The passage of seismic waves through highly heterogeneous media leads to significant scattering of seismic energy and an apparent attenuation of seismic signals emerging from the heterogeneous zone. The size of this scattering attenuation depends on the correlation properties of the medium, the rates of Pand S-wave velocities, and frequency content of the incident waves. An estimate of the effe...

This paper presents the state-of-the-art of using non-destructive testing (NDT) methods based on elastic waves for the condition assessment of structural timber. Two very promising approaches based on the propagation and reflection of elastic waves are described. While the first approach uses ultrasonic echoes for the testing of wooden building elements, the second approach uses guided waves (G...

The paper studies the possibility of propagation of torsional surface waves in an elastic layer with void pores over an elastic medium with void pores using the mechanics of the medium as derived by Cowin and Nunziato. The velocity equation has been derived and the results have been discussed. The study reveals that there may be more than one torsional surface wave fronts and one Love wave fron...

Articles you may be interested in Response to " Comment on 'Disentangling longitudinal and shear elastic waves by neo-Hookean soft devices' " [Appl. Higher order interaction of elastic waves in weakly nonlinear hollow circular cylinders. II. Physical interpretation and numerical results Theoretical study of shear horizontal wave propagation in periodically layered piezoelectric structure

Classical acoustic and elastic wave scattering problems from an acoustically rigid or soft cylinder are revisited. The behavior of phases as well as magnitudes of each partial waves and form functions are numerically analyzed and discussed. The effect of mode conversion, especially, on the phases of each partial waves in elastic wave scattering is identified.

We derive and analyze transport equations for the energy density of waves of any kind in a random medium. The equations take account of nonuniformities of the background medium, scattering by random inhomogeneities, polarization e ects, coupling of di erent types of waves, etc. We also show that di usive behavior occurs on long time and distance scales and we determine the di usion coe cients. ...

In this chapter the theory of scattering of elastic surface waves is described. Since surface waves are guided along the surface of materials, the scattering properties of surface waves are useful for probing the heterogeneity of the material near the surface as well as perturbations of the free surface. This has applications in the detection of surface defects (Steg and Klemens, 1974) and in s...

Elastic waves exhibit rich polarization characteristics absent in acoustic and electromagnetic waves. By designing a solid elastic metamaterial based on three-dimensional anisotropic locally resonant units, here we experimentally demonstrate polarization bandgaps together with exotic properties such as 'fluid-like' elasticity. We construct elastic rods with unusual vibrational properties, which...

A hybrid technique has been developed that uses both electromagnetic and elastic waves in a synergistic manner to detect buried land mines. The system consists of a moving electromagnetic radar and a stationary elastic-wave source. The source generates elastic waves in the earth. These waves interact with the buried mine and cause both the mine and the earth to be displaced. Because the mechani...

Analysis for the propagation of elastic waves in arbitrary anisotropic plates is investigated, commencing with a formal analysis of waves in a layered plate of an arbitrary anisotropic media, the dispersion relations of elastic waves are obtained by invoking continuity at the interface and boundary of conditions on the surfaces of layered plate. The obtained solutions can be used for material s...