On the stresses produced by a moving stress discontinuity at the boundary between two transversely isotropic media

Summary This paper deals with the stresses produced by a moving stress discontinuity between two semi-infinite transversely isotropic media. The solutions for the stresses have been obtained in simple closed forms for certain types of moving stress discontinuity. Discontinuities in the normal stress as well as in the shear stress has been considered. The case in which one or both of the media are isotropic may be deduced as a special case from the results obtained here.