The problem of the simple smooth crack in an infinite anisotropic elastic medium

The problem of the simple smooth curvilinear crack in an infinite anisotropic elastic medium under conditions of generalized plane stress or plane strain and under the supposition that the plane of the problem is a plane of elastic symmetry of the anisotropic medium is reduced to a complex Cauchy-type singular integral equation along the crack together with a condition of single-valuedness of displacements around the crack by using the complex potentials technique. Application to the case of a straight crack is also given.