Elastic solids with holes under remote tension are reconsidered. When hole dimensions are shrunk so that holes disappear, anomalies occur in the classical elasticity solutions of Lame´. By introducing cohesive laws on hole surfaces as they shrink, these anomalies may be removed.

Issue Section:
Brief Notes
Keywords:
elasticity, stress analysis
Topics:
Elasticity, Solids, Stress, Tension, Resolution (Optics), Dimensions, Stress analysis (Engineering)
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