JOURNAL ARTICLE

RAYLEIGH WAVES ON ELASTIC CRYSTALS

P. K. Currie

Year: 1974 Journal:   The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics Vol: 27 (4)Pages: 489-496   Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract

An improved proof is given of Stroh's result that the secular equation for unattenuated Rayleigh waves travelling on a free surface of an anisotropic elastic halfspace can always be reduced to one purely real equation. In addition it is shown that surface waves are impossible on a fixed boundary.

Keywords:
Rayleigh wave Rayleigh scattering Surface (topology) Boundary value problem Anisotropy Mathematical analysis Physics Boundary (topology) Classical mechanics Free surface Love wave Surface wave Mechanics Mathematics Mechanical wave Geometry Optics Longitudinal wave Wave propagation

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Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Physical Sciences →  Earth and Planetary Sciences →  Oceanography
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Physical Sciences →  Earth and Planetary Sciences →  Atmospheric Science
Differential Equations and Numerical Methods
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