Singularities of the interaction of a vibrating stamp with an inhomogeneous heavy base (Q1175065)

A method is developed for studying the fundamental characteristics of the wave process on the surface of an initially isotropic prestressed elastic half-space caused by an oscillating rigid stamp. The following is taken as the model of the inhomogeneous medium: an elastic layer \(0\leq x_ 3\leq h\), \(x_ 1,x_ 2<\infty\) whose mechanical characteristics as well as the initial stresses are arbitrary, fairly smooth functions of the coordinate \(x_ 3\) in the general case, lies on the surface of a homogeneous half-space \(x_ 3\geq h\), \(x_ 1, x_ 2<\infty\) (\(x_ 1\), \(x_ 2\), \(x_ 3\) are a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system). The linearized boundary value problem of the dynamic theory of elasticity of vibrations with frequency \(\omega\) for a rigid stamp on the surface of an inhomogeneous medium reduces to an integral equation or to a system of integral equations of the first kind whose integral operator kernel is constructed numerically. Approximation of the kernel of the integral operator by a special kind of function enables an approximate solution of the integral equation to be constructed by the factorization method [e.g.: \textit{V. A. Babeshko}, Generalized factorization method in spatial dynamical mixed problems of elasticity theory (1984; Zbl 0588.73014)]. On the basis of the latter, an effective investigation of the influence of the parameters characterizing the inhomogeneity of the medium and the initial state of stress on the wave process both under (stress wave) and outside the stamp is possible.