Thermally conductive elliptic inhomogeneities in 2D anisotropic solids

The problem of a thermally conductive elliptic hole embedded in an anisotropic thermoelastic solid under a remote uniform heat flow is considered. For the plane problem, solutions are derived by the use of an extended thermoelastic version of the Stroh formalism. The hoop stress around the elliptic hole is obtained in an explicit real form. We analyze the influence of the interior thermal conductivity and the cavity thickness on the temperature and stress on the boundary points of the hole. By comparison with the thermally insulated cavity, we show that the consideration of the interior conductivity may lead to significantly different thermomechanical behaviors. Ana Ursescu on leave from Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Calea 13 Septembrie no. 13, Bucharest, Romania.     

Two-dimensional electroelastic fundamental solutions for general anisotropic piezoelectric media

I.IntroductionDuetotheirintrinsiccouplingeffectbetweenmechanicalandelectricalfields,piezoelectricmaterialshavebeenwidelyusedintechnologyastransducersandsensorsand,morerecently,asactuatorsinsmartstructures.lnordertooptimizetheirmicrostructuresandunderstand…     

A three-dimensional inverse problem for inhomogeneities in elastic solids

The Newtonian potential is used to solve an inverse problem in which we seek the shape of an inhomogeneity in an infinite elastic matrix under uniform applied stresses at infinity such that certain stress components are uniform on the boundary of the inhomogeneity. It is shown that ellipsoids furnish the solution of this inverse problem. Exact and general expressions for the stress and displacement are given explicitly for points in the elastic matrix outside the inhomogeneity. The solution of the corresponding plane deformation problem is found as a limiting case. Several applications are presented, and results from the literature are confirmed as special cases.     

Explicit elasticity-conductivity connections for composites with anisotropic inhomogeneities

Explicit elasticity-conductivity connections for anisotropic heterogeneous materials were recently derived and verified experimentally by the present authors. The constituents were assumed isotropic, so that the overall anisotropy was due solely due to nonrandom orientations of inhomogeneities. Motivated by the materials science applications that deal with strongly anisotropic inclusions, we derive alternative elasticity-conductivity connections that cover these cases. They hold for a broad class of orientation distributions—up to three families of parallel inhomogeneities forming arbitrary angles with each other, with moderate orientation scatter allowed in each of the families. In the case of the isotropic inhomogeneities, this form has substantially better accuracy than the approximate connections derived earlier. The results are compared with experimental data on fiber-reinforced plastics. The agreement is quite good for the entire set of the effective anisotropic constants, and it is achieved without any fitting parameters.     

A state space formalism and perturbation method for generalized thermoelasticity of anisotropic bodies

A state space formalism for generalized anisotropic thermoelasticity accounting for thermomechanical coupling and thermal relaxation is developed, which includes the classical thermoelasticity as a special case. By properly grouping the field variables using matrix notations, the basic equations of thermoelasticity are formulated into a state equation and an output equation in terms of the state vector. To obtain the solution for a specific problem it suffices to solve the state equation under the prescribed conditions. For weak thermomechanical coupling an asymptotic solution can be obtained by using the method of perturbation with multiple scales. Propagation of plane harmonic thermoelastic waves in an anisotropic medium is studied within the context.     

A new look at 2-D time-domain elastodynamic Green''s functions for general anisotropic solids

2-D time-domain elastodynamic displacement Green's functions for general anisotropic solids are obtained by a new method. This method is based on the use of a cosine transform with respect to time and exponential Fourier transforms with respect to both spatial coordinates. By use of a change of variables and the homogeneity and symmetry of the problem, the inverse transforms are reduced to an integral which can be evaluated by a simple use of redidue calculus. The solutions are expressed in terms of three wave fields. The field inside a wavefront corresponds to a complex root of a polynomial of order six with real coefficients. A simple relation between the spatial and time derivatives is found, and is used to reduce the corresponding stresses to a form that is directly applicable to the boundary element method. Numerical implementations are explained in some detail and are demonstrated by three examples.     

