Effect of initial stress on the reflection and transmission of plane waves at a liquid-solid interface

Abstract

The reflection and transmission of P and SV waves at an interface between a prestressed elastic half-space and a prestressed liquid half-space is studied. Both cases, when the incident waves are in the solid half-space and when the incident waves are in the liquid half-space are considered. The expressions for the reflection and transmission coefficients are derived. Since the method of potentials, used by some investigators, is in general not applicable in the case of prestressed media, the problem is solved by a direct method.