Multipole expansion of Green’s function for guided waves in a transversely isotropic plate

The multipole expansion of Green’s function in a transversely isotropic plate is derived based on the eigenfunction expansion method. For the derivation, Green’s function is expressed in a bilinear form composed of the regular and singular Lamb-type (or shear-horizontal) wave eigenfunctions. The specific form of the derived Green’s function facilitates the handling of general scattering problems in an elastic plate when numerical methods such as the methods of the null-field integral equations are employed. In the derivation, the integral transform of an arbitrary guided wave field is first constructed by the Lamb-type and shear horizontal wave eigenfunctions that work as the kernel functions. After showing that the thickness-dependent parts of the eigenfunctions are orthogonal to each other in the transformed space, Green’s function is explicitly derived by using the orthogonality. As an application of the derived Green’s function, a scattering problem is solved by the transition matrix method.