Rayleigh waves on the impedance boundary of a rotating monoclinic half-space (Q2234288)

Rayleigh surface waves in elastic half-spaces are polarized along the reference plane, which is the plane \(R\) spanned by the boundary normal and the propagation direction. This holds for general anisotropic media provided reflection in \(R\) is a material symmetry; monoclinic materials are minimal models. The secular (or characteristic) equation for the Rayleigh wave speed \(v\) is a quartic in \(v^2\). Allowing impedance boundaries and rotating materials is of interest in technology. Rotation adds Coriolis and centripetal accelerations to the elastodynamic equations; technically, some real symmetric matrices become Hermitian. Impedance conditions demand that traction is proportional to displacement at the boundary. Explicit secular equations for Rayleigh wave speeds under impedance boundary conditions were investigated in [\textit{P. C. Vinh} and \textit{T. T. Thanh Hue}, Wave Motion 51, No. 7, 1082--1092 (2014; Zbl 1456.74084)]. The paper under review generalizes those secular equations by admitting the elastic half-space to rotate around an axis orthogonal to \(R\). The main purpose of the authors is to illustrate, through numerical solution, the dependence of the wave speed on the impedance parameters and on the rotation velocity.