UDC 539.3
THEORY OF ELASTICITY
Submitted 1966-01-01 | RussiaRxiv: ru-196601.34247 | Translated from Russian

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UDC 539.3

THEORY OF ELASTICITY

R. D. BANCHURI

SOLUTION OF THE FIRST FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF THE THEORY OF ELASTICITY FOR A WEDGE HAVING A FINITE CUT

(Presented by Academician N. I. Muskhelishvili on 26 VII 1965)

Let an elastic body in the plane \(\zeta=\xi+i\eta\) occupy the angle
\(-\alpha<\arg \zeta<\alpha,\ 0<\alpha\leq \pi\), which is cut along the bisector from the vertex of the angle; we shall take the length of the cut to be equal to unity.

Let the boundary \(\arg \zeta=\pm\alpha\) be free of external stresses (this may be assumed without loss of generality), and let the stress components on the cut be prescribed:

\[ Y_y=p_1(\xi),\quad X_y=q_1(\xi) \quad \text{on the upper edge of the cut,} \]

\[ Y_y=p_2(\xi),\quad X_y=q_2(\xi) \quad \text{on the lower edge of the cut,} \tag{1} \]

where \(p_1(\xi), p_2(\xi), q_1(\xi), q_2(\xi)\) are absolutely continuous functions.

This problem, in the case when \(\alpha=\pi/2\) (a half-plane with a cut), was solved in work \((^1)\). We propose another way of solving the problem.

Map the region occupied by the body onto the infinite strip
\(-1\leq y\leq 1,\ -\infty<x<\infty\), cut along the negative half-axis
\(x<0,\ y=0\). The mapping is given by the function \(\zeta=e^{\alpha z}\).

Consider two strips
\(G_1(-\infty<x<\infty,\ 0<y<1)\) and
\(G_2(-\infty<x<\infty,\ -1<y<0)\). By the method of N. I. Muskhelishvili \((^2)\), the problem formulated above is reduced to the problem of determining functions \(\Phi_{01}(z), \Psi_{01}(z)\) and \(\Phi_{02}(z), \Psi_{02}(z)\), holomorphic in the strips \(G_1\) and \(G_2\), with the following boundary conditions:

\[ \Phi_{01}(z_0)+\overline{\Psi_{01}(z_0)} =\alpha\left[Y_y^{(1)}-iX_y^{(1)}\right]e^{\alpha z_0}, \quad \operatorname{Im} z_0=0, \]

\[ \Phi_{01}(z_0)+\overline{\Psi_{01}(z_0)} +\frac{1}{\alpha}\left(e^{2i\alpha}-1\right)\overline{\Phi_{01}(z_0)}=0, \quad \operatorname{Im} z_0=1; \tag{2} \]

\[ \Phi_{02}(z_0)+\overline{\Psi_{02}(z_0)} =\alpha\left[Y_y^{(2)}-iX_y^{(2)}\right]e^{\alpha z_0}, \quad \operatorname{Im} z_0=0; \]

\[ \Phi_{02}(z)+\overline{\Psi_{02}(z_0)} +\frac{1}{\alpha}\left(e^{-2i\alpha}-1\right)\overline{\Phi_{02}(z_0)}=0, \quad \operatorname{Im} z_0=-1; \tag{3} \]

\[ \Phi_{01}(z)-\Phi_{02}(z_0)=\Psi_{01}(z_0)-\Psi_{02}(z_0)=0 \quad \text{for } \operatorname{Im} z_0=0,\ \operatorname{Re} z_0>0; \tag{4} \]

\[ Y_y^{(1)}(z_0)-Y_y^{(2)}(z_0) =X_y^{(1)}(z_0)-X_y^{(2)}(z_0)=0 \quad \text{for } \operatorname{Im} z_0=0,\ \operatorname{Re} z_0>0, \tag{5} \]

where

\[ Y_y^{(k)}(z_0) =Y_y\left(e^{\alpha x}\cos\alpha y,\ e^{\alpha x}\sin\alpha y\right), \quad X_y^{(k)}(z_0) =X_y\left(e^{\alpha x}\cos\alpha y,\ e^{\alpha x}\sin\alpha y\right), \]

\[ (x,y)\in G_k, \]

\[ \Phi_{0k}(z)=\frac{d}{dz}\varphi(e^{\alpha z}), \quad \Psi_{0k}(z)=\frac{1}{\alpha}\Phi_{0k}(z)+\frac{d}{dz}\psi(e^{\alpha z}), \quad (x,y)\in G_k,\ k=1,2. \]

\(X_y^{(k)}, Y_y^{(k)}\) are the stress components in the strip \(G_k\), and \(\varphi(\zeta), \psi(\zeta)\) are the complex potentials for the wedge with a cut.

