Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 541. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Elastodynamic equations, isotropic and anisotropic materials; vector/scalar potentials, reflection and transmission at interfaces, mode conversion, surface waves, Rayleigh-Lamb equation. Green’s tensor; variational, Galerkin and Hamilton’s equations. Kirchhoff-Love and Reissner-Mindlin kinematic hypotheses for beam, plate and shell theories. Fourier and Laplace transform, modal and state-vector solution techniques.