End effects for plane deformations of an elastic anisotropic semi- infinite strip (Q1898357)

The authors study the end effects for plane deformations of an elastic anisotropic semi-infinite strip. In the linear theory of elasticity, the Saint-Venant's principle is used to justify the neglect of edge effects when determining the stresses in a body. For isotropic materials, the validity of this principle is well established. However, for anisotropic and composite materials, experimental results have shown that the edge effects may persist much farther into the material than for isotropic materials, and as a result, cannot be neglected. This paper further examines the effects of material anisotropy on exponentially decay rate for stresses in a semi-infinite elastic strip. This work is quite interesting and may find several readers working in the area of anisotropic elasticity.