I Nonlinear Surface Acoustic Waves and Applications -- State-of-the-Art Elastic SAW Convolvers -- Multiple Scale Techniques Applied to Nonlinear Elastic and Piezoelectric Surface Waves -- Nonlinear Evolution of Piezoelectric SAWs -- Nonlinear Piezoelectric Surface Acoustic Waves Using the Multiple Scales Technique -- Linear and Nonlinear Surface Waves on Magnetostrictive Crystals in a Bias Magnetic Field -- Nonlinear Mode Coupling Between Rayleigh and Love Waves on an Isotropic Layered Half-Space -- Finite Amplitude Love Waves on an Incompressible Elastic Layered Half Space -- Nonlinear Surface Acoustic Waves and Their Associated Surface Acoustic Solitons -- Experiments on Nonlinear Effects in Ground-Surface Vibration -- II Surface Waves on Anisotropic Substrates -- Aspects of the Behaviour of Surface Waves in Transversely Isotropic Elastic Media -- A New Method for Surface Impedance and Surface Wave Calculations -- III Surface Waves on Rough Surfaces -- Surface Acoustic Waves on Rough Surfaces -- Rayleigh Waves Along a Corrugated Surface -- Localization Effects in the Scattering of Acoustic Waves from a Random Stress-free Grating Surface -- A Comparison of Some Methods for Corrugated Waveguides -- Love Waves in a Slab with Rough Boundaries -- IV Surface Waves on Electromagnetic Bodies -- Shear Horizontal Surface Acoustic Waves on Solids -- Calculation of Interdigital Transducer Interaction with SAWs and BAWs -- Bleustein-Gulyaev Surface Waves of Arbitrary Form -- A Dynamic Problem for a Piezoelectric Medium -- Electromechanical Surface Waves in Layered Elastic Dielectrics with Polarization Gradient -- Surface Waves in a Semiconductor with Relaxation of Charge Carrier Field -- V Surface Waves on Composites -- Acoustic Properties of Periodic Layers -- Surface Waves on a Laminated Half-Space -- Surface and Interface Waves in a Sandwich Plate with Interface Soft Layers -- Rayleigh Waves in Materials Reinforced by Two Families of Fibres -- Dispersion of Harmonic Waves in Elastic and Viscoelastic Periodic Composite Materials -- VI Waves on Curved and Fluid-Loaded Surfaces, in Viscoelasticity and in Thermoelasticity -- Mathematical and Computational Aspects of the Determination of Elastic Surface Waves Along Cylindrical Cavities of General Cross Section -- Low Frequency Propagation of Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Filled Borehole -- Surface Vibration of a Semi-infinite Viscoelastic Medium -- Surface Waves on an Isotropic Viscoelastic Half-Space: The Method of Generalized Rays -- Acoustical Scattering by a Shallow Surface-Breaking Crack in an Elastic Solid Under Light Fluid Loading -- Determination of the Rheological Parameters of Viscoelastic Liquids Using Shear Surface Waves -- The Influence of Off-Centre Defects on SAW Characteristics -- On the Propagation of Surface Waves -- Surface Waves in Thermoelasticity with Relaxation Times -- Surface Waves in a Nonlocal Elastic Medium -- Index of Contributors.