On interface crack in laminated anisotropic medium

In this paper\ the interface crack problems of a multilayered anisotropic medium under a state of generalized plane deformation are considered within the framework of anisotropic theory[ A general solution procedure is introduced such that it can be uniformly applied to media with transversely isotropic\ ortho! tropic\ monoclinic\ etc[ layers[ The problem is reduced to the solution of a system of singular integral equations by means of Fourier transform method and the sti}ness matrix formulation[ A Jacobi polynomial technique is then used to solve the integral equations numerically[ The stress intensity factors are provided[ The stress intensity factors have been calculated numerically and displayed graphically