2020/07/19 by Peng Shi, Shi, Peng
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Seismic Waves and Analysis #physics.app-ph #physics.class-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2007.09627
13 page. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2005.13145
openalex publication_date 2020/07/19 · arxiv created 2020/09/19 · arxiv updated 2020/09/22 · openalex created_date 2024/04/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This study shows that the traditional definition of shear wave breaks the shear stress reciprocity. By analyzing the displacement field for shear wave and the motion equation of material element, it is found that the displacement field is related to local rigid body rotation, and the local rigid body rotation cannot be balanced by the stress state assumed in classical continuum mechanics. It is also found that the displacement field caused by shear deformation, which is neither divergence nor rotation, is replaced with that caused by local rigid body rotation during the derivation of wave equation. This indicates that the definition of shear wave is beyond the basic assumption of continuum mechanics. The study modified the constitutive relation and elastic tensor based on that the traditionally defined shear wave is objective. The motion equation corresponding to shear wave is also derived. It is concluded from the definition of traditional shear wave that the local rigid body rotation should contribute stress and the shear stress reciprocity is not prerequisite for nonpolar continuum.