Nonlinear Deformation Waves

1 Analytical Methods and Evolution Equations.- Recent developments of the reductive perturbation method.- Energy integrals in the theory of shock wave stability.- Solitons in active media.- The evolution equations in the theory of nonlinear waves.- An approach to constrained thermoelastic solids: internal constraint responses and wave propagation.- Asymptotic approach to some nonlinear wave problems.- On non-linear waves in liquid-filled elastic tubes.- Nonlinear waves in gas-filled elastic tubes.- Propagation of non-uniform shock waves over large distances.- The propagation of finite-amplitude edge waves.- Iterated compatibility relations and nonlinear'wave propagation.- Equations of nonlinear geometrical acoustics.- Some exact solutions of Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation for plane, cylindrical and spherical waves.- 2 Waves in Hereditary and Plastic Media.- Deformation waves in nonlinear hereditary media.- The analysis of the strain wave processes and fracture of the structural elastic-viscoplastic elements.- Nonlinear inelastic deformation waves in polymers and metals.- Attenuation of strong shock waves in laminate materials.- Application of a multiparameter group of transformations to an impact problem of a non-linear viscoelastic rod.- Shock wave propagation in a viscoelastic rod.- Nonlinear wave propagation in plastic fracturing materials - A constitutive modeling and finite element analysis.- Adiabatic elastic/visco-plastic plane waves in a rod at finite strain.- Dynamics of two-dimensional thermoviscoelastic waves in laminated media.- Representing shear band damage at high strain rates.- 3 Inverse Problems.- Detection of deformation waves in solids.- Asymptotic analyses of the pulse shape evolution and of the inverse problem of acoustic evaluation in case of the nonlinear hereditary medium.- Parameter identification of mechanical-mathematical models using the data obtained by following an experimental wave method.- On the use of ultrasonic velocity measurements for the study of stress waves in.solids.- Numerical analysis of Hopkinson split pressure bar test.- Nonlinear deformation waves in the previously stressed elastic media.- 4 Nonlinear Acoustics.- Spectral interactions in nonlinear acoustics - A review.- Asymptotic description of nonlinear interaction of surface and bulk waves.- Experimental determination of the nonlinear properties of elastic solids.- Acoustic emission and damage accumulation in solids.- Higher-order acoustic nonlinearity parameters of fluids.- 5 Combined Fields and Applications.- On non-linear interaction of solid particles with a sound wave in viscous liquid.- Wave propagation in elastic membranes.- Non-linear behaviour of soils under dynamic loading.- Nonlinear effects, accompanying seismic waves propagation.- Nonlinear elastic surface waves.- About influence of nonlinear magnetoelastic effects on wave propagation in an elastic electroconducting medium.- Nonlinear elastic waves generated by electric solitons in ferroelectric crystals.- Deformation and thermal wave in a long rod caused by thermal shock, taking into account large temperature differences and the modified law of heat conduction.- Acceleration waves in nonlinear generalized thermoelasticity.- Solitary waves in density stratified fluids.- On propagation of waves containing discontinuities.- Workshop on applications in nonlinear wave propagation.- The list of unpublished reports.