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Comninou formulation in used for analysing two-dimensional interface crack problem for anisotropic bodies. As in the isotropic case, the authors demonstrate that, by properly incorporating contact zones at the crack tips, it is possible to avoid contradictions associated with the oscillating behavior of physical and mechanical characteristics leading to the overlapping of materials. Special integral representation for displacement field is used to reduce the problem to a scalar singular integral equation. By comparing the results of previous authors, it is found that integral equations governing the interface crack problem both in the isotropic and anisotropic case, are similar from theoretical and numerical points of view. Additionally, in the anisotropic case the authors describe some interesting new effects concerning the stress intensity factor. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0940.00032].