The Stress State of an Elastic Medium with an Elliptic Crack and Two Ellipsoidal Cavities

This paper is a study into the interaction of two triaxial ellipsoidal cavities whose surfaces are under different pressures with an elliptic crack in an infinite elastic medium. The stress state in the elastic space is represented by a superposition of perturbed states due to the presence and interaction of the cavities and the crack. The exact solution of the problem is constructed by using a modified method of equivalent inclusion, the potential of an inhomogeneous ellipsoid, and a system of harmonic functions for the elliptic crack. A numerical analysis is carried out to find how the geometry of the cavities and the crack, the distance between them, and the pressure on their surfaces affect the stress intensity factors     

各向异性体内含任意孔洞对反平面波散射的边界元方法

本文借助于广义格林公式导出了用位移表示的各向异性介质中SH波入射时的边界积分方程.根据本文作者在文献[8]给出的基本解,求解了各向异性介质中孔洞对SH波的散射问题.边界积分方程的离散基于常数元模式.文中给出了一个圆柱、一个椭圆柱和两个椭圆柱形式的孔洞周围的位移场和应力场的数值结果.最后,对入射波频率较高时的情形作了说明.     

A boundary element method for calculating the SH waves scattering from arbitrarily shaped holes in an anisotropic medium

The scattering problem of elastic wave by arbitrarily shaped cavities in an infinite anisotropic medium is investigated by the boundary integral equation (BIE) method. The formulations of BIE are derived with the help of generalized Green's formula. The discretization of BIE is based upon constant elements. After confirmation of the accuracy of the present method, some numerical examples are given for various cavities in a full space, in which an isotropic body with a circular cylinder hole is used for comparison and good agreement is observed. It has been proved that the method developed in this paper is effective.     

Stress concentration around a nano-scale spherical cavity in elastic media: effect of surface stress

Influence of surface effect on stress concentration around a spherical cavity in a linearly isotropic elastic medium is studied on the basis of continuum surface elasticity. Following Goodier's work, a close form solution of the elastic field created by biaxial uniform load is presented. The stress concentration factors under different load combinations are obtained. It is concluded that consideration of surface effect leads to dependence of stress concentration factors on cavity size. Besides, numerical result indicates that stress concentration factors around the cavity are mainly affected by residual surface tension. The result is significant in the understanding of relevant mechanical phenomena in solids with nano-sized cavities.     

Elastic fields around a nanosized spheroidal cavity under arbitrary uniform remote loadings

When the size of a cavity shrinks to nanometers, surface effect plays an important role in its mechanical behavior. Based on the surface elasticity, we investigated the elastic fields around a spheroidal cavity embedded in an isotropic elastic medium subjected to arbitrary uniform loadings. Using the displacement potential functions method, we derived the general solution of elastic fields around a nanosized spheroidal cavity with surface effect. For six independent loading cases, the surface effects on the elastic fields around a cavity are presented in detail. It is shown that the elastic fields near a nanosized cavity depend not only on the shape and the size of the cavity but also on the residual surface tension and the surface elastic constants. The surface effect is different in different locations of the nanosized spheroidal cavity and under different remote loadings. The present results are clearly different from the classical ones, and are useful to the damage analysis and prediction of the effective moduli of heterogeneous materials containing nanosized cavities.     

Radial expansion of a cylindrical or spherical cavity in an infinite porous medium

A solution describing the displacement and stress fields around expanding spherical and cylindrical cavities with allowance for pore collapse is constructed using the theory of small elastic deformations of a homogeneous isotropic porous medium in closed form. Transition of the medium into a plastic state is modeled using the Tresca-Saint Venant yield condition. Porosity change is described on the basis of a mathematical model developed taking into account the increase in the stiffness of the porous material at the moment of pore collapse. It is shown that in the elastic deformation stage, the porosity does not change; an increase in the pressure leads to the formation of a region of plastic compression, in part of which, the pores collapse. Stress and displacement fields in the porous medium during unloading are constructed. It is shown that under certain conditions, the elastic unloading stage is followed by the plastic reflow stage to form a region of pore expansion. As the pressure decreases, the boundary of this region simultaneously reaches the region of plastic reflow and the region of pore collapse.     

