... thus indirectly aids in protecting lives, reducing economic losses and supporting informed engineering decisions in critical sectors. Originality/value This work provides a comprehensive axisymmetric formulation for Rayleigh-type wave propagation in layered TI media, an area with limited prior...

... relative to a baseline design. For each of the five numerical objectives, the best optimization results are obtained by using high-order polynomial models. Research limitations/implications The methodology is applicable to axisymmetric two-dimensional geometry models. Originality/value This paper...