Effect of elastomer slight compressibility

This paper is concerned with the constitutive equation for slightly compressible elastic material under finite deformations. We show that material slight compressibility can be effectively taken into account in the case of high hydrostatic pressure or highly confined material. In all other situations the application of the incompressible and nearly incompressible material theories gives practically the same results. Therefore it is of interest to consider the problem in which allowing for material slight compressibility leads to results essentially different from those obtained with help of the incompressible material model. In the present paper this difference has been demonstrated for the problem of high hydrostatic pressure causing an increase of the ‘bulk’ and ‘shear’ material moduli. The behavior of a long hollow cylinder of real material under finite deformations is analyzed. The cylinder is subjected to internal pressure and axial and circular displacements at the outer surface. This problem has been solved analytically using the small parameter method. The solution obtained predicts a decrease of the axial and circular displacements of the outer surface under fixed shear (axial and circular) forces when the internal pressure is applied.     

Effects of curvilinear anisotropy on radially symmetric stresses in anisotropic linearly elastic solids

It has been known for some time that certain radial anisotropies in some linear elasticity problems can give rise to stress singularities which are absent in the corresponding isotropic problems. Recently related issues were examined by other authors in the context of plane strain axisymmetric deformations of a hollow circular cylindrically anisotropic linearly elastic cylinder under uniform external pressure, an anisotropic analog of the classic isotropic Lamé problem. In the isotropic case, as the external radius increases, the stresses rapidly approach those for a traction-free cavity in an infinite medium under remotely applied uniform compression. However, it has been shown that this does not occur when the cylinder is even slightly anisotropic. In this paper, we provide further elaboration on these issues. For the externally pressurized hollow cylinder (or disk), it is shown that for radially orthotropic materials, the maximum hoop stress occurs always on the inner boundary (as in the isotropic case) but that the stress concentration factor is infinite. For circumferentially orthotropic materials, if the tube is sufficiently thin, the maximum hoop stress always occurs on the inner boundary whereas for sufficiently thick tubes, the maximum hoop stress occurs at the outer boundary. For the case of an internally pressurized tube, the anisotropic problem does not give rise to such radical differences in stress behavior from the isotropic problem. Such differences do, however, arise in the problem of an anisotropic disk, in plane stress, rotating at a constant angular velocity about its center, as well as in the three-dimensional problem governing radially symmetric deformations of anisotropic externally pressurized hollow spheres. The anisotropies of concern here do arise in technological applications such as the processing of fiber composites as well as the casting of metals.     

Static analysis of a long and thick orthotropic circular cylindrical shell of revolution

Summary An elasticity solution has been obtained for a long, thick transversely isotropic circular cylindrical shell subjected to distributed pinch load using a set of three displacement functions. Numerical results are presented for different materials and thickness to mean radius ratios. The results obtained from this analysis have been compared with classical and first-order shear deformation shell theories of Flugge, Sanders, Love and Donnell.     

The radially nonhomogeneous elastic axisymmentric problem

The plane axisymmetric problem with axisymmetric geometry and loading is analyzed for a radially nonhomogeneous circular cylinder, in linear elasticity. Considering the radial dependence of the stress, the displacements fields and of the stiffness matrix, after a series of admissible functional manipulations, the general differential system solving the problem is developed. The isotopic radially inhomogeneous elastic axisymmetric problem is also analyzed. The exact elasticity solution is developed for a radially nonhomogeneous hollow circular cylinder of exponential Young’s modulus and constant Poisson’s ratio and of power law Young’s modulus and constant Poisson’s ratio. For the isotropic elastic axisymmetric problem, a general expression of the stress function is derived. After the satisfaction of the biharmonic equation and making compatible the stress field’s expressions, the stress function and the stress and displacements fields of the axisymmetric problem are also deduced. Applications have been made for a radially nonhomogeneous hollow cylinder where the stress and displacements fields are determined.     

