Abstract: There is a strange feature of plane elasticity that seems to have gone unnoticed: The stresses in a body that contains rigid inclusions and is loaded by specified surface tractions depend on ...

Abstract: The paper treats an elasticity problem with friction that can be solved in closed form. It involves an unbounded solid with a semi-infinite cut. The solid is compressed in a direction ...

Abstract: This paper examines the case of unloading with strong friction, and also treats reloading of the unbounded solid with a semi-infinite cut. The solid is compressed uniformly normal to the cut, ...

Abstract: This paper provides a Green’s function formulation of anticracks (rigid lamellar inclusions of negligible thickness that are bonded to the surrounding elastic material). Apart from systematizing ...

Abstract: A notable conclusion reached by Sternberg and Koiter 30 years ago is that an elastic wedge loaded by a concentrated couple at its vertex remains a well-posed elasticity problem only as long ...

Abstract: The interface crack subjected to a combined tension-compression and shear loading is considered in the Comninou formulation, which by properly incorporating contact zones at the crack tips avoids ...

Abstract: An elastic half plane is indented by a perfectly conducting rigid flat punch, which is maintained at a different temperature from the half plane. It is found that, depending on the magnitude ...

Abstract: We consider a plane pulse striking the frictional interface between two elastic solids which are held together by compressive applied tractions and sheared. The pulse causes a disturbance involving ...