The static equilibrium of an electroelastic transversely isotropic space with a plane crack under antisymmetric mechanical loads is studied. The crack is located in the plane of isotropy. Relationships are established between the stress intensity factors (SIFs) for an infinite piezoceramic body and the SIFs for a purely elastic body with a crack of the same form under the same loads. This makes it possible to find the SIFs for an electroelastic body without the need to solve specific electroelasitc problems. As an example, the SIFs are determined for a piezoelastic body with penny-shaped and elliptic cracks under shear Keywords: piezoelectricity, plane crack, antisymmetric load, elliptic crack, stress intensity factor Introduction. Various transducers and sensors are often made of piezoelectric ceramic materials (where the mechanical and electric fields are coupled) that are highly brittle. This necessitates a detailed study of the concentration of mechanical and electric fields in piezoceramic bodies with imperfections such as cavities, inclusions, and cracks. However, solving three-dimensional problems of electroelasticity involves significant mathematical difficulties, because the original equations of electrostressed state constitute a complicated system of partial differential equations [1,4]. Plane problems of electroelasticity and magnetoelasticity were studied more fully in [2, 13, 15, 20, 21, etc.]. These studies address both the two-dimensional electroelastic state near single cavities, inclusions, and cracks and the interaction of concentrators of electric and mechanical fields. Three-dimensional problems of electroelasticity for an infinite medium with cavities, inclusions, and cracks were solved in [5-7, 10, 16, 19]. The papers [5,11,19] propose approaches to find general solutions to coupled equations of electroelasticity for a transversely isotropic body. Exact solutions to problems of electroelasticity for spheroidal cavities and inclusions were found in [6,16]. The electrostressed state and stress intensity factors (SIFs) of an infinite medium with penny-shaped and elliptic cracks were analyzed in [1, 10, 18] and [7], respectively.