A constitutive model for plastically anisotropic solids with non-spherical voids

Plastic constitutive relations are derived for a class of anisotropic porous materials consisting of coaxial spheroidal voids, arbitrarily oriented relative to the embedding orthotropic matrix. The derivations are based on nonlinear homogenization, limit analysis and micromechanics. A variational principle is formulated for the yield criterion of the effective medium and specialized to a spheroidal representative volume element containing a confocal spheroidal void and subjected to uniform boundary deformation. To obtain closed form equations for the effective yield locus, approximations are introduced in the limit-analysis based on a restricted set of admissible microscopic velocity fields. Evolution laws are also derived for the microstructure, defined in terms of void volume fraction, aspect ratio and orientation, using material incompressibility and Eshelby-like concentration tensors. The new yield criterion is an extension of the well known isotropic Gurson model. It also extends previous analyses of uncoupled effects of void shape and material anisotropy on the effective plastic behavior of solids containing voids. Preliminary comparisons with finite element calculations of voided cells show that the model captures non-trivial effects of anisotropy heretofore not picked up by void growth models.     

A plasticity model for pressure-dependent anisotropic cellular solids

The initial and subsequent yield surfaces for an anisotropic and pressure-dependent 2D stochastic cellular material, which represents solid foams, are investigated under biaxial loading using finite element analysis. Scalar measures of stress and strain, namely characteristic stress and characteristic strain, are used to describe the constitutive response of cellular material along various stress paths. The coupling between loading path and strain hardening is then investigated in characteristic stress–strain domain. The nature of the flow rule that best describes the plastic flow of cellular solid is also investigated. An incremental plasticity framework is proposed to describe the pressure-dependent plastic flow of 2D stochastic cellular solids. The proposed plasticity framework adopts the anisotropic and pressure-dependent yield function recently introduced by Alkhader and Vural [Alkhader M., Vural M., 2009a. An energy-based anisotropic yield criterion for cellular solids and validation by biaxial FE simulations. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 57(5), 871–890]. It has been shown that the proposed yield function can be simply calibrated using elastic constants and flow stresses under uniaixal loading. Comparison of stress fields predicted by continuum plasticity model to the ones obtained from FE analysis shows good agreement for the range of loading paths and strains investigated.     

Saint-Venant's problem with Voigt's hypotheses for anisotropic solids

We seek for a solution of Saint-Venant's problem for inhomogeneous and anisotropic materials under the assumptions, introduced by Voigt, that the stress is either constant along the axis of the cylinder or depends linearly on the axial coordinate. We first prove the uniqueness of the solution in terms of resultants, then we exhibit an explicit formula for such a solution; we show finally how Clebsch's hypothesis, that the stress vector on axial planes is parallel to the axis, is compatible with Voigt's hypotheses provided that the symmetry group of the material comprising the cylinder contains the reflections on the cross-section.     

New explicit expressions of the Hill polarization tensor for general anisotropic elastic solids

Except for particular cases, the classical expressions of the Eshelby or Hill polarization tensors, depend, respectively, on a simple or double integral for a fully anisotropic two-dimensional or three-dimensional elastic body. When the body is two-dimensional, we take advantage of Cauchy’s theory of residues to derive a new explicit expression which depends on the two pairs of complex conjugate roots of a quartic equation. If the body exhibits orthotropic symmetry, these roots are explicitly given as a function of the independent components of the elasticity tensor. Similarly, the double integral is reduced to a simple one when the body is three-dimensional. The corresponding integrand depends on the three pairs of complex conjugate roots of a sextic equation which reduces to a cubic one for orthotropic symmetry. This new expression improves significantly the computation times when the degree of anisotropy is high. For both two and three-dimensional bodies, degenerate cases are also studied to yield valid expressions in any events.     

