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Solution of Boundary Value Problems in Plane Strain

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THIS method replaces direct solutions of the Airy relation by, in effect, linear combinations of solutions of this equation for the edge dislocation. So far its use has been investigated only in connexion with the stress fields of dislocations in finite bodies; it may well be that it is useful in other connexions as well.

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LOUAT, N. Solution of Boundary Value Problems in Plane Strain. Nature 196, 1081–1082 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1961081a0

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