Love wave dispersion in anisotropic visco-elastic medium

The paper presents a study on Love wave propagation in a anisotropicvisco-elastic layer overlying a rigid half space. The characteristic frequencyequation is obtained and the variation of the wave number with frequencyunder the combined effect of visco-elasticity and anisotropy is analysedin detail. The results show that the effect of visco-elasticity on thewave is similar to that of anisotropy as long as the coefficient of anisotropyis less than unity