We shall seek the analytic functions \(\Phi_{0k}(z), \Psi_{0k}(z),\ z\in G\ (k=1,2)\), in the following form:

\[ \Phi_{0k}(z)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{A_k(t)}{t}e^{-itz}\,dt -\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\frac{d}{dz}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{A_k(t)}{t}e^{-itz}\,dt -c_k,\qquad z\in G_k, \tag{6} \]

\[ \Psi_{0k}(z)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{B_k(t)}{t}e^{-itz}\,dt -\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\frac{d}{dz}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{B_k(t)}{t}e^{-itz}\,dt +\bar c_k,\qquad z\in G_k, \tag{7} \]

where

\[ c_k=\lim_{x\to-\infty}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{A_k(t)}{t}e^{-itz}\,dt; \]

at the point \(t=0\) the integrals are understood in the sense of the Cauchy principal value.

Below we shall show that the desired functions \(A_k(t)\), \(B_k(t)\) \((k=1,2)\) are Fourier transforms of summable functions, continuous on the entire axis, except, possibly, at the point \(t=0\). In what follows the class of such functions will be denoted by \(R_0'\).

In the representations (6) and (7) passage to the limit is possible both under the sign of differentiation and under the sign of integration (as \(z\) tends to the boundary \(G_k\)), and differentiation may be performed any number of times under the integral sign when \(\operatorname{Im} z\ne 0\).

Let us introduce some further definitions and notation. Denote by \(R_0\) the totality of all functions

\[ \Omega(t)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\omega(x)e^{itx}dx, \quad\text{where}\quad \omega(x)\in L(-\infty,\infty); \]

\(R_0\) is a certain ring of continuous functions on the closed line \((^3)\). Further, denote by \(R_0^+\) (\(R_0^-\)) the subring of \(R_0\) composed of functions

\[ \Omega^+(t)=\int_0^\infty \omega(x)e^{itx}dx \quad \left(\Omega^-(t)=\int_{-\infty}^0 \omega(x)e^{itx}dx\right). \]

The ring obtained by extending \(R_0\) (\(R_0^+\), \(R_0^-\)) by adjoining the identity to it will be denoted by \(R\) (\(R^+\), \(R^-\)).

Denote by \(S_k(t)\), \(T_k(t)\), \(P_k(t)\), \(Q_k(t)\) the Fourier transforms of the functions \(ae^{\alpha x}Y_y^{(k)}(x,0)\), \(ae^{\alpha x}X_y^{(k)}(x,0)\), \(ae^{\alpha x}p_k(e^{\alpha x})\), \(ae^{\alpha x}q_k(e^{\alpha x})\) \((k=1,2)\).

Substituting the representations (6) and (7) into the boundary conditions (2) and (3), performing the Fourier transform and taking into account that \(S_k(t)=\overline{S_k(-t)}\), \(T_k(t)=\overline{T_k(-t)}\) \((k=1,2)\), we obtain

\[ A_1(t)= -\frac{ t\left[2\operatorname{sh}t\,e^{-t}-it\,\dfrac{e^{2i\alpha}-1}{\alpha}\right] }{ 4\left[\operatorname{sh}^2 t-\left(\dfrac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2t^2\right](1+it) }S_1(t) + \frac{ t\left[2\operatorname{sh}t\,e^{-t}+it\,\dfrac{e^{2i\alpha}-1}{\alpha}\right] }{ 4\left[\operatorname{sh}^2 t-\left(\dfrac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2t^2\right](1+it) }iT_1(t), \tag{8} \]

\[ A_2(t)= \frac{ t\left[2\operatorname{sh}t\,e^{t}+it\,\dfrac{e^{-2i\alpha}-1}{\alpha}\right] }{ 4\left[\operatorname{sh}^2 t-\left(\dfrac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2t^2\right](1+it) }S_2(t) - \frac{ t\left[2\operatorname{sh}t\,e^{t}-it\,\dfrac{e^{-2i\alpha}-1}{\alpha}\right] }{ 4\left[\operatorname{sh}^2 t-\left(\dfrac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2t^2\right](1+it) }iT_2(t); \tag{9} \]

\[ B_k(t)=\frac{t}{1+it}\,[S_k(t)+iT_k(t)]+\bar A_k(-t)\qquad (k=1,2). \tag{10} \]

By virtue of condition (4) we have

\[ \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{A_1(t)-A_2(t)}{t}e^{-itx}\,dt -\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\frac{d}{dx}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{A_1(t)-A_2(t)}{t}e^{-itx}\,dt +c_2-c_1=0 \]

\[ \text{for } x>0, \]

\[ \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{B_1(t)-B_2(t)}{t}e^{-itx}\,dt -\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\frac{d}{dx}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{B_1(t)-B_2(t)}{t}e^{-itx}\,dt +\bar c_1-\bar c_2 \]

\[ \text{for } x>0; \]

whence we easily conclude that if \(A_k(t), B_k(t)\in R_0\) \((k=1,2)\), then
\(A_1(t)-A_2(t)\in R_0^{-}\), \(B_1(t)-B_2(t)\in R_0^{-}\).

