The growing usage of elastic, piezoelectric and magneto-electro-elastic composites has
motivated the scientific and industrial communities to develop new numerical methods …

Can the residual stresses affect significantly the drift of electrons and holes? The main goal
of this research is to provide answers to this question. Although the behavior of acoustic …

Wave reflection phenomenon at the stress-free/rigid surface of a piezoelectric fiber-
reinforced composite (PFRC) half-space is studied. The PFRC is micro-mechanically …

The multi-mode and dispersion natures of guided waves in plate bring big challenges of
functional phononic crystal (PC) plate design for wave control. For designing a periodic …

High-performance alloy materials are increasingly considered for various engineering
applications due to their combination of desirable properties. However, the guided wave …

A high-frequency surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, based on sandwiched interdigital
transducer (IDT), is presented. The resonator has the structure of diamond/AlN/IDT/AlN …

This article is dedicated to analyse the propagation and attenuation behaviour of Love-type
waves in an imperfectly bonded viscoelastic-functionally graded piezoelectric material …

Several numerical methods allow the prediction of guided dispersion curves. Due to some
drawbacks of such methods, eg, the challenge of divergence, which heavily depends on …

Given that many micro-nano piezoelectric acoustic devices operate at very high frequencies,
the dissipation caused by metal electrodes significantly affects their performance (eg, quality …

This study presents a novel stress measurement method utilizing the Rayleigh waves virtual
superimposed interference spectrum (RW-VSIS). This method achieves stress …