Mattias Johansson; Jimmy Carlsson; Jonas Olofsson , pp. 42. ING/School of Engineering, 2002.
In order to understand and develop the knowledge about nonlinear behaviour of materials one need to combine some physical procedures, like theoretical modelling, simulations and experimental verification to get a better understanding of the materials. This Thesis work consists of two separate parts. The aim of the first part is to develop a numeric model to simulate acoustic wave propagation through a nonlinear mesoscopic material. The aim of the second part is to experimentally reconstruct stress-strain dependence for dynamic response of a thin nonlinear layer in order to verify analytical formulas.