Plane infinitesimal wave propagation is examined in elastic sheets whose strain energy depends on both the first and second derivatives of the deformation. The resulting acoustic-tensor analysis produces dynamical-stability conditions. These are compared to material-stability conditions found previously using equilibrium considerations. A particular solution is demonstrated for the special case of wave propagation in an isotropic elastic sheet subjected to an underlying uniform homogeneous deformation.
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