Sliding Inclusions and Inhomogeneities With Frictional Interfaces

Elastic fields due to a sliding inclusion and inhomogeneity with the frictional interface are investigated. The exact solution in closed form is presented for three cases: (i) a spherical inclusion which undergoes constant eigenstrains, (ii) a nondegenerate ellipsoidal inclusion with uniform shear eigenstrains and (iii) a nondegenerate ellipsoidal inhomogeneity subjected to an applied shear stress at infinity. Moreover, the existence of solution for a sliding inclusion and inhomogeneity with frictional interface is also demonstrated.