“…This approach, which makes use of the Anderson localization theory [2], leads to the computationally-efficient calculation of an average exponential decay per unit cell for the transmitted wave, which is also known in the solid state physics literature as localization factor. As demonstrated through its application to a variety of periodic dynamic systems (see, for example, [3], [4], and [5] for applications in the structural dynamics community), this average exponential decay has been shown to provide for an accurate quantitative measure of the disorder-induced degradation of the response attributes of the periodic structure.…”