Bending‐free lattices as underlying optimal isotropic microstructures of the least‐compliant two‐dimensional elastic bodies

Author(s):  
Sławomir Czarnecki ◽  
Tomasz Łukasiak
1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sackfield ◽  
D. A. Hills

An analysis is presented of the stresses induced by sliding between two bodies having different elastic constants. It is assumed that the bodies are plane (i.e., two dimensional), are symmetrical with respect to a line perpendicular to the plane of contact, and are smooth and continuous. It is shown that a careful choice of profile leads to a better load carrying capacity than for a Hertzian contact, but that the severity of the stresses induced is greater than for uncoupled sliding, i.e., where the bodies have similar elastic constants.


1969 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Blackketter ◽  
H. D. Christensen

A method is presented for determining the contact stress distribution between two two-dimensional finite elastic bodies with general surface configurations. The bodies treated are nearly rectangular with surfaces which deviate from the rectangular shape by a small amount. The approximate method used involves a solution to the partial differential equations of elasticity for surface load expressed in terms of a trigonometric series. The coefficients of the trigonometric series are evaluated by enforcement of the appropriate constraint conditions. Experimental and theoretical stress distributions are compared and are in good agreement.


1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
P S Theocaris ◽  
N I Ioakimidis

The optical method of caustics constitutes an efficient experimental technique for the determination of quantities of interest in elasticity problems. Up to now, this method has been applied only to two-dimensional elasticity problems (including plate and shell problems). In this paper, the method of caustics is extended to the case of three-dimensional elasticity problems. The particular problems of a concentrated force and a uniformly distributed loading acting normally on a half-space (on a circular region) are treated in detail. Experimentally obtained caustics for the first of these problems were seen to be in satisfactory agreement with the corresponding theoretical forms. The treatment of various, more complicated, three-dimensional elasticity problems, including contact problems, by the method of caustics is also possible.


1998 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 580-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chyanbin Hwu ◽  
C. W. Fan

In this paper, a two-dimensional contact problem of two dissimilar anisotropic elastic bodies is studied. The shapes of the boundaries of these two elastic bodies have been assumed to be approximately straight, but the contact region is not necessary to be small and the contact surface can be nonsmooth. Base upon these assumptions, three different boundary conditions are considered and solved. They are: the contact in the presence of friction, the contact in the absence of friction, and the contact in complete adhesion. By applying the Stroh’s formalism for anisotropic elasticity and the method of analytical continuation for complex function manipulation, general solutions satisfying these different boundary conditions are obtained in analytical forms. When one of the elastic bodies is rigid and the boundary shape of the other elastic body is considered to be fiat, the reduced solutions can be proved to be identical to those presented in the literature for the problems of rigid punches indenting into (or sliding along) the anisotropic elastic halfplane. For the purpose of illustration, examples are also given when the shapes of the boundaries of the elastic bodies are approximated by the parabolic curves.


Author(s):  
T. T. C. Ting

As a starter for anisotropic elastostatics we study special two-dimensional deformations of anisotropic elastic bodies, namely, antiplane deformations. Not all anisotropic elastic materials are capable of an antiplane deformation. When they are, the inplane displacement and the antiplane displacement are uncoupled. The deformations due to inplane displacement are plane strain deformations. Associated with plane strain deformations are plane stress deformations. After defining these special deformations in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 we present some basic solutions of antiplane deformations. They provide useful references for more general deformations we will study in Chapters 8, 10, and 11. The derivation and motivation in solving more general deformations in those chapters become more transparent if the reader reads this chapter first. The solutions obtained in those chapters reduce to the solutions presented here when the materials are restricted to special materials and the deformations are limited to antiplane deformations. In a fixed rectangular coordinate system xi (i=1, 2, 3), let ui, σij, and εij be the displacement, stress, and strain, respectively. The strain-displacement relations and the equations of equilibrium are . . .εij = 1/2 (ui,j + uj,i),. . . . . . (3.1 -1) . . . . . .σij,j =0,. . . . . . (3.1 - 2). . . in which repeated indices imply summation and a comma stands for differentiation. The stress-strain laws for an anisotropic elastic material can be written as σij = Cijks εks or εij = Sijksσks, . . .(3.1 - 3). . . where Cijks and Sijks are, respectively, the elastic stiffnesses and compliances.


1983 ◽  
Vol 50 (4b) ◽  
pp. 1152-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yih-Hsing Pao

Research contributions over the past 50 years on the theory and analysis of elastodynamics are reviewed in this paper. Major topics reviewed are: general theories, steady-state waves in waveguides, transient waves in layered media, diffraction and scattering, and one and two-dimensional theories of elastic bodies. A brief discussion on the direct and inverse problems of elastic waves completes this review.


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