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Geubelle, Philippe H. Vakakis, Alexander F. Lambros, John Ostoja-Starzewski, Martin Pal, Raj Kumar 2015-07-22T22:15:33Z 2015-07-22T22:15:33Z 2015-05 2015-01-13 This dissertation studies wave propagation in granular media with the objective of developing stress wave tailoring applications. Two mechanisms for wave tailoring are investigated: the first part focuses on energy dissipation in elasto-plastic granules and the second studies tunable wave propagation in elastic granular lattices. We start by developing a unified contact law for elasto-plastic granules of distinct sizes and material properties using quasistatic finite element simulations. Extensive numerical studies are then conducted on the dynamics of elastic and elasto-plastic granular chains under a wide range of loading conditions and models are developed for predicting the key quantities. Compared to their elastic counterparts, elasto-plastic chains exhibited distinct features like rapid decay of waves, formation and merging of wave trains, yielding of contact points, etc. Then we quantify key impact properties of 3D granular packings and compare with 3D continuum media. Scaling laws for dissipation are derived from first principles and verified numerically for both the media. In the second part of this dissertation, we develop systems for tunable wave propagation by exploiting the intrinsic nonlinearity of Hertzian contact in elastic granular lattices. We design a granular lattice of spheres packed in a cylindrical tube whose response can be varied from near solitary waves to rapidly decaying waves by applying external precompression. The designs are demonstrated using numerical simulations and the trends are explained by an asymptotic analysis. We also designed energy filters and band gap systems tunable by external control using lattices of spheres and cylinders subjected to impact and harmonic loadings. Finally, we introduce the concept of wave tailoring by altering the network topology in granular lattices. The designs are demonstrated using a combination of modeling, numerical simulations and experiments. Good agreement is obtained between them, illustrating the feasibility of our designs for practical applications. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-07-22 without embargo terms The student, Raj Kumar Pal, accepted the attached license on 2015-01-12 at 13:59. The student, Raj Kumar Pal, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-01-12 at 14:06. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-01-13 at 13:25. 2015-5 DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #7676 on 2015-07-22 at 10:29:34 Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:15:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Pal_Rajkumar12.pdf: 5100952 bytes, checksum: f24219fa367031314fa2388d1bcf6ece (MD5) license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: afb56fdeb46ccbedaa3b32ba0367fa2b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-13 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78292 Copyright 2015 Raj Kumar Pal contact mechanics dynamics wave tailoring wave propagation impact Granular Media Wave tailoring in elastic and elastoplastic granular systems text text Mechanical Sci & Engineering Theoretical & Applied Mechans University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.