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Minimization of the peak tangential stresses around a single hole in an infinite 2D elastic plate under remote pure shear and a given hole-induced strain energy level is considered as a free-shape optimization problem under a physical constraint. It is solved by combining a genetic algorithm with the almost analytical, and hence highly accurate stress-strain solver for any finitely parameterized family...