Rayleigh waves in a viscoelastic half-space under initial hydrostatic stress in the presence of the temperature field (Q2368506)

Summary: The effect of temperature and initial hydrostatic stress has been shown on the propagation of Rayleigh waves in a viscoelastic half-space. It has been explained how the velocity of Rayleigh waves depends not only on the parameters pertaining to the viscoelastic properties of the half-space, but also on the temperature and initial hydrostatic stress of the half-space. The variations of the phase velocity of Rayleigh waves in dimensionless form with respect to the magnitude of the initial hydrostatic stress under certain practical assumptions have been depicted in graphs after numerical computations. If the temperature and initial hydrostatic stress of the half-space are neglected, the results obtained are in agreement with the classical propagation of Rayleigh waves in a viscoelastic medium.