Longitudinal Shear of Anisotropic Elastic Half Space with an Elastic Flat Inclusion

Shear Waves Through Non Planar Interface Between Anisotropic Inhomogeneous and Visco-Elastic Half-Spaces

A problem of reflection and transmission of a plane shear wave incident at a corrugated interface between transversely isotropic inhomogeneous and visco-elastic half-spaces is investigated. Applying appropriate boundary conditions and using Rayleigh’s method of approximation expressions for reflection and transmission coefficients are obtained for the first and second order approximation of the...

THE EFFECT OF PURE SHEAR ON THE REFLECTION OF PLANE WAVES AT THE BOUNDARY OF AN ELASTIC HALF-SPACE

This paper is concerned with the effect of pure shear on the reflection from a plane boundary of infinitesimal plane waves propagating in a half-space of incompressible isotropic elastic material. For a special class of constitutive laws it is shown that an incident plane harmonic wave propagating in the considered plane gives rise to a surface wave in addition to a reflected wave (with angle o...

Antiplane surface acoustic waves propagating in elastic half-space coated with an anisotropic laminate

Dispersion relation of antiplane surface acoustic waves (SAWs) propagating in elastic half-space coated with an anisotropic laminate was determined explicitly by means of Stroh’s formalism within the subsonic range, where there is no energy leakage into the substrate. During the procedure, the governing dynamic equation in each anisotropic layer and the displacement–traction continuity at inter...

Radiation Patterns of Compressional and Shear Transducers at the Surface of an Elastic Half Space

The radiation patterns of an elastic wave field generated by circular plane compressional and shear transducers are derived using the method of steepest descent. These patterns contain both effects of the elastic half space and the amplitude modulation due to the finite dimension of the piston source. Behaviors of radiation patterns of the generated compressional and shear waves are shown for l...

Scattering of Longitudinal Elastic Waves From an Anisotropic Spherical Shell