Propagation of magneto-elastic waves in a perfectly conducting plate extending to infinity in vacuum

Summary The effects of a uniform external magnetic field on the propagation of waves in a homogeneous, infinitely conducting flat plate with free boundaries have been studied. It has been found that in general all the three types of waves —P, SV andSH waves—are coupled and the influence may be more pronounced in coupling the symmetric and antisymmetric types of motions in every mode.When the magnetic field is parallel to the plane faces and transverse to the direction of wave propagation, the shear wave polarized parallel to the field is purely elastic whereas the coupledP andS V waves are magnetoelastic and exhibit dispersion strikingly similar to the non-magnetic case, provided the electro-magnetic radiation into the surrounding free space is neglected.The results reported in an earlier communication [1]²) are also confirmed.