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Readers confident in their understanding of the wave vector concept may skip this subsection. 

This time we will consider the crystal as two-dimensional rectangular lattice, therefore, the eorresponding inverse lattiee is also two-dimensional as well as the wave vectors k = (kx, ky). 

Let us take first k = (0,0). We immediately obtain 4 k shown in Fig. 9.6.a, which corresponds to infinite wave length (again A = ) or no wave at all. 

Let us try A = (f, 0). The summation over j may be replaeed by a double summation (indiees m and n along the jc and y axes, respeetively), therefore, Rj = max + nby, where m and n eorrespond to the unit eell j, a and b denote the lattice constants along the axes shown by the unit vectors x and y. We have 

If we go through all m and n, it easily seen that moving along x we will meet the signs - -l,-l,- -l,-l.while moving along y we have the same sign all the time. This will correspond to Fig. 9.6.b. 

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The application of load in materials produces internal modifications such as crack growth, local plastic deformation, corrosion and phase changes, which are accompanied by the emission of acoustic waves in materials. These waves therefore contain information on the internal behaviour of the material and can be analysed to obtain this information. The waves are detected by the use of suitable sensors, that converts the surface movements of the material into electric signal. These signals are processed, analysed and recorded by an appropriate instrumentation. 

Recently, EFIT has been extended to simulate elastic waves in homogeneous anisotropic media [3, 4] and inhomogeneous anisotropic media [5, 6]. Since Waite et al. [7,... 

The isotropic part has not changed. The quasi pressure (qP) curve splits up into a real and an imaginary branch . During this real part the transversal share of the polarization increases until the wave becomes a quasi shear vertical wave. Furthermore, the wave is not anymore a propagating but an evanescent wave in this part. The branch is again only real, it is part of the quasi shear vertical (qSV) curve of the homogeneous case (dotted line), its polarization is dominated by the transversal share and the wave is a propagating one. For the branches (real) and... 

The second example shows results obtained with an angle beam probe for transverse waves in coarse grained grey cast iron. Two commercially available probes are compared the composite design SWK 60-2 and the standard design SWB 60-2. The reflector in this example is a side-drilled hole of 5 mm diameter. The A-scans displayed below in Fig. 5 and 6 show that the composite probe has a higher sensitivity by 12 dB and that the signal to noise ratio is improved by more than 6 dB. 

The transducers discussed above were designed to propagate waves in both directions normal to the direction of the fingers. It has been shown [17] that they produce a roughly collimated beam so they can be used to inspect a band of structure whose width is the transducer finger length the maximum distance away from the transducer covered by the beam is dependent on the attenuation of the wave and the signal-noise ratio, but is typically around 1-2 m in a... 

B.A. Auld, Acoustic Fields and Waves in Solids 2nd edition, Vol 11, (Robert Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 1990). 

R. S.C. Monkhouse, P.D. Wilcox and P. Cawley, Flexible Interdigital PVDF transducer for the generation of lamb waves in structures. Ultrasonics (in press). 

The beam-defect interaction is modelled using Kirchhoff s diffraction theory applied to elastodynamics. This theory (see [10] for the scattering by cracks and [11] for the scattering by volumetric flaws) gives the amplitude of the scattered wave in the fonn of coefficients after interaction with defects and takes account of the possible mode-conversion that may occur. 

Fig. 4 The visible wavefront of head wave in the sonnd field of square crystal...

A piezo-composite consists of a piezoelectric active phase and a passive plastic phase [2]. In the 1-3-configuration adopted in our case, piezoelectric rods parallely aligned in thickness direction are imbedded in a three-dimensional plastic matrix (Fig. 1). The distance between the rods has to be chosen inferior to the half wave length of the shear wave in the matrix material ensuring that the whole compound is vibrating as a quasi-homogeneous material. 

Fig. 2 shows the CFRP-sandwich specimen and the transducer mounted on the scanner. Fig. 23 presents a C-scan of the specimen as first interesting result. Only the defects visible from the outside are indicated. The distance between transducer and specimen was smaller than the focal length, so that the angle of incidence at the edge of the sound beam converts the longitudinal waves to Rayleigh-waves in the specimen. These waves provide a very sharp image of the surface. This method opens the possibility for a non-contact acoustic microscope. 

