Rotational seismology is an emerging field for studying all aspects of rotational ground
motions induced by earthquakes, explosions, and ambient vibrations. It is of interest to a …

Elastic material with its elastic tensor losing minor symmetry is considered impossible
without introducing artificially body torque. Here we demonstrate the feasibility of such …

We extend the material symmetry group of the non-linear polar-elastic continuum by taking
into account microstructure curvature tensors as well as different transformation properties of …

Although earthquake source studies have had a great impact on tectonics studies, there are
at least two important problems for which seismology seems unable to provide answers …

We consider the reduced constrained linear Cosserat continuum, a particular type of a
Cosserat medium, for three different material behaviors or symmetries: the isotropic elastic …

Traditionally, seismological interpretations are based on the measurement of only
translational motions, such as particle displacement, velocity, and/or acceleration, possibly …

In the present paper, scattering phenomena has been studied when propagating SH wave
incident on the irregular upper boundary of a linear‐reduced Cosserat isotropic layer/half …

In this contribution we study elastic wave propagation via the introduction of the micropolar
theory. As a generalization of a classical linear elastic medium, a micropolar medium allows …

Polar decomposition of the changing velocity gradient tensor in a deforming fluent continua
into pure stretch rates and rates of rotations shows that a location and its neighboring …

We consider plane waves in the linear elastic reduced Cosserat continuum, a medium
where point-bodies have independent rotational and translational degrees of freedom, but …