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Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

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Transient motion of a line load on the surface of an elastic half-space


Author: Dang Dinh Ang
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 18 (1960), 251-256
MSC: Primary 73.00
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/114399
MathSciNet review: 114399
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Abstract: The present paper studies the wave patterns generated in an elastic half-space by a line load moving on its surface with a velocity varying as a step function of time. The solution given in closed form is obtained by means of Fourier integral equations techniques following a Laplace transformation with respect to the time variable. The inversion of the Laplace transforms is based on a trick due to Cagniard and De Hoop.


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