticity and fluid mechanics for the constituents. A two-scale spatial expansion and the method of homogenization are employed. Explicit equations are obtained for the special case of a medium consisting of alternating solid and fluid layers. The linear...