On the complete system of fundamental solutions for anisotropic slices and slabs: A comparison by use of the slab analogy (Q1060589)

It is well known that a ''one to one'' analogy (slab analogy) exists for all steps of the formulation of plane-elasticity and slab-deflection problems. The object of this paper is to reveal this analogy also for the most important statical and geometrical singularities and for the fundamental solutions which depict the influence of the singularities on the elastic state of deformation, with special emphasis on anisotropic material. Therefore state variables, differential equations, singularities and elastic constants of both problems are composed systematically and compared with each other, and it is shown in which way the fundamental solutions of the first problem change into those of the second.