“…In [2, 9-12, 15, 18], the nonsymmetric problems of elasticity and thermoelasticity for interface stress concentrators, such as cracks or rigid inclusions in piecewise-homogeneous transversely isotropic spaces, were reduced to systems of two-dimensional singular integral equations (SIE) by the method of singular integral relations (SIR) [29], and a method for their solution was proposed. A similar approach was applied in [8,13,14,[20][21][22] to solve the problems of interface and internal defects in piecewise-homogeneous anisotropic media.…”