In this article the work of Comninou, Dundurs and co-authors on the subject of interface disturbances caused by plane elastic pulses is briefly reviewed. Some paradoxical aspects occurring at high coefficients of friction are pointed out. Some new results are also presented. Introduction If two elastic solids are perfectly bonded, the interface is described as bilateral because it can transmit ...

In this study, the contact problem of a layered composite which consists of two materials with different elastic constants and heights resting on two rigid flat supports with sharp edges is considered. The effect of gravity is neglected. While friction between the layers is taken into account, it is assumed that there is no friction between the supports and the layered composite so that only co...

One of the key aspects governing the mechanical performance of composite materials is debonding: the local separation of reinforcing constituents from matrix when the interfacial strength is exceeded. In this contribution, two strategies to estimate the overall response of particulate composites with rigid-brittle interfaces are investigated. The first approach is based on a detailed numerical ...

Despite recent advances in our understanding of biochemical regulation of neutrophil chemotaxis, little is known about how mechanical factors control neutrophils' persistent polarity and rapid motility. Here, using a human neutrophil-like cell line and human primary neutrophils, we describe a dynamic spatiotemporal pattern of tractions during chemotaxis. Tractions are located at both the leadin...

The problem of N cracks interaction in an isotropic elastic solid is decomposed into a subproblem of a homogeneous solid without crack and N subproblems with each having a single crack subjected to unknown tractions on the two crack faces. The unknown tractions, namely pseudo tractions on each crack are expanded into polynomials with unknown coefficients, which have to be determined by the cons...

We present general, computable, improvable, and rigorous bounds for the total energy of a finite heterogeneous volume element O or a periodically distributed unit cell of an elastic composite of any known distribution of inhomogeneities of any geometry and elasticity, undergoing a harmonic motion at a fixed frequency or supporting a singlefrequency Bloch-form elastic wave of a given wavevector....

An efastic half-plane containing a su~ace-b~ak~og crack normal to the free surface, subjected to loading by uniform tractions over a given length af its surface, is considered. The tractions consist of pressure, constant in time, and a shear load, varying sinu~idaily in time, both applied adjacent to the crack. This geometry approximates the classical fretting problem with a resulting fatigue c...

Abstract In the present work, solutions are recapitulated according to theory of elasticity for deformations an adhesive spherical inhomogeneity in infinite matrix under remote uniform axial and axial-symmetrical radial tension. Stress fields at interface provided, too. It is shown that sphere deformed a spheroid any loading cases considered. Due axial-symmetric setup problem, deformation fully...