On singularities of solutions of the displacement problem of linear elasticity near the vertex of a cone (Q1203991)

Solutions of problems in three-dimensional elasticity in domains with conical boundary points exhibit singular behavior at these points. The singularity is crucially associated with the eigenvalues of a certain operator pencil on a domain cut out of the unit sphere by the tangent cone (not necessarily circular) to the boundary with vertex at the singular point. In this paper the first boundary-value problem of linearized elasticity is treated and a number of numerical features of the corresponding operator pencil spectrum are presented. In the particular case of a circular cone still more precise numerical results are given.