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Stress-strain state of an anisotropic plate with curved cracks and thin rigid inclusions

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We solve the bending problem for an anisotropic plate with flaws like smooth curved nonoverlapping through cracks and rigid inclusions. The problem is solved by the method of Lekhnitskii complex potentials specified as Cauchy type integrals over the flaw contours with an unknown integrand density function. We use the Sokhotskii—Plemelj formulas to reduce the boundary-value problem to a system of singular integral equations with the additional conditions that the displacements in the plate are single-valued when going around the cut contours and the equilibrium conditions for stress-free rigid inclusions. After the singular integrals are approximated by the Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature formulas, the problem is reduced to solving a system of linear algebraic equations. We study the local stress distribution near flaw tips. We analyze the mutual influence of flaws on the stress distribution character near their vertices and compare the well-known solutions for isotropic plates with the solutions obtained by passing to the limit in the anisotropy parameters (“weakly anisotropic material”) and by using the method proposed here.

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Original Russian Text © V. N. Maksimenko, E. G. Podruzhin, P. E. Ryabchikov, 2007, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Mekharika Tverdogo Tela, 2007, No. 2, pp. 66–74.

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Maksimenko, V.N., Podruzhin, E.G. & Ryabchikov, P.E. Stress-strain state of an anisotropic plate with curved cracks and thin rigid inclusions. Mech. Solids 42, 223–230 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0025654407020070

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