Plate with a crack under the creep condition

1 Plate with a crack under the creep condition 

We consider a boundary value problem for equations describing an equilibrium of a plate being under the creep law (1.31)-(1.32). The plate is assumed to have a vertical crack. As before, the main peculiarity of the problem is determined by the presence of an inequality imposed on a solution which represents a mutual nonpenetration condition of the crack faces 

An existence theorem to the equilibrium problem of the plate is proved. A complete system of equations and inequalities fulfilled at the crack faces is found. The solvability of the optimal control problem with a cost functional characterizing an opening of the crack is established. The solution is shown to belong to the space C °° near crack points provided the crack opening is equal to zero. The results of this section are published in (Khludnev, 1996c). 

Denote hy W = (w, w ), w horizontal and vertical displacements of the mid-surface points, respectively, and write down the formulae for strain and integrated stress tensor components y(lL), aij W)  

We shall consider an equilibrium problem with a constitutive law corresponding to a creep, in particular, the strain and integrated stress tensor components (IT ), ay(lT ) will depend on = (lT, w ), where (lT, w ) are connected with (IT, w) by (3.1). In this case, the equilibrium equations will be nonlocal with respect to t. 

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