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Multi-material wedges associated with convergence of geometrical and material discontinuity lines generally show singular stress fields around the vertex of the wedge. In this paper, the eigenvalue problem for a multi-material wedge composed of several anisotropic elastic sectors is formulated in a completely generally manner, including the cases of degenerate and extra-degenerate material sectors, and various types of edge conditions for both open and closed wedges. General representation of the elasticity solution in a degenerate or extra-degenerate anisotropic sector requires higher-order eigenmodes (generalized eigenfunctions) in addition to zeroth-order eigenmodes. Such higher-order eigenmodes are obtained from appropriate analytical expressions of the zeroth-order eigenmode by using the derivative rule. The analysis is applied to one bisector wedge and one trisector wedge in a three-layer cracked composite model to obtain accurate elasticity solutions of the singular stress fields. These solutions were determined using the traction data generated on a circular collocation path by a conventional finite element analysis.
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Yin, WL. (2004). Anisotropic Elasticity and Multi-Material Singularities. In: Man, CS., Fosdick, R.L. (eds) The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2308-1_42
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