Wave Motion in Elastic Solids

Thishighlyusefultextbookpresentscomprehensiveintermediate-levelcoverageofnearlyallmajortopicsofelasticwavepropagationinsolids.Thesubjectsrangefromtheelementarytheoryofwavesandvibrationsinstringstothethree-dimensionaltheoryofwavesinthickplates.Thebookisdesignednotonlyforawideaudienceofengineeringstudents，butalsoasageneralreferenceforworkersinvibrationsandacoustics.Chapters1–4coverwavemotioninthesimplestructuralshapes，namelystrings，longitudinalrodmotion，beamsandmembranes，platesand(cylindrical)shells.Chapters5–8dealwithwavepropagationasgovernedbythethree-dimensionalequationsofelasticityandcoverwavesininfinitemedia，wavesinhalf-space，scatteringanddiffraction，andwavesinthickrods，plates，andshells.
Tomakethebookasself-containedaspossible，threeappendicesofferintroductorymaterialonelasticityequations，integraltransformsandexperimentalmethodsinstresswaves.Inaddition，theauthorhaspresentedfairlycompletedevelopmentofanumberoftopicsinthemechanicsandmathematicsofthesubject，suchassimpletransformsolutions，orthogonalityconditions，approximatetheoriesofplatesandasymptoticmethods.
Throughout，emphasishasbeenplacedonshowingresults，drawnfromboththeoreticalandexperimentalstudies，aswellastheoreticaldevelopmentofthesubject.Moreover，thereareover100problemsdistributedthroughoutthetexttohelpstudentsgraspthematerial.Theresultisanexcellentresourceforbothundergraduateandgraduatecoursesandanauthoritativereferenceandreviewforresearchworkersandprofessionals.