Stress Concentrators in Continuous Deformable Bodies

This book is devoted to the study of topical issues of the simultaneous interaction of various types of stress concentrators with massive homogeneous and composite deformable bodies. A wide class of new contact and mixed problems is considered, and their closed or effective solutions are constructed. The features of the dynamic mutual influence of various stress concentrators in some problems of forced vibrations of composite massive bodies are also studied.

Vahram Hakobyan is the author of more than 130 scientific papers in the field of contact and mixed problems of the theory of elasticity and viscoelasticity. The author of two monographs ＂Stress Concentration Near Defects in Homogeneous And Compound Bodies＂ and ＂Mixed Boundary Value Problems on Interaction of Continuum Deformable Bodies with Different Types Stress Concentrators＂, Prof. Hakobyan was the first to obtain closed solutions for some problems both for a homogeneous and piecewise homogeneous plane with defects, and a number of mixed axisymmetric problems for a composite space with cracks. He worked for thirteen years as a director of the Institute of Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences (Republic of Armenia).