Published Online: Mar 31, 2018
Page range: 81 - 90
Received: Mar 15, 2017
Accepted: Jun 25, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auom-2018-0004
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We consider an anti-plane crack in a bone, considered as an initially deformed orthotropic, linear elastic composite material. Elastic incremental fields in the composite material are obtained following theories of Guz’s representation and of Riemann-Hilbert problem. Critical values of crack propagation angle are determined using Sih’s generalized criterion.