Paper 1, Section II, C

Waves | Part II, 2014

State the equations that relate strain to displacement and stress to strain in a uniform, linear, isotropic elastic solid with Lamé moduli λ\lambda and μ\mu. In the absence of body forces, the Cauchy momentum equation for the infinitesimal displacements u(x,t)\mathbf{u}(\mathbf{x}, t) is

ρ2ut2=σ\rho \frac{\partial^{2} \mathbf{u}}{\partial t^{2}}=\boldsymbol{\nabla} \cdot \boldsymbol{\sigma}

where ρ\rho is the density and σ\boldsymbol{\sigma} the stress tensor. Show that both the dilatation u\boldsymbol{\nabla} \cdot \mathbf{u} and the rotation u\nabla \wedge \mathbf{u} satisfy wave equations, and find the wave-speeds cPc_{P} and cSc_{S}.

A plane harmonic P\mathrm{P}-wave with wavevector k\mathbf{k} lying in the (x,z)(x, z) plane is incident from z<0z<0 at an oblique angle on the planar interface z=0z=0 between two elastic solids with different densities and elastic moduli. Show in a diagram the directions of all the reflected and transmitted waves, labelled with their polarisations, assuming that none of these waves are evanescent. State the boundary conditions on components of u\mathbf{u} and σ\boldsymbol{\sigma} that would, in principle, determine the amplitudes.

Now consider a plane harmonic P-wave of unit amplitude incident with k=\mathbf{k}= k(sinθ,0,cosθ)k(\sin \theta, 0, \cos \theta) on the interface z=0z=0 between two elastic (and inviscid) liquids with wave-speed cPc_{P} and modulus λ\lambda in z<0z<0 and wave-speed cPc_{P}^{\prime} and modulus λ\lambda^{\prime} in z>0z>0. Obtain solutions for the reflected and transmitted waves. Show that the amplitude of the reflected wave is zero if

sin2θ=Z2Z2Z2(cPZ/cP)2\sin ^{2} \theta=\frac{Z^{\prime 2}-Z^{2}}{Z^{\prime 2}-\left(c_{P}^{\prime} Z / c_{P}\right)^{2}}

where Z=λ/cPZ=\lambda / c_{P} and Z=λ/cPZ^{\prime}=\lambda^{\prime} / c_{P}^{\prime}

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