The refraction of a shear wave in a nonlinearly elastic and elastoplastic half-space (Q1090488)

Dynamic equations describing antiplane deformation in a nonlinearly elastic medium are studied. Selfsimilar solutions are analysed for the case when the displacement rates and stresses depend on two variables \(x=x_ 1-ct\), \(y=x_ 2\). In the limiting case, when the \(\tau\)- \(\gamma\)-plot for a nonlinearly elastic material is the same as that for a perfect elastoplastic material, a solution is constructed for the problem of refraction of plane-polarized plane waves of pure shear in a nonlinearly elastic half-space. The results obtained are compared with the solution constructed earlier [the author, ibid. 49, 307-315 (1985; Zbl 0603.73025)] in which the system of Prandtl-Reuss equations was used to study the refraction of pure shear waves in an elastoplastic half- space.