On the Müller boundary integral equation method for solving contact problems in 2D linear elasticity
摘要
We develop uniquely solvable second kind boundary integral equations systems for solving the transmission problem associated with linear elastic waves propagation in two-dimensional isotropic and homogeneous media. With the help of the Günter derivative, the transmission boundary conditions are rewritten in such a way the physical system can be reduced to a compact perturbation of an invertible zero-order operator—a lower off-diagonal perturbation of identity—without regularization procedure. Inspired by the Müller formulation developed for the electromagnetic case, hypersingular and strong singularities of the boundary integral operator kernels are cancelled out by considering particular combinations of the Calderón projections on the contact boundary curve. Irregular frequencies do not occur with this method. Existence and uniqueness can be established on either a single function space or on a mixed regularity solution space.