Surface Motion of a Half-Space Containing an Elliptical-Arc Canyon under Incident SH Waves

Hui Qi, Fuqing Chu, Jing Guo and Runjie Yang
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Hui Qi: College of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Fuqing Chu: College of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Jing Guo: College of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Runjie Yang: College of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 11, 1-11

Abstract: The existence of local terrain has a great influence on the scattering and diffraction of seismic waves. The wave function expansion method is a commonly used method for studying terrain effects, because it can reveal the physical process of wave scattering and verify the accuracy of numerical methods. An exact, analytical solution of two-dimensional scattering of plane SH (shear-horizontal) waves by an elliptical-arc canyon on the surface of the elastic half-space is proposed by using the wave function expansion method. The problem of transforming wave functions in multi-ellipse coordinate systems was solved by using the extra-domain Mathieu function addition theorem, and the steady-state solution of the SH wave scattering problem of elliptical-arc depression terrain was reduced to the solution of simple infinite algebra equations. The numerical results of the solution are obtained by truncating the infinite equation. The accuracy of the proposed solution is verified by comparing the results obtained when the elliptical arc-shaped depression is degraded into a semi-ellipsoidal depression or even a semi-circular depression with previous results. Complicated effects of the canyon depth-to-span ratio, elliptical axis ratio, and incident angle on ground motion are shown by the numerical results for typical cases.

Keywords: SH wave; elliptical-arc canyon; Mathieu function; Mathieu function addition theorem; dynamic response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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