Abstract: | By applying the improved theory of plates, which makes it possible to determine all components of the stress tensor, we study the stressed state of glass disks under axisymmetric bending. We obtain a closed-form solution of the corresponding boundary-value problem for systems of singularly perturbed equations. It is shown that the size of the zone of pure bending-the domain with uniformly stretched surface-differs from those known in the literature. The results obtained make it possible to determine the optimal geometric parameters of the punch-glass disk-support system in strength testing of the glass by the method of axisymmetric bending.Translated fromMatematicheskie Metody i Fiziko-Mekhanicheskie Polya, Issue 34, 1991, pp. 73–79. |