Abstract
The analysis of crack problems in plane elasticity has intrigued mathematicians for nearly sixty years. Inglis [1] found the solution for a single crack in an infinite sheet with the use of elliptic coordinates. Since then, many mathematical approaches with wide ranges of sophistication have been applied to a variety of crack configurations and loading conditions. It is easy to appreciate the mathematical interest in a problem area in which solution techniques span such diverse topics as analytic function theory, integral equations, transform methods, conformal mapping, boundary collocation, finite differences, finite elements, asymptotic methods, etc.
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