Elastic thermal stresses in a hollow circular overlay/substrate system

This paper investigates the thermal elastic fields in the hollow circular overlay fully bonded to a rigid substrate, which is subjected to a temperature change. Following our previous work for a solid circular overlay/substrate system (Yuan and Yin, Mech. Res. Commun. 38, 283–287, 2011), this paper presents a closed form approximate solution to the axisymmetric boundary value problem using the plane assumption, whose accuracy is verified by the finite element models. When the inner radius is reduced to zero, the present solution recovers the previous solution. When the outer radius approaches infinite, the solution provides the elastic fields for a tiny hole in the overlay. The effects of thickness and width of the overlay are investigated and discussed. When a circular crack initiates in a solid circular overlay, the fracture energy release rate is investigated. This solution is useful for thermal stress analysis of hollow circular thin film/substrate systems and for fracture analysis of spiral cracking in the similar structures.     

Elastodynamic solution of a non-homogeneous orthotropic hollow cylinder

A theoretical method for analyzing the axisymmetric plane strain elastodynamic problem of a non-homogeneous orthotropic hollow cylinder is developed. Firstly, a new dependent variable is introduced to rewrite the governing equation, the boundary conditions and the initial conditions. Secondly, a special function is introduced to transform the inhomogeneous boundary conditions to homogeneous ones. By virtue of the orthogonal expansion technique, the equation with respect to the time variable is derived, of which the solution can be obtained. The displacement solution is finally obtained, which can be degenerated in a rather straightforward way into the solution for a homogeneous orthotropic hollow cylinder and isotropic solid cylinder as well as that for a non-homogeneous isotropic hollow cylinder. Using the present method, integral transform can be avoided and it can be used for hollow cylinders with arbitrary thickness and subjected to arbitrary dynamic loads. Numerical results are presented for a non-homogeneous orthotropic hollow cylinder subjected to dynamic internal pressure. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10172075 and 10002016)     

球面各向同性球体内的动态热应力集中

利用有限克尔变换得到了求面各向同笥球体的热冲击作用下的动态热应力解析表达式。从表达式中,可以看出球中向同性球体的动态热应力集中现象明显不同于各向同性球体。另外,所描述的动态热应力集中现象与文献「１,３」也有一定的区别。     

Internally Pressurized Radially Polarized Piezoelectric Cylinders

The piezoelectric phenomenon has been exploited in science and engineering for decades. Recent advances in smart structures technology have lead to a resurgence of interest in piezoelectricity, and in particular, in the solution of fundamental boundary-value problems. In this paper, we develop an analytic solution to the axisymmetric problem of an infinitely long, radially polarized, radially orthotropic piezoelectric hollow circular cylinder. The cylinder is subjected to uniform internal pressure, or a constant potential difference between its inner and outer surfaces, or both. An analytic solution to the governing equilibrium equations (a coupled system of second-order ordinary differential equations) is obtained. On application of the boundary conditions, the problem is reduced to solving a system of linear algebraic equations. The stress distributions in the cylinder are obtained numerically for two typical piezoceramics of technological interest, namely PZT-4 and BaTiO₃. It is shown that the hoop stresses in a cylinder composed of these materials can be made virtually uniform throughout the cross-section by applying an appropriate set of boundary conditions. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Circular crack in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric space under point forces and point charges

In this paper, two kinds of circular crack including external circular crack and penny-shaped crack in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric space are considered. Firstly, we obtain the solution to the problem of an external circular crack in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric space subjected to antisymmetric normal point forces and point charges. Based on this, the solution of one-sided loading of an external circular crack is constructed. Secondly, the real shape of an external circular crack and the opening displacement of a penny-shaped crack under an arbitrary point force and point charge are further obtained. At last, the results are presented in a graphical form. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19872060 and 69982009) and the Postdoctoral Foundation of China     

Deformation of porous Cosserat elastic bars

This paper is concerned with the linear theory of porous Cosserat elastic solids. We study the equilibrium of a cylindrical bar which is subjected to resultant forces and resultant moments on the ends, to body loads and to surface tractions on the lateral surface. The Almansi problem, where the body loads and the surface loading on the lateral surface are polynomials in the axial coordinate, is considered. The bar is made of an inhomogeneous and isotropic material whose constitutive coefficients are independent of the axial coordinate. The problem is reduced to the study of two-dimensional problems. The results are used to study two practical applications concerning the deformation of a circular rod. It is shown that a uniform pressure on the lateral surface produces an extension, a uniform change of the porosity, and a plane deformation. The bending by terminal couples produces a non-uniform variation of the porosity and a microrotation of the material particles.     

