Elastostatic Green's functions for an arbitrary internal load in a transversely isotropic bi-material full-space

The problem of a full-space which is composed of two half-spaces with different transversely isotropic materials with an internal load at an arbitrary distance from the interface is considered. By virtue of Hu-Nowacki-Lekhnitskii potentials, the equations of equilibrium are uncoupled and solved with the aid of Hankel transform and Fourier decompositions. With the use of the transformed displacement- and stress-potential relations, all responses of the bi-material medium are derived in the form of line integrals. By appropriate limit processes, the solution can be shown to encompass the cases of (i) a homogeneous transversely isotropic full-space, and (ii) a homogeneous transversely isotropic half-space under arbitrary surface load. As the integrals for the displacement- and stress-Green's functions, for an arbitrary point load can be evaluated explicitly, illustrative results are presented for the fundamental solution under different material anisotropy and relative moduli of the half-spaces and compared with existing solutions. (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.