Front Cover; Wave Propagations in Layered Anisotropic Media: With Applications to Composites; Copyright Page; Contents; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. FIELD EQUATIONS AND TENSOR ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 3. BULK WAVES; CHAPTER 4. GENERALIZED SNELL'S LAW AND INTERFACES; CHAPTER 5. FORMAL SOLUTIONS; CHAPTER 6. SCATTERED WAVE AMPLITUDES; CHAPTER 7. INTERFACE WAVES; CHAPTER 8. FREE WAVE IN PLATES; CHAPTER 9. GENERAL LAYERED MEDIA; CHAPTER 10. PROPAGATION ALONG AXES OF SYMMETRY; CHAPTER 11. FLUID-LOADED SOLIDS; CHAPTER 12. PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECTS; CHAPTER 13. TRANSIENT WAVES
CHAPTER 14. SCATTERING FROM LAYERED CYLINDERSCHAPTER 15. ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITES; Appendix; References; Additional References; Subject Index; Author Index
Summary
Recent advances in the study of the dynamic behavior of layered materials in general, and laminated fibrous composites in particular, are presented in this book. The need to understand the microstructural behavior of such classes of materials has brought a new challenge to existing analytical tools. This book explores the fundamental question of how mechanical waves propagate and interact with layered anisotropic media. The chapters are organized in a logical sequence depending upon the complexity of the physical model and its mathematical treatment
