Jianwen Liang 1,Hao Luo 2 , Vincent W Lee 3 1 Department of Civil Engineering,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300072,China 2 HNTB Corporation,Santa Ana,CA 92707,USA 3 University of Southern California,Los Angeles,CA 90089-2531,USA
Abstract:
This paper presents a closed-form solution for diffraction of plane SH waves by a semi-circular cavity in half-space by using wave function expansion method. Accuracy of the solution is checked by the displacement residual and stress residual along the boundaries. Numerical results show that there are notable differences for response amplitudes between a semi-circular cavity and a whole-circular cavity in a half-space.