Download or read book Elastic Waves in Solids I written by DANIEL ROYER and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-11-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 first volume studies the different mechanisms of propagation in isotropic and anisotropic media. The second volume describes the generation and applications of free and guided waves.