State of stress and strain of a small neighborhood of the apex of a wedge for a physical nonlinearity and different boundary conditions (Q1117759)

Three plane strain problems of a small neighbourhood of the apex of a physically nonlinear incompressible wedge are investigated by the Cherepanov-Rice-Hutchinson method using a nonlinear differential equation for the Airy stress function: Problem 1 - one face is free, and a smooth contact condition is given on the other; Problem 2 - one face is free, and a flexible inextensible cover plate is glued to the other; Problem 3 - one face is free and the condition of adhesion to a stiff flat stamp is given on the other. Numerical results are presented that illustrate the influence of the degree of nonlinearity of the governing relationships and the wedge aperture angle on the solution. The method is also applied to the stream function which enables us to formulate an analogy between different plane problems and affords the possibility of extending it to the axisymmetric case. In many problems of the mechanics of a deformable solid, the investigation of the asymptotic form of the solution near an angular point of a domain occupied by a body plays a fundamental role. In the elastic case this question has been studied quite broadly and an extensive literature exists. The situation is more complicated if the governing relationships are nonlinear. The majority of papers deal only with the case of a crack. This paper attempts to fill this gap somewhat.