Reflection of Waves in a Rotating Transversely Isotropic Thermoelastic Half-space Under Initial Stress

Subject Areas : Engineering

R.R Gupta ¹ , R.R. Gupta ²

1 - Department of CS & IT Mazoon University College, Muscat, Oman
2 - Department of Mathematics, MEC, Muscat, Oman

Received: 2014-03-13 Accepted : 2014-05-10 Published : 2014-06-30

Keywords: Amplitude ratios, Rotation, Initial stress, Thermoelasticity, Reflection, Plane wave,

Abstract :

The present paper concerns with the effect of initial stress on the propagation of plane waves in a rotating transversely isotropic medium in the context of thermoelasticity theory of GN theory of type-II and III. After solving the governing equations, three waves propagating in the medium are obtained. The fastest among them is a quasi-longitudinal wave. The slowest of them is a thermal wave. The remaining is called quasi-transverse wave. The prefix ‘quasi’ refers to their polarizations being nearly, but not exactly, parallel or perpendicular to the direction of propagation. The polarizations of these three waves are not mutually orthogonal. After imposing the appropriate boundary conditions, the amplitudes of reflection coefficients have been obtained. Numerically, simulated results have been plotted graphically with respect to frequency to evince the effect of initial stress and anisotropy.

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