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On the existence of transverse elastic acceleration waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. Chadwick
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of East Anglia, Norwich
P. K. Currie
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Physics, University College, Dublin

Abstract

It is shown that, at an arbitrary point in a general elastic material and regardless of the prevailing state of deformation, there exists in every plane at least one direction in which a transverse acceleration wave may propagate. The possibility of a transverse wave actually being able to progress in such a specific direction depends upon the associated local wave speed being real and conditions are obtained under which this requirement is satisfied.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1975

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