In Mindlin's 1936 solution for a buried point load in a homogeneous elastic halfspace, is Fig. 6 of his paper correct?

I'm referring to the paper: Mindlin, R.D. (1936) "Force at a Point in the Interior of a Semi-Infinite Solid", Physics 7, 195-202 (1936). By plotting "w" from Eq. 18 as a function of x for y=z=0,...

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