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Linear Elastic Waves

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ISBN-10: 052164383X

ISBN-13: 9780521643832

Edition: 2001

Authors: John G. Harris

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Wave propagation and scattering are among the most fundamental processes that we use to comprehend the world around us. This text describes such propagation using, as a context, the equations of elasticity.
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Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Preface
Simple Wave Solutions
Model Equations
One-Dimensional Models
Two-Dimensional Models
Displacement Potentials
Energy Relations
The Fourier and Laplace Transforms
A Wave Is Not a Vibration
Dispersive Propagation
An Isolated Interaction
Periodic Structures
References
Kinematical Descriptions of Waves
Time-Dependent Plane Waves
Time-Harmonic Plane Waves
Plane-Wave or Angular-Spectrum Representations
A Gaussian Beam
An Angular-Spectrum Representation of a Spherical Wave
An Angular-Spectrum Representation of a Cylindrical Wave
Asymptotic Ray Expansion
Compressional Wave
Shear Wave
Spherical and Cylindrical Waves
References
Reflection, Refraction, and Interfacial Waves
Reflection of a Compressional Plane Wave
Phase Matching
Reflection Coefficients
Reflection and Refraction
Critical Refraction and Interfacial Waves
The Rayleigh Wave
The Time-Harmonic Wave
Transient Wave
The Rayleigh Function
Branch Cuts
References
Green's Tensor and Integral Representations
Introduction
Reciprocity
Green's Tensor
Notes
Principle of Limiting Absorption
Integral Representation: A Source Problem
Notes
Integral Representation: A Scattering Problem
Notes
Uniqueness in an Unbounded Region
No Edges
Edge Conditions
An Inner Expansion
Scattering from an Elastic Inclusion in a Fluid
References
Tradiation and Diffraction
Antiplane Radiation into a Half-Space
The Transforms
Inversion
Buried Harmonic Line of Compression I
Asymptotic Approximation of Integrals
Watson's Lemma
Method of Steepest Descents
Stationary Phase Approximation
Buried Harmonic Line of Compression II
The Complex Plane
The Scattered Compressional Wave
The Scattered Shear Wave
Diffraction of an Antiplane Shear Wave at an Edge
Formulation
Wiener-Hopf Solution
Description of the Scattered Wavefield
Matched Asymptotic Expansion Study
The Fresnel Integral
References
Guided Waves and Dispersion
Harmonic Waves in a Closed Waveguide
Partial Waves and the Transverse Resonance Principle
Dispersion Relation: A Closed Waveguide
Harmonic Waves in an Open Waveguide
Partial Wave Analysis
Dispersion Relation: An Open Waveguide
Excitation of a Closed Waveguide
Harmonic Excitation
Transient Excitation
Harmonically Excited Waves in an Open Waveguide
The Wavefield in the Layer
The Wavefield in the Half-Space
Leaky Waves
A Laterally Inhomogeneous, Closed Waveguide
Dispersion and Group Velocity
Causes of Dispersion
The Propagation of Information
The Propagation of Angular Frequencies
References
Index