Analytical thermo-elastodynamic solutions for a nonhomogeneous transversely isotropic hollow sphere

Summary  The spherically symmetric dynamic thermoelastic problem for a special nonhomogeneous transversely isotropic elastic hollow sphere is formulated by introduction of a dependent variable and separation of variables technique. The derived solution can be degenerated into that for a homogeneous transversely isotropic hollow sphere, a nonhomogeneous isotropic hollow sphere or a solid sphere. The present method, allow to avoid integral transforms, is suited for a hollow sphere of arbitrary thickness subjected to arbitrary spherical symmetric thermal and mechanical loads, and is convenient in dealing with different boundary conditions of dynamic thermoelasticity . The numerical calculation involved is easy to be performed and its results are also presented. Received 30 October 2001; accepted for publication 21 February 2002 The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10172075 and No. 10002016)     

Exact results for the problem of a hollow sphere subjected to hydrostatic tension and made of micromorphic plastic porous material

We report an exact, analytical solution to the problem of a hollow sphere subjected to hydrostatic tension and made of ideal-plastic porous material, obeying a micromorphic model developed by Gologanu, Leblond, Perrin and Devaux (GLPD). The motivation is to find analytical solutions for simple problems that might be of interest to assess the robustness of the numerical implementation of the micromorphic model into finite element codes. We provide the details of the analytical calculations of the deformation, stress and moment distributions. We demonstrate the validity of our analytical results by comparing them to the solution of the classical problem of a hollow sphere whose matrix obeys the von Mises model, subjected to hydrostatic tension.     

Thermomagnetic viscoelastic responses in a functionally graded hollow structure

This paper presents an analytical solution for the interaction of electric potentials,electric displacements,elastic deformations,and thermoelasticity,and describes electromagnetoelastic responses and perturbation of the magnetic field vector in hollow structures(cylinder or sphere),subjected to mechanical load and electric potential.The material properties,thermal expansion coefficient and magnetic permeability of the structure are assumed to be graded in the radial direction by a power law distribution.In the present model we consider the solution for the case of a hollow structure made of viscoelastic isotropic material,reinforced by elastic isotropic fibers,this material is considered as structurally anisotropic material.The exact solutions for stresses and perturbations of the magnetic field vector in FGM hollow structures are determined using the infinitesimal theory of magnetothermoelasticity,and then the hollow structure model with viscoelastic material is solved using the correspondence principle and Illyushin’s approximation method.Finally,numerical results are carried out and discussed.     

Thermoelastic Contact of a Shroud Ring and a Cylinder under Unsteady Friction-Induced Heat Release

Mathematical formulation is performed and a solution is found for a quasi-static thermoelastic problem of contact interaction of an elastic shroud ring and a hollow circular cylinder inserted into this ring, which are compressed by a load varied along the axis of the system, under the condition of an unloaded contact over the ring surface or over the circumference contour. The radial displacements of the contact surface of the shroud ring are approximated by displacements of the surface of a long circular hollow cylinder. Unsteady friction-induced heat release caused by the action of friction forces owing to shroud ring rotation over the cylinder with a time-dependent low angular velocity is taken into account. The problem is reduced to a system of integral equations whose structure is determined by the form of thermophysical contact conditions. A numerical algorithm of the solution is proposed, and the influence of the problem parameters on the contact pressure and temperature distributions is considered. Based on an analysis of results, a conclusion is made that the character of axial variation of the compressing load has a significant effect on the distribution of contact pressure in describing the kinematic condition of interaction of bodies in accordance with Hertz’s theory.__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 161–178, July– August, 2005.     

