Asymptotic justification of the intrinsic equations of Koiter's model of a linearly elastic shell

We show that the intrinsic equations of Koiter's model of a linearly elastic shell can be derived from the intrinsic formulation of the three-dimensional equations of a linearly elastic shell, by using an appropriate a priori assumption regarding the three-dimensional strain tensor fields appearing in these equations. To this end, we recast in particular the Dirichlet boundary conditions satisfied by any admissible displacement field as boundary conditions satisfied by the covariant components of the corresponding strain tensor field expressed in the natural curvilinear coordinates of the shell. Then we show that, when restricted to strain tensor fields satisfying a specific a priori assumption, these new boundary conditions reduce to those of the intrinsic equations of Koiter's model of a linearly elastic shell.     

Boundary conditions in intrinsic nonlinear elasticity

The intrinsic formulation of the displacement-traction problem of nonlinear elasticity is a system of partial differential equations and boundary conditions whose unknown is the Cauchy–Green strain tensor field instead of the deformation as is customary. We explicitly identify here the boundary conditions satisfied by the Cauchy–Green strain tensor field appearing in such intrinsic formulations.     

Une approche intrinsèque d'un modèle non linéaire de la théorie des coques

We consider the model of a nonlinearly elastic “shallow” shell proposed by L.H. Donnell, V.Z. Vlasov, K.M. Mushtari & K.Z. Galimov, and W.T. Koiter. We show that the linearized change of curvature and nonlinear strain tensor fields appearing in the energy of this model can be taken as the sole unknowns of the problem, instead of the displacement field as is customary. In order to justify this “intrinsic approach” to this nonlinear model, we identify nonlinear compatibility conditions that these new unknowns must satisfy. These conditions are of Donati type, in the sense that they take the form of integral orthogonality relations against divergence-free tensor fields.     

Mixed boundary-value problems of thermoelasticity for anisotropic-in-plan inhomogeneous toroidal shells

Problems of thermoelasticity for an anisotropic-in-plan inhomogeneous thin toroidal shell are solved by asymptotic integration of the equations of the three-dimensional problem of the theory of an anisotropic inhomogeneous solid for various boundary conditions. Recurrence formulae are derived for the components of the asymmetric stress tensor and the displacement vector. An example is given.     

On the boundary transmission problem of thermoelastostatics in a plane domain with interface corners

This paper deals with bimetal problems of thermoelastostatics. By means of an explicit particular solution a reduction to problems of elastostatics is given. An indirect boundary integral method is applied for solving the traction boundary value problem. The solution is represented by a potential of single layer type having Green's contact tensor as the kernel. Thus, from the first the transmission conditions are satisfied. The Fredholm property of the boundary integral operator as well as the asymptotics of the potential density at an interface corner depend on the symbol of a Mellin convolution operator. The singular functions at corners can be obtained by calculating the potential for terms in the asymptotic expansion of the density.     

The effective boundary conditions and their lifespan of the logistic diffusion equation on a coated body

We consider the logistic diffusion equation on a bounded domain, which has two components with a thin coating surrounding a body. The diffusion tensor is isotropic on the body, and anisotropic on the coating. The size of the diffusion tensor on these components may be very different; within the coating, the diffusion rates in the normal and tangent directions may be in different scales. We find effective boundary conditions (EBCs) that are approximately satisfied by the solution of the diffusion equation on the boundary of the body. We also prove that the lifespan of each EBC, which measures how long the EBC remains effective, is infinite. The EBCs enable us to see clearly the effect of the coating and ease the difficult task of solving the PDE in a thin region with a small diffusion tensor. The motivation of the mathematics includes a nature reserve surrounded by a buffer zone.     

Spline collocation for strongly elliptic equations on the torus

Summary We prove convergence and error estimates in Sobolev spaces for the collocation method with tensor product splines for strongly elliptic pseudodifferential equations on the torus. Examples of applications include elliptic partial differential equations with periodic boundary conditions but also the classical boundary integral operators of potential theory on torus-shaped domains in three or more dimensions. For odd-degree splines, we prove convergence of nodal collocation for any strongly elliptic operator. For even-degree splines and midpoint collocation, we find an additional condition for the convergence which is satisfied for the classical boundary integral operators. Our analysis is a generalization to higher dimensions of the corresponding analysis of Arnold and Wendland [4].     

Haar wavelet discretization approach for frequency analysis of the functionally graded generally doubly-curved shells of revolution

This paper aims to investigate the free vibrational analysis of the generally doubly-curved shells of revolution made of functionally graded (FG) materials and constrained with different boundary conditions by means of an efficient, convenient and explicit method based on the Haar wavelet discretization approach. The FG materials of the shell consist of a combination of ceramic and metal, which four parameter power-law distribution functions have chosen for modeling of the smoothly and gradually variation of the material properties in the thickness direction. The theoretical model of the shell is formulated by employing of the first-order shear deformation theory. The rotation and displacement components of each point of the shell are expanded in the form of product of the Haar wavelet series in meridional direction as well as trigonometric series in the circumferential direction. By adding the boundary condition equations to the main system of equations, the constants appeared from the integrating of the Haar wavelet series are satisfied. In addition, with solving the characteristic equation, the vibrational results including the natural frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes are achieved. Then, the present results have been compared with those available in the literature. The results indicate that this method has high accuracy, high reliability and also a higher convergence rate in attaining the frequencies of the FG doubly-curved shells of revolution. Also, the effects of the main parameters such as power-law exponent, geometrical parameters, material distribution profiles and different types of boundary conditions, on the vibrational behavior of the FG doubly-curved shells of revolution, are investigated. Finally, taking into account the effects of geometrical parameters and material distribution profiles, for FG doubly-curved shells of revolution with different boundary conditions such as classic, elastic restraints and their combination, a variety of new frequency studies are provided which can be considered as proof results for further researches in this field.     

