Authors: Yuezhang Xia Keqin Zhu 
              Publish Date: 2011/11/13
              Volume: 32, Issue: 11, Pages: 1357-1366 
			  
              Abstract
              A fractionalorder Maxwell model is used to describe the viscoelastic seabed mud The experimental data of the real mud well fit the results of the fractionalorder Maxwell model that has fewer parameters than the traditional model The model is then used to investigate the effect of the mud on the surfacewave damping The damping rate of a linear monochromatic wave is obtained The elastic resonance of the mud layer is observed which leads to the peaks in the damping rate The damping rate is a sum of the modal damping rates which indicates the wave damping induced by the mud motion of particular modes The analysis shows that near the resonance the total damping rate is dominated by the damping rate of the corresponding mode
              
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