Date of Award

Spring 1990

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Mathematics & Statistics

Program/Concentration

Computational and Applied Mathematics

Committee Director

Gordon Melrose

Committee Member

Robert Tait

Committee Member

John Tweed

Committee Member

John A. Adam

Abstract

In this dissertation the author solves a series of mixed boundary value problems arising from crack problems in elasticity and thermoelasticity. Using integral transform techniques and separation of variables appropriately, it is shown that the solutions can be found by solving a corresponding set of triple or dual integral equations in some instances, while in others the solutions of triple or dual series relations are required. These in turn reduce to various singular integral equations which are solved in closed form, in two cases, or by numerical methods. The stress intensity factors at the crack tips, the physical parameters of interest, are found and the results are recorded in both tabular and graphical form.

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DOI

10.25777/wzrb-7781

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