On conformal Killing symmetric tensor fields on Riemannian manifolds

A vector field on Riemannian manifold is called conformal Killing if it generates oneparameter group of conformal transformation. The class of conformal Killing symmetric tensor fields of an arbitrary rank is a natural generalization of the class of conformal Killing vector fields, and appears in different geometric and physical problems. In this paper, we prove that a trace-free conformal Killing tensor field is identically zero if it vanishes on some hypersurface. This statement is a basis of the theorem on decomposition of a symmetric tensor field on a compact manifold with boundary to a sum of three fields of special types. We also establish triviality of the space of trace-free conformal Killing tensor fields on some closed manifolds.     

Sparse Data Representation of Random Fields

Mathematical models with uncertainties are often described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. The coefficients, the right-hand side, the boundary conditions are modelled by random fields. As a result the solution is also a random field. We offer to use the Karhunen-Loève expansion (KLE) to compute a sparse data format for the fast generation and representation of these random fields. The KLE of a random field requires the solution of a large eigenvalue problem. Usually it is solved by a Krylov subspace method with a sparse matrix approximation. We demonstrate the use of both, the sparse hierarchical matrix format as well as the low-rank Kronecker tensor format. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Methods of solving spatial problems of the mechanics of a deformable solid in terms of stresses

The formulation in /1/ of a quasistatic problem of the mechanics of a deformable solid in terms of stresses is discussed, including also the variational formulation, which consists of solving six equations in six symmetric stress tensor components when six boundary conditions are satisfied. Methods of successive approximation are proposed for solving this problem and theorems on the convergence of these methods, including a “rapidly converging” method, whose rate of convergence is substantially higher than a geometric progression, are proved.     

Generic Local Uniqueness and Stability in Polarization Tomography

The problem of polarization tomography is considered on a Riemannian manifold. This problem comes from the physical problem of recovering the anisotropic part of the dielectric permittivity tensor of a quasi-isotropic medium from polarization measurements made around the boundary, but is more general. In greater than three dimensions local uniqueness and stability are established for generic background metrics, and near generic tensor fields through the study of a related linear inverse problem. The same results are established on a natural subspace of tensor fields in dimension three.     

Asymptotic expansions of stress tensor for linearly elastic shell

In this paper, the asymptotic expansions of stress tensor for linearly elastic shell have been proposed by new asymptotic analysis method, which is different from the classical asymptotic analysis. The new asymptotic analysis method has two distinguishing features: one is that the displacement is expanded with respect to the thickness variable of the middle surface not to the thickness; another is that the first order term and the second order term of the displacement variable can be algebraically expressed by the leading term. To decompose stress tensor totally into 2-D variable and thickness variable, we have three steps: operator splitting, variables separation and dimension splitting. In the end, a numerical experiment of special hemispherical shell by FEM (finite element method) is provided. We derive the distribution of displacements and stress fields in the middle surface.     

Kreiss symmetrizer and boundary conditions for the Euler-Korteweg system in a half space

The Euler-Korteweg system is a third order, dispersive system of PDEs, obtained from the standard Euler equations for compressible fluids by adding the so-called Korteweg stress tensor - encoding capillarity effects. Various results of well-posedness have been obtained recently for the Cauchy problem associated with the Euler-Korteweg system in the whole space. As to mixed problems, with initial and boundary value data, they are still mostly open. Here the linearized Euler-Korteweg system is studied in a half space by the use of normal mode analysis, which yields a generalized Kreiss-Lopatinski? condition that must be satisfied by the boundary conditions for the boundary value problem to be well-posed.Conversely, under the uniform Kreiss-Lopatinski? condition, generalized Kreiss symmetrizers are constructed in one space dimension for an extended system originally introduced for the Cauchy problem, which displays crucial quasi-homogeneity properties. A priori estimates without loss of derivatives are thus derived, and finally the well-posedness of the mixed problem is obtained by combining the estimates for the pure boundary value problem and trace results for solutions of the pure Cauchy problem.     

Un théorème d'existence pour une coque non linéairement élastique ≪ en flexion ≫

We establish an existence theorem for the two-dimensional equations of a nonlinearly elastic “flexural” shell, recently justified by V. Lods and B. Miara by the method of formal asymptotic expansions applied to the corresponding three-dimensional equations of nonlinear elasticity. To this end, we show that the associated energy has at least one minimizer over the corresponding set of admissible deformations. The strain energy is a quadratic expression in terms of the “exact” change of curvature tensor, between the deformed and undeformed middle surfaces; the set of admissible deformations is formed by the deformations of the undeformed middle surface that preserve its metric and satisfy boundary conditions of clamping or simple support.     

