Green's function solution and displacement potentials for Transformed Transversely Isotropic materials

Abstract

Abstract A totally non-degenerate expression for the Green's function of infinite Transversely Isotropic (TI) materials is first deduced from the solutions given by Pan and Chou [Pan, Y.-C., Chou, T.-W., 1976. Point force solution for an infinite transversely isotropic solid. Trans. ASME, J. Appl. Mech. 43 (4), 608–612]. Then this solution and also the displacement potentials for TI materials are extended by a linear transformation to a larger family of anisotropic materials (Transformed Transversely Isotropic or TraTI materials). This family depends on 12 independent parameters and contains non-orthotropic materials and in this way a first explicit analytical solution for the Green's function for a non-orthotropic material is obtained. The TraTI materials which have orthotropic Symmetry (StraTI materials) constitute a sub-family depending on 6 independent parameters in the symmetry basis of the material. These materials present a 3D anisotropy (different stiffnesses in three orthogonal directions). General displacement potentials and the Green's function solution for STraTI materials can be deduced by a simple change and introducing one additional parameter in the well-known TI solutions.