Surface Waves in Anisotropic and Laminated Bodies and Defects Detection
Publication year: 2005
: 978-1-4020-2387-3
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 of extendedboundaries(surfaces)of?uidsorelasticmedia. Intheidealcase of an isotropic elastic half-space while the Rayleigh waves propagate along the surface, the wave amplitude (displacement) in the transverse direction exponentially decays with increasing distance away from the surface
: Engineering, Wave, Algorithms, crystal, Diffraction, Modeling, Non-destructive testing, Stability
