“…This approach was developed by Shatskii (1989), Shatsky (1998), Liu et al (1999), Shat'skyi and Perepichka (2004), Shats'kyi and Makoviichuk (2005), Shatskyi et al (2017) to study the behavior of closable cracks under combined tension and bending. Certain problems for arrays of rectilinear contact cracks in plates and shells have been solved in the papers by Shatskii (1990Shatskii ( , 1991, Shatsky (1998), Perepichka (1998), Shats'kyi and Dalyak (2000), Perepichka and Shats'kyi (2002), Dalyak (2004Dalyak ( , 2019, Opanasovych and Selivestrov (2006), Opanasovych et al (2008), Shats'kyi and Makoviichuk (2009), Shatskii and Makoviichuk (2011), Syasky and Muzychuk (2012), Dovbnya and Shevtsova (2014), Shats'kyi (2015), Dovbnya and Hryhorchuk (2016), Opanasovych and Slobodyan (2018). In the article by Shats'kyi and Dalyak (2002), the elastic equilibrium of the bent plate containing the rectilinear cracks, connected with coaxial slits, was addressed.…”