Much work has been accomplished in the analysis of the dynamics of an elliptical cylindrical shell. Recently, solutions have appeared for acoustic scattering from a submerged elliptical shell [Brigham, Libuha, and Radlinski, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61, 48?59 (1977)]. The problem of scattering of arbitrarily polarized elastic waves from an elliptical cylindrical shell is even more difficult because
... [Show full abstract] the basis functions for the fields in a separable coordinate system are not orthogonal for the different wave speeds. Recent advances [Pao and Varatharjulu (Varadan) J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59, 1361?1371 (1976)], in the application of the extended boundary condition method to elastic wave propagation has led to solutions for elastic wave scattering from elliptical inclusions that are stress?free, rigid, fluid, or solidelastic. Varadan and Varadan have worked on the case of a layered elastic inclusion. This presentation deals with coupling of thin shell theory to the elasticscattering problem as described by the extended boundary condition method. The theory is ideally suited to such applications since the formulation is given in terms of normal and tangential stresses and displacements on the elliptical surface.