The present paper is concerned with the plane strain problem in homogeneous micropolar orthotropic elastic solids. The disturbance due to continuous normal and tangential sources are investigated by employing eigenvalue approach. The integral transforms have been inverted by using a numerical technique to obtain the normal displacement, normal force stress and tangential couple stress in the physical domain. The expressions of these quantities are given and illustrated graphically.
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