The method of analytic continuation and Schwarz-Neumann’s alternating technique were applied to the thermoelastic interaction problems of singularities and interfaces in an anisotropic “trimaterial,” which denotes an infinite body composed of three dissimilar materials bonded along two parallel interfaces. It was assumed that the linear thermoelastic materials are under general plane deformations in which the plane of deformation is perpendicular to the planes of the two parallel interfaces. The author then showed that by alternately applying the method of analytic continuation across two parallel interfaces the solution for the thermoelastic singularities in an anisotropic trimaterial can be obtained in a series form from a solution for the same singularities in a homogeneous anisotropic medium.

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