Integral equations of the problem of torsion of an elastic body with a thin disc-like inclusion (Q578980)

Non-classical contact conditions are obtained for the axisymmetric torsion problem for an elastic bilayered unbounded medium containing a thin elastic circular inclusion of constant thickness in the connecting plane of the materials. The special singular integral equations of the problem are set up and a method for their approximate solution is described. The torsion of a bilayered elastic space or half-space containing an elastic inclusion of constant thickness 2H in the plane separating the materials is examined [the author and \textit{Ya. I. Kunets}, Prikl. Mekh., Kiev 19, No.7, 66-70 (1983; Zbl 0539.73007)] by reducing the boundary conditions from the inclusion surface to the boundary separating the media (the middle surface of the inclusion) to the accuracy \(O(h^ 2)\) \((h=Ha^{-1}\), where a is the radius of the inclusion) and solving the appropriate system of singular integral equations. By using an operator method and the theory of singular perturbations, this problem is formulated correctly and its solution is given with an arbitrary number of terms retained in the expansion in powers of the small parameter h.