Elastic reciprocity and symmetry constraints on the stress field due to a surface-parallel distribution of dislocations

Elastic reciprocity and geometric symmetry are used to constrain the expressions for stresses due to introduction of line dislocations near a half-space surface. Specifically, a relationship is shown to exist between the changes induced by dislocations of orthogonal Burgers vectors (normal and parallel to the free surface). These results are used to address inconsistencies of solutions in the literature. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.