Wave propagation in a piezoelectric bone with a cylindrical cavity of arbitrary shape

This paper is concerned with the vibration of a piezoelectic cylinder of arbitrary cross section with a cylindrical cavity of arbitrary shape belonging to class 6. The boundary conditions for the inner and the outer arbitrary surfaces are satisfied by using the Fourier expansion collocation method. The frequency equations for the symmetric and the antisymmetric cases are obtained for the cylinder of general cross section of the inner and the outer boundaries. The analysis of the frequency equations are carried out for the material bone. The longitudinal and flexural vibrations are considered and the numerical results are tabulated. The frequency spectra are also presented. © 1991.