Surface Waves In Anisotropic And Laminated Bodies And Defects Detection (Hardcover)

Foreword. I: Theoretical problems concerning propagation of surface wave in elastic anisotropic media. On the role of anisotropy in crystalloacoustics; V.I. Alshits. Surface waves of non-Rayleigh type; S.V. Kuznetsov. Nonlinearity in elastic surface waves acts nonlocally; D.F. Parker. Explicit secular equations for surface waves in an anisotropic elastic half space from Rayleigh to today; T.C.T. Ting. II: Bending and edge waves in plates and shells. 'Nongeometrical phenomena' in propagation of elastic surface waves; V.M. Babich, A.P. Kiselev. Complex rays and internal diffraction at the cusp edge; M. Deschamps, O. Poncelet. Edge waves in the fluid beneath an elastic sheet with linear nonhomogeneity; R.V. Goldstein, A.V. Marchenko. On continuum modelling of wave propagation in layered medium: bending waves; K.B. Ustinov. Edge-localised bending waves in anisotropic media: energy and dispersion; III: Experimental, numerical and semi-analytical methods for analysis of surface waves. Surface electromagnetic perturbations induced by unsteady-state subsurface flow; P.M. Adler, V.M. Entov. Resonant waves in a structured elastic halfspace; M.V. Ayzenberg-Stepanenko. Mumerical analysis of Rayleigh waves in anisotropic media; A.V. Kaptsov. Guided waves in anisotropic media: applications; R.A. Kline. A general purpose computer model for calculating elastic waveguide properties, with application to Non-Destructive Testing; M.J.S. Lowe, P. Cawley, B.N. Pavlakovic. The influence of the initial stresses on the dynamic instability of an anisotropic cone; Y.R. Rossikhin, M.V. Shitikova. Embedding theorem and mutual relation for the interface and shear wavespeeds; I.V. Simonov. IV: Applications of surface waves to analysis of fracture and damage. The non-uniqueness of constant velocity crack propagation; K.B. Broberg. Embedding formulae for planar cracks; R.V. Craster, A.V. Shanin. Wave propagation and crack detection in layered structures; E.V. Glushkov, N.V. Glushkova, A.V. Ekhlakov. Author Index.