An Efficient Semi-Analytical Scheme for Determining the Reflection of Lamb Waves in a Semi-Infinite Elastic Waveguide

The classical problem of reflection of Lamb waves from a free edge perpendicular to the centre line of an elastodynamic plate is studied. It is known that Lamb wave expansions for the displacement and stress fields poorly represent the irregular behaviour near corners, leading to the slow convergence of a series of such waves. The form of the irregularity for an elastodynamic corner is derived asymptotically, and a new solution method, which incorporates this corner behaviour analytically, is then implemented. Results are presented showing that this new approach represents the near-field and far-field behaviour very accurately, requiring very modest numbers of Lamb wave and corner modes. Further, it is revealed that the method can recover the trapped-mode phenomenon encountered in this configuration at the Lame frequency and a specific Poisson's ratio that we find to be approximately 0.224798.

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This paper investigates the reflection of Lamb waves from a free edge perpendicular to the center line of an elastodynamic plate. The results show that the new solution method accurately represents the near-field and far-field behavior, requiring only a small number of Lamb wave and corner modes.