Singularities in Elliptic Boundary Value Problems and Elasticity and Their Connection with Failure Initiation

This introductory and self-contained book gathers as much explicit mathematical results on the linear-elastic and heat-conduction  solutions in the neighborhood of singular points in two-dimensional domains, and  singular edges and vertices in three-dimensional domains. These are presented in an  engineering terminology for practical usage. The author treats the mathematical   formulations from an engineering viewpoint and presents high-order finite-element  methods