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When an incident bulk wave interacts with an interface, such as the boundary between a fluid and a solid in immersion testing, both reflected and transmitted bulk waves are generated. This Chapter will describe the general properties of those reflected and refracted waves. We will first discuss extensively the case when a plane wave is incident on a plane interface and then consider the transmission and reflection of a Gaussian beam at a curved interface. In the process, a variety of concepts will be introduced such as acoustic impedance, Snell’s Law, critical angles, pulse distortion, and inhomogeneous waves. We will also show that at high frequencies these plane wave and planar interface results are applicable to more general cases with non-planar wave fronts and interfaces.
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Schmerr, L.W. (2016). Reflection and Transmission of Bulk Waves. In: Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30463-2_6
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