Castaings, M. and Cawley, P. The generation, propagation, and detection of Lamb waves in plates using air-coupled ultrasonic transducers... 

P. Meakin, Multiple Scattering of Waves in Random Media and Random Rough Surfaces, The Pennsylvania State University Press, State College, PA, 1985. 

Equation (A 1,6.8). along with the definitions (Al.h.S) and (Al.6.6) constitute the central equation for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space. The fonn of section A 1,6.4 admits hamionic solutions of the fonn... 

Figure A2.2.3. Planck spectral density fimction as a fimction of the dimensionless frequency /)oi/(/rj 7). A2.2.4.7 APPLICATION TO IDEAL SYSTEMS ELASTIC WAVES IN A SOLID...

The energy of an elastic wave in a solid is quantized just as the energy of an electromagnetic wave in a cavity. 

In this brief review of dynamics in condensed phases, we have considered dense systems in various situations. First, we considered systems in equilibrium and gave an overview of how the space-time correlations, arising from the themial fluctuations of slowly varying physical variables like density, can be computed and experimentally probed. We also considered capillary waves in an inliomogeneous system with a planar interface for two cases an equilibrium system and a NESS system under a small temperature gradient. 

Tyson J J 1979 Csoillations, bistability and eoho waves in models of the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaotion Ann. New YorkAoad. Sc/. 316 279-95... 

Zhabotinsky A M, Buohholtz F, Kiyatin A B and Epstein I R 1993 Csoillations and waves in metal-ion oatalysed bromate osoillating reaotion in highly oxidised states J. Phys. Chem. 97 7578-84... 

Field R J and Burger M (eds) 1984 Oscillations and Travelling Waves in Chemical Systems (New York Wiley) Multi-author survey of nonlinear kinetics field to 1984, still a valuable introduction to researchers in this area. 

An example of the application of J2-weighted imaging is afforded by the imaging of the dynamics of chemical waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction shown in figure B 1.14.5 [16]. In these images, bright... 

Figure Bl.14.5. J2-weighted images of the propagation of chemical waves in an Mn catalysed Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. The images were acquired in 40 s intervals (a) to (1) using a standard spin echo pulse sequence. The slice thickness is 2 nun. The diameter of the imaged pill box is 39 nun. The bright bands...

Crommie M F, Lutz C P and Eigler D M 1993 Imaging standing waves in a two-dimensional electron gas Nature 363 524... 

Similarly to the response at hydrodynamic electrodes, linear and cyclic potential sweeps for simple electrode reactions will yield steady-state voltammograms with forward and reverse scans retracing one another, provided the scan rate is slow enough to maintain the steady state [28, 35, 36, 37 and 38]. The limiting current will be detemiined by the slowest step in the overall process, but if the kinetics are fast, then the current will be under diffusion control and hence obey the above equation for a disc. The slope of the wave in the absence of IR drop will, once again, depend on the degree of reversibility of the electrode process. 

This relation is a direct consequence of the conservation of flux. The target casts a shadow in the forward direction where the intensity of the incident beam becomes reduced by just that amount which appears in the scattered wave. This decrease in intensity or shadow results from interference between the incident wave and the scattered wave in the forward direction. Figure B2.2.2 for the density P (r) of section B2.2.6 illustrates... 

As long as AT, Ax and Ax remain small, they will be proportional to the sinusoidal pressure wave. In... 

Korringa J 1947 On the oaiouiation of the energy of a Biooh wave in a metai Physica (Amsterdam) 13 392-400... 

Figure Cl.4.5. Population modulation as the atom moves through the standing wave in the Tin-periD-lin one dimensional optical molasses. The population lags the light shift such that kinetic is converted to potential energy then dissipated into the empty modes of the radiation field by spontaneous emission (after 1171).

Figure C3.6.8 (a) A growing ring of excitation in an excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo medium, (b) A spiral wave in tlie same system.

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