Singularities of the stress concentration in the presence of $C^{1,\alpha}$-inclusions with core-shell geometry

Abstract

In high-contrast composites, if an inclusion is in close proximity to the matrix boundary, then the stress, which is represented by the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} systems of linear elasticity, may exhibits the singularities with respect to the distance $\varepsilon$ between them. In this paper, we establish the asymptotic formulas of the stress concentration for core-shell geometry with $C^{1,\alpha}$ boundaries in all dimensions by precisely capturing all the blow-up factor matrices, as the distance $\varepsilon$ between interfacial boundaries of a core and a surrounding shell goes to zero. Further, a direct application of these blow-up factor matrices gives the optimal gradient estimates.