Solution of St.-Venant's and Almansi-Michell's Problems

• Main Author: Placidi, Luca
• Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
• Format: Others
• Published: Virginia Tech 2014
• Subjects: Polynomial hypothesis; Saint-Venant's Problem; Linear Elasticity; Non Linear Elasticity; Stressed Reference Configuration; Clebsch hypothesis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35451; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10212002-043618/

We use the semi-inverse method to solve a St. Venant and an Almansi-Michell problem for a prismatic body made of a homogeneous and isotropic elastic material that is stress free in the reference configuration. In the St. Venant problem, only the end faces of the prismatic body are loaded by a set of self-equilibrated forces. In the Almansi-Michell problem self equilibrated surface tractions are also applied on the mantle of the body. The St. Venant problem is also analyzed for the following two cases: (i) the reference configuration is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure, and (ii) stress-strain relations contain terms that are quadratic in displacement gradients. The Signorini method is also used to analyze the St. Venant problem. Both for the St. Venant and the Almansi-Michell problems, the solution of the three dimensional problem is reduced to that of solving a sequence of two dimensional problems. For the St. Venant problem involving a second-order elastic material, the first order deformation is assumed to be an infinitesimal twist. In the solution of the Almansi-Michell problem, surface tractions on the mantle of the cylindrical body are expressed as a polynomial in the axial coordinate. When solving the problem by the semi-inverse method, displacements are also expressed as a polynomial in the axial coordinate. An explicit solution is obtained for a hollow circular cylindrical body with surface tractions on the mantle given by an affine function of the axial coordinate === Master of Science