Problems for Bonded Half-Panes and Circular Inclusion

Problems concerning cracks, holes, blocks and/or inclusions near the interface of media with different properties, in particular near the free or attached boundary of a body, are of great interest in material science, fracture mechanics and geomechanics. In this chapter we present general methods for reducing these problems to CV-BEM (Linkov [10]). We employ a device presented in the next paragraph. It works if the K-M functions are known for the whole plane: then standard transformations lead to K-M functions for bonded half planes.