Wave Propagation in Materials and Structures

Dr. Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Professor Gopalakrishnan works in the area of wave propagation in complex mediums, structural health monitoring, and modeling of nanostructures, wherein he has made seminal contributions.

"The book browses rapidly in the first chapters into different aspects of wave propagation in many different materials, considering anisotropy, heterogeneity and higher-order continua. It then deals with a large list of more specific aspects at the forefront of current research. The book will be of interest both to top-level researchers and to students wishing to get of broad view of up-to-date research topics in wave propagation."— Régis Cottereau, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France"The book provides a self-contained exposition of elastic wave propagation in material and structures. Besides covering the general background on elastic wave propagation, it covers a wide variety of interesting applications of wave propagation in different types of wave guides and nano structures. There are many interesting chapters covering important applications such as wave propagation in composite structures, nanostructures and in materials including electric and magnetic regions. There is also an interesting chapter on wave propagation in uncertain wave guides using Monte Carlo simulations. Overall, the book can serve as an excellent reference book for both engineers and applied mathematicians."—Kristian Sandberg, Computational Solutions, Inc.The main strength in this book is the brief but very effective fundamentals that one must know or recapitulate before understand the harder materials on wave propagation. The breath and deepness in the material covered is quite valuable for graduate students those who will embark on the journey with acoustic or ultrasonic wave propagation. Particularly I like the concept of stitching the wave propagation in classical media, waves in periodic media, wave in micro to nano scale structures and very wide topics but brief fundamentals together in to a one chain."— Sourav Banerjee, University of South Carolina, USA

• 1. Introduction. 2. Local and Non Local Elasticity: Introductory Concepts. 3. Introduction to the Theory of Composites and Functionally Graded Materials. 4. Introduction to Integral Transforms. 5. Introduction to Wave Propagation. 6. Wave Propagation in One Dimensional Isotropic Structural Waveguides. 7. Wave Propagation in Two Dimensional Isotropic Waveguides. 8. Wave Propagation in Laminated Composites. 9. Wave Propagation in Sandwich Structural Waveguides. 10. Wave Propagation in Functionally Graded Material Waveguides. 11. Wave Propagation in Nanostructures and Nanocomposite Structures. 12. Finite Element Method for Wave Propagation Problems. 13. Spectral Finite Element Formulation. 14. Wave Propagation in Smart Composite Structures. 15. Wave Propagation in Defective Waveguides. 16. Wave Propagation in Periodic Waveguides. 17. Wave Propagation in Uncertain Waveguides. 18. Wave Propagation in Hyperelastic Waveguides. 19. Index.