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Interaction between cracks and rigid lines in an infinite plate is investigated in this paper. The rigid lines are assumed in an equilibrium condition and may have some rotation in the deformation process of the adjacent material. After placing some distributed dislocations along the cracks and some distributed body forces along the rigid lines, a system of singular integral equations is obtained. The obtained system of the singular integral equations is reduced to a system of Fredholm integral equations by appropriate substitution of the unknown functions. The regularized integral equations are solved numerically. Stress intensity factors at the crack tips and stress singularity coefficients are investigated in the numerical examples.
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Chen, Y.Z. Interaction between cracks and rigid lines in an infinite plate. Acta Mechanica 101, 15–29 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01175594
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