Surface Wave Propagation in an Initially Stressed Transversely Isotropic Thermoelastic Solid

Effects of Prestress on Surface Wave Propagation in Viscoelastic Composites

Abstract

Prestressed materials have various applications, for example, in oil and geophysical industry, NDT in pre-stressed materials, use of rubber composites in automotive, aerospace and defence industries (often in pre-stressed states) and in the study of biological tissues (lung, tendon, etc.) which are all nonlinear prestressed viscoelastic composites.