Elastic cloaking for a periodic distribution of parallel finite cracks

We achieve elastic cloaking for a periodic distribution of an infinite number of parallel finite mode III cracks by means of the complex variable method and the theory of Cauchy singular integral equations. The cloaking bimaterial structure is composed of an undisturbed uniformly stressed left half-plane perfectly bonded via a wavy interface to the right half-plane which contains periodic cracks. The original design of the wavy interface and the positions of the periodic cracks are ultimately reduced to the solution of a Cauchy singular integral equation which can be solved numerically.

Numerical solution of certain Cauchy singular integral equations using a collocation scheme

The present study is devoted to developing a computational collocation technique for solving the Cauchy singular integral equation of the second kind (CSIE-2). Although, several studies have investigated the numerical approximation solution of CSIEs, the strong singularity and accuracy of the numerical methods are still two important challenges for these integral equations. In this paper, we focus on the smooth transformation and implementation of Bessel basis polynomials (BBP). The reduction of the CSIEs-2 into a system of algebraic equations with the Gauss–Legendre collocation points simplifies this technique. The technique of performing numerical approximation of the solution is well presented and illustrated in the matrix form. Also, the convergence and error bound associated with the scheme are established. Finally, several experiments show the reliability and numerical efficiency of the proposed scheme in comparison with other methods.

Singular integral operators in some variable exponent Lebesgue spaces

The paper deals with the exploration of those subclasses of the variable exponent Lebesgue space {L^{p(\,\cdot\,)}} with {\min p(\,\cdot\,)=1}, which are invariant with respect to Cauchy singular integral operators.