Diffraction of an elastic wave in a disc

Abstract

A numerical solution is constructed for the axisymmetric problem of the diffraction of a plane longitudinal wave in a rigid disc (cylinder) of finite thickness. The disc is enclosed in an unbounded elastic medium; at the contact surface, the tangential stresses are limited by some constant. The incident wave moves along the axis of the cylinder and has the form of a semiinfinite washed-out step. At the same time, a solution is obtained to the corresponding static problem. A study was made of the dependence of the rate of motion of the cylinder and the stress field on the parameters of the problem. In particular, it is shown that the contact conditions have a considerable effect on the stress field only near the lateral surface. The results obtained can be useful for evaluating the errors in measurement of the stresses and velocities in an elastic medium, and possibly also in certain other cases.