Stress state of a piezoceramic body with a plane crack opened by a rigid inclusion

The paper establishes a relationship between the solutions for cracks located in the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic piezoceramic medium and opened (without friction) by rigid inclusions and the solutions for cracks in a purely elastic medium. This makes it possible to calculate the stress intensity factor (SIF) for cracks in an electroelastic medium from the SIF for an elastic isotropic material, without the need to solve the electroelastic problem. The use of the approach is exemplified by a penny-shaped crack opened by either a disk-shaped rigid inclusion of constant thickness or a rigid oblate spheroidal inclusion in an electroelastic medium __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 7, pp. 47–60, July 2008.     

SH波对双相介质界面附近圆形孔洞的散射

建立了求解平面SH波对双相介质界面附近圆形孔洞散射与动应力集中的一种分析方法．利用复变函数与多极坐标的方法构造了一个Green函数，它是在含有圆形孔洞的弹性半空间的水平面上任一点上作用时间谐和的出平面线源荷载的位移解．利用“契合”模型，并根据界面上位移连续性条件，建立了求解SH波对双相介质界面附近圆形孔洞散射的具有弱奇异性的第一类Fredholm型积分方程．给出了圆孔周边上动应力集中系数的表达式．作为算例，分析了在界面一侧或界面两侧附近具有圆形孔洞时SH波的散射，并讨论了入射波波数、不同的材料组合以及孔心至界面的距离对动应力集中的影响．     

Stress State of a Transversely Isotropic Medium with an Arbitrarily Oriented Spheroidal Inclusion

The stress-concentration problem for an elastic transversely isotropic medium containing an arbitrarily oriented spheroidal inclusion (inhomogeneity) is solved. The stress state in the elastic space is represented as the superposition of the principal state and the perturbed state due to the inhomogeneity. The problem is solved using the equivalent-inclusion method, the triple Fourier transform in space variables, and the Fourier-transformed Green function for an infinite anisotropic medium. Double integrals over a finite domain are evaluated using the Gaussian quadrature formulas. In special cases, the results are compared with those obtained by other authors. The influence of the geometry and orientation of the inclusion and the elastic properties of the medium and inclusion on the stress concentration is studied__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 33–40, February 2005.     

Exact Solutions for a Thick Elastic Plate with a Thin Elastic Surface Layer

A procedure has been developed in previous papers for constructing exact solutions of the equations of linear elasticity in a plate (not necessarily thin) of inhomogeneous isotropic linearly elastic material in which the elastic moduli depend in any specified manner on a coordinate normal to the plane of the plate. The essential idea is that any solution of the classical equations for a hypothetical thin plate or laminate (which are two-dimensional theories) generates, by straightforward substitutions, a solution of the three-dimensional elasticity equations for the inhomogeneous material. In this paper we consider a thick plate of isotropic elastic material with a thin surface layer of different isotropic elastic material. It is shown that the interface tractions and in-plane stress discontinuities are determined only by the initial two-dimensional solution, without recourse to the three-dimensional elasticity theory. Two illustrative examples are described.     

The shear wave diffraction on tunnel cavities in an elastic layer and a half-layer

Summary  The antiplane steady dynamic problem of the theory of elasticity for an isotropic layer and a half-layer weakened by tunnel cavities of arbitrary cross section is investigated. A radiating monochromatic shear wave (SH-wave) is considered as loading. Using the constructed Green's functions for a layer and a half- layer, the corresponding boundary problems are reduced to the Fredholm's integral equations of the second kind. The obtained algorithm is realized numerically by the quadrature method. Results specifying the influence of the openings configuration, their number and relative position, types of edge conditions and inertia effects on tangential stress concentration are given. Received 13 July 1999; accepted for publication 20 July 2000     

Simulation of partial closure of a crack-like cavity with cohesion between the faces in an isotropic medium

A mathematical model for the closure of a crack-like cavity with cohesive end zones in an isotropic medium is constructed using methods of elastic theory. It is assumed that the interaction between the surfaces of the crack-like cavity under the action of body and surface forces can lead to the formation of contact zones on their surfaces. Determination of the unknown parameters characterizing the closure of the crack-like cavity reduces to a system of singular integrodifferential equations. The integral equations are converted to a system of nonlinear algebraic equations which is solved by the method of successive approximations. The contact stresses, the interaction forces between the faces of the crack-like cavity, and the size of the contact zone in which the faces of the crack-like cavities are closed are determined.     

Stress state of a transversely isotropic piezoceramic body with a spheroidal cavity

The exact solution is found to the three-dimensional electroelastic problem for a transversely isotropic piezoceramic body with a spheroidal cavity. The solutions of static electroelastic problems are represented in terms of harmonic functions. The case of stretching the piezoceramic medium at a right angle to the spheroid axis of symmetry is analyzed numerically. The dependence of the stress concentration factor on the geometry of the spheroid and the electromechanical characteristics of the material is studied.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 92–105, November 2004.This revised version was published online in April 2005 with a corrected cover date.     

