Twelve shear surface waves guided by clamped/free boundaries in magneto-electro-elastic materials

It is shown that surface waves with twelve different velocities in the cases of different magneto-electrical boundary conditions can be guided by the interface of two identical magneto-electro-elastic half-spaces. The plane boundary of one of the half-spaces is clamped while the plane boundary of the other one is free of stresses. The 12 velocities of propagation of these surface waves are obtained is explicit forms. It is shown that the number of different surface wave velocities decreases from 12 to 2 if the magneto-electro-elastic material is changed to a piezoelectric material.Comment: 7 pages, no figure

On diffraction of acoustic and electric waves in piezoelectric medium by an absorbent half-plane electrode

AbstractDiffraction of incident acoustic and incident electric waves in a transversally isotropic piezoelectric medium at the boundary of a half-plane absorbent electrode is systematically investigated using the quasi-hyperbolic approximation. The electrode is assumed to be very thin so that its thickness and stiffness can be neglected. By exact inversion, the explicit expressions for the scattering waves are obtained. A closed form solution is obtained by applying Laplace transformations and the Wiener–Hopf technique. By means of the Cagniard–de Hoop method a detailed investigation of the structure of the electro-acoustic wave is conducted. The mode conversion between electric and acoustic waves, the effect of electro-acoustic head wave, the Bleustein–Gulyaev surface wave and the structure of the wave in terms of the type of the incident wave (acoustic or electric) and its angle of incidence are analyzed in detail. It is shown that in piezoelectric materials, absorbent electrodes are neither completely opaque nor completely transparent to electric and acoustic waves. The dynamic field intensity factors at the tip of the electrode are functions of the angle of incidence and time; they are derived explicitly and discussed through a detailed numerical analysis