Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lai, Carlo G. (Editor), Wilmański, Krzysztof (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2005.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures ; 481
• Subjects: Engineering.; Geotechnical engineering.; Software engineering.; Mechanics.; Acoustics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Continuum mechanics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Software Engineering.

Theories of surface waves develop since the end of XIX century and many fundamental problems like existence, phase and group velocities, attenuation (quality factor), mode conversion, etc. have been, in part successfully, solved within the framework of such simple models as ideal fluids^ or linear e...