Stress distribution around a circular cylindrical cavity in a prestressed plate

A system of equilibrium equations for nonthin transversely isotropic plates with a uniform prestress field is derived by expanding the unknown functions into Fourier-Legendre series. A method of finding the general solution of this system is expounded and used to determine the stress state of a plate with a circular cylindrical cavity __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 28–39, January 2008.