基于奇异值分解的复模态矩阵摄动法

对非自伴随系统的振动重分析问题,提出了一种简单的通用方法。从子空间缩聚出发,基于复矩阵的奇异值分解定理,推导了同时适用于孤立 特征值,相重特征值和相近特征值三种复特征值情况的一阶和二阶摄动公式。算例表明,该方法通用性好,且具有足够的精度。     

Application of the perturbation method in mechanics of deformable solids

Although the solutions of the classical problems of continuum mechanics have been studied sufficiently well, the smallest deviations, for example, of the body boundary or of the material characteristics from the traditional values prevent one from obtaining exact solutions of these problems. In this case, one has to use approximate methods, the most common of which is the perturbation method. The problems studied in [1–6] belong to classical problems in which the perturbation method is used to study the behavior of deformable bodies. A wide survey of studies analyzing the perturbations of the body boundary shape caused by variations in its stress-strain state is given in [5, 6]. In numerous studies, it was noted that the problem on the convergence of approximate solutions and hence the studies of the continuous dependence of the solution of the original problem on the characteristics of perturbations (“imperfections”) play an important role. In the present paper, we analyze the forms of mathematical models of deformable bodies by studying whether the solution of the original problem continuously depends on the characteristics of the perturbed shape of the body boundary on which the boundary conditions are posed in terms of stresses and on the characteristics of the material properties. We use the results of this analysis to conclude that, when using the perturbation method, one should state the boundary conditions in terms of stresses on the boundary of the real body in stressed state.     

Coupled solution for anisotropic piezoelectric materials with cracks

The coupled elastic and electric fields for anisotropic piezoelectric materials with electrically permeable cracks are analyzed by using Stroh formula in anisotropic elasticity. It is shown from the solution that the tangent component of the electric field strength and the normal component of the electric displacement along the faces of cracks are all constants, and the electric field intensity and electric displacement have the singularity of type (1/2) at the crack tip. The energy release rate for crack propagation depends on both the stress intensity factor and material constants. The electric field intensity and electric displacement inside electrically permeable cracks are all constants.     

A singular perturbation analysis with applications to delay differential equations

We prove an approximation result for the solutions of a singularly perturbed, nonautonomous ordinary differential equation which has interesting applications to problems in higher dimensions. Here our result is applied to a singularly perturbed, delay differential equation with state dependent time-lags (i.e., aninfinite dimensional problem). We find a new dynamical system (also in infinite dimensions), which describes, in a certain sense, the dynamics of our delay equations for very small values of the singular parameter.     

The nonlinear analysis of elastic wave of piezoelectric crystal plate with perturbation method

When investigating or designing acoustic wave sensors, the behavior of piezoelectric devices is supposed to be linear. However, if the sensors are subjected to a strong elastic field, the amplitude of the elastic strain induced in the piezoelectric material is so large that the nonlinearity, which affects the stability and performance of the piezoelectric sensors, can no longer be ignored. In this paper, we perform a theoretical analysis on nonlinear anti-symmetric thickness vibration of thin-film acoustic wave resonators made from quartz. Using Green’s identity, under the usual approximation of neglecting higher time harmonics, a perturbation analysis is performed from which the resonator frequency–amplitude (A–F) relation is obtained. Numerical calculations are made. Furthermore, the validity of the method is examined.     

A theory of pulse propagation in anisotropic elastic solids

A theory is described for the propagation of pulses in anisotropic elastic media. The pulse is initially defined by a harmonically modulated Gaussian envelope. As it propagates the pulse remains Gaussian, its spatial form characterized by a complex-valued envelope tensor. The center of the pulse follows the ray path defined by the initial velocity direction of the pulse. Relatively simple expressions are presented for the evolution of the amplitude and phase of the pulse in terms of the wave velocity, the phase slowness and unit displacement vectors. The spreading of the pulse is characterized by a spreading matrix. Explicit equations are given for this matrix in a transversely isotropic material. The rate of spreading can vary considerably, depending upon the direction of propagation. New reflected and transmitted pulses are created when a pulse strikes an interface of material discontinuity. Relations are given for the new envelope tensors in terms of the incident pulse parameters. The theory provides a convenient method to describe the evolution and change of shape of an ultrasonic pulse as it traverses a piecewise homogeneous solid. Numerical simulations are presented for pulses in a strongly anisotropic fiber reinforced composite.