Influence of elastic properties on the stress state of a nonthin transversely isotropic plate with a circular hole.

The paper outlines a method for constructing the general analytic solution to the system of equilibrium equations of nonthin transversely isotropic plates. The method uses the Fourier-Legendre series expansion of the unknown functions with respect to the thickness coordinate. The stress state near a circular hole in a nonthin plate subject to tensile and shear stresses at infinity is analyzed [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]