Analytical solutions for elastic fields caused by eigenstrains in two joined and perfectly bonded half-spaces and related problems

This paper reports the derivation of the explicit integral kernels for the elastic fields due to eigenstrains in two joined and perfectly bonded half-space solids or bimaterials. The domain integrations of these kernels result in the analytical solutions to displacements and stresses. When the eigenstrains are all in solid I, the kernel for the elastic fields has four groups in this solid and two groups in the other joined solid. Explicit closed-form solutions for a cuboidal inclusion with uniform eigenstrains are derived as the basic solutions, i.e., the influence coefficients. When the computational domain is meshed into cuboidal elements of the same sizes, the total elastic fields can be quickly obtained by implementing three-dimensional fast Fourier transform-based algorithms. The results for the fields due to a cuboidal, a spherical, and a cylindrical inclusion, as well as multiple cuboidal inclusions are presented and discussed. Residual stresses in an elastoplastic contact involved a coated substrate is further analyzed with the new solution approach. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).