The Stress State of an Elastic Orthotropic Medium with an Ellipsoidal Cavity

The stress-concentration problem for an elastic orthotropic medium containing an ellipsoidal cavity is solved. The stress state in the elastic space is represented as a superposition of the principal state and the perturbed state due to the cavity. The equivalent-inclusion method, the triple Fourier transform in spatial variables, and the Fourier-transformed Green function for an infinite medium are used. Double integrals over a finite domain are evaluated using the Gaussian quadrature formulas. The results for particular cases are compared with those obtained by other authors. The influence of the geometry of the cavity and the elastic properties of the material on stress concentration is studied__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 93–100, March 2005.     

Decaying surface waves in inhomogeneous media

Two problems on plane decaying surface waves in an inhomogeneous medium are under consideration: the problem where the waves similar to Rayleigh waves propagate in an isotropic elastic half-space that borders with a layer of an ideal incompressible fluid and the problem where the waves similar to Love waves propagate in a semi-infinite saturated porous medium that borders with a layer of an isotropic elastic medium.     

The electroelasticity problem for piezoceramic media with bilateral hyperbolic tunnel cavities

An explicit solution of the static problem of electroelasticity is obtained for a transversally isotropic medium that contains bilateral hyperbolic tunnel cavities. It is assumed that the plane of isotropy of the medium coincides with the plane of symmetry of the medium, and also that the surfaces of the cavities are free of mechanical forces and that the normal component of the electric induction vector is equal to zero on the cavities. A uniform tensile force and difference in the electric potentials are specified at a sufficient distance from the cavities in a direction perpendicular to the plane of isotropy of the medium. A solution of the corresponding problem for a piezoceramic medium containing external bilateral rectilinear cracks is obtained as a special case. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 54–60, August, 1999.     

Vibration of an infinite inhomogeneous transversely isotropic viscoelastic medium with cylindrical hole

This paper investigates the influences of higher order viscoelasticity and the inhomogeneities of the transversely isotropic elastic parameters on the disturbances in an infinite medium, caused by the presence of a transient radial force or twist on the surface of a cylindrical hole with circular cross section. Following Voigt＇s model for higher order viscoelasticity, the nonvanishing stress components valid for a transversely isotropic and higher order viscoelastic solid medium have been deduced in terms of radial displacement component. Considering the power law variation of elastic and viscoelastic parameters, the stress equation of motion has been developed. Solving this equation under suitable boundary conditions, due to transient forces and twists, radial displacement and relevant stress components have been determined in terms of modified Bessel functions. The problem for the presence of transient radial force has been numerically analysed. Modulations of displacement and stresses due to different order of viscoelasticity and inhomogeneity have been graphically depicted. The numerical study of the disturbance caused by the presence of twist on the surface may be similarly done but is not pursued in this paper.     

On the stress state of a piezoceramic body with a flat crack under symmetric loads

A static-equilibrium problem is solved for an electroelastic transversely isotropic medium with a flat crack of arbitrary shape located in the plane of isotropy. The medium is subjected to symmetric mechanical and electric loads. A relationship is established between the stress intensity factor (SIF) and electric-displacement intensity factor (EDIF) for an infinite piezoceramic body and the SIF for a purely elastic material with a crack of the same shape. This allows us to find the SIF and EDIF for an electroelastic material directly from the corresponding elastic problem, not solving electroelastic problems. As an example, the SIF and EDIF are determined for an elliptical crack in a piezoceramic body assuming linear behavior of the stresses and the normal electric displacement on the crack surface __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 67–77, November 2005.     

Mechanics of low density materials

Mechanics analyses are used to derive the effective elastic moduli for low density materials. Both open cell and closed cell geometric models are employed in the case of isotropic media. The five independent effective moduli are derived for a low density transversely isotropic medium. Compressive strength, as defined by elastic stability, is also derived for open cell and closed cell isotropic materials. The theoretical results are compared with some experimental results, and also are assessed with respect to previous work.     

Factorization method in the geometric inverse problem of static elasticity

The factorization method, which has previously been used to solve inverse scattering problems, is generalized to geometric inverse problems of static elasticity. We prove that finitely many defects (cavities, cracks, and inclusions) in an isotropic linearly elastic body can be determined uniquely if the operator that takes the forces applied to the body outer boundary to the outer boundary displacements due to these forces is known.