Elastic wave propagation in model sediments -- I

Wave propagation in elastic tubes

Viscothermal Wave Propagation including Acousto-elastic Interaction, Part I: Theory

This research deals with pressure waves in a gas trapped in thin layers or narrow tubes. In these cases viscous and thermal e!ects can have a signi"cant e!ect on the propagation of waves. This so-called viscothermal wave propagation is governed by a number of dimensionless parameters. The two most important parameters are the shear wave number and the reduced frequency. These parameters were us...

Stress Wave Propagation in Elastic-elastic and Elastic-viscoelastic Bilaminates

In the present study normal plate-impact experiments are conducted to investigate the propagation of acceleration waves in 2-D layered material systems. The objective of these experiments is to understand the role of material architecture and material inelasticity in controlling precursor decay and late-time dispersion of acceleration waves in elastic-elastic and elasticviscoelastic laminates. ...

Elastic wave propagation along DNA

It is shown that information transmission inside a cell can occur by means of mechanical waves transmitted through DNA. The propagation of the waves is strongly dependent on the shape of the DNA thus proteins that change the shape of DNA can alter signal transmission. The overall effect is a method of signal processing by DNA binding proteins that creates a ”cellular communications network”. Th...

Acoustic wave propagation in gassy porous marine sediments: The rheological and the elastic effects.

The preceding paper in this series [Mantouka, Dogan, White, and Leighton, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 140, 274-282 (2016)] presented a nonlinear model for acoustic propagation in gassy marine sediments, the baseline for which was established by Leighton [Geo. Res. Lett. 34, L17607 (2007)]. The current paper aims further advancement on those two studies by demonstrating the particular effects of the sed...