Propagation of weak ultrasonic pulses in an intense low-frequency wave field in a granite resonator

Results of an experimental study of nonlinear attenuation and carrier frequency phase delay of weak ultrasonic pulses under the effect of an intense low-frequency wave in a bar resonator made from Karelian granite are presented. The effects observed in the experiment are analytically described in terms of the phenomenological equation of state containing hysteretic and dissipative nonlinearities. A frequency dependence of nonlinearity is revealed, and the effective values of nonlinear parameters of granite are estimated for the frequency range from 150 kHz to 1 MHz.