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The phenomenology of concentrated contact interactions, a rare but at times necessary occurrence to guarantee partwise equilibrium, is illustrated by means of examples taken from two-dimensional equilibrium problems where concentrated loads are applied to infinite bodies occupying either a half plane or the whole plane. Although the corresponding three-dimensional problems in linearly isotropic elasticity have been solved since long past, this phenomenology has remained latent so far.
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Podio-Guidugli, P. Examples of concentrated contact interactions in simple bodies. J Elasticity 75, 167–186 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-005-3029-8
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