Stress Waves in Anelastic Solids
Prager, William / Kolsky, Herbert
Although the subject of wave propagation in solids has a long history, the classical theory of elastic waves having been developed in the nine teenth century by STOKES, POISSON, RAYLEIGH and KELVIN, the last two decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in this subject among both theoreticians and experimenters. There' are a number of reasons for this, first, experimental methods for the generation and detection of high frequency mec...