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Plane waves in linear, hereditary materials

Sackman, Jerome L.; Kaya, Izak

UCB/SESM-1968/05, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1968-03, 19 pages (500/C23/68/05)

A general procedure is developed for predicting the way in which transient pulses propagate through an arbitrary, linearly viscoelastic medium characterized by creep or stress relaxation functions.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-68-05.pdf (1012 KB)