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.