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In the first part of the article an infinite circular cylinder is considered, made of transversely isotropic elastic material and weakened by a plane crack perpendicular to its axis O z. The crack is opened by an arbitrary normal stress. The second part is devoted to the same crack loaded by an arbitrary tangential stress. The complete solution in both cases is presented as a sum of the solution of a similar problem of a crack in an infinite space and an integral transform term, the parameters of which are determined from a set of linear algebraic equations derived from the boundary conditions. Governing integral equations with respect to the yet unknown crack displacement discontinuities are obtained. In the case of a circular crack, these equations can be inverted and solved by the method of consecutive interations.
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Received 30 November 2000; accepted for publication 3 May 2001
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Fabrikant, V. A crack of arbitrary shape inside an infinite transversely isotropic cylinder under arbitrary load. Archive of Applied Mechanics 71, 807–826 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004190100170
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004190100170