Third-order compliances

Unless the compliance of the film, /f, is zero (which is physically impossible) there is a nontrivial dependence of A/ on overtone order, contradicting Eq. 94. This error occurs because the term - 2iAZq cot(fcqfiq) in Eq. 113 was linearized inf -fi (Appendix A), whereas the impedance of the load was expanded to third order in thickness (Sect. 8.2.3). In order to do the derivation consistently, we have to omit the linearization in Af = f - f. Requiring that the mechanical impedance on resonance, Zm, be zero amounts to an imphcit equation in A/. The entire equation has to be Taylor-expanded in Af/f and solved iteratively. In the following, we sketch the argument. The full derivation is given in [104]. 

Deviations from the linearity of Hooke s law are represented to the next higher order by the third-order stiffnesses compliances Th se are... 

In principle, this has important consequences for experimenters who in one instance may find it easier to measure third-order stiffnesses and then have a means to calculate compliances from them. It has already been pointed ont that by this formalism it becomes possible to measure the influence of an electric field on elastic properties of a material and learn something about the deformation dependence of piezoelectricity by this process. 

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