On wave propagation along a weakly laterally inhomogeneous, weakly bent anisotropic elastic layer

1999 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 3292-3304
Author(s):  
V. M. Babich
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Elastic Layer ◽  
Anisotropic Elastic

On the existence of type-6 transonic states in linear elastic media of cubic symmetry

1987 ◽  
Vol 411 (1840) ◽  
pp. 251-263 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Surface Wave ◽  
Elastic Solid ◽  
Mechanics Of Solids ◽  
Elastic Media ◽  
Slowness Surface ◽  
Cubic Symmetry ◽  
Linear Elastic ◽  
Surface Wave Propagation ◽  
Anisotropic Elastic

Crucial to the understanding of surface-wave propagation in an anisotropic elastic solid is the notion of transonic states, which are defined by sets of parallel tangents to a centred section of the slowness surface. This study points out the previously unrecognized fact that first transonic states of type 6 (tangency at three distinct points on the outer slowness branch S 1 ) indeed exist and are the rule, rather than the exception, in so-called C 3 cubic media (satisfying the inequalities c 12 + c 44 > c 11 - c 44 > 0); simple numerical analysis is used to predict orientations of slowness sections in which type-6 states occur for 21 of the 25 C 3 cubic media studied previously by Chadwick & Smith (In Mechanics of solids , pp. 47-100 (1982)). Limiting waves and the composite exceptional limiting wave associated with such type-6 states are discussed.

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