APPLICABILITY OF FLOQUET-TYPE SOLUTIONS TO BOUNDED LAYERED COMPOSITES

It is shown that certain Floquet-type solutions describing the propagation of horizontally polarized shear waves in an infinite, periodically layered, elastic composite can be considered applicable to composites with boundaries. In particular, this is the case for layered plates with traction-free and rigidly constrained bounding planes, as well as for a layered half-space in which different novel types of surface waves can propagate.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Controlling Office is the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia 22217.
• Corporate Authors:

  Stanford University

  Department of Applied Mechanics
  Stanford, CA  United States  94305
• Authors:
  • Herrmann, G
  • Beaupre, G S
  • Auld, B A
• Publication Date: 1978-2

Media Info

• Pagination: 19 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Composite materials; Rayleigh waves; S waves; Sandwich construction; Structural plates; Vibration; Wave motion
• Old TRIS Terms: Plate vibration
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00179213
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: SUDAM 78-2 Intrm Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: N00014-76-C-0054
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 19 1978 12:00AM