The Stress Boundary Value Problem for an Ideal Fibre-reinforced Rectangular Plate with a Hole

The title problem is examined for plane deformations of an idealfibre-reinforced rectangular plate with a hole. The solutionis found to depend on simultaneous ordinary differential equationswhich may be integrated without difficulty. This is in markedcontrast with the corresponding problems for an anisotropicelastic body and enables approximate solutions for stronglyanisotropic bodies to be derived without difficulty. The particularcases of a line crack in the plate at an angle to the fibresand an arbitrary symmetrical hole are examined in detail.