Generalized Lamb Modes in Fluid-Saturated Porous Plate

Since analysis by Rayleigh [1] and Lamb [2], the vibration modes for an elastic homogeneous infinite solid thin plate are well understood. These so-called “Lamb modes” result from a pure compressional wave and pure shear wave. Similarly, excitation of “leaky Lamb modes” in elastic plates immersed in a fluid, caused by incident acoustic waves, has been extensively described theoretically [3–7] and experimentally [8,9]. Results are generally presented as dispersion curves which relate the phase velocity of the mode to the product of frequency and plate thickness