Acoustics of Layered Media II presents the theory of sound propagation and reflection of
spherical waves and bounded beams in layered media. It is mathematically rigorous but at …

Paraxial Gaussian beams (GB's) are collimated wave objects that have found wide
application in optical system analysis and design. A GB propagates in physical space …

Axial radiation from leaky Lamb waves propagating in a 6.05 mm water-immersed steel
plate being excited by a sound beam normally incident to the plate, is investigated as a …

A rigorous spectral analysis is given for the nonspecular reflection of a three-dimensional
Gaussian beam at a dielectric isotropic planar structure. For the first time all independent …

Materials characterization by means of megahertz air-coupled ultrasound is reported in this
paper. In plates of composite laminates the reconstruction of a function closely related to the …

The aim of this paper is threefold: to describe the physical phenomenon of the excitation of
modal waves such as Lamb waves, in anisotropic multilayered media, by a monochromatic …

The complex-source-point (CSP) technique, widely used to generate Gaussian beams out of
real point source fields by displacing the source location into complex space, is here …

New exact representations are presented for arbitrary compact source regions using
distributions of sources in complex space. The equivalent sources are located on the …

Plane-wave theory for fluid-embedded isotropic plates is often used in ultrasonic guided-
wave applications, and to estimate wall thickness, corrosion, or sound velocities in plates …

An approximate, but highly accurate, analysis is presented for the reflection of bounded
acoustic beams—and their detection by finite receivers—from fluid‐loaded structures …