Well-posedness and regularity for the elasticity equation with mixed boundary conditions on polyhedral domains and domains with cracks (Q849220)

The authors study a boundary value problem for the anisotropic linear elasticity equation in a curved polyhedral domain. In this mixed problem they impose dispacement on a part of the boundary and traction boundary conditions on the other disjoint face of the boundary of the domain. Also, the considered domain is allowed to have cracks and is included in a weighted Sobolev space for which the weight is given by the distance to the set of the edges of the polyhedral domain. The main results of the paper are dedicated to the proof of the regularity and well-posedness of the solution in the above mentioned weighted Sobolev space. The results from this paper could be extended to other strongly elliptic systems and higher dimensions.