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Plane-strain vibrations in a fluid-loaded poroelastic hollow cylinder surrounded by a fluid are investigated employing Biot’s theory of wave propagation in poroelastic media. The poroelastic hollow cylinder is homogeneous and isotropic, while the inner and outer fluids are homogeneous, isotropic and inviscid. The frequency equation of the fluid-loaded poroelastic cylinder surrounded by a fluid is obtained along with several particular cases, namely, fluid-loaded poroelastic cylinder, fluid-loaded bore, poroelastic cylinder surrounded by a fluid and poroelastic solid cylinder submerged in a fluid. The frequency equations are obtained for axially symmetric, flexural and anti-symmetric vibrations each for a pervious and an impervious surface. Nondimensional frequency for propagating modes is computed as a function of the ratio of thickness to the inner radius of the core. The results are presented graphically for two types of poroelastic cylinders and then discussed.

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Wave propagation in a Newtonian viscous liquid layer of thickness ‘ h’ and of shear viscosity ‘ η’ bounded by two poroelastic half-spaces is studied. Possible bonding between the poroelastic half-spaces is discussed by considering the limiting forms of the secular equation, when h→0: (1) η is finite or η→0 such that η/h → ∞, (2) η→0 such that η/h → 0, (3) η → 0 such that η/h is a finite nonzero quantity, for each permeable and impermeable surface. It is shown that these three forms respectively represent welded, smooth and loosely bonded interface of poroelastic half-spaces. The secular equation for the interfacial waves for each of the above three types of bonding for infinite wavelength is derived as a particular case. It is observed that this secular equation is the same for all three types of bonding for each permeable and impermeable surface. Several other special cases are obtained.

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