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The study of disorder-induced frequency filtering is presented for one-dimensional systems composed of random, pre-stressed masses interacting through both linear and nonlinear (Hertzian) repulsive forces. An ensemble of such systems is driven at a specified frequency, and the spectral content of the propagated disturbance is examined as a function of distance from the source. It is shown that the transmitted signal contains only low-frequency components, and the attenuation is dependent on the magnitude of disorder, the input frequency, and the contact model. It is found that increased disorder leads to a narrower bandwidth of transmitted frequencies at a given distance from the source and that lower input frequencies exhibit less sensitivity to the arrangement of the masses. Comparison of the nonlinear and linear contact models reveals qualitatively similar filtering behavior; however, it is observed that the nonlinear chain produces transmission spectrums with a greater density at the lowest frequencies. In addition, it is shown that random masses sampled from normal, uniform, and binary distributions produce quantitatively indistinguishable filtering behavior, suggesting that knowledge of only the distribution’s first two moments is sufficient to characterize the bulk signal transmission behavior. Finally, we examine the wave number evolution of random chains constrained to move between fixed end-particles and present a transfer matrix theory in wave number space, and an argument for the observed filtering based on the spatial localization of the higher-frequency normal modes.
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Lawney, B.P., Luding, S. Frequency filtering in disordered granular chains. Acta Mech 225, 2385–2407 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-014-1130-4
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