On a method of obtaining spectral relationships for integral operators of mixed problems of mechanics of continuous media (Q792149)

(From the authors' summary.) The method of orthogonal functions applied for the investigation of mixed problems of the mechanics of continuous media is based on the utilization of spectral relationships that invert the singular part of the kernel of the integral equation of the problem under consideration. A sufficiently general approach, based on potential theory, to the derivation of spectral relationships is proposed. Eigenfunctions are obtained in the problem of impressing a strip stamp in an elastic halfspace. As an application of the results obtained the solution is constructed for the plane contact problem of the impression of a rigid stamp into the surface of an elastic strip which is under an interlayer of the type of a covering resting on an undeformable foundation.