Applying condition (5), we obtain

\[ T_1(t)=T^{+}(t)+Q_1^{-}(t),\qquad T_2(t)=T^{+}(t)+Q_2^{-}(t); \tag{11} \]

\[ S_1(t)=S^{+}(t)+P_1^{-}(t),\qquad S_2(t)=S^{+}(t)+P_2^{-}(t), \tag{12} \]

where \(S^{+}(t)\), \(T^{+}(t)\) are the sought functions from the class \(R_0^{+}\).

From conditions (8)—(10) we shall have

\[ \begin{aligned} A_1(t)-A_2(t) &= -\frac{t\left[\operatorname{sh}t\,\operatorname{ch}t+ \frac{\sin 2\alpha}{2\alpha}\,t\right]} {\left[\operatorname{sh}^{2}t-\left(\frac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2 t\right](1+it)} \,S^{+}(t) \\ &\quad+ \frac{t\left[\operatorname{sh}t\,\operatorname{ch}t- \frac{\sin 2\alpha}{2\alpha}\,t\right]} {\left[\operatorname{sh}^{2}t-\left(\frac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2 t^2\right](1+it)} \,iT^{+}(t)+f_1(t); \end{aligned} \tag{13} \]

\[ \begin{aligned} B_1(t)-B_2(t) &= -\frac{t\left[\operatorname{sh}t\,\operatorname{ch}t+ \frac{\sin 2\alpha}{2\alpha}\,t\right]} {\left[\operatorname{sh}^{2}t-\left(\frac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2 t^2\right](1+it)} \,S^{+}(t) \\ &\quad- \frac{t\left[\operatorname{sh}t\,\operatorname{ch}t- \frac{\sin 2\alpha}{2\alpha}\,t\right]} {\left[\operatorname{sh}^{2}t-\left(\frac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2 t^2\right](1+it)} \,iT^{+}(t)+f_2(t), \end{aligned} \tag{14} \]

where \(f_1(t)\), \(f_2(t)\) are prescribed functions.

Adding equalities (12) and (13) and introducing the notation

\[ \Phi^{-}(t)=\left[A_1(t)-A_2(t)+B_1(t)-B_2(t)\right]\sqrt{1+it}; \tag{15} \]

\[ \Phi^{+}(t)=-2S^{+}(t)\sqrt{1-it}, \tag{16} \]

we obtain

\[ \Phi^{+}(t)= \frac{\left[\operatorname{sh}^{2}t-\left(\frac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2 t^2\right]\sqrt{1+t^2}} {\left(\operatorname{sh}t\,\operatorname{ch}t+\frac{\sin 2\alpha}{2\alpha}\,t\right)t} \,\Phi^{-}(t)+g(t). \tag{17} \]

It is easy to see that the free term \(g(t)\in R_0'\), while the coefficient of the Hilbert boundary-value problem (17) belongs to the ring of functions \(R\). Since the coefficient is positive on the entire axis \(-\infty<t<\infty\), the index of the boundary-value problem (17) is \(\chi=0\).

On the basis of work [4], the Hilbert boundary-value problem (17) in the class of functions \(\Phi^{\pm}(t)\in R_0^{\pm}\) has the unique solution

\[ \Phi^{\pm}(t_0)= \frac{X^{\pm}(t_0)}{2} \left[ \pm\frac{g(t_0)}{X^{+}(t_0)} +\frac{1}{\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{g(t)\,dt}{X^{+}(t)(t-t_0)} \right], \tag{18} \]

where

\[ \begin{aligned} X^{\pm}(t_0) &=\exp \frac{1}{2} \Bigg[ \pm\ln \frac{\left(\operatorname{sh}^{2}t_0-\left(\frac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2 t_0^2\right)\sqrt{1+t_0^2}} {t_0\left(\operatorname{sh}t\,\operatorname{ch}t+\frac{\sin 2\alpha}{2\alpha}\,t_0\right)} \\ &\qquad\qquad +\frac{1}{\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{ \ln \frac{\left(\operatorname{sh}^{2}t-\left(\frac{\sin\alpha}{\alpha}\right)^2 t^2\right)\sqrt{1+t^2}} {t\left(\operatorname{sh}t\,\operatorname{ch}t+\frac{\sin 2\alpha}{2\alpha}\,t\right)} }{t-t_0}\,dt \Bigg]. \end{aligned} \tag{19} \]

From equality (16) we have

\[ S^{+}(t)=-\frac{1}{2\sqrt{1-it}}\,\Phi^{+}(t). \]

Subtracting equality (14) from equality (13), we obtain a boundary-value problem analogous to problem (17), from which \(T^{+}(t)\) is determined. From equalities (11)—(12) it follows that \(S_k(t)\sqrt{1-it}\in R_0\), \(T_k(t)\sqrt{1-it}\in R_0\) \((k=1,2)\). Substituting the found \(S_k(t)\), \(T_k(t)\) \((k=1,2)\) into (8)—(10), we determine \(A_k(t)\), \(B_k(t)\) \((k=1,2)\). Thus, the problem is solved.

