| Abstract: | We study the concentration of stresses due to two boundary defects located in an elastic half-space with stress-free boundary loaded at infinity with a constant shear load. The problem is reduced to solving singular integral equations for the cases in which the half-space contains defects of different types: two cracks, two inclusions, and a crack and an inclusion, whose solutions are sought by the method of mechanical quadratures. The interaction of the defects as they approach each other and the influence of their relative sizes are studied numerically. Translated fromDinamicheskie Sistemy, Vol. 11, 1992. |
