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Since the pioneering work of Eshelby on a single ellipsoidal inclusion embedded in an infinite space, much attention has been devoted in the literature to the question of the uniformity of the stress field inside inclusions surrounded by an elastic matrix. Over the last decade or so, researchers have established the existence of multiple (interacting) inclusions enclosing uniform internal stress distributions when embedded in an infinite elastic matrix subjected to a uniform far-field loading and identified a variety of shapes of such inclusions. In the design of multiple inclusions with uniform internal stresses, it is customary to assume that the uniform stress field inside each inclusion (each with different shear modulus distinct from that of the matrix) is hydrostatic. In this paper, we examine whether this assumption is actually necessary to ensure the required existence of multiple inclusions enclosing uniform stresses. By establishing several theorems in the theory of functions of a complex variable, we prove rigorously that for any collection of multiple inclusions enclosing uniform stresses in an infinite isotropic plane subjected to uniform remote in-plane loading, the internal uniform stress field must indeed be hydrostatic if the corresponding inclusion’s shear modulus is distinct from that of the matrix.
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Dai acknowledges the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20190393), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11902147 & 51921003) and a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD). Schiavone thanks the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for their support through a Discovery Grant (Grant No: RGPIN – 2017–03716115112).
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Dai, M., Schiavone, P. Need the Uniform Stress Field Inside Multiple Interacting Inclusions Be Hydrostatic?. J Elast 143, 195–207 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-021-09813-z
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