Paper 1, Section II, C
State the equations that relate strain to displacement and stress to strain in a uniform, linear, isotropic elastic solid with Lamé moduli and . In the absence of body forces, the Cauchy momentum equation for the infinitesimal displacements is
where is the density and the stress tensor. Show that both the dilatation and the rotation satisfy wave equations, and find the wave-speeds and .
A plane harmonic -wave with wavevector lying in the plane is incident from at an oblique angle on the planar interface between two elastic solids with different densities and elastic moduli. Show in a diagram the directions of all the reflected and transmitted waves, labelled with their polarisations, assuming that none of these waves are evanescent. State the boundary conditions on components of and that would, in principle, determine the amplitudes.
Now consider a plane harmonic P-wave of unit amplitude incident with on the interface between two elastic (and inviscid) liquids with wave-speed and modulus in and wave-speed and modulus in . Obtain solutions for the reflected and transmitted waves. Show that the amplitude of the reflected wave is zero if
where and