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In this thesis, the transient waves propagating in three dimensional layered medium subjected to arbitrarily oriented loadings are solved with aids of the integral transform technique and the Cagniard method for the inverting transformation. The numerical calcuations are conducted on a thin layer overlying a solid half space and the free surface is subjected to a concentrated dynamic force. The numerical calculations are compared with experimental measurements to verify the accuracy of theoretical model and numerical calculation. In this study, loadings applied at the interfaces and boundaries of the layered medium are treated first and then extended to those applied at the interior. The ray solution for the layered medium is expressed concisely in terms of an infinite power matrix series. The solution is then decomposed into infinite wave groups in which the waves are reflected by ofr transmitted through the interface the same times. Each multi-reflected wave can be verified by the theory of generalized ray. For the numeical calculation, a method which can be used to obtain the longer time resposes for the layered medium subjected to a dynamic loading are pressented. The transient two dimnensional solutions for waves propagating in layered medium are also obtained in this thesis directly through the construction of solutions for three dimensional cases. The correspondence relationships in the transformed domain between two and three dimensional problems are presented so that these two kinds of problems can be solved at one time.
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