An edge dislocation in a three-phase composite cylinder model with a sliding interface

An exact elastic solution is derived in a decoupled manner for the interaction problem between an edge dislocation and a three-phase circular inclusion with circumferentially homogeneous sliding interface. In the three-phase composite cylinder model, the inner inclusion and the intermediate matrix phase form a circumferentially, homogeneous sliding interface, while the matrix and the outer composite phase form a perfect interface. An edge dislocation acts at an arbitrary point in the intermediate matrix. This three-phase cylinder model can simultaneously take into account the damage taking place in the circumferential direction at the inclusion-matrix interface and the interaction effect between the inclusions. As an application, we then investigate a crack interacting with the slipping interface.