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Singular stress states induced at the tip of linear elastic multimaterial corners are characterized in terms of the order of stress singularities and angular variation of stresses and displacements. Linear elastic materials of an arbitrary nature are considered, namely anisotropic, orthotropic, transversely isotropic, isotropic, etc. Thus, in terms of Stroh formalism of anisotropic elasticity, the scope of the present work includes mathematically non-degenerate and degenerate materials. Multimaterial corners composed of materials of different nature are typically present at any metal-composite, or composite-composite adhesive joint. Several works are available in the literature dealing with a singularity analysis of multimaterial corners but involving (in the vast majority) only materials of the same nature (e.g., either isotropic or orthotropic). Although many different corner configurations have been studied in literature, with almost any kind of boundary conditions, there is an obvious lack of a general procedure for the singularity characterization of multimaterial corners without any limitation in the nature of the materials. With the procedure developed here, and implemented in a computer code, multimaterial corners, with no limitation in the nature of the materials and any homogeneous orthogonal boundary conditions, could be analyzed. As a particular case, stress singularity orders in corners involving extraordinary degenerate materials are, to the authors’ knowledge, presented for the first time. The present work is based on an original idea by Ting (1997) in which an efficient procedure for a singularity analysis of anisotropic non-degenerate multimaterial corners is introduced by means of the use of a transfer matrix.
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Barroso, A., Mantič, V. & París, F. Singularity analysis of anisotropic multimaterial corners. Int J Fract 119, 1–23 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023937819943
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