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We consider a coated rigid inclusion inserted into an elastic matrix subjected to uniform remote anti-plane shear stresses and examine whether the inclusion can be made neutral (meaning that its introduction will not disturb the original uniform stress field in the surrounding uncut matrix) despite the presence of partial debonding along the inclusion–coating interface. Our analysis involves the introduction of a conformal mapping function (expressed in terms of a Laurent series) for the (thick) coating, a Laurent series expansion for the corresponding Plemelj function and simple matrix algebra. Our method demonstrates that coated neutral inclusions continue to be available under these challenging yet more realistic physical conditions. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the solution method.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11272121) and through a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Grant No: RGPIN – 2017 - 03716115112).
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Wang, X., Schiavone, P. Neutrality of a partially debonded rigid inclusion in anti-plane shear. Arch Appl Mech 89, 1513–1519 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-019-01524-1
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