Rayleigh scattering of elastic waves from cracks

1979 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 818-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Gubernatis ◽  
E. Domany
Geophysics ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Miles

Rayleigh scattering theory is extended to determine the perturbation on an arbitrarily prescribed elastic wave field produced by small inhomogeneities in an otherwise homogeneous, isotropic medium. The general result is applied to the specific problems of the scattering of both plane P- and S-waves. It is found that a change in compressibility acts at a distance as a simple source and a change in density as a dipole, as in the acoustical problem, while a change in shear modulus contributes both simple‐source and quadrapole fields.


Author(s):  
Michael H. Meylan ◽  
Ross C. McPhedran

We study the scattering of elastic waves by platonic clusters in the time domain, both for plane wave excitations and for a specified initial wave profile. We show that we can use an analytical extension of our problem to calculate scattering frequencies of the solution. These allow us to calculate approximate solutions that give the flexural wave profile accurately in and around the cluster for large times. We also discuss the early-time behaviour of flexural waves in terms of the classical models of Sommerfeld and Brillouin.


1990 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 2300-2309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Ben‐Menahem ◽  
Richard L. Gibson

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