Elastic waves in nonhomogeneous media under 2D conditions: II. Numerical implementation

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-46

  Manolis, George D ^a   Shaw, Richard P ^b   Pavlou, Stavros ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dilatation; Green's function; Nonhomogeneous media; Rotation vector; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELASTIC MODULI; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SHEAR WAVES; VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ROTATION VECTORS; WAVE DECOMPOSITION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

ELASTIC WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0033000283     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(98)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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