Stability of flow of a nonlinear viscous power-law hardening medium in a deformable channel

A dynamical model of flow of a nonlinear viscous power-law hardening medium in a cylindrical deformable channel is considered. The flow and deformation are axisymmetric. Stationary solutions and their stability with respect to small perturbations are studied. Stability domains are found in the space of dimensionless parameters.     

Local flows of a deformable damageable medium under impact interaction with a cavitating fluid

Local viscoplastic-flow and damage processes in a deformable medium induced by the collapse of dispersed vapor-gas bubbles in the near-wall layer of a cavitating fluid in the presence of propagating shock waves are investigated. The study is based on a generalized model developed for describing nonlinear deformations and flow of damageable media and on the results obtained earlier for local fluid flows induced by limiting transitions of vapor-gas bubbles.     

Coupled seismic vibrations of a pipeline in an infinite elastic medium

The exact solution of the problem of coupled seismic vibrations of an underground pipeline and an infinite elasticmediumis given. A method dramatically simplifying the solution of the exterior problem for themedium is proposed on the basis of the established theorem on the separation of the boundary conditions for the wave potentials on the surface of the cylinder. The obtained results permit improving the incorrect consideration of the problem accepted in the literature.     

2-D hydro-viscoelastic model for convective drying of deformable and unsaturated porous material

The aim of this work was to simulate in two dimensions the spatio-temporal evolution of the moisture content, the temperature, the solid (dry matter) concentration, the dry product total porosity, the gas porosity, and the mechanical stress within a deformable and unsaturated product during convective drying. The material under study was an elongated cellulose–clay composite sample with a square section placed in hot air flow. Currently, this innovative composite is used in the processing of boxes devoted to the preservation of heritage and precious objects against fire damage and other degradation (moisture, insects, etc.). A comprehensive and rigorous hydrothermal model had been merged with a dynamic linear viscoelasticity model based on Bishop's effective stress theory, assuming that the stress tensor is the sum of solid, liquid, and gas stresses. The material viscoelastic properties were measured by means of stress relaxation tests for different water contents. The viscoelastic behaviour was described by a generalized Maxwell model whose parameters were correlated to the water content. The equations of our model were solved by means of the ‘COMSOL Multiphysics’ software. The hydrothermal part of the model was validated by comparison with experimental drying curves obtained in a laboratory hot-air dryer. The simulations of the spatio-temporal distributions of mechanical stress were performed and interpreted in terms of material potential damage. The sample shape was also predicted all over the drying process.     

Stress and pressure fields around two wellbores in a poroelastic medium

The problem of two circular wellbores of different size in a poroelastic medium is considered in the present work. The constitutive behaviour of the poroelastic medium is assumed to comply with the classical Biot model for isotropic porous materials infiltrated by compressible fluid. The wellbores are assumed infinitely long and the fluid flow is taken stationary, thus making it possible to perform a plane strain analysis. Owing to the geometrical layout of the system, bipolar cylindrical coordinates have been adopted. Three different sets of BCs on the pressure field and on the fluid flux have been considered, founding the corresponding forms of the pressure field. Based on Helmholtz representation, a displacement potential has been introduced, and the corresponding stress field in the poroelastic medium has been assessed. However, such a solution does not satisfy the BCs at the edges of the wells. Then, an auxiliary stress function, which allows accomplishing the BCs, is introduced, leading to the complete solution of the problem. The cases of two coaxial wellbores (eccentric annulus), a single hole bored in a poroelastic half plane and two intersecting holes have been considered also. The proposed approach allows evaluating the pore pressure and the stress and strain fields in the system varying the amplitude of the wells and the physical parameters of the porous material. In particular, the evaluation of the peak values of the stress components around the circular boreholes plays a key role in a variety of engineering contexts, with particular reference to the stability analysis of wellbores and tunnels and failure of vascular vessels in biological tissues.     

A method for computing the stress fields in a deformable elastic half-space with a polysynthetic twin near the surface

The problem of computing the stress fields around a polysynthetic twin near the surface under the action of a lumped or distributed load on the boundary of an elastic half-space is solved without using the thin twin approximation. It is found that the action of external stresses leads to the stress redistribution such that the stress localization is observed not only in the region of the external load action but also far from the vertices of the twins of the polysynthetic twin.     

