The stability of a circumferential crack in a pipe II. A simple procedure for determining the effective pipe length

A simple procedure is currently used to determine the effective pipe length associated with the instability of circumferential crack growth in a piping system. This procedure involves a separation of the complete piping system into two elastic parts at the cracked cross-section, the application of equal and opposite moments M to the cut faces, and the equation of the effective pipe length with $\text{El∥φ∥}\text{M}$ where φ is the rotational discontinuity generated at this section, E is Young's modulus and I is the second moment of area of the pipe at the cracked section. It is presumed that the pipe-ends remain fixed, i.e. they are built-in, throughout this operation. This paper shows that this procedure refers to the stability of a crack in a piping system which is subject to either a fixed displacement or a fixed rotation at a built-in end. The viability of the simple procedure is therefore underscored by the present paper's analysis.     

The bending of elastic circular ring of non-homogeneous and variable cross section under the actions of arbitrary loads

On the basis of the stepped reduction method suggested in [1], we investigate the problem of the bending of elastic circular ring of non-homogeneous and variable cross section under the actions of arbitrary loads. The general solution of this problem is obtained so that it can be used for the calculations of strength and rigidity of practical problems such as arch, tunnel etc. In order to examine results of this paper and explain the application of this new method, an example is brought out at the end of this paper. Circular ring and arch are commonly used structures in engineering. Timoshenko, S.^[2], Barber, J. R.^[3], Tsumura Rimitsu^[4] et al. have studied these problems of bending, but, so far as we know, it has been solely restricted to the general solution of homogeneous uniform cross section ring. The only known solution for the problems with variable cross section ones has been solely restricted to the solution of special case of flexural rigidity in linear function of coordinates. On account of fundamental equations of the non-homogeneous variable cross section problem being variable coefficients, it is very difficult to solve them. In this paper, we use the stepped reduction method suggested in [1] to transform the variable coefficient differential equation into equivalent constant coefficient one. After introducing virtual internal forces, we obtain general solution of an elastic circular ring with non-homogeneity and variable cross section under the actions of arbitrary loads.     

Application of a discrete polycrystal model to the analysis of cyclic straining in copper

A discrete polycrystal model, designed to simulate a metal aggregate macro-element, is applied to the study of cyclic straining in copper. The numerical method of solution (an adaptation of the “finite element method”) incorporates a convergent discrete Green's function within the constrained minimum principle which governs the (crystallographic) plastic shear increments at each load step. Isothermal elastic moduli of copper crystals and Taylor's hardening rule with constant hardening modulus are used in the calculations. Numerical results are obtained for macroscopic elastic properties, cyclic stress-strain curves (which indicate the contribution of aggregate heterogeneity to macroscopic hardening), macroscopic plastic work, and residual (latent) strain energy through four loading cycles between fixed macrostrain limits. Other estimates for elastic properties also are included, and all results are compared, both qualitatively and quantitatively, with published experiments. The predictions of the model are in general satisfactory.     

The warping functions of regular prismatic bars under torsion evaluated by caustics

Reflection of a bundle of coherent light on the warped cross section of a prismatic bar submitted to torsion forms a caustic on a receiver plane. From the mathematical expression of this curve and the theory of reflected caustics, it is possible to evaluate accurately the warping function of the cross section. Using this idea, it was possible to study the torsion problem in prismatic bars with sections which were equilateral triangles and squares. It was observed that the shape of the caustic is an hypocycloid curve with three or four cusps respectively. By evaluating the warping function by using elements from the respective caustics it was possible to find out that, for the triangular cross section, the expression for the warping function coincided exactly with the expression given by the exact solution of the problem. For the square cross section, a closed-form solution for its warping function was readily derived, to which the series approximation solution differed only by a few percent at maximum for the shear stresses. Since the method can be readily extended to any canonical polygonic cross section, it constitutes a general solution for the torsion of prismatic bars, which approximates their exact deformations better than the solutions based on the Saint-Vénant assumptions.     

Helical flows with multiple circulation in channels of simple shape

A general solution is obtained for the problem of the helical motion of an incompressible liquid along a channel with a cross section in the shape of an annular sector or a triangle. The possible use of the solutions so obtained in order to describe secondary flows with repeated circulation in channels of simple shape (ring, circle, square, rhomb, rectangle, equilateral triangle) is demonstrated. The theory is in agreement with experiment. In one particular setting, problems as to the helical motion of an ideal incompressible liquid in channels of simple configuration were solved in [1, 2]. In this paper flows of a more general form with repeated circulation are considered, several vortices occurring inside the tube cross section.Deceased.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR. Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 32–38, March–April, 1973.     

Some analytical solutions for Saint-Venant torsion of non-homogeneous anisotropic cylindrical bars

The Saint-Venant torsion of linearly elastic anisotropic cylindrical bars with solid and hollow cross-section is treated. The shear flexibility moduli of the non-homogeneous bar are given functions of the Prandtl's stress function of considered cylindrical bar when its material is homogeneous. The solution of the torsion problem of non-homogeneous anisotropic bar is expressed in terms of the torsion and Prandtl's stress functions of the corresponding homogeneous anisotropic bar having the same cross-section as the non-homogeneous bar.     

