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Elastic Chiral Waveguides with Gyro-Hinges

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This article presents a novel chiral structure, consisting of Euler–Bernoulli beams connected to gyroscopic spinners. A new type of boundary condition is introduced, which is referred to as a gyro-hinge. In this system, flexural waves are coupled with rotational motion. Time-harmonic conditions are derived by assuming small nutation angles of the spinners. It is shown that the eigenfrequencies of a finite beam with gyro-hinges at one or both ends change dramatically with the moments of inertia and the spin and precession rates of the spinners. The formulation is then extended to elastic beams with periodically-spaced gyro-hinges, whose dispersion properties are investigated in detail. In particular, it is shown how stop-bands and standing modes are affected by the introduction of gyroscopic spinners at the junctions. It is also demonstrated that a periodic system composed of beams connected by gyro-hinges represents a good approximation of a gyrobeam, a theoretical structural element consisting of an elastic beam possessing a continuous distribution of stored angular momentum. The gyricity coefficient of a gyrobeam is then interpreted in terms of the physical parameters of the system of beams with gyroscopic spinners. This article opens a new perspective on the design and practical implementation of chiral mechanical systems.

Acceptance Date Jan 17, 2018
Publication Date May 1, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics
Print ISSN 0033-5614
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 157 - 185
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hby001
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hby001

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