Waves in Nonlinear Pre-Stressed Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Destrade, Michel (Editor), Saccomandi, Giuseppe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2007.
• Series: CISM Courses and Lectures, 495
• Subjects: Engineering.; Engineering, general.

The papers in this book provide a unique state-of-the-art multidisciplinary overview on the subject of waves in pre-stressed materials through the interaction of several topics, ranging from the mathematical modelling of incremental material response (elastic and inelastic), to the analysis of the g...

Table of Contents:

• Incremental Statics and Dynamics of Pre-Stressed Elastic Materials
• Small-on-Large Theory with Applications to Granular Materials and Fluid/Solid Systems
• Interface Waves in Pre-Stressed Incompressible Solids
• Linear and Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Coated or Uncoated Elastic Half-spaces
• Finite Amplitude Waves in Nonlinear Elastodynamics and Related Theories: A Personal Overview?
• Numerical Methods for Elastic Wave Propagation.