Exact closed-form solutions for Lamb's problem (III): The case for buried source and receiver

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Main Authors: Feng, Xi, Zhang, Haiming
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Published: 2025
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author Feng, Xi
Zhang, Haiming
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Zhang, Haiming
contents In this article, we derive the exact closed-form solution for the displacement in the interior of an elastic half-space due to a buried point force with Heaviside step function time history. It is referred to as the tensor Green's function for the elastic wave equation in a uniform half-space, also a natural generalization of the classical 3-D Lamb's problem, for which previous solutions have been restricted to the cases of either the source or the receiver or both are located on the free surface. Starting from the complex integral solutions of Johnson, we follow the similar procedures presented by Feng and Zhang to obtain the closed-form expressions in terms of elementary functions as well as elliptic integrals. Numerical results obtained from our closed-form expressions agree perfectly with those of Johnson, which validates our explicit formulae conclusively.
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spellingShingle Exact closed-form solutions for Lamb's problem (III): The case for buried source and receiver
Feng, Xi
Zhang, Haiming
Geophysics
In this article, we derive the exact closed-form solution for the displacement in the interior of an elastic half-space due to a buried point force with Heaviside step function time history. It is referred to as the tensor Green's function for the elastic wave equation in a uniform half-space, also a natural generalization of the classical 3-D Lamb's problem, for which previous solutions have been restricted to the cases of either the source or the receiver or both are located on the free surface. Starting from the complex integral solutions of Johnson, we follow the similar procedures presented by Feng and Zhang to obtain the closed-form expressions in terms of elementary functions as well as elliptic integrals. Numerical results obtained from our closed-form expressions agree perfectly with those of Johnson, which validates our explicit formulae conclusively.
title Exact closed-form solutions for Lamb's problem (III): The case for buried source and receiver
topic Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07177