Elastic waves are used in fields as diverse as the non-destructive evaluation of materials, medicine, seismology and telecommunications. Elastic Waves in Solids

Self-contained coverage of topics ranging from elementary theory of waves and vibrations in strings to three-dimensional theory of waves in thick plates. Over 1

The most readable survey of the theoretical core of current knowledge available. The author gives a concise account of the classical theory necessary to an unde

This volume contains 16 classic essays from the 17th to the 21st centuries on aspects of elastic wave theory.