SOLUTIONS FOR POINT LOADS AND GENERALIZED CIRCULAR LOADS APPLIED WITHIN CROSS ANISOTROPIC MEDIA.

This paper presents solutions to the full range of load types applied to circular areas located within cross anisotropic elastic media. Point loads are considered as a special case. The five load types are: vertical force, horizontal force, moment about a horizontal axis, moment about a vertical axis, and radial shear stresses. For any particular problem the elastic medium may be in the form of a half space or a full space. In both cases integral transform techniques are used to derive general solutions for all displacement and strain components for quite general forms of distibution of the loading stresses. The solutions for point loads are relatively simple functions produced by introducing the Dirac delta function.