Abstract

General equations describing shear displacements in incompressible hyperelastic materials, holding for an arbitrary form of strain energy density function, are presented and applied to the description of nonlinear Love-type waves propagating on an interface between materials with different mechanical properties. The model is valid for a broad class of hyper-viscoelastic materials. For the Murnaghan constitutive model, shear wave equations contain cubic and quintic differential polynomial terms, including viscoelasticity contributions in terms of dispersion terms that include mixed derivatives uxxt of the material displacement. Full (2+1)-dimensional numerical simulations of waves propagating in the bulk of a two-layered solid are undertaken and analysed with respect to the source position and mechanical properties of the layers. Interfacial nonlinear Love waves and free upper surface shear waves are tracked; it is demonstrated that in the fully nonlinear case, the variable wave speed of interface and surface waves generally satisfies the linear Love wave existence condition c1<v<c2, while tending to the larger material wave speed c1 or c2 for large times.

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