Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
The elastic plane strain Green's function calculated in earlier papers is modified to account for generalized plane strain and applied to calculating the stress and the displacement field in a bimaterial composite containing a free surface normal to the interface and subjected to an out-of-plane load. The result is obtained in terms of a closed integral representation which is evaluated numerically as well as analytically. The method is applied to a cubic solid containing a Σ-5 grain boundary and to fiber-reinforced laminated composites. The singularities in the stress are identified and discussed.