Geometric elasticity problem of stress concentration in a plate with a circular hole

We use the geometric elasticity equations [1], which permit relating the medium stress state to the geometry of the Riemannian space generated by the stresses, to consider the plane problem of stress concentration near a circular hole in a thin unbounded plate loaded by normal and tangential stresses. The Riemannian space metric coefficient corresponding to the coordinate normal to the plate plane is treated as the variable thickness of the plate in three-dimensional Euclidean space, which determines the optimal law for the plate material distribution. We consider plates in uniaxial tension, biaxial tension, and shear. For the plate with thickness variation laws thus obtained, we construct direct numerical solutions of the corresponding classical elasticity problems and determine the stress concentration factors.