“…The existed theoretical research methods include the geometrical acoustic approach (Krylov, 1995, 2004; Krylov and Tilman, 2004), the impedance method (Georgiev et al, 2011), the semi-analytical method based on the Lagrange variation principle (Tang and Cheng, 2016; Tang et al, 2016), and so on. The properties of ABH effect, such as the propagation and reflection of bending waves (Krylov, 2004; Krylov and Tilman, 2004), the waves attenuation by thin damping layers (Krylov, 1995), and so on, were analyzed through the geometrical acoustic approach by Krylov et al However, this method cannot deal with the coupling problems between wedges and additional functional materials because of some hypotheses. Georgiev et al (2011) used the impedance method to obtain some conclusions similar to the geometrical acoustic approach, without the limitation of those hypotheses.…”