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The Kirchhoff approximation in the theory of diffraction of acoustic and electromagnetic waves by plane screens assumes that the field and its normal derivative on the part of the plane outside the screen coincides with the incident wave field and its normal derivative, respectively. This assumption reduces the problem of wave diffraction by a plane screen to the Dirichlet or Neumann problems for the half-space (or the half-plane in the two-dimensional case) and permits immediately writing out an approximate analytical solution. The present paper is the first to generalize this approach to elastic wave diffraction. We use the problem of diffraction of a shear SH-wave by a half-plane to show that the Kirchhoff theory gives a good approximation to the exact solution. The discrepancies mainly arise near the screen, i.e., in the region where the influence of the boundary conditions is maximal.
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Original Russian Text © M.Sh. Israilov, S.E. Nosov, 2017, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Tverdogo Tela, 2017, No. 1, pp. 45–51.
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Israilov, M.S., Nosov, S.E. Generalization of the Kirchhoff theory to elastic wave diffraction problems. Mech. Solids 52, 35–40 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0025654417010058
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