On the penetration of nonaxisymmetric bodies into a deformable solid medium and their shape optimization

We consider the problem of penetration of rigid pyramidal bodies (impactors) into a strained medium in the case of large speeds of penetration and estimate the depth of the impactor penetration. To this end, we use the two-stage penetration model proposed by Forrestall. We state the shape optimization problem for the penetrating body, which is based on the consideration of a set of bodies of pyramidal external shape with given fixed mass. We study both solid and hollow (shell-shaped) bodies. For the optimization functional we take the penetration depth of the penetrating body, and for the projection variable we take the number of faces of the pyramidal body. We present the results of computations of the penetration depth for different shapes of the impactor and show that, both for shells and solid impactors, the bodies of the shape of a circular cone are optimal. The problems of high-speed penetration of rigid bodies into a deformable medium are nowadays very topical problems [1] which have been studied by Russian and foreign authors [2–8].     

Coupled analysis of elastic plate-infinite nonhomogeneous layered medium

The static interaction problem between an elastic plate and infinite medium is studied by the semi-numerical (in one direction) and semi-analytical (in two directions) method-semianalytical element method, a simple practical and effective method for coupled analysis between above-ground structure and infinite soil medium with complex material character in engineering.     

A hyperbolic mathematical modeling for describing the transition saturated/unsaturated in a rigid porous medium

This work proposes a mathematical model to study the filling up of an unsaturated porous medium by a liquid identifying the transition from unsaturated to saturated flow and allowing a small super saturation. As a consequence the problem remains hyperbolic even when saturation is reached. This important feature enables obtaining numerical solution for any initial value problem and allows employing Glimm’s scheme associated with an operator splitting technique for treating drag and viscous effects. A mixture theory approach is used to build the mechanical model, considering a mixture of three overlapping continuous constituents: a solid (porous medium), a liquid (Newtonian fluid) and a very low-density gas (to account for the mixture compressibility). The constitutive assumption proposed for the pressure gives rise to a continuous function of the fluid fraction. The complete solution of the Riemann problem associated with the system of conservation laws, as well as four examples, considering all the four possible connections, namely, 1-shock/2-shock, 1-rarefaction/2-rarefaction, 1-rarefaction/2-shock and 1-shock/2-rarefaction are presented.     

Far fields of internal gravitywaves generated by a perturbation source in a stratified rotating medium

The problem of constructing uniform asymptotics for the far fields of internal gravity waves generated by a moving source of perturbations in flow of a finite-depth stratified rotating medium is considered. The solutions obtained describe the wave perturbations both inside and outside the wave fronts and can be expressed in terms of the Airy function and its derivatives. Numerically calculated wave patterns of the excited wave fields are presented.     

Inverse three-dimensional elasticity theory problem for an isotropic medium with A deformable inclusion

Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 26, No. 11, pp. 44–49, November, 1990.     

Onset of residual stress fields near solitary spherical inclusions in a perfectly elastoplastic medium

When computing residual stresses in deformable solids, one has to use the theory of elastoplastic solids, because the final level and distribution of residual stresses is determined exactly by the accumulated reversible strains. In turn, to compute the elastic strains, one needs to determine the displacement field. The problem of determining displacements in statically determinate problems of the theory of perfect elastoplastic solids was considered for the first time in [1, 2]. The techniques proposed there permitted solving the problem of finding the residual stresses near a cylindrical cavity in a perfectly elastoplastic medium [3]. It was shown that secondary plastic flow [4] may arise in the unloading processes, which significantly redistributes the final residual stresses. In the present paper, we consider the loading and unloading problems for a ball with a rigid or elastic spherical inclusion. We study the onset of secondary plastic flow under unloading and compute the residual stresses. Thus, we model the onset of the residual stress field near a more rigid inhomogeneity. The case of a softer inhomogeneity was essentially considered in [3], where the onset of the residual stress field near a continuity flaw was studied.     

A mixture theory analysis for the surface-wave propagation in an unsaturated porous medium

The mixture theory is employed to the analysis of surface-wave propagation in a porous medium saturated by two compressible and viscous fluids (liquid and gas). A linear isothermal dynamic model is implemented which takes into account the interaction between the pore fluids and the solid phase of the porous material through viscous dissipation. In such unsaturated cases, the dispersion equations of Rayleigh and Love waves are derived respectively. Two situations for the Love waves are discussed in detail: (a) an elastic layer lying over an unsaturated porous half-space and (b) an unsaturated porous layer lying over an elastic half-space. The wave analysis indicates that, to the three compressional waves discovered in the unsaturated porous medium, there also correspond three Rayleigh wave modes (R1, R2, and R3 waves) propagating along its free surface. The numerical results demonstrate a significant dependence of wave velocities and attenuation coefficients of the Rayleigh and Love waves on the saturation degree, excitation frequency and intrinsic permeability. The cut-off frequency of the high order mode of Love waves is also found to be dependent on the saturation degree.     

Coupled fields of two-dimensional anisotropic magneto-electro-elastic solids with an elliptical inclusion

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