EXTERNAL CIRCULAR CRACK UNDER ARBITRARY SHEAR LOADING

An exact closed form solution in terms of elementary functions has bee n obtained to the governing integral equation of an external circular crack in a transversely isotropic elastic body. The crack is subjected to arbitrary tangential loading applied antisymmetrically to its face s. The recently discovered method of continuity solutions was used her e. The solution to the governing integral equation gives the direct re lationship between the tangential displacements of the crack faces and the applied loading. Now a complete solution to the problem, with for mulae for the field of all stresses and displacements, is possible.