DIRECT SOLUTION OF THE DYNAMICAL ELASTICITY PROBLEM FOR A QUARTER SPACE

Abstract

The wave field of an elastic quarter space is constructed when one face is rigidly fixed and a dynamic normal compressive load is concentrated at the point on another face. The problem was solved by the direct application of the integral Laplace and Fourier transforms to the motion equations and the boundary conditions. This operation leads to the one-dimensional vector inhomogeneous boundary value problem with respect to unknown displacement’s transformants. The problem was solved using the matrix differential calculus. A fundamental matrix and a decreasing solution to the corresponding homogenous matrix equation were constructed with a basic residue theorem. A singular integral equation was obtained in the process by satisfying unrealized boundary condition. Weakly convergent part of the equation was summed up. The behavior of the unknown function had been analyzed based on its mechanical sense. The form of unknown function was expressed as a series on Laguerre polynomials. The original displacements’ field was found after an application the inverse integral transforms.