Contents

## **Preface XI**


Preface

Wave propagation in solids has been widely studied in the past and recent years and principal advances in this field have been achieved not only for the improvements of calculus methods, but also for the high progresses attained in the description of new

This book presents innovative and original research studies describing some enhancement in both directions. In particular, the first section is devoted to the propagation of linear and nonlinear waves in complex materials, porous media and cylindrical shells mainly, and related dispersion relations are deeply investigated; theoretical results are usually compared with numerical results and experimental data. Instead the second section is dedicated to principal advances and new applications for the study of wave processes in classical solids; applied numerical analyses and methods are linked to simulation applications and the attention is focused on explanation of the long tested approaches and comprehensive but succinct description in procedures such as finite element method. The emphasis is posed on various simulation availabilities as well as associated programs for simulation in the fields of

seismology, damaging, geo- and nano-materials and multi-wave propagation.

The audience of this book includes students, professors, seismologists, engineers, and other advanced scientists with knowledge, and interest, of wave propagation in solids.

**Pasquale Giovine**

Italy

Department of Mechanics and Materials (MECMAT) "Mediterranean" University of Reggio Calabria,

types of materials with peculiar thermo-mechanical properties.
