Propagation of Elastic Waves at Micropolar Viscoelastic Solid/Fluid-Saturated Incompressible Porous Solid Interface

The present paper concerned with the reflection and transmission of plane wave from a plane surface separating a micropolar viscoelastic solid (MVES) half-space and a fluid-saturated (FS) incompressible porous solid half-space is studied. A longitudinal wave ([Formula: see text]-wave) or transverse wave (SV-wave) impinges obliquely at the interface. Amplitude ratios for various reflected and transmitted waves have been obtained with the help of boundary conditions at the interface. Then, these amplitude ratios have been computed numerically for a specific model and results thus obtained are shown graphically with the angle of incidence of the incident wave. It is found that these amplitude ratios depend on the angle of incidence of the incident wave as well as on the properties of media. From the present investigation, a special case, when FS porous half-space reduces to empty porous solid and MVES half-space reduces to micropolar elastic solid, has also been deduced and discussed with the help of graphs.