PERIODIC INCLUSIONS IN ANISOTROPIC ELASTICITY

Based on Stroh formalism we derive a novel and convenient scheme for d etermining the elastic fields of periodic inclusions embedded in an an isotropic medium. The solutions are valid not only for plane problems but also for antiplane problems and the problems whose inplane and ant iplane deformations couple each other. The elastic fields in inclusion s and medium are found very simply with the help of the generalized Hi lbert boundary value method. In particular, it is found that a uniform stress state applied at infinity will induce constant states of stres ses within inclusions similar to that of only one inclusion embedded i n medium. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd