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Figure 10.7 Geometry describing<br />

longitudinal wave transmission <strong>and</strong><br />

reflection in a two-component bar.<br />

ENERGY TRANSMISSION IN ROCK<br />

co-ordinate direction, i.e. a backward progressive wave. Each of the functions f1 <strong>and</strong><br />

f2 is individually a solution to the wave equation, <strong>and</strong> since the constitutive behaviour<br />

of the system is linear, any linear combination of f1 <strong>and</strong> f2 also satisfies the governing<br />

equation.<br />

During the propagation of the elastic wave, represented by equation 10.10, along a<br />

bar, each particle executes transient motion about its equilibrium position. The transient<br />

velocity, V, of a particle is associated with a transient state of stress, xx, which<br />

is superimposed on any static stresses existing in the bar. For uniaxial longitudinal<br />

stress <strong>and</strong> using Hooke’s Law, dynamic stresses <strong>and</strong> strains are related by<br />

or, from equation 10.10<br />

Transient particle velocity is defined by<br />

or, from equation 10.10<br />

xx = Eεxx =−E∂ux/∂x<br />

xx =−E[ f ′ 1 (x − CBt) + f ′ 2 (x + CBt)] (10.12)<br />

˙ux = V = ∂ux/∂t<br />

V = (−CB) f ′ 1 (x − CBt) + CB f ′ 2 (x + CBt) (10.13)<br />

Considering the forward progressive wave, the relevant components of equations<br />

10.12 <strong>and</strong> 10.13, together with equation 10.11, yield<br />

or<br />

V = CBxx/E = xx/CB<br />

xx = CBV (10.14)<br />

Thus the dynamic longitudinal stress induced at a point by passage of a wave is directly<br />

proportional to the transient particle velocity at the point. In equation 10.14, the<br />

quantity CB is called the characteristic impedance of the medium. For the backward<br />

wave, it is readily shown that<br />

xx =−CBV (10.15)<br />

A case of some practical interest involves a forward wave propagating in a composite<br />

bar, as indicated in Figure 10.7. The bar consists of two components, with<br />

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