Resolvent Method for Calculating Dispersion Spectra of the Shear Waves in the Phononic Plates and Waveguides

We propose a new method for calculating dispersion spectra of shear waves in the two-dimensional free phononic plates made of solid matrix with periodically distributed inclusions and in the waveguides composed of a phononic layer between two periodic substrates. The method proceeds from the propagator M which involves exact integration in the depth coordinate. Because the components of M can be very large, the dispersion equation for a free plate is recast in terms of the resolvent of propagator R = (αI - M)-1 (α is a constant) which is numerically stable. The resolvent is the central object of the method. Another key tool, which comes into play in the case of a waveguide, is a projector P expressed as a contour integral of the resolvent of the substrate. The projector allows to extract the "physical" modes decreasing into the depth of the substrates without solving the wave equation. The resulting dispersion equation for a waveguide defined via the projectors for the substrates and the resolvent for the enclosed layer is numerically stable. We provide several options for the calculation of the resolvent and projector. Besides, special attention is given to derivation of the dispersion equations for the uncoupled symmetric and antisymmetric dispersion branches in the case of mirror-symmetric structures.