Green's functions for an anisotropic thin plate with a crack or an anticrack

International Journal of Engineering Science

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 271-289

  Cheng, Zhen Qiang ^a   Reddy, J N ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic plate; Crack and anticrack (rigid line inclusion); Green function; Octet formalism; Stroh formalism

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INCLUSIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

ANTICRACKS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0242334259     PISSN: 00207225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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