On the Application of the Method of Hypersingular Integral Equations to Solving Problems for an Elastic Plane with a Collinear System of Cracks

Abstract

In the present paper, using the method of hypersingular integral equations, based on the formulas of the inversion of the corresponding singular integral equations, the exact quadrature solution of the classical problems of the mechanics of an elastic plane with a collinear system of cracks is constructed. The elastic plane is in a state of antiplane deformation or plane deformation; in case of antiplane deformation, crack edges are symmetrically loaded by tangential forces, while in case of plane deformation, they are again loaded symmetrically but by normal forces. Mixed boundary-value problems for an elastic half-plane equivalent to these problems are formulated. Under plane deformation, the mixed boundary-value problem for an elastic half-plane is discussed as well when the plane boundary is reinforced by two similar and symmetrically located semi-infinite stringers between which a system of an arbitrarily final number of stringers is situated. It is considered that the stringers are absolutely rigid for expansion and compression and absolutely flexible for bending. A particular case of two similar symmetrically located cracks is considered more in detail. In this case, the exact solution to the problem is also constructed by the method of Chebyshev orthogonal polynomials.