BRIEF NOTES Thermoelastic Green's Functions for Plane Problems in General Anisotropy

A major contribution to the study of general anisotropic elasticity was made by Eshelby et al. (1953), who showed that, by making an appropriate linear transformation of the coordinate axes, the governing equations of the plane problem could be reduced to Laplacian form, thus permitting solutions to be written down in terms of analytic functions of the complex variable. This method was elaborated by Stroh (1958), who also gave the solutions for a plane dislocation and for a Griffith crack perturbing an otherwise uniform tensile stress. Eshelby and Stroh's method was extended to plane thermoelasticity by Clements (1973). The results were used by Atkinson and Clements (1977) to treat the Griffith crack problem with heat flow.