On a displacement-based solution to an antiplane crack problem for inhomogeneous anisotropic elastic materials (Q644736)

This paper employs a displacement-based method to examine the antiplane crack problem for an inhomogeneous elastic material in which elastic moduli vary continuously with spatial coordinates. Expressions for crack tip stress intensity factors and for the crack displacement are obtained in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. Numerical results are obtained for some particular inhomogeneous elastic materials. The results indicate how the inhomogeneity may be used to reduce both the stress intensity factors and the crack displacement.