Age-related loss of tissue elasticity is a common cause of human morbidity and arteriosclerosis (vascular stiffening) is associated with the development of both fatal strokes and heart failure. However, in the absence of appropriate micro-mechanical testing methodologies, multiple structural remodelling events have been proposed as the cause of arteriosclerosis. Therefore, using a model of agei...

Time-reversal symmetry for elastic wave propagation breaks down in a resonant mass-in-mass lattice whose inner-stiffness is weakly modulated in space and in time in a wave-like fashion. Specifically, one-way wave transmission, conversion and amplification as well as unidirectional wave blocking are demonstrated analytically through an asymptotic analysis based on coupled mode theory and numeric...

Dynamic magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a non-invasive method for the quantitative determination of the mechanical properties of soft tissues in vivo. In MRE, shear waves are generated in the tissue and visualized using phase-sensitive MR imaging methods. The resulting two-dimensional (2-D) wave images can reveal in-plane elastic properties when possible geometrical biases of the wave ...

We demonstrate reverse-time imaging using multicomponent elastic wavefields. The elastic data are used as boundary conditions for a numeric solution to the elastic wave-equation solved using a staggeredgrid finite-difference implementation. P and S components are not separated from recorded data, but are extrapolated together as part of a vector wavefield. A straightforward extension to the cro...

By combining various ideas related to one-way wave equations (OWWEs), half-space stiffness relation, special finiteelement discretization, and complex coordinate stretching, a systematic procedure is developed for deriving a series of highly accurate space-domain versions of OWWEs. The resulting procedure is applicable to complex media where the governing equation (full wave equation) is a seco...

Introduction The wave propagation in magneto-electro-elastic materials has gained considerable importance since last decade. The electro-magneto-elastic materials exhibit a desirable coupling effect between electric and magnetic fields, which are useful in smart structure applications. These materials have the capacity to convert one form of energy namely, magnetic, electric and mechanical ener...

The model of the equations of generalized magneto-thermoelasticity in an isotropic elastic medium with two–temperature under the effect initial stress is established. The entire elastic medium is rotated with a uniform angular velocity. The formulation is applied under three theories of generalized thermoelasticity: Lord–Shulman, Green–Lindsay, as well as the coupled theory. The Harmonic functi...

The paper deals with surface wave propagation in an orthorhombic elastic half-plane. The general profile of the wave is considered, incorporating the anisotropy effects within the known representation in terms of a single plane harmonic function.

Mode selection of guided waves in an elastic steel plate with thick coating layer has been studied here. E€ect of both thick elastic coating and damping of the coating layer on the dispersion and mode shapes has been investigated and modes that are less a€ected by elastic coating and damping have been identi®ed. For modeling the viscoelastic behavior of the coating layer, the standard linear so...

Discrete particle methods or elastic lattice methods represent a 3D elastic solid by a series of interconnected springs arranged on a regular lattice. Generally, these methods only consider nearest neighbour interactions, i.e. they are first-order in space. These interconnected springs interacted through a force term (Hooke’s Law for an elastic body), which when viewed on a macroscopic scale pr...