Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the fact that the routine application of Saint-Venant’s principle in the solution of elasticity problems involving highly anisotropic or composite ...

Abstract: A study of boundary-layer stress singularities in multilayered fiber-reinforced composite laminates is presented. Based on Lekhnitskii’s stress potentials and the theory of anisotropic elasticity, ...

Abstract: Boundary-layer effects in composite laminates are considered. Based on the theory of anisotropic elasticity and Lekhnitskii’s complex-variable stress function formulation, the exact laminate elasticity ...

Abstract: The buckling of a thin, elastic ring confined in an elliptical hole whose circumference is smaller than that of the ring is studied. The effect of post-buckling slippage of the ring along ...

Abstract: The fundamental nature of an interface crack between dissimilar, strongly anisotropic composite materials under general loading is studied. Based on Lekhnitskii’s stress potentials and anisotropic ...

Abstract: A study of an interlaminar crack between dissimilar, anisotropic composites under mixed-mode loading is presented. Based on the theoretical development in [1], the problem is modeled by using a ...