Hypocycloidal Inclusions in Nonuniform Out-of-Plane Elasticity: Stress Singularity vs. Stress Reduction

Summer Shahzad, Francesco Dal Corso, Davide Bigoni

Stress field solutions and Stress Intensity Factors (SIFs) are found for $n$-cusped hypocycloidal shaped voids and rigid inclusions in an infinite linear elastic plane subject to n…