The state of stress in an elastic plane wedge under the action of a couple concentrated at the vertex becomes unbounded everywhere as soon as the angle between the two straight edges assumes value of 257024/. This unexpected behavior of the elastic solution is known as Carothers's paradox. The paradox, however, occurs also for a larger class of plane regions and not only for the simple angle.
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