Rayleigh waves in an anisotropic prestressed elastic half space overlying by an anisotropic prestressed elastic layer with spring contact

In this paper, the existence of Rayleigh waves in an anisotropic prestressed compressible elastic half space overlying by an anisotropic prestressed compressible elastic layer of arbitrary uniform thickness is discussed. The basic purpose of the paper is to derive explicit exact secular equation of the Rayleigh waves using the effective boundary conditions method. These secular equations are very useful for non-destructively finding the bounding between the layer and the half-space as well as their mechanical properties.