Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2000, 374 pages
Elastic waves possess some remarkable properties and have become ever more important to applications in fields such as telecommunications (signal processing), medicine (echography), and metallurgy (non-destructive testing). These volumes serve as a bridge between basic books on wave phenomena and more technically oriented books on specific applications of wave phenomena. The purpose of this first volume, Free and Guided Propagation, is to describe the different types of waves that propagate in isotropic and anisotropic solids. Crystals are of primary importance since they support waves of several gigahertz. The role of piezoelectric crystals to describe the different type of waves that propagate in isotropic and is especially emphasized. The notions of crystalline structure and the tensorial relations needed for this study are reviewed so that the reader needs no more than a good knowledge of elementary mechanics and electricity.
As a whole, this book is addressed to advanced students, engineers and scientists working in telecommunications, and also in geophysics, inteal nondestructive evaluation and medical ultrasonography.
Waves. Fluid as a Scalar Model
Crystal Properties and Their Representation by Tensors
Elasticity and Piezoelectricity
Plane Waves in Crystals
Guided Waves
Elastic waves possess some remarkable properties and have become ever more important to applications in fields such as telecommunications (signal processing), medicine (echography), and metallurgy (non-destructive testing). These volumes serve as a bridge between basic books on wave phenomena and more technically oriented books on specific applications of wave phenomena. The purpose of this first volume, Free and Guided Propagation, is to describe the different types of waves that propagate in isotropic and anisotropic solids. Crystals are of primary importance since they support waves of several gigahertz. The role of piezoelectric crystals to describe the different type of waves that propagate in isotropic and is especially emphasized. The notions of crystalline structure and the tensorial relations needed for this study are reviewed so that the reader needs no more than a good knowledge of elementary mechanics and electricity.
As a whole, this book is addressed to advanced students, engineers and scientists working in telecommunications, and also in geophysics, inteal nondestructive evaluation and medical ultrasonography.
Waves. Fluid as a Scalar Model
Crystal Properties and Their Representation by Tensors
Elasticity and Piezoelectricity
Plane Waves in Crystals
Guided Waves