Download or read book Self-Consistent Methods for Composites written by S.K. Kanaun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely text is the first monograph to develop self-consistent methods and apply these to the solution of problems of electromagnetic and elastic wave propagation in matrix composites and polycrystals. Predictions are compared with experimental data and exact solutions. Explicit equations and efficient numerical algorithms for calculating the velocities and attenuation coefficients of the mean (coherent) wave fields propagating in composites and polycrystals are presented.