The Axisymmetric Deformation of a Thin,or Moderately Thick,Elastic Spherical Cap

A refined shell theory is developed for the elastostatics of a moderately thick spherical cap in axisymmetric deformation. This is a two-term asymptotic theory, valid as the dimensionless shell thickness tends to zero.The theory is more accurate than “thin shell” theory, but is still much more tractable than the full three-dimensional theory. A fundamental difficulty encountered in the formulation of shell (and plate) theories is the determination of correct two-dimensional boundary conditions, applicable to the shell solution, from edge data prescribed for the three-dimensional problem. A major contribution of this article is the derivation of such boundary conditions for our refined theory of the spherical cap. These conditions are more difficult to obtain than those already known for the semi-infinite cylindrical shell, since they depend on the cap angle as well as the dimensionless thickness. For the stress boundary value problem, we find that a Saint-Venant-type principle does not apply in the refined theory, although it does hold in thin shell theory. We also obtain correct boundary conditions for pure displacement and mixed boundary data. In these cases, conventional formulations do not generally provide even the first approximation solution correctly. As an illustration of the refined theory, we obtain two-term asymptotic solutions to two problems, (i) a complete spherical shell subjected to a normally directed equatorial line loading and (ii) an unloaded spherical cap rotating about its axis of symmetry.     

Killing tensor fields on the 2-torus

A symmetric tensor field on a Riemannian manifold is called a Killing field if the symmetric part of its covariant derivative equals zero. There is a one-to-one correspondence between Killing tensor fields and first integrals of the geodesic flow which depend polynomially on the velocity. Therefore Killing tensor fields relate closely to the problem of integrability of geodesic flows. In particular, the following question is still open: does there exist a Riemannian metric on the 2-torus which admits an irreducible Killing tensor field of rank ≥ 3? We obtain two necessary conditions on a Riemannian metric on the 2-torus for the existence of Killing tensor fields. The first condition is valid for Killing tensor fields of arbitrary rank and relates to closed geodesics. The second condition is obtained for rank 3 Killing tensor fields and pertains to isolines of the Gaussian curvature.     

Comparative analysis of two algorithms for numerical solution of nonlinear static problems for multilayer anisotropic shells of revolution. 1. Account of transverse shear

The discussion focuses on two numerical algorithms for solving the nonlinear static problems of multilayer composite shells of revolution, namely the algorithm based on the discrete orthogonalization method and the algorithm based on the finite element method with a local linear approximation in the meridian direction. The material of each layer of the shell is assumed to be linearly elastic and anisotropic (nonorthotropic). A feature of this approach is that the displacements of the face surfaces of the shell are chosen as unknown functions, i.e., the functions which allows us to formulate the kinematic boundary conditions on these surfaces. As an example, a cross-ply cylindrical shell subjected to uniform axisymmetric tension is considered. It is shown that the algorithms elaborated correctly describe the local distribution of the stress tensor over the shell thickness without an expensive software based on the 3D anisotropic theory of elasticity.Tambov State Technical University, Tambov, Russia. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 347–358, May–June, 1999.     

The Propagator of a Massive Field of Spin s = 2 in the Anti-de Sitter Space

We construct the propagator of the massive tensor field of the second rank on the Euclidean continuation of the anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. We find the explicit expression for the propagator in the limit where the field takes values at the boundary of the AdS space. We show that the limiting expression yields the correct Green's function and two-point correlation function of the boundary conformal field theory, as predicted by the AdS/CFT correspondence hypothesis. We thus obtain one more piece of evidence in favor of the interpretation of operators of the boundary conformal field theory as certain limits of quantum fields propagating in the AdS space.     

On magnetoelastic problems of a plane with an arbitrarily shaped hole under stress and displacement boundary conditions

An analytical method for the static plane problem of magnetoelasticityis developed for an infinite plane containing a hole of arbitraryshape under stress and displacement boundary conditions in aprimary uniform magnetic field. The magnetic field influencesthe elastic field by introducing a body force called the Lorentzponderomotive force in the equilibrium equations. The body forcecan be further described in a form relating with the electromagneticstress tensor. The complex variable method in conjunction withthe rational mapping function technique is used in the analysisfor both magnetic field and mechanical field. Governing equationsand boundary conditions are expressed in terms of complex functions.Complex magnetic potential and stress functions are obtainedusing Cauchy integrals for the paramagnetic and soft ferromagneticmaterials, respectively. The distributions of magnetic fieldand the stress components are shown for certain directions ofprimary magnetic fields in an infinite plane with a square hole,as an example. It is found that the stress distributions forthe two types of materials are identical despite the differenceof magnetic fields. The extreme cases of a free and a fixedhole reduced to a crack and a rigid fibre, respectively, arealso investigated. The stress intensity factors at the tipsof crack and rigid fibre are computed, and their variation forcertain directions of primary magnetic field is shown.