Stress wave propagation through viscous-elastic jointed rock masses using propagator matrix method (PMM)

The reflection-transmission coefficients of the stress wave propagating through a jointed rock mass are of great concern in many fields, for example seismology, exploration geophysics and geotechnical engineering. For a natural jointed rock mass, both the rock material and the joints should be treated to be viscous-elastic in the practical dynamic analysis. In this paper, Kelvin viscous-elastic model is adopted to describe the rock deformation...