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Optimal estimates and asymptotics for the stress concentration between closely located stiff inclusions

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If stiff inclusions are closely located, then the stress, which is the gradient of the solution, may become arbitrarily large as the distance between two inclusions tends to zero. In this paper we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the stress concentration factor, which is the normalized magnitude of the stress concentration, as the distance between two inclusions tends to zero. For that purpose we show that the gradient of the solution to the case when two inclusions are touching decays exponentially fast near the touching point. We also prove a similar result when two inclusions are closely located and there is no potential difference on boundaries of two inclusions. We then use these facts to show that the stress concentration factor converges to a certain integral of the solution to the touching case as the distance between two inclusions tends to zero. We then present an efficient way to compute this integral.

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Authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on this paper. Especially Sect. 5 on the convergence of charge densities is added thanks to their comments.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, Korea

    Hyeonbae Kang & Hyundae Lee

  2. Department of Mathematics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 449-791, Korea

    KiHyun Yun

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This work is supported by Korean Ministry of Education, Sciences and Technology through NRF Grants Nos. 2010-0017532, 2013R1A1A1A05009699 (HK and HL), and by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund of 2014 (KY).

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Kang, H., Lee, H. & Yun, K. Optimal estimates and asymptotics for the stress concentration between closely located stiff inclusions. Math. Ann. 363, 1281–1306 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-015-1203-2

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