Displacement Green's function is the building block for some semi-analytical methods like Boundary Element Method (BEM), Distributed Point Source Method (DPCM), etc. In this thesis, the displacement Green`s function in anisotropic media due to a time harmonic point force is studied. Unlike the isotropic media, the Green's function in anisotropic media does not have a closed form solution. The dynamic Green's function for an anisotropic medium can be written as a summation of singular and non-singular or regular parts. The singular part, being similar to the result of static Green's function, is in the form of an integral over an oblique circular path in 3D. This integral can be evaluated either by a numerical integration technique or can be converted to a summation of algebraic terms via the calculus of residue. The other part, which is the regular part, is in the form of an integral over the surface of a unit sphere. This integral needs to be evaluated numerically and its evaluation is considerably more time consuming than the singular part. Obtaining dynamic Green's function and its spatial derivatives involves calculation of these two types of integrals. The spatial derivatives of Green's function are important in calculating quantities like stress and stain tensors. The contribution of this thesis can be divided into two parts. In the first part, different integration techniques including Gauss Quadrature, Simpson's, Chebyshev, and Lebedev integration techniques are tried out and compared for evaluation of dynamic Green’s function. In addition the solution from the residue theorem is included for the singular part. The accuracy and performance of numerical implementation is studied in detail via different numerical examples. Convergence plots are used to analyze the numerical error for both Green's function and its derivatives. The second part of contribution of this thesis relates to the mathematical derivations. As mentioned above, the regular part of dynamic Green's function, being an integral over the surface of a unit sphere, is responsible for the majority of computational time. From symmetry properties, this integration domain can be reduced to a hemisphere, but no more simplification seems to be possible for a general anisotropic medium. In this thesis, the integration domain for regular part is further reduced to a quarter of a sphere for the particular case of transversely isotropic material. This reduction proposed for the first time in this thesis nearly halves the number of integration points for the evaluation of regular part of dynamic Green's function. It significantly reduces the computational time.

En sciences et dans l’industrie pour limiter le nombre de maquettes expérimentales dans les projets R&D afin de mieux comprendre et de bien interpréter les phénomènes ultrasonores complexes observés sur site, des simulations de contrôles ultrasonores sont effectuées. Ces simulations sont d’autant plus réalistes que la description des structures à contrôler est précise, en particulier au niveau des constantes d’élasticité et d’atténuation intrinsèque. Les objectifs de cette étude sont d’améliorer d’une part les connaissances sur l’influence des caractéristiques métallurgiques des matériaux anisotropes et hétérogènes sur la propagation ultrasonore et d’autre part les performances des codes de calcul (logiciel ATHENA d’EDF) qui nécessitent de disposer des données d’entrée pertinentes, notamment en ce qui concerne les constantes d’élasticité et l’atténuation ultrasonore. Cette étude est dédiée à la caractérisation des matériaux à gros grains, comme les aciers austéno-ferritiques moulés par centrifugation et les soudures en acier inoxydable austénitique ou en alliages à base nickel. Un système expérimental unique permettant de mesurer les constantes d’élasticité et l’atténuation en incidence oblique à été mis au point. Le point fort de ce dispositif est qu’il permet de travailler au-delà de l’angle critique longitudinal et donc de mesurer les propriétés d’atténuation des ondes transversales. Les constantes d’élasticité sont déduites des vitesses ultrasonores à partir d’un processus d’optimisation basé sur la résolution de problème inverse. Nous avons montré les potentialités d’algorithmes d’optimisation globaux tels que les algorithmes génétiques moins susceptibles de converger vers des minima locaux de la fonction à minimiser. Les résultats obtenus à partir des mesures expérimentales sont en accord avec la littérature. Des résultats de l’atténuation des ondes longitudinales et transversales par décomposition du faisceau en spectre d’ondes planes sont présentés. / In industry, to limit the number of experimental models in R&D projects, to better understand and to well interpret the complex ultrasonic phenomena observed du ring controls on site, simulations of ultrasonic controls are carried out. These simulations are all the more realistic as the description of structures to control is accurate, especially in terms of elastic constants, and intrinsic attenuation. The objectives of this study are firstly to improve knowledge about the influence of the metallurgical properties of anisotropie and heterogeneous materials on the ultrasonic propagation and secondly the performance of the computation codes (software ATHENA EDF) which need to have the relevant inputs, particularly as regards the elastic constants and ultrasonic attenuation. This study is dedicated to the characterization of coarse materials such as austenitic-ferritic steel centrifugally cast and the welding in steel austenitic stainless or in alloy nickel-based. A unique experimental system for measuring the elastic constants and attenuation at oblique incidence has been developed. The strong point of this device is that it can work beyond the longitudinal critical angle and thus to measure the attenuation properties of transversal waves. The elastic constants are deduced from ultrasonic speed from an optimization process based on the resolution of Inverse problems. We have shown the potential of global optimization algorithms such as genetic algorithms Jess likely to converge to local minima of the function to minimize. The results obtained from experimental measurements are in agreement with literature. Results of the attenuation of the longitudinal and transverse waves by beam decomposition into spectrum of plane waves are represented.