On the reconstruction of prestress fields in a hollow cylinder

The present research is devoted to the development of the theoretical foundations of non-destructive acoustic method for identifying inhomogeneous prestress fields in a hollow cylinder, depending on the probing loading type. A linearized model of steady oscillations of an elastic body in the presence of an inhomogeneous prestress field of arbitrary nature is considered in the standard and weak formulations. On the basis of this model, we formulate a problem for a cantilever-clamped prestressed hollow cylinder that performs steady axisymmetric vibrations under three types of probing loading. A corresponding weak formulation of the problem in the cylindrical coordinate system is presented, in which six independent components of the prestress tensor are taken into account. At that, a case of prestress fields obtained by applying some initial mechanical external static load is considered. In the presence and absence of prestresses of various types, amplitude-frequency dependences are analyzed, and resonant and natural frequencies are found in a wide frequency range. Numerical calculations were carried out using the FEM on a non-uniform grid; mesh refinement is carried out in the vicinity of the boundary points, where the type of boundary conditions changes. Based on the numerical solution of an auxiliary set of direct problems, seven types of prestress fields are constructed, differing in the types of initial loading, most often encountered in practice. To assess the possibility of implementing the procedure for reconstructing prestresses of each of the considered types, a sensitivity analysis was additionally performed, which showed that for some prestress types there are frequencies and types of probing loading for which the presence of prestress is practically not manifested. The sensitivity analysis performed made it possible to implement the optimal method of probing loading when solving the inverse coefficient problem. The statement of the new inverse problem on the restoration of arbitrary inhomogeneous prestress fields in the considered finite hollow cylinder is formulated. When restoring the prestress of a given structure, the inverse problem is reduced to finding a set of parameters from an ill-conditioned algebraic system, which was studied with the help of the A.N. Tikhonov regularization method. Additional data for solving the inverse problem was obtained on the basis of probing both via a single load and via combined probing modes. It has been found that it is most effective to use a combined loading mode and use a sufficiently wide frequency range when selecting sounding frequencies. The results of computational experiments on the reconstruction of six components of the prestress tensor are presented and analyzed, and recommendations are proposed for choosing the optimal modes of acoustic sounding.