On the singularities of contact forces in the bending of plates with fine inclusions (Q1090167)

A number of problems on the bending of plates with thin inclusions that are distinguished by the conditions at the inclusions is examined. The problems are reduced to systems of integral equations whose characteristic part has the following form in the general case \[ (1)\quad L_{\phi}\equiv \int^{1}_{-1}\frac{(t-\tau)^ 2}{2}[a\frac{sgn(t-\tau)}{2}+\frac{b}{\pi i}\ln \frac{1}{| t-\tau |}]\phi (\tau)d\tau =f(t). \] An exact solution of (1) is constructed using the method employed by \textit{F. D. Gakhov} [Boundary value problems (1977; Zbl 0449.30030)], which provides a rigorous foundation for the approach utilized e.g. by the first two authors and \textit{Yu. S. Protserov} [ibid. 48, 307-314 (1984; Zbl 0569.73116)], and also enables us to find the exact form of the singularities for the problems considered in this paper.