SH pulse in an elastic wedge

Abstract

abstract This paper gives an analysis of the response of an elastic wedge of arbitrary angle to an impulsive SH source applied on the wedge surface along a line parallel to the edge of the wedge. A two-dimensional time-dependent Green's function for SH waves is constructed from an integral-transform approach. The result is given in a closed form for the incident and the reflected pulses and in an integral form for the diffracted pulse from the edge. For the special case that the wedge angle is an integral fraction of π, the result is interpretable in terms of a finite set of image sources with no diffraction effect. Numerical examples are given for illustration.