The Pressurized Hollow Cylinder or Disk Problem for Functionally Graded Isotropic Linearly Elastic Materials

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of material inhomogeneity on the response of linearly elastic isotropic hollow circular cylinders or disks under uniform internal or external pressure. The work is motivated by the recent research activity on functionally graded materials (FGMs), i.e., materials with spatially varying properties tailored to satisfy particular engineering applications. The analog of the classic Lamé problem for a pressurized homogeneous isotropic hollow circular cylinder or disk is considered. The special case of a body with Young"s modulus depending on the radial coordinate only, and with constant Poisson"s ratio, is examined. It is shown that the stress response of the inhomogeneous cylinder (or disk) is significantly different from that of the homogeneous body. For example, the maximum hoop stress does not, in general, occur on the inner surface in contrast with the situation for the homogeneous material. The results are illustrated using a specific radially inhomogeneous material model for which explicit exact solutions are obtained. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Axisymmetric smooth contact for an elastic isotropic infinite hollow cylinder compressed by an outer rigid ring with circular profile

A contact problem for an infinitely long hollow cylinder is considered. The cylinder is compressed by an outer rigid ring with a circular profile. The material of the cylinder is linearly elastic and isotropic. The extent of the contact region and the pressure distribution are sought. Governing equations of the elasticity theory for the axisymmetric problem in cylindrical coordinates are solved by Fourier transforms and general expressions for the displacements are obtained. Using the boundary conditions, the formulation is reduced to a singular integral equation. This equation is solved by using the Gaussian quadrature. Then the pressure distribution on the contact region is determined. Numerical results for the contact pressure and the distance characterizing the contact area are given in graphical form. The English text was polished by Yunming Chen     

Mindlin??s Problem for a Halfspace Indented by a Flexible Plate

The paper deals with a contact problem for an isotropic elastic halfspace indented by a flexible circular plate and simultaneously subjected to a Mindlin-type axial force. The approach adopted is to solve the contact problem for the flexible circular plate and the elastic halfspace; this serves as the auxiliary solution to examine, via the Maxwell-Betti reciprocal theorem, the influence of the internal Mindlin force. The contact between the flexible plate and the elastic halfspace is solved using a variational approach. The net displacement of the flexible circular plate and the internal Mindlin force can be evaluated in analytical form. The result has applications to the in situ evaluation of the deformability characteristics of geologic media.     

Propagation of discontinuities in electromagneto generalized thermoelasticity in cylindrical regions

In this work we study wave propagation for a problem of an infinitely long solid conducting circular cylinder whose lateral surface is traction free and subjected to known surrounding temperatures in the presence of a uniform magnetic field in the direction of the axis. The problem is in the context of generalized magneto-thermo-elasticity theory with one relaxation time. Laplace transform techniques are used to derive the solution in the Laplace transform domain. The inversion process is carried out using a numerical method based on Fourier series expansions. Wave propagation in the elastic medium and in the free space, bounding it, is investigated.     

Steady diffusion of an ideal fluid through a pre-stressed and reinforced hollow conduit subjected to combined finite deformations

A problem dealing with the radial steady diffusion of an ideal fluid through a pre-stressed fibrous hollow cylinder subjected to finite deformations is investigated. Such a problem has relevance to several technical problems such as: (a) improving the method for performing prosthesis conduit for use with living tissue, (b) more understanding the problem of atherogenesis, and (c) ultra filtration process. The numerical results show that the presence of a pre-stress reduces considerably the sensitivity of the dimensionless trans-mural pressure to imposed dimensionless flux. This effect is confirmed with respect to the variation of the circular and axial shear.     

Stress-strain state of a flexible spherical shell with an eccentric circular hole

The stress-strain state of thin flexible spherical shells weakened by an eccentric circular hole is analyzed. The shells are made of an isotropic homogeneous material and subjected to internal pressure. A problem formulation is given, and a method of numerical solution with allowance for geometrical nonlinearity is outlined. The distribution of displacements, strains, and stresses along the hole boundary and in the region of their concentration is examined. The data obtained are compared with numerical solutions of the linear problem. The stress-strain state around the eccentric circular hole is analyzed with allowance for geometrical nonlinearity __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 10, pp. 92–98, October 2007.