This work is a compilation of fundamental solutions (or Green’s functions) for
classical or canonical problems in elastodynamics, presented with a common
format and notation. These formulas describe the displacements and stresses
elicited by transient and harmonic sources in solid elastic media such as full
spaces, half-spaces, and strata and plates in both two and three dimensions, using
the three major coordinate systems (Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical). Such
formulas are useful for numerical methods and practical application to problems of wave propagation in elasticity, soil dynamics, earthquake engineering,
mechanical vibration, or geophysics. Together with the plots of the response
functions, this work should serve as a valuable reference to engineers and scientists alike. These formulas were heretofore found only scattered throughout
the literature. The solutions are tabulated without proof, but giving reference
to appropriate modern papers and books containing full derivations. M