The effect of slight anisotropy on the properties of shock waves in a compressible elastic medium

• Published in: Journal of applied mathematics and mechanics Vol. 59; no. 5; pp. 763 - 767
• Main Author: Kulikovskii, A.G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 1995
• ISSN: 0021-8928; 0021-8928
• DOI: 10.1016/0021-8928(95)00089-5

The effect of slight anisotropy on the behaviour of shock waves in a compressible elastic medium is investigated. Particular attention is paid to the properties of shock waves which are not close to plane-polarized (the properties of plane-polarized shock waves only change slightly). Some results are obtained for an arbitrary form of anisotropy when the behaviour of shock waves is known in media which differ from those considered in having no anisotropy. The effect of slight anisotropy on the behaviour of shock waves in an incompressible elastic medium has been considered previously in [1].