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In this paper, a theoretical investigation is described of the propagation behaviour of Love-type waves in a functionally graded material layered structure. The Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) method was applied to obtain the analytical solution for the functionally graded material layer. The study was carried out to investigate the transference of Love-type waves in a functionally graded material layer bounded by a viscous fluid layer and a highly anisotropic half-space. Two cases were studied, one in which the material property variation of the functionally graded material layer was arbitrary and one in which the material property variation was taken as exponential. A variable separation method was employed to obtain the displacement components in both the viscous liquid and the highly anisotropic medium. Profound effects of material gradient coefficient, viscous coefficient, liquid mass density, initial stress parameter and wavelength on real and imaginary components of phase velocities were established. Some numerical calculations were also made. The considered model facilitates a theoretical foundation and practical application for the development of surface acoustic wave devices.

This paper presents the feasibility of torsional surface wave propagation in an anisotropic layer sandwiched between two anisotropic inhomogeneous media. The anisotropy considered in the upper layer and the lower half-space is of transversely isotropic kind while the sandwiched anisotropic layer is a porous layer. The directional rigidities and density have been considered linearly and exponentially varying in the half-space and in the upper layer respectively, while it is taken as a variable in the sandwiched layer. The compact form of dispersion equation governing the propagation of the torsional surface wave has been derived by using the Whittaker function under appropriate boundary conditions. The dispersion of the torsional wave and the effects of inhomogeneity parameters, initial stress and poroelastic constant have been calculated numerically and demonstrated through graphs.

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