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On the self-switching of hypersonic waves in cubic nonlinear elastic nanocomposites

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A summary on transistors and some facts on nanocomposite materials and their classical models are provided. New models used here for computer simulation are described. Results from a theoretical study of the interaction of cubic nonlinear harmonic elastic plane waves in a Murnaghan material are presented. The interaction of two harmonic waves is analyzed using the method of slowly varying amplitudes. The mechanism of energy pumping from a strong pump wave to a weak signal wave is examined. The theoretical and numerical analyses conducted suggest that in theory, a nanocomposite material may be used to create a transistor that would work with hypersonic waves and have a speed in the nanosecond range

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 90–117, January 2009.

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Rushchitsky, J.J. On the self-switching of hypersonic waves in cubic nonlinear elastic nanocomposites. Int Appl Mech 45, 73–93 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-009-0165-z

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