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    Seismic Metamaterials: S Brûlé, E Javelaud, Sebastien Guenneau, S Enoch, Dimitri Komatitsch

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    This document describes a preliminary large-scale seismic test of a soil metamaterial. The test aimed to modify seismic wave propagation through a soil using a grid of vertical, empty cylindrical columns in the soil. Sensors measured wave propagation as a vibrating source generated seismic waves near the metamaterial. The goal was to evaluate if such a metamaterial could counteract seismic waves by modifying the distribution of seismic energy, drawing an analogy to electromagnetic cloaking. The test was conducted in silty clay soil near Grenoble, France, and results will be published after analysis.

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    This document describes a preliminary large-scale seismic test of a soil metamaterial. The test aimed to modify seismic wave propagation through a soil using a grid of vertical, empty cylindrical columns in the soil. Sensors measured wave propagation as a vibrating source generated seismic waves near the metamaterial. The goal was to evaluate if such a metamaterial could counteract seismic waves by modifying the distribution of seismic energy, drawing an analogy to electromagnetic cloaking. The test was conducted in silty clay soil near Grenoble, France, and results will be published after analysis.

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    Seismic metamaterials

    S Brûlé, E Javelaud, Sebastien Guenneau, S Enoch, Dimitri Komatitsch

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    S Brûlé, E Javelaud, Sebastien Guenneau, S Enoch, Dimitri Komatitsch. Seismic metamaterials.
    ETOPIM9 book abstract, S. Guenneau, S. Enoch, Sep 2012, Marseille, France. �hal-01343908�

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    Seismic metamaterials
    S. Brûlé , E. Javelaud1, S. Guenneau2, S. Enoch2, D. Komatitsch3
    1

    1
    Menard, Nozay, France,
    stephane.brule @menard-mail.fr, emmanuel.javelaud@menard-mail.com
    2
    Institut Fresnel, CNRS UMR 7249, Marseille, France,
    sebastien.guenneau@fresnel.fr, stefan.enoch@fresnel.fr
    3
    LMA, CNRS UPR 7051, Marseille, France,
    komatitsch@lma.cnrs-mrs.fr

    Abstract: This document presents the description of a preliminary large-scale seismic test held on
    a soil metamaterial using vibrocompaction probes. The most simplistic way to interact with
    seismic wave is to modify the global properties of the medium, acting on the soil density and then
    on the wave velocity. The main concept is then to reduce the amplification of seismic waves at the
    free surface, called « site effects » in earthquake engineering. However, we develop here an other
    way to counteract the seismic signal by modifying the distribution of the seismic energy thanks to
    a “metamaterial” made of a grid of vertical, cylindrical and empty “inclusions” bored in the initial
    soil.

    Site effect: The amplification of seismic waves at the free surface, namely « site effects » may
    strengthen the impact of an earthquake in specific areas (e.g. Mexico 1985). Indeed, when seismic
    waves propagate through alluvial layers or scatter on strong topographic irregularities,
    refraction/scattering phenomena may strongly increase the amplitude of the ground motion. It is then
    possible to observe stronger motions far away from the epicenter. At the scale of an alluvial basin,
    seismic effects involve various phenomena as wave trapping, resonance of the whole basin,
    propagation in heterogeneous media, generation of surface waves on the basin edges. 1
    Structure damages due to seismic excitation is often directly Surface
    correlated to local site condition in the form of motion
    amplification and/or soil liquefaction inducing ground
    deformation.
    Standards: The European standard EN 1998-1 for the
    Source
    design of structures for earthquake resistance consider that
    mean value of the shear wave velocity Vs,30 for the first thirty Fig. 1: Seismic wave in alluvium basin.
    meters below the ground surface is reliable to relate site
    effects.
    Some authors had shown that heavy densification works could indeed impact the Vs,30 and then, the
    elastic ground response.2
    Soils’ characteristics: An important fact is the low value of surface wave velocity, generated by
    natural seismic source or construction work activities, in superficial and under-consolidated recent
    material: less than 100 m/s to 300 m/s. In this geomaterials, considering 0.1 to 50 Hz frequency range,
    wavelengths of induced surface waves are shorter than P and S waves ones : from few meters to some
    hundreds of meters.
    Analogy with electromagnetic cloaking principles: Considering precursory research work of Sir
    J.Pendry3 on the development of cloacking device which renders an object invisible to radar waves
    and recent results on acoustic domain4,5 , the preliminary objective of this seismic field test is to point
    out the analogy with electromagnetic domain by a quantitative approach. In theory, it seems realistic
    to intercede with seismic waves passing through an artificial anisotropic medium. However, soils
    could offer particular characteristics : non elastic behavior, high rate of signal attenuation, large-scale
    heterogeneousness, etc. These various uncertainties and the objective of modeling justify an in situ
    test to adjust soil’s parameters as shear modulus, quality factor, etc.
    Seismic material: A test zone constituted by a regular mesh of vertical cylindrical voids was carried
    out (figure 2).
    Then length of columns is about 5 m z
    Crane y
    and the grid spacing is smaller than
    2 m. The mean diameter is 320 mm.
    x
    The frequency of the vibrating source
    is 50 Hz with 14 mm of lateral
    Grid spacing Sensors Sensors
    amplitude in (x,y) plan.
    Sensors are three components
    velocimeters (z,y,z) and 1 kHz
    sampling frequency. Due to the
    strong soil attenuation, the probe is Source : vibroprobe
    close to the grid (1.5 m).
    The experiment was carried out near Soil
    the alpine city of Grenoble (France)
    last august.
    The tested soil is a homogeneous silty
    clay. The thickness of the basin with Regular grid of cylindrical and empty boreholes
    similar deposits is up to 200 m.
    Results shall be published after
    analysis.

    Fig. 2: Seismic testing device.

    References
    1. J.F. Semblat et al., Waves and vibrations in soils : earthquakes, traffic, shocks, construction works, 499 p (2009).
    2. S. Brûlé et al., Could deep soil densification impact the seismic site effect ? 9th CUEE, 02-281, pp. 497-501 (2012).
    3. J.B. Pendry, Negative refraction makes a lens, Phys. Rev. 85, 3966-3969 (2000).
    4. M. Farhat et al., Broadband cloaking of bending waves via homogenization of multiply perforated radially symmetric and
    isotropic thin elastic plates. Phys. Rev., B 85, 020301 R (2012).
    5. N. Stenger et al., Experiments on elastic cloaking in thin plates. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 014301 (2012).

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