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Information on the singular behavior at the vertex of a bi-material wedge is the objective of this paper. A summary of the necessary conditions, which depend heavily on the associated eigenvalue equation, for stress singularities of O(r -λ 1n r) as r→0 or O(r -λ) as r→0 is stated. The eigenvalue equations arising from a wide range of boundary and interface conditions are then provided. Bi-material wedge problems that have been subjected to singularity analyses of some generality in the literature are briefly reviewed.
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Dempsey, J.P., Sinclair, G.B. On the singular behavior at the vertex of a bi-material wedge. J Elasticity 11, 317–327 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041942
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