Influence of gravity on torsional surface waves in a dissipative medium

The present paper deals with the possibilities of propagation of torsional surface waves in a viscoelastic medium under gravity field. During the study it will observe that the increase in gravity parameter will increase the velocity of the wave, the increase in viscoelastic parameter, decrease the velocity of the wave until the product of angular frequency and viscoelastic parameter is less than unity. It also notes that as the velocity increases, the curve becomes asymptotic in nature when the period of oscillation increases. In fact the maximum damping in velocity has been identified at this cut off point which may be considered as the point where a viscoelastic material becomes a viscous medium.The absorption coefficients have also been calculated for different values of the viscoelastic parameter and gravity field.

Propagation of Torsional Surface Waves in Heterogeneous Half-Space with Irregular Free Surface

This study is an attempt to show the impacts of free surface irregularity on the torsional surface waves propagating in heterogeneous, elastic half-space. The surface irregularity is taken in the parabolic form at the surface of the half-space. The governing equation and corresponding closed form solutions are derived. Then, the phase velocity of torsional surface waves is obtained analytically and the influences of surface irregularity are studied in detail. Numerical results analyzing the torsional surface waves propagation are discussed and presented graphically. The analytical solutions and numerical results reveal that, the surface irregularity and heterogeneity have notable effects on the torsional surface waves propagation in the elastic half-space. Since the Earth crust is heterogeneous medium with irregular surface, thus it is important to consider the effects of heterogeneity and surface irregularity on velocity of torsional surface waves propagating in the Earth medium.

Propagation of Torsional Surface Waves in a Nonhomogeneous Half-Space With Circular Irregularity in Free Surface

The present paper studies the effect of circular regularity on propagation of torsional surface waves in an elastic non-homogeneous half-space. Both rigidity and density of the half-space are assumed to vary inversely linearly with depth. Separation of variable method has been used to get the analytical solutions for the dispersion equation of the torsional surface waves. Also, the effects of non-homogeneity and irregularity on the phase velocity of torsional surface waves have shown graphically.

Torsional Wave Propagation in a Pre-Stressed Structure with Corrugated and Loosely Bonded Surfaces

An analytical model is presented to study the behaviour of propagation of torsional surface waves in initially stressed porous layer, sandwiched between an orthotropic half-space with initial stress and pre-stressed inhomogeneous anisotropic half-space. The boundary surfaces of the layer and halfspaces are taken as corrugated, as well as loosely bonded. The heterogeneity of the lower half-space is due to trigonometric variation in elastic parameters of the pre-stressed inhomogeneous anisotropic medium. Expression for dispersion relation has been obtained in closed form for the present analytical model to observe the effect of undulation parameter, flatness parameter and porosity on the propagation of torsional surface waves. The obtained dispersion relation is found to be in well agreement with classical Love wave equation for a particular case. The cases of ideally smooth interface and welded interface have also been analysed. Numerical example and graphical illustrations are made to demonstrate notable effect of initial stress, wave number, heterogeneity parameter and initial stress on the phase velocity of torsional surface waves.

Mathematical Modeling of Torsional Surface Wave Propagation in a Non-Homogeneous Transverse Isotropic Elastic Solid Semi-Infinite Medium Under a Layer

The present paper deals with the mathematical modeling of the propagation of torsional surface waves in a non-homogeneous transverse isotropic elastic half-space under a rigid layer. Both rigidities and density of the half-space are assumed to vary inversely linearly with depth. Separation of variable method has been used to get the analytical solutions for the dispersion equation of the torsional surface waves. Also, the effects of nonhomogeneities on the phase velocity of torsional surface waves have been shown graphically. Also, dispersion equations have been derived for some particular cases, which are in complete agreement with some classical results.