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Accession Number:
AD0607551
Title:
SCATTERING OF ELASTIC WAVES BY SMALL INHOMOGENEITIES,
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
TRW SPACE TECHNOLOGY LABS LOS ANGELES CALIF
Report Date:
1959-10-19
Pagination or Media Count:
15.0
Abstract:
Rayleigh scattering theory is extended to determine the perturbation on an arbitrarily prescribed elastic wave field produced by small inhomogeneities in an otherwise homogeneous, isotropic medium. The general result is applied to the specific problems of the scattering of both plane P- and S-waves. It is found that a change in compressibility acts at a distance as a simple source and a change in density as a dipole, as in the acoustical problem, while a change in shear modulus contributes both simple-source and quadrapole fields. Author
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE