Construction of singular integral equations for interacting straight cracks by using REDUCE
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Date
1991-09-15
Authors
Ioakimidis, Nikolaos
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Pergamon Press
Abstract
The method of singular integral equations has been applied to the solution of crack problems in plane and antiplane elasticity hundreds of times during the last twenty years. Here we revisit the case of an arbitrary number of interacting straight cracks in plane elasticity and we illustrate the possibility of constructing (algebraically) the corresponding system of singular integral equations by using computer algebra software. We present a procedure (computer program) by using REDUCE as well as several examples of application of the present approach, extensions and generalizations of which follow rather trivially.
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Plane elasticity