Showing papers in "International Journal of Solids and Structures in 1985"

TL;DR: In this article, a pseudotraction technique is presented for the calculation of the stress and strain fields in a linearly elastic homogeneous solid which contains any number of defects of arbitrary shape.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a virtual work-type formulation of the problem in an attempt to analytically predict the growth of ovalization for tubes cycled in pure bending.

TL;DR: In this article, an iterative procedure based on the fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration formula is used to generate a family of non-dimensionalized postbuckling solutions of von Karman's nonlinear plate theory.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical and experimental investigation has been undertaken to study the processes of perforation at normal incidence of thin, soft aluminum plates by hard-steel cylindroconical projectiles of 30° half-cone angle.

TL;DR: In this paper, the state of stress in a thin elastic plate which contains through-cracks is studied with a view toward assessing the influence of transverse shear on the crack tip stress and deformation fields.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the correct set of boundary conditions for arbitrarily prescribed admissible edge data (without an explicit solution of the inner (or boundary layer) solution) for a number of special cases of general interest, including cases with displacement edge-data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a model medium in which only the density varies and established bounds of Hashin-Shtrikman type for the eigenvalues of its combined transform, when the transform variables are real.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of pin elasticity, friction, and clearance on the stresses near the hole in a pin-loaded orthotropic plate are modeled as a contact elasticity problem using complex variable theory, the pin and the plate being two elastic bodies interacting through contact.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the stress fields when a spheroidal inclusion, free to slip along its interface, is subjected to a constant nonshear eigenstrain, and when an elastic body containing the inhomogeneity is under all-around tension or uniaxial tension at infinity.

TL;DR: In this article, the problem of large isotropic deformation of composite materials and porous media consisting of a finitely deforming elastic matrix and spherical inclusions or voids was analyzed exactly on the basis of the composite spheres assemblage model.

TL;DR: In this article, three-dimensional elastic interactions between a half-plane crack and sources of internal stress such as transformation strains and dislocations are analyzed, including the stress intensity factors induced along the crack front by the source and the overall energy change and stress field induced in the source region owing to the presence of the crack.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the case where the displacement field is discontinuous and/or the stress field results in unreciprocated tractions, at a finite number of surfaces ('interelement boundaries') in a domain.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental and theoretical investigation of moisture effects in graphite/epoxy composites is presented, where exposure of antisymmetric cross-ply laminates to various levels of fixed and fluctuating humidity and measurements of the resulting, time-dependent curvatures are compared with computed values based upon linear elasticity and linear, Theologically simple, viscoelasticity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rigid cylindrical inclusion is modeled as a field of distributed forces which represent the normal and shear tractions that act on the inclusion-elastic medium interface.

TL;DR: The behavior of a uniform beam moving longitudinally at a prescribed rate over two bilateral supports is studied in this paper, and the instability of harmonic longitudinal motion is investigated, and methods are presented for predicting whether or not a given motion will give rise to an unstable response.

TL;DR: In this article, a class of plastic constitutive equations which show one-to-one correspondence between plastic strain increment dϵp and stress increment do is proposed from the viewpoint of tensor algebra.

TL;DR: In this paper, simple and double limit points are treated in some detail and numerical algorithms are presented and applied to elastic shell stability problems, with applications to nonsymmetric bifurcation from axisymmetric states of deformation of shells of revolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the strain energy density of a shell is the same as that of a plate of the same material under the assumption that the shell is described by the change in the first and second fundamental forms of its midsurface from an initially elastic isotropic state.

TL;DR: In this article, a thermodynamic model is presented for predicting the thermomechanical response, including temperature change, in a uniaxial bar composed of a thermoviscoplastic metallic medium.

TL;DR: In this paper, an elastic halfplane is subjected to a uniform pressure over part of its surface, and a normal edge crack is assumed to lie at the edge of the loaded region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the stability of solutions to the plane-strain problem of an incompressible isotropic elastic material subject to in-plane dead-load tractions are considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the statical behavior of a long-span cable-stayed bridge with fan scheme was examined by means of a suitable continuous model, where the given solution of the statics basic equations of the model focalizes a prevailing truss behaviour of the bridge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamic approach for stability analysis is used to obtain an approximate closed-form expression for the "viscoelastic critical load" of perfect columns made of a linear three-element model material.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of large deformations of straight slender in-plane beam is presented, based on the assumption of uniaxiality of the strain tensor, and the equilibrium equations are written on a deformed configuration and numerically solved for linear elastic cantilever, subjected to concentrated or distributed conservative and nonconservative loads.

TL;DR: In this article, the bending motion of the inelastic beam is put into a linear form by interpreting the nonlinear part of the operator as a fictitious temperature-moment loading, thus consistently considering the inhomogeneous character of the dynamic boundary conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, a number of kinematical approximations can be derived from the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient, including elastic deformations of a different order of magnitude than plastic deformations.

TL;DR: In this article, the contact behavior between a smooth rigid cylinder and a simply supported orthotropic beam under uniaxial initial