The Stroh formalism and the reciprocity properties of reflection-transmission problems in crystal piezo-acoustics

The paper is concerned with the Helmholtz-Rayleigh reciprocity, which implies invariance of mode-into-mode transformation with respect to interchange of incident mode and reflected or transmitted mode. This concept is considered for a wide range of acoustic reflection-transmission problems in anisotropic piezoelectric media. Resorting to the ideas of the Stroh formalism and casting the wave solutions of a boundary problem into a self-orthogonal and complete set, we develop the common approach which allows us to prove the reciprocity properties in a similar fashion for reflection-transmission for various boundary conditions.