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This Chapter describes the propagation characteristics of bulk waves in fluid and solid media. Plane waves, spherical waves, and Gaussian beams will be considered. In Chap. 8 these types of waves will be used to describe the sound beams generated by ultrasonic transducers. The spherical waves will also be useful in describing the waves scattered by flaws considered in Chap. 10.
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Schmerr, L.W. (2016). Propagation of Bulk Waves. In: Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30463-2_4
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