Disperse swMATH ID: 8937 Software Authors: Brian Pavlakovic, Mike Lowe, David Alleyne, Peter Cawley Description: Disperse: A General Purpose Program for Creating Dispersion Curves. The application of guided waves in NDT can be hampered by the lack of readily available dispersion curves for complex structures. To overcome this hindrance, we have developed a general purpose program that can create dispersion curves for a very wide range of systems and then effectively communicate the information contained within those curves. The program uses the global matrix method to handle multi-layered Cartesian and cylindrical systems. The solution routines cover both leaky and non-leaky cases and remain robust for systems which are known to be difficult, such as large frequency-thicknesses and thin layers embedded in much thicker layers. Elastic and visco-elastic isotropic materials are fully supported; anisotropic materials are also covered, but are currently limited to the elastic, non-leaky, Cartesian case. Homepage: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-5947-4_24 Related Software: ARPACK; Gmsh; Matlab; ElasticMatrix; Differentiation Matrix Suite Cited in: 16 Publications all top 5 Cited by 32 Authors 2 Cawley, Peter 2 Craster, Richard V. 2 Liu, Hongye 2 Lyu, Yan 2 Poncelet, Olivier 2 Shuvalov, Alexander L. 2 Treyssède, Fabien 1 Adams, Samuel D. M. 1 Botkin, Nikolai D. 1 Chiu, Wing Kong 1 Fan, Zheng 1 Gridin, Dmitri 1 He, Cunfu 1 Hoffmann, Karl-Heinz 1 Liu, Mingkun 1 Liu, Shen 1 Liu, Yijun 1 Liu, Zenghua 1 Lowe, Mike J. S. 1 Pavlakovic, B. N. 1 Pykhteev, Oleg A. 1 Qian, Zhenghua 1 Rose, L. R. Francis 1 Sanderson, Ruth 1 Simonetti, Francesco 1 Skelton, Elizabeth A. 1 Turova, Varvara L. 1 Vien, Benjamin Steven 1 Wang, Bin 1 Wu, Bin 1 Zheng, Mingfang 1 Zhu, Feng all top 5 Cited in 6 Serials 8 Wave Motion 2 Acta Mechanica 2 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 1 International Journal of Solids and Structures 1 Journal of Computational Physics 1 Journal of the Franklin Institute Cited in 5 Fields 16 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 2 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 2 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 2 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) 1 Partial differential equations (35-XX) Citations by Year