Abstract: The stress and displacement continuity conditions for interfaces between two different anisotropic media were formulated in terms of the Airy stress functions of the media. It was shown that ...

Abstract: Interference of the two partially reflected light beams from the front and back surfaces of a cracked thin plexiglas plate yielded a fringe pattern, which depicted the thickness variations of ...

Abstract: A new experimental technique based on the optical method of caustics for the determination of bending moments in laterally loaded plates is developed. The method involves the direct by the ...

Abstract: The order of the elastic stress singularity developed either at the apex of an equal angle biwedge or at the vertex of a composite half plane is studied for the case when the two wedges ...

Abstract: The singular stress field at the vicinity of the apex of an elastic plane indenter of various angles compressing an elastic half plane was studied by using a complex variable technique. Three ...