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Stress and displacement singularities near corners

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The optical method of caustics, as it has been developed by the author, was used for the study of the stress singularity at the singular corner of a bimaterial composite consisting of two materially dissimilar wedges bonded together along either one or two of their interfaces and submitted to any type of loading. The equations of the caustics were derived by putting the complex stress functions of the Muskhelishvili formulation of the plane stress problem in their asymptotic forms, which are valid at the close vicinity of the corner. By comparing the theoretically defined caustics to those obtained by the experiments the order of the elastic stress singularity in the particular cases studied was calculated. The following special cases were considered: (i) a homogeneous wedge with various values of its angle; (ii) Two dissimilar wedges bonded together along one interface to form any part of a plane; (iii) Two dissimilar wedges bonded together along both their interfaces to form a full plane; and (iv) Two dissimilar half-planes bonded together along their interface while an oblique crack is traversing either of the half-planes and terminating at the interface. The values of the elastic stress singularities, as they have been defined experimentally, corroborate the theoretical results.

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Die vom Verfasser entwickelte optische Methode der Kaustiken wird für die Untersuchung von Spannungs-Singularitäten an singulären Ecken eines aus zwei materiell verschiedenen Keilen bestehenden, längs einer oder beider Grenzflächen verbundenen Körpers unter dem Einfluss beliebiger Belastungen angewandt. Die Kaustik-Gleichungen werden unter Verwendung von Muskhelishvilis komplexen Spannungsfunktionen in ihren asymptotischen Formen hergeleitet, die in der Nähe der Ecken gültig sind. Die Ordnung der elastischen Spannungs-Singularitäten bei den untersuchten Sonderfällen wurde durch Vergleich zwischen den theoretisch bestimmten und den experimentell gewonnenen Kaustiken ermittlet. Folgende Sonderfälle wurden untersucht: (I) homogene Keile mit verschiedenen Winkeln, (II) zwei verschiedene Keile, die längs einer Grenze verbunden sind und einen Teil der Ebene überdecken, (III) zwei verschiedene Keile, die längs beider Grenzen verbunden sind und eine Ebene bilden, (IV) zwei verschiedene Halbebenen, längs ihrer Grenzen verbunden, wobei ein schräger Riss durch eine Halbebene bis an die Grenze verläuft. Die aus den Versuchen ermittelten Werte von elastischen Spannungs-Singularitäten bestätigen die theoretischen Argebnisse.

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Theocaris, P.S. Stress and displacement singularities near corners. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP) 26, 77–98 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01596280

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