Affiliation:
1. Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, India
Abstract
The present chapter encapsulates the characteristic behavior of anti-plane shear wave propagation in a micropolar layer/semi-infinite structural media. Two types of interfacial complexity have been considered at the common interface which give rise to two distinct mathematical models: (1) Model I: Anti-plane shear wave in a micropolar layer/semi-infinite structure with rectangular irregular interface and (2) Model II: Anti-plane shear wave in a micropolar layer/semi-infinite structure with non-perfect interface. For both models, dispersion equations have been deduced in algebraic-form and in particular, the dispersion equation of new type of surface wave resulted due to micropolarity has been obtained. The deduced results have been validated with classical cases analytically. The effects of micropolarity, irregularity, and non-perfect interface on anti-plane shear wave have been demonstrated through numerical study in the present chapter.