Response of two layers overlaying a half-space to a suddenly applied point force

Wave Motion

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-272

  Zhou, Chunnan ^a   Hsu, Nelson N ^b   Popovics, John S ^c   Achenbach, Jan D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; REFLECTION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ELASTODYNAMICS; RAY THEORY;

ELASTIC WAVES;

EID: 0033880278     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2125(99)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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