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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Wave Propagation in Quasi-continuous Linear Chains with Self-similar Harmonic Interactions: Towards a Fractal Mechanics

Authors : Thomas M. Michelitsch, Gérard A. Maugin, Franck C. G. A. Nicolleau, Andrzej F. Nowakowski, Shahram Derogar

Published in: Mechanics of Generalized Continua

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Many systems in nature have arborescent and bifurcated structures such as trees, fern, snails, lungs, the blood vessel system, but also porous materials etc. look self-similar over a wide range of scales. Which are the mechanical and dynamic properties that evolution has optimized by choosing

self-similarity

so often as an inherent material symmetry? How can we describe the mechanics of self-similar structures in the static and dynamic framework? In order to analyze such material systems we construct self-similar functions and linear operators such as a self-similar variant of the Laplacian and of the D’Alembertian wave operator. The obtained self-similar linear wave equation describes the dynamics of a quasi-continuous linear chain of infinite length with a spatially self-similar distribution of nonlocal inter-particle springs. The dispersion relation of this system is obtained by the negative eigenvalues of the self-similar Laplacian and has the form of a Weierstrass-Mandelbrot function which exhibits self-similar and fractal features. We deduce a continuum approximation that links the self-similar Laplacian to fractional integrals which also yields in the low-frequency regime a power law scaling for the oscillator density with strictly positive exponent leading to a vanishing oscillator density at frequency zero. We suggest that this power law scaling is a characteristic and universal feature of self-similar systems with complexity well beyond of our present model. For more details we refer to our recent paper [7].

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Metadata
Title
Wave Propagation in Quasi-continuous Linear Chains with Self-similar Harmonic Interactions: Towards a Fractal Mechanics
Authors
Thomas M. Michelitsch
Gérard A. Maugin
Franck C. G. A. Nicolleau
Andrzej F. Nowakowski
Shahram Derogar
Copyright Year
2011
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19219-7_11

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