| Abstract: | A solution of the bending problem for a plate with an elliptical hole subjected to a point force (a singular solution) is obtained using the engineering theory of thin anisotropic plates and Lekhnitskii s complex potentials. The solution is constructed by conformal mapping of the exterior of the elliptical hole onto the exterior of a unit circle with evaluation of the Cauchy-type integrals over closed contours. Different versions of the boundary conditions on the holw contour are considered. In the limiting case where the ellipse becomes a slot, the solution describes the bending of a plate with a rectilinear crack or a rigid inclusion.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 144–152, January–February, 2005. |
