Axial symmetric stress distributions in aeolotropic hexagonal crystals. The problem of the plane and related problems

Abstract

The method of transforms (7), (2) is shown to be directly applicable to the case of axial symmetric stress distributions in hexagonal crystals. It is shown that solutions for problems of indentation of the hexagonal plane by rigid punches can be found for punches of arbitrary axial symmetric shape. Solutions are given in full for the cases of spherical, conical and circularly cylindrical punches.The same method is used to find the solutions for a material containing disk-shaped cracks between hexagonal planes and the results for the isotropic case deduced from the general solution.