Transient elastic waves in a transversely isotropic laminate impacted by axisymmetric load

A method of reverberation-ray matrix has been extended to the investigation of the field of wave propagation in a transversely isotropic laminate. By using the decomposition in a local coordinate system, any complicated waves can be separated into a departing part and an arriving part, which are expressed in the local scattering matrix at structural interface. Together with the local phase matrix, we obtain a certain wave transmitting from a layer to the neighboring one. Thus, the wave propagation in the whole laminate can be described when assembling the local information with global phase and global permutation matrices. This method is perfectly suitable for evaluating the transient waves involving a large number of generalized-rays. In this paper, the method is applied to laminate made of transversely isotropic material. Numerical results show the influence of the change of thickness and elastic constants of the layers on the wave propagation in laminate.

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