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Uniform stresses inside two hyperbolic inhomogeneities

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We prove that the internal stresses inside two hyperbolic elastic inhomogeneities can indeed remain uniform when the matrix is subjected to uniform remote anti-plane and in-plane stresses. Conditions leading to internal uniform stresses are established rigorously for both anti-plane and plane elasticity. Once these conditions are satisfied, the internal uniform stresses inside the two hyperbolic inhomogeneities are determined explicitly.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11272121) and through a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Grant No: RGPIN – 2017 - 03716115112).

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Wang, X., Schiavone, P. Uniform stresses inside two hyperbolic inhomogeneities. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 71, 83 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-020-01303-x

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