Transverse surface wave in non-planar layered nearly incompressible elastic structure having imperfect contact

The prime motive of the present work is to bring out the emphatic impacts of planar boundary and non-planar boundary as well as imperfectness of the interface on the displacement components and phase velocity of Love-type wave (LTW) propagating in the layered structure. The layered structure essentially incorporates two dissimilar nearly incompressible elastic materials bonded imperfectly to each other having non-planar boundaries at the free surface and at the common interface. A linear spring model has been adopted to describe the imperfect bonding at the interface. The solution methodology features the applicability of variable separable technique along with Taylor’s series expansion that leads to establish dispersion relation and displacement components of LTW. The displacement components and phase velocity of LTW have been numerically computed, and their dependence on wave number have been graphically manifested. As a special case of the study, the dispersion relations for incompressible and isotropic elastic layered structures have been deduced. A comparative analysis between compressible, nearly incompressible and incompressible layered structures comprised of Neo–Hookean material, and isotropic layered structure has been performed to trace out the impact of imperfect bonding parameter on the phase velocity of LTW. The established result of dispersion relation for the considered geometrical structure, as a particular deduction, concur well with the result present in the literature. •Love-type wave in non-planar nearly incompressible elastic structure is studied.•Linear spring model is adopted to characterize imperfect interface.•Dispersion relation and displacement component of Love-type wave is established.•Impact of non-planar and imperfect boundary on displacement component is depicted.•A comparative analysis between distinct layered structures is performed.