IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media : proceedings of the IUTAM symposium held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, 18-22 January 1999 /

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Meeting name:IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media (1999 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c2001.
Description:xvii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Solid mechanics and its applications ; v. 91
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4527226
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Varying Form of Title:Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media
Other authors / contributors:McPhedran, R. C.
Botten, L. C.
Nicorovici, Nicolae A.
ISBN:0792370384 (hardbound : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributing Authors
  • Part I. Overview
  • 1. Electric and Elastic Properties of Linear and Non-Linear Composites
  • 2. Advances in the Rayleigh Multipole Method for Problems in Photonics and Phononics
  • Part II. Aspects of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 3. Random Scattering and the Detection Capability of the Magnetotelluric Method
  • 4. Phase Singularities in Beams
  • 5. Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Fibre Gratings
  • Part III. Aspects of Mechanical Waves
  • 6. Radiation From a Transducer into an Elastic Half-Space
  • 7. Energy Flux in Elasticity and Electromagnetism
  • 8. On Oscillation of Layered Structures with Imperfect Interfaces
  • 9. Free Vibration of Elastic Solids: Effect of Boundary Perturbation on Fundamental frequencies
  • 10. Diffusing Acoustic Wave Transport and Spectroscopy
  • Part IV. Composites
  • 11. Charged Dust Structures in Plasmas
  • 12. Longitudinal Magneto-Elastic Waves in Solids with Microstructure
  • 13. Transport Properties of a Fibre-Layer Composite Material
  • 14. Laplace Transform Methods and the Rayleigh Identity for an Array of Elliptical Cylinders
  • Part V. Homogenization
  • 15. Symmetry Breaking in Annular Domains for a Ginzburg-Landau Superconductivity Model
  • 16. Diffraction by Perfectly Conducting Capacitive Grids: Photonic Band Structures and Circuit Models
  • 17. Photonic Crystal Optics and Homogenization of 2D Periodic Composites
  • 18. Asymptotics of Photonic Band Structures for Doubly-Periodic Arrays
  • Part VI. Photonic Band Gap Materials and Localization
  • 19. Electromagnetic Modelling of Dielectric and Metallic Photonic Crystals
  • 20. Band Gap Engineering in Metallic PBG Materials at Microwave Frequencies Using Composite Material and Defect Lattice
  • 21. Photonic Bands and Scattering for Stacks of Lossy, Dispersive Cylinders
  • 22. Surface Plasmons and Zero Order Metal Gratings
  • 23. General Characteristics of Localization in Stratified Media with Random Loss and Gain
  • 24. Light Amplification and Attenuation in Stratified Structures with Complex Refractive Index
  • Author Index