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Ground motion on alluvial valleys under incident plane SH waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

David L. Clements  and
Ashley Larsson
Ashley Larsson
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
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Abstract

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The scattering and diffraction of harmonic SH waves by an arbitrarily shaped alluvial valley in a layered material is considered. The problem is solved in terms of boundary integral equations which yield a numerical solution.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , October 1991 , pp. 240 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1991

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