HEAT-SOURCE-INITIATED THERMOELASTIC STATE
OF A SEMIINFINITE PLATE WITH AN EDGE CRACK

S. Ya. Matysyak,a A. A. Evtushenko,b 
and V. M. Zelenyakc

DC 539.377

A study is made of the influence of the internal heat 
source on the factors of intensity of the stresses at the tip of an 
arbitrarily oriented edge cut in a homogeneous half-plane.

aWarsaw University, Warsaw, Poland; bYa. S. Podstrigach Institute of 
Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, National Academy of 
Sciences of Ukraine, L'vov, Ukraine; Polytechnic Institute, Lodz, 
Poland; c"L'vovskaya Politekhnika" Technical 
University, L'vov, Ukraine; email: dept13@iapmm.lviv.ua. Translated 
from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 134-137, 
March-April, 2003. Original article submitted May 23, 2002; revision 
submitted August 26, 2002.