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- Gaborit, Mathieu
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Modelling strategies for thin imperfect interfaces and layers
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The global trend towards quieter environments has been one of the key topics of acoustics research for years. The recent tightening of the regulations on noise exposure as well as the many reports on the impact of noise on human health confirm this situation and stress ever more the need for innovative mitigation strategies. Numerous efforts from many teams allowed to refine existing solutions and explore new approaches towards a lower noise level ultimately leading to a number of promising concepts. Central to this field, the use of poroelastic media and the development of realistic meta-materials are paving the way to tackle the problem. In the meantime, a great part of the most widely adopted systems to mitigate noise, such as acoustics panels for instance, resort to thin resistive screens placed on the surface to protect the bulk and control the properties. Despite often being one of the thinnest components of the systems, they have a non-negligible impact on the overall response and are subject to a number of uncertainties.The approach chosen in this thesis differs from the global trend of designing new solutions and conversely relies on investigating the effect of uncertainties inherent to all these sound proofing systems. More precisely, the work performed focuses on modelling the impact of uncertain interfaces and uncertain parameters in the thin layers used as protective, tuning or aesthetic elements. These acoustic films, and to a certain extent the thin interface zones resulting from the assembly process, are notably challenging to characterise with precision. The main goal of this thesis is then to propose strategies to account for uncertainties on the parameters of the films and interfaces and predict their impact on the overall response of the systems.Three different scientific contributions are presented in this thesis. Together they discuss modelling aspects related to the films, propose possible simplifications and demonstrate the effect of parameter uncertainties. Finally they introduce numerical strategies to efficiently account for uncertainties in computations within the context of poroelastic and meta-poroelastic media.
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- Mathieu, Lucie, et al.
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Geological constraints on the dynamic emplacement of cone-sheets - The Ardnamurchan cone-sheet swarm, NW Scotland
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Structural Geology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0191-8141 .- 1873-1201. ; 80, s. 133-141
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cone-sheets are a significant constituent of many central volcanoes, where they contribute to volcano growth by intrusion and through flank eruptions, although the exact emplacement mechanisms are still controversially discussed. In particular, it is not yet fully resolved whether cone-sheets propagate as magma-driven, opening-mode fractures or as shear fractures, and to what extent pre-existing host-rock structures and different stress fields influence cone-sheet emplacement. To shed further light on the role of these parameters in cone-sheet emplacement, we use detailed field and remote sensing data of the classic Ardnamurchan cone-sheet swarm in NW-Scotland, and we show that the cone-sheets primarily propagated as opening-mode fractures in the sigma(1)-sigma(2) plane of the volcanic stress field. In addition, more than one third of the Ardnamurchan cone-sheet segments are parallel to lineaments that form a conjugate set of NNW and WNW striking fractures and probably reflect the regional NW SE orientation of sigma(1) during emplacement in the Palaeogene. Cone-sheets exploit these lineaments within the NE and SW sectors of the Ardnamurchan central complex, which indicates that the local volcanic stress field dominated during sheet propagation and only allowed exploitation of host-rock discontinuities that were approximately parallel to the sheet propagation path. In addition, outcrop-scale deflections of cone-sheets into sills and back into cone-sheets (also referred to as "staircase" geometry) are explained by the interaction of stresses at the propagating sheet tip with variations in host-rock strength, as well as the influence of sheet-induced strain. As a consequence, cone-sheets associated with sill-like segments propagate as mixed-mode I/II fractures. Hence, cone-sheet emplacement requires a dynamic model that takes into account stress fields at various scales and the way propagating magma interacts with the host rock and its inherent variations in rock strength.
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