Recent Developments in Surface Acoustic Waves

I Nonlinear Surface Acoustic Waves and Applications.- State-of-the-Art Elastic SAW Convolvers.- Multiple Scale Techniques Applied to Nonlinear Elastic and Piezoelectric Surface Waves.- Nonlinear Evolution of Piezoelectric SAWs.- Nonlinear Piezoelectric Surface Acoustic Waves Using the Multiple Scales Technique.- Linear and Nonlinear Surface Waves on Magnetostrictive Crystals in a Bias Magnetic Field.- Nonlinear Mode Coupling Between Rayleigh and Love Waves on an Isotropic Layered Half-Space.- Finite Amplitude Love Waves on an Incompressible Elastic Layered Half Space.- Nonlinear Surface Acoustic Waves and Their Associated Surface Acoustic Solitons.- Experiments on Nonlinear Effects in Ground-Surface Vibration.- II Surface Waves on Anisotropic Substrates.- Aspects of the Behaviour of Surface Waves in Transversely Isotropic Elastic Media.- A New Method for Surface Impedance and Surface Wave Calculations.- III Surface Waves on Rough Surfaces.- Surface Acoustic Waves on Rough Surfaces.- Rayleigh Waves Along a Corrugated Surface.- Localization Effects in the Scattering of Acoustic Waves from a Random Stress-free Grating Surface.- A Comparison of Some Methods for Corrugated Waveguides.- Love Waves in a Slab with Rough Boundaries.- IV Surface Waves on Electromagnetic Bodies.- Shear Horizontal Surface Acoustic Waves on Solids.- Calculation of Interdigital Transducer Interaction with SAWs and BAWs.- Bleustein-Gulyaev Surface Waves of Arbitrary Form.- A Dynamic Problem for a Piezoelectric Medium.- Electromechanical Surface Waves in Layered Elastic Dielectrics with Polarization Gradient.- Surface Waves in a Semiconductor with Relaxation of Charge Carrier Field.- V Surface Waves on Composites.- Acoustic Properties of Periodic Layers.- Surface Waves on a Laminated Half-Space.- Surface and Interface Waves in a Sandwich Plate with Interface Soft Layers.- Rayleigh Waves in Materials Reinforced by Two Families of Fibres.- Dispersion of Harmonic Waves in Elastic and Viscoelastic Periodic Composite Materials.- VI Waves on Curved and Fluid-Loaded Surfaces, in Viscoelasticity and in Thermoelasticity.- Mathematical and Computational Aspects of the Determination of Elastic Surface Waves Along Cylindrical Cavities of General Cross Section.- Low Frequency Propagation of Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Filled Borehole.- Surface Vibration of a Semi-infinite Viscoelastic Medium.- Surface Waves on an Isotropic Viscoelastic Half-Space: The Method of Generalized Rays.- Acoustical Scattering by a Shallow Surface-Breaking Crack in an Elastic Solid Under Light Fluid Loading.- Determination of the Rheological Parameters of Viscoelastic Liquids Using Shear Surface Waves.- The Influence of Off-Centre Defects on SAW Characteristics.- On the Propagation of Surface Waves.- Surface Waves in Thermoelasticity with Relaxation Times.- Surface Waves in a Nonlocal Elastic Medium.- Index of Contributors.