Floquet-Bloch Theory and Its Application to the Dispersion Curves of Nonperiodic Layered Systems

Dispersion curves play a relevant role in nondestructive testing. They provide estimations of the elastic and geometrical parameters from experiments and offer a better perspective to explain the wave field behavior inside bodies. They are obtained by different methods. The Floquet-Bloch theory is p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pablo Gómez García, José-Paulino Fernández-Álvarez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/475364