Response of a circular foundation on a uniform half‐space to elastic waves

An alternative technique to obtain the dynamic response of a massless rigid circular foundation resting on a uniform elastic half‐space when subjected to harmonic plane waves is presented. The technique relies on the use of an integral representation involving the free‐field ground motion and the contact tractions obtained in the course of calculating the dynamic force–displacement relationship of the foundation for external forces. Tables listing the translational and rotational components of the response of the foundation for non‐vertically incident SH, P, SV and Rayleigh waves are presented.