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When a plane elastic wave is scattered by a rigid body the surface integral of the traction, projected along the direction of polarization of the incident wave, provides the leading low-frequency approximation for the scattering amplitudes. Two kinds of lower and upper bounds for the surface traction integral are given. One is based on the geometrical characteristics of the scatterer and is expressed in terms of corresponding values of the best fitting interior and exterior confocal triaxial ellipsoids. The case of best fitting interior and exterior spheres is examined as a special case. These bounds are sharp in the sense that they both become equalities when the scatterer degenerates to an ellipsoid. The other kind of lower and upper bounds involve the capacity of the scatterer. All estimates were obtained by using the generalized Dirichlet and Thomson Principles of Potential Theory in Elastostatics. Furthermore, all constants appearing in the bounds are given in terms of the ratio of the phase velocities for the transverse and the longitudinal wave. An upper bound for scattering by a cube at normal incidence is also included.
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This work was done while both authors were visiting the Department of Mathematics of The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The second author wishes to acknowledge partial support from The University of Tennessee Science Alliance.
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Dassios, G., Payne, L.E. Estimates for low-frequency elastic scattering by a rigid body. J Elasticity 20, 161–180 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00043199
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