Abstract-This paper devotes to study the propagation of Love waves in a fluid saturated, anisotropic, porous rigid layer lying over a prestressed, non-homogeneous, elastic half space. The dispersion equation of phase velocity is obtained. We found that the phase velocity of Love waves is considerably influenced by rigidity, porosity and anisotropy of the porous layer, inhomogeneity of the half-space and prestressing present in the media, the layer and the half-space. As a particular case dispersion equation of Love wave in rigid boundary does not coincides with that of in free bounray. Dispersion curves are plotted for different variation in inhomogeneity parameters and initial stress parameters the effect of the medium characteristics on the propagation of Love waves is discussed.Index Terms-Love wave, anisotropic, porous rigid layer, initial stress.
The paper studies the propagation of torsional surface waves in an initially stressed anisotropic poro-elastic layer over a semi-infinite heterogeneous half space with linearly varying rigidity and density due to irregularity at the interface. The irregularity is taken in the half space in the form of a rectangle. It is observed that torsional surface waves propagate in this assumed medium. In the absence of the irregularity, the velocity equation of the torsional surface wave is also obtained. For a layer over a homogeneous half space, the velocity of torsional surface waves coincides with that of the Love waves.
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