The influence of thermal contact between medium on the surface waves propagation in a prestressed thermoelastic layered half-space

Abstract

Abstract In the framework of the linearized theory of the propagation of thermoelastic waves, a dynamic mixed coupled problem on the oscillations of an inhomogeneous medium under the action of a thermal load oscillating on its surface is considered. The medium is a thermoelastic prestressed layer rigidly coupled with a thermoelastic prestressed half-space. At the boundary of the medium, two types of thermal conditions are considered: ideal thermal contact and heat insulation. Using operational calculus methods, the boundary value problem with mixed thermal boundary conditions is reduced to an integral equation of the first kind with respect to the unknown distribution function of the heat flux in the contact zone. We studied the distribution of the poles of the Green’s function of a medium, taking into account the effect of initial strains and preheating. It is shown that thermal conditions at the interface between the medium have little effect on the distribution of the vertical displacement of the layer surface in the natural state. At the same time, the condition of thermal insulation between the layer and half-space allows to compensate for the effect of body pre-heating on the formation of the surface wave field.