Longitudinal free vibration of inhomogeneous elastic straight strut with a variable cross section

The scope of the present article, motivated by the case of the composite wooden propeller of an airplane, is to deal tentatively with the longitudinal free vibrationproblem of an elastic straight bar with a more general mathematical treatment.In this analysis, we have assigned to the modulus of elasticity, the bar cross section as well as the mass per unit length of the bar an exponential function variation, and then found a general solution, wherein three parameters were considered as the main factors to affect the longitudinal free vibration of the inhomogeneous elastic straight bar with a variable cross section.     

Finite-element formulations for problems of large elastic-plastic deformation

An Eulerian finite element formulation is presented for problems of large elastic-plastic flow. The method is based on Hill's variational principle for incremental deformations, and is ideally suited to isotropically hardening Prandtl-Reuss materials. Further, the formulation is given in a manner which allows any conventional finite element program, for “small strain” elastic-plastic analysis, to be simply and rigorously adapted to problems involving arbitrary amounts of deformation and arbitrary levels of stress in comparison to plastic deformation moduli. The method is applied to a necking bifurcation analysis of a bar in plane-strain tension.The paper closes with a unified general formulation of finite element equations, both Lagrangian and Eulerian, for large deformations, with arbitrary choice of the conjugate stress and strain measures. Further, a discussion is given of other proposed formulations for elastic-plastic finite element analysis at large strain, and the inadequacies of some of these are commented upon.     

Effect of CNT length and CNT-matrix interphase in carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced composites

The load transfer mechanisms and effective moduli of single-walled nanotube (SWNT) reinforced composites are studied using a continuum model. A “critical” fiber length is defined for full load transfer by numerically evaluating the strain-energy-changes for different fiber lengths. The effective longitudinal Young’s modulus and bulk modulus of the composite are derived. The effect of the interphase is also discussed. The results indicate the fiber length is critical both to the load transfer efficiency and effective moduli of the composite. The SWNT-matrix interphase plays an important role in load transfer efficiency but affects the effective moduli only slightly.     

Il'iushin's postulate and resulting thermodynamic conditions on elasto-plastic coupling

Il'iushin's postulate is restated within a general thermodynamic strain space formulation of rate independent plasticity by means of plastic internal variables. This yields a general expression in terms of appropriate thermodynamic potentials. A combination of a thermodynamic condition, derived from the general development, with the results of Il'iushin's postulate, furnishes explicit conditions on elasto-plastic coupling. A specific example is presented, with the plastic work being the only plastic internal variable. Necessary and sufficient consitbns on the elastic moduli and their change with plastic deformation are derived, for the thermodynamic condition to be satisfied.     

Bending analysis of thin functionally graded plates using generalized differential quadrature method

In this paper, the differential quadrature (DQ) method is presented for easy and effective analysis of isotropic functionally graded (FG) and functionally graded coated (FGC) thin plates with constant Poisson’s ratio and varying Young’s modulus in the thickness direction. The bending of FG and FGC plates under transverse loading has been studied using the polynomial differential quadrature (PDQ) and the harmonic differential quadrature (HDQ) methods. A three-dimensional elasticity solution for a moderately thick FG plate with exponential Young’s modulus is used as the benchmark. Two examples, including a thin FG rectangular plate and a thin FGC rectangular plate with sigmoidal Young’s modulus, are investigated. The numerical results of PDQ and HDQ methods reveal good agreement with other solutions. Also, it is shown that the formulations for thin FG plates and homogeneous plates are similar, except that the plane strain components of the middle surface in FG plates are not zero.     

Extremum principles for certain hyperelastic materials

A hyperelastic material is here said to be of class H_m if the elastic potential is a homogeneous function of order m + 1 in the components of the Lagrangian displacement gradient. It is shown that a single solution to a boundary value problem generates an infinite family of solutions to a family of related boundary value problems. Assuming that a solution to a boundary value problem exists, it is shown that it is unique provided that the material is stable in the sense of Hill in a deleted neighbourhood of the stress-free state. A minimum theorem concerning the strain energy and the virtual work of the prescribed forces is established for the equilibrium configurations, and a maximum theorem concerning the virtual work of the prescribed surface displacements and the complementary stress energy is established for compatible stress fields. As an application, upper and lower bounds are found for the torsional stiffness of a cylindrical bar of square cross section under infinitesimal deformation.     

The viability of a simple procedure for determining the criterion for the instability of circumferential growth of a through-wall crack in a stainless steel piping system, Part 2: The applied displacements produce bending and tensile deformation

Against the background of the technological problem of integranular stress corrosion cracking of Type 304 stainless steel Boiling Water Reactor piping systems, the stability of a circumferential through-wall crack is examined, for the case where the cracked section is at a position where the pipe enters a larger component. The paper presents a general methodology for determining the instability criterion for fixed displacement loadings, which are appropriate for an accident condition, the criterion being expressed in terms of the applied and material tearing moduli, or equivalently in terms of an effective pipe length. The methodology is applied to models which simulate bends in a piping system, and general conclusions are drawn with regards to the effect of pipe bends on crack instability.     

