Abstract
The existence and propagation behavior of Love waves in a functionally graded material (FGM) layered structure are theoretically investigated in this paper based on the three-dimensional equations of linear electricity. The Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) method is applied to obtain the analytical solutions in the FGM layer. The dispersion equation for a Love surface wave in this kind of structure is obtained in a simple mathematical form, where the material property variation of the FGM layer is arbitrary. First, the solution is used to study the effect of the gradient coefficients on the dispersion curves and the phase velocities of Love waves. Then, the influence of gradient coefficients on the stress and displacement fields is discussed in detail. The reported results are important in the design of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices with high performance.
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