Self-Consistent Methods for Composites Vol. 2: Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Materials /

• Main Authors: Kanaun, S. K. (Author), Levin, V. M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and its Applications, 150
• Subjects: Materials science.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Continuum mechanics.; Structural materials.; Materials Science.; Materials Science, general.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Structural Materials.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Optics and Electrodynamics.

The book is dedicated to the application of self-consistent methods to the solution of static and dynamic problems of the mechanics and physics of composite materials. The effective elastic, electric, dielectric, thermo-conductive and other properties of composite materials reinforced by ellipsoidal...

Table of Contents:

• Self-consistent methods for scalar waves in composites
• Electromagnetic waves in composites and polycrystals
• Axial elastic shear waves in fiber-reinforced composites
• Diffraction of long elastic waves by an isolated inclusion in a homogeneous medium
• Effective wave operator for a medium with random isolated inclusions
• Elastic waves in a medium with spherical inclusions
• Elastic waves in polycrystals.