Deformation of a Peridynamic Bar

The deformation of an infinite bar subjected to a self-equilibrated load distribution is investigated using the peridynamic formulation of elasticity theory. The peridynamic theory differs from the classical theory and other nonlocal theories in that it does not involve spatial derivatives of the displacement field. The bar problem is formulated as a linear Fredholm integral equation and solved using Fourier transform methods. The solution is shown to exhibit, in general, features that are not found in the classical result. Among these are decaying oscillations in the displacement field and progressively weakening discontinuities that propagate outside of the loading region. These features, when present, are guaranteed to decay provided that the wave speeds are real. This leads to a one-dimensional version of St. Venant's principle for peridynamic materials that ensures the increasing smoothness of the displacement field remotely from the loading region. The peridynamic result converges to the classical result in the limit of short-range forces. An example gives the solution to the concentrated load problem, and hence provides the Green's function for general loading problems.     

A damage model for concrete beams in compression

A usual class of phenomenological “1 − d” damage models is revisited: starting from experimental observations showing that the Young’s and tangent moduli evolve linearly during a compression test on concrete, an appropriate expression for the damage threshold is obtained, which differs from the usual ones. The linear variation of the moduli with respect to the strain variation allows to simplify the incremental equilibrium equations and to improve the accuracy of the simulation.     

时变固体力学的黏弹性解

基于时变力学的对应性原理,建立一种黏弹性时变力学的一般性解法,适用于一类时变力学问题的求解。     

The buckling load of an elastically supported cantilevered column with continuously varying cross section and distributed axial load

Summary The solution for the buckling load of an elastic supported cantilevered column with continuously varying cross section and distributed axial load is developed. Boundary conditions are formulated for fixed and elastic support. The critical loads are tabled for an usual variation in cross section and axial load distribution as function of the ratio between respectively rigidities and axial forces at fixed and free end, the variation of the rigidity and axial forces given by their degrees of the polynomial variation and rotation stiffness of the elastic support.

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Übersicht Es wird die Knicklast für eine elastisch gelagerte, freitragende Säule mit stetig veränderlichem Querschnitt und stetig verteilter Axiallast berechnet. Die Randbedingungen sind für feste sowie für elastische Lagerung formuliert worden. Für einen übliczen Bereich von Querschnitten und Axiallasten werden die kritischen Lasten in Tabellen angegeben. Dabei wurde das Verhältnis zwischen der Steifigkeit und den Axiallasten am festen und freien Ende variiert.

     

Full-Field Strain Measurement and Identification of Composites Moduli at High Strain Rate with the Virtual Fields Method

The present paper deals with full-field strain measurement on glass/epoxy composite tensile specimens submitted to high strain rate loading through a split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) device and with the identification of their mechanical properties. First, the adopted methodology is presented: the device, including an Ultra-High Speed camera, and the experimental procedure to obtain relevant displacement maps are described. The different full-field results including displacement, strain and acceleration maps for two mechanical tests are then addressed. The last part of the paper deals with an original procedure to identify stiffnesses on this dynamic case only using the actual strain and acceleration maps (without the applied force) by using the Virtual Fields Method. The results provide very promising values of Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio on a quasi-isotropic glass-epoxy laminate. The load reconstructed from the moduli and strains compares favourably with that from the readings.     

Stationary flow of a conducting liquid in a rectangular channel with two nonconducting walls and two walls having an arbitrary conductivity parallel to an external magnetic field

The flow of a conducting liquid in a channel of rectangular cross section with two walls (parallel to the external magnetic field) having an arbitrary conductivity, the other two being insulators, is considered. The solution of the problem is presented in the form of infinite series. The relationships obtained are used for numerical calculations of the velocity distribution and the distribution of the induced magnetic field over the cross section for several modes of flow.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkostt i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 46–52, September–October, 1970.     

Second-order solution of Saint-Venant's problem for an elastic bar predeformed in flexure

We use the method of Signorini's expansion to analyze the Saint-Venant problem for an isotropic and homogeneous second-order elastic prismatic bar predeformed by an infinitesimal amount in flexure. The centroid of one end face of the bar is rigidly clamped. The complete solution of the problem is expressed in terms of ten functions. For a general cross-section, explicit expressions for most of these functions are given; the remaining functions are solutions of well-posed plane elliptic problems. However, for a bar of circular cross-section, all of these functions are evaluated and a closed form solution of the 2nd-order problem is given. The solution contains six constants which characterize the second-order flexure, bending, torsion and extension of the bar. It is found that when the total axial force vanishes, the second-order axial deformation is not zero; it represents a generalized Poynting effect. The second-order elasticities affect only the second-order axial force.