Abstract
The reflection and transmission of antiplane surface waves (Love waves) by a surface-breaking crack in a layered elastic solid is investigated. The crack is normal to the free surface, and breaks into the lower half-space solid. The formulation of the problem is reduced to a singular integral equation of the Cauchy type. In this equation, the unknown function, which is the slope of the crack-face displacement, is discontinuous at the interface between the two solids. It is shown that the magnitude of the discontinuity is related to the ratio of the shear moduli. A Gaussian numerical method is used to obtain the solution of the singular integral equation. At some distance from the plane of the crack, the wave motion is the superposition of a finite number of Love-wave modes. The amplitudes of these modes are readily evaluated in terms of the slope of the crack-face displacement. Curves are presented for the reflection coefficients corresponding to the first three modes and for the transmission coefficient as functions of the dimensionless frequency.
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