The reflection and transmission of elastic waves at a interface between a transversely isotropic elastic soils and saturated soils

Abstract

According to Biot’s wave equation of transversely isotropic saturated soil, this paper deduces the general equation of the reflection coefficients and transmission coefficients when qP1 wave goes through from saturated soil to elastic media. The effects of anisotropies and boundary drainage condition on reflection coefficients and transmission coefficients are analyzed by numerical method. The idea of this paper can be applied to the case when qSV wave or qP2 wave goes through from saturated soils to elastic soils.