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Elastic field perturbation by an elliptic inhomogeneity with a sliding interface

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Muskhelishvili complex potentials are used to solve the problem of an infinite elastic plane containing an elliptic inhomogeneity with a sliding interface but no eigenstrain. The boundary conditions considered are (a) continuity of normal tractions and displacements and vanishing shear tractions at the interface, and (b) vanishing stresses at infinity. After a conformal mapping of the elastic plane, the solution is obtained in terms of a set of infinite algebraic equations yielding the Laurent's expansion coefficients of the complex potentials. Distinct sets of formulae must be written for a circular inhomogeneity (degenerate ellipse) and an elliptic inhomogeneity (no degeneracy), and in both cases no closed-form solution is obtainable. For an elliptic inhomogeneity the solution requires iteration and recursion, and implies vanishing stresses in the homogeneity when the system is loaded with a remote uniform shear parallel to the axes of the ellipse.

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I potenziali complessi di Muskhelishvili vengono usati per risolvere il problema di un piano elastico infinito contenente una disomogeneità ellittica con interfaccia scorrevole e che non sia all' origine di un campo di sforzi in terni. Si considerano le condizioni al contorno: (a) continuità delle trazioni e degli spostamenti normali e annullamento delle trazioni tangenziali all' interfaccia; (b) annullamento degli sforzi all' infinito. Mediante una trasformazione conforme del piano elastico, la soluzione viene espressa in termini di un sistema di infinite equazioni algebriche per i coefficienti degli sviluppi di Laurent dei potenziali complessi. Si trova che occorre scrivere distinti sistemi per i casi di disomogeneità circolare (ellisse degenere) e di disomogeneità ellittica (non circolare). In ambedue i casi non è ottenibile una soluzione in forma chiusa. Nel caso di disomogeneità ellittica la soluzione consiste in formule ricorrenti e richiede iterazione; inoltre, essa implica l'annullamento del campo di sforzi nella disomogeneità quando il sistema è soggetto ad uno sforzo di taglio uniforme applicato all' infinito parallelamente agli assi dell' ellisse.

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Stagni, L. Elastic field perturbation by an elliptic inhomogeneity with a sliding interface. Z. angew. Math. Phys. 42, 811–820 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00944564

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