@article{MayerPupyrevLomonosovetal.2016, author = {Andreas Mayer and Pavel Dmitrievich Pupyrev and Alexey M. Lomonosov and Aleksandar Nikodijevic}, title = {On the existence of guided acoustic waves at rectangular anisotropic edges}, series = {Ultrasonics}, volume = {71}, doi = {10.1016/j.ultras.2016.06.016}, pages = {278 -- 287}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The existence of acoustic waves with displacements localized at the tip of an isotropic elastic wedge was rigorously proven by Kamotskii, Zavorokhin and Nazarov. This proof, which is based on a variational approach, is extended to rectangular anisotropic wedges. For two high-symmetry configurations of rectangular edges in elastic media with tetragonal symmetry, a criterion is derived that allows identifying the boundary between the regions of existence for wedge modes of even and odd symmetry in regions of parameter space, where even- and odd-symmetry modes do not exist simultaneously. Furthermore, rectangular edges with non-equivalent surfaces are analyzed, and it is shown that at rectangular edges of cubic elastic media with one (110) surface and one (001) surface, a tip-localized guided wave always exists, apart from special cases that are characterized.}, language = {en} }