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Elastic Wave Propagation

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Mechanical Behaviour of Engineering Materials

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When a localized disturbance is applied suddenly into a medium, it will propagate to other parts of this medium. The local excitation is not detected at other positions of the medium instantaneously, as some time would be necessary for the disturbance to propagate from its source to other parts of the medium. This simple fact constitutes a general basis for the interesting subject of “wave propagation.” Well-cited examples of wave propagation in different media include, for instance, the transmission of sound in air, the propagation of a seismic disturbance in the earth, the transmission of radio waves, among others. In the particular case, when the suddenly applied disturbance is mechanical, e.g., an impact force, the resulting waves in the medium are due to mechanical stress effects and, thus, these waves are referred to as “mechanical stress waves” or simply “stress waves.” Our attention in this text is restricted to the study of the propagation of stress waves in engineering materials.

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