THE DISTURBANCE OF A UNIFORM HEAT FLOW BY TWO LINE CRACKS IN AN INFINITE ANISOTROPIC THERMOELASTIC SOLID

Integral transform techniques are used to determine the stress intensity factors of a pair of colinear line cracks that disturb a uniform heat flow in an anisotropic thermoelastic solid that is under uniaxial tension. A solution is given for the case in which the tension is large enough to ensure that the cracks open fully.