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Complex function and general conformal mapping methods are used to investigate the scattering of elastic shear waves by an elliptical cylindrical cavity in a radially inhomogeneous medium. The conformal mappings are introduced to solve scattering by an arbitrary cavity for the Helmholtz equation with variable coefficient through the transformed standard Helmholtz equation with a circular cavity. The medium density depends on the distance from the origin with a power-law variation and the shear elastic modulus is constant. The complex-value displacements and stresses of the inhomogeneous medium are explicitly obtained and the distributions of the dynamic stress for the case of an elliptical cavity are discussed. The accuracy of the present approach is verified by comparing the present solution results with the available published data. Numerical results demonstrate that the wave number, inhomogeneous parameters and different values of aspect ratio have significant influence on the dynamic stress concentration factors around the elliptical cavity.
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Supported by: National Science & Technology Pillar Program under Grant No. 2015BAK17B06, Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China under Grant No. A201310, Scientific Research Starting Foundation for Post Doctorate of Heilongjiang Province, China under Grant No. LBH-Q13040 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No. HEUCF150203
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Hei, B., Yang, Z. & Chen, Z. Scattering of shear waves by an elliptical cavity in a radially inhomogeneous isotropic medium. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 15, 145–151 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-016-0311-7
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