THE EFFECT OF SLIGHT ANISOTROPY ON THE PROPERTIES OF SHOCK-WAVES IN ACOMPRESSIBLE ELASTIC MEDIUM

The effect of slight anisotropy on the behaviour of shock waves in a c ompressible elastic medium is investigated. Particular attention is pa id to the properties of shock waves which are not close to plane-polar ized (the properties of plane-polarized shock waves only change slight ly). Some results are obtained for an arbitrary form of anisotropy whe n the behaviour of shock waves is known in media which differ from tho se considered in having no anisotropy. The effect of slight anisotropy on the behaviour of shock waves in an incompressible elastic medium h as been considered previously in [1].