Horizontal Shear Surface Waves on a Laminated Composite
Abstract
It is shown that there exists a new class of surface waves with polarization parallel to the surface, like Love waves, that propagates along the free surface of a half-space consisting of a periodically layered composite with layers parallel to the free surface. A method is presented for deriving these horizontally polarized shear wave solutions from plane wave solutions obtained by applying Floquet's Theorem to an infinite periodically layered medium. The different types of surface wave dispersion relations obtained in this way are discussed and the physical significance of two critical points, the conical point and turning point, is noted.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA053570
Entities
People
- B. A. Auld
- G. Herrmann
- G. S. Beaupre
Organizations
- Stanford University