Now let us show that \(A_k(t)\), \(B_k(t)\in R_0'\). To this end we add to both sides of equalities (8) and (9), respectively, expressions of the form

\[ \frac{t e^{-t}}{(1+it)\,2\,\operatorname{ch} t}\,[S_1(t)-iT_1(t)],\qquad -\frac{t e^{t}}{(1+it)\,2\,\operatorname{ch} t}\,[S_2(t)-iT_2(t)]. \tag{20} \]

It is easy to see that the right-hand sides of the resulting equalities belong to the class \(R_0'\). In order to prove that \(A_k(t)\), \(B_k(t)\) belong to the class \(R_0'\), it is enough to show that the expressions (20) belong to the class \(R_0'\). This follows from the following lemma.

Lemma. Let \(f(t+i\tau)\) be an analytic function in the strip \(-h<\tau<h\), satisfying the conditions \(|f(t+i\tau)|<A/|t|^\beta\), \(|f'(t+i\tau)|<B/|t|^\gamma\) as \(|t|\to\infty\), \(\beta>0\), \(\gamma>1\); then \(f(t)\in R_0'\).

Proof. The function \(f(s)e^{-isx}\), \(s=t+i\tau\), for \(x\le 0\) is analytic in the strip \(0\le \tau<h_1\) \((h_1<h)\) and vanishes at infinity. The same is true for \(x\ge 0\) in the strip \(-h_1<\tau\le 0\). Therefore, using Cauchy’s theorem and the Sokhotski–Plemelj formulas, we obtain

\[ \frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{f(t)}{t}e^{-itx}\,dt = \begin{cases} e^{h_1x}\Phi_1(x)+f(0)/2,\\ e^{-h_1x}\Phi_2(x)-f(0)/2, \end{cases} \tag{21} \]

where

\[ \Phi_1(x)=\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{f(t+ih_1)}{t+ih_1}e^{-itx}\,dt,\qquad \Phi_2(x)=\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{f(t-ih_1)}{t-ih_1}e^{-itx}\,dt. \tag{22} \]

According to the conditions of the lemma, \(\Phi_1(x)\), \(\Phi_2(x)\in H\) (\(H\) is the class of Hölder functions) and \(\Phi_1(0)-\Phi_2(0)=f(0)\). Hence it follows that both parts of equality (21) satisfy the Hölder conditions. Let us show that \(\Phi_1(x)\) and \(\Phi_2(x)\) have everywhere a continuous derivative, except possibly at the point \(x=0\).

We rewrite the first expression in equality (22) as follows:

\[ x\Phi_1(x)=-\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\left(\frac{f(t+ih_1)}{t+ih_1}\right)'e^{-itx}\,dt, \]

whence, by differentiation, we obtain

\[ x\Phi_1'(x)=-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} t\left(\frac{f(t+ih_1)}{t+ih_1}\right)'e^{-itx}\,dt-\Phi_1(x). \]

According to the conditions of the lemma, the right-hand side of the last equality belongs to the class \(H\) and is equal to zero for \(x=0\). Therefore \(\Phi_1'(x)\) is a continuous function for \(x\ne 0\) and \(|\Phi_1'(x)|<c/|x|^\delta\), as \(x\to 0\), \(\delta<1\). It is clear that \(\Phi_2'(x)\) will have the same properties. Then

\[ \mu(x)\equiv\frac{d}{dx}\left[\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{f(t)}{t}e^{-itx}\,dt\right]\in L(-\infty,\infty), \]

whence, using the inversion formula, we obtain

\[ f(t)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\mu(x)e^{itx}\,dx. \]

A. M. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR

Received
8 VII 1965

CITED LITERATURE

  1. L. Wigglesworth, Mathematika, 4, p. 1, No. 7 (1957).
  2. N. I. Muskhelishvili, Some Basic Problems of the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, Moscow—Leningrad, 1954.
  3. E. Titchmarsh, Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals, Moscow—Leningrad, 1948.
  4. R. D. Bantsuri, G. A. Dzhanashia, DAN, 155, No. 2, 251 (1964).

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UDC 539.3