Implicit and explicit secular equations for Rayleigh waves in two-dimensional anisotropic media

0396734 - ÚT 2014 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Červ, Jan - Plešek, Jiří
Implicit and explicit secular equations for Rayleigh waves in two-dimensional anisotropic media.
Wave Motion. Roč. 50, č. 7 (2013), s. 1105-1117. ISSN 0165-2125. E-ISSN 1878-433X
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP101/11/0288
Institutional support: RVO:61388998
Keywords : Rayleigh waves * secular equations * anisotropic materials * composites
Subject RIV: BE - Theoretical Physics
Impact factor: 1.303, year: 2013
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This paper is concerned with the derivation of implicit and explicit secular equations for Rayleigh waves polarized in a plane of symmetry of an anisotropic linear elastic medium. It has been confirmed, in accord with Ting’s paper [2], that the Rayleigh waves propagate with no geometric dispersion. Numerical evaluations of both the implicit and explicit equations give the same values of Rayleigh wave velocities. In the case of orthotropic material (thin composites) it has been found that Rayleigh wave velocity depends significantly (as with bulk waves) on the directions of principal material axes. For the same material model the analytical solutions, based on implicit and explicit secular equations, were compared against the finite element and experimental data that had been published by Cerv et al. [4] in 2010. It emerged that the theory was in accordance with the experiment.
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