Surface Waves in Anisotropic and Laminated Bodies and Defects Detection

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Goldstein, Robert V. (Editor), Maugin, Gerard A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 163
• Subjects: Engineering.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Crystallography.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Materials science.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Applications of Mathematics.

Among the variety of wave motions one can single out surface wave pr- agation since these surface waves often adjust the features of the energy transfer in the continuum (system), its deformation and fracture. Predicted by Rayleigh in 1885, surface waves represent waves localized in the vicinity ofe...