“…The study of a cracked elastic plate subjected to thermal stresses due to surface cooling and heating have been considered (Nied, 1983(Nied, , 1987Lam et al, 1992;Fan and Yu, 1992;Rizk, 1993;Rizk and Radwan, 1993;Rizk, 2004Rizk, , 2005. Crack problems in multi-layered materials under thermal loading have also been investigated by many researchers (Rizk and Erdogan, 1989;Erdogan and Rizk, 1992;Itou and Rengen, 1993;Choi et al, 1995Choi et al, , 1998Ikeda and Sun, 2001;Choi, 2003;Itou, 2004;Rizk, 2008).…”