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Modeling Finite-Size Metamaterials with Relaxed Micromorphic Theory

by LabyrinthineMarch 23rd, 2025
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This section explores relaxed micromorphic modeling for finite-size metamaterials, detailing tetragonal symmetry, elastic tensors in Voigt notation, and boundary conditions. It contrasts the classical Cauchy model with micromorphic approaches for improved metamaterial elasticity analysis.
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Abstract and 1. Introduction

1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control

2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials

2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation)

3 Dispersion curves

4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters

4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change in the unit cell’s bulk material properties

4.2 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change in the unit cell’s size

4.3 Relaxed micromorphic cut-offs

5 Fitting of the relaxed micromorphic parameters: the particular case of vanishing curvature (without Curl P and Curl P˙)

5.1 Asymptotes

5.2 Fitting

5.3 Discussion

6 Fitting of the relaxed micromorphic parameters with curvature (with Curl P)

6.1 Asymptotes and 6.2 Fitting

6.3 Discussion

7 Fitting of the relaxed micromorphic parameters with enhanced kinetic energy (with Curl P˙) and 7.1 Asymptotes

7.2 Fitting

7.3 Discussion

8 Summary of the obtained results

9 Conclusion and perspectives, Acknowledgements, and References

A Most general 4th order tensor belonging to the tetragonal symmetry class

B Coefficients for the dispersion curves without Curl P

C Coefficients for the dispersion curves with P

D Coefficients for the dispersion curves with P◦

2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials


Figure 1: Geometry of the unit cell. Left: details of one unit cell (rotated by 45 degrees) showing the tetragonal symmetry. For a = 20mm as the size of the unit size we consider later, both the bars and holes have a thickness of 0.4mm each. Right: A 3x3 section of the metamaterial made up of this unit cell (red dashed square).



for the classical Cauchy model, and



for the relaxed micromorphic model, where we set



The Neumann boundary condition for the classical Cauchy model are


2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation)









This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.


[7] We write “m” for “micro” and “M” for “macro” for the corresponding elastic parameters to shorten the following expressions.



Authors:

(1) Jendrik Voss, Institute for Structural Mechanics and Dynamics, Technical University Dortmund and a Corresponding Author (jendrik.voss@tu-dortmund.de);

(2) Gianluca Rizzi, Institute for Structural Mechanics and Dynamics, Technical University Dortmund;

(3) Patrizio Neff, Chair for Nonlinear Analysis and Modeling, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen;

(4) Angela Madeo, Institute for Structural Mechanics and Dynamics, Technical University Dortmund.