Boundary element methods in engineering science, P.K. Banerjee and R. Butterfield (McGraw-Hill, London, 1981).

Abstract

The dynamic two-and-a-half-dimensional (2.5-D) Green׳s function for a poroelastic half-space subject to a point load and dilatation source is derived based on Biot׳s theory, with the consideration of both a permeable surface and an impermeable surface. The governing differential equations for the 2.5-D Green׳s function are established by applying the Fourier transform to the governing equations of the three-dimensional (3-D) Green׳s function. The dynamic 2.5-D Green׳s function is derived in a full-space using the potential decomposition and discrete wavenumber methods. The surface terms are introduced to fulfil the free-surface boundary conditions and thereby obtain the dynamic 2.5-D Green׳s function for a poroelastic half-space with the permeable and impermeable surfaces. The half-space 2.5-D Green׳s function is verified through comparison with the 2.5-D Green׳s function regarding an elastodynamic half-space and the 3-D Green׳s function for a poroelastic half-space. A numerical case is provided to compare between the full-space solutions and the half-space solutions with two different sets of free-surface boundary conditions. In addition, a case study of efficient calculation of vibration from a tunnel embedded in a poroelastic half-space is presented to show the application of the 2.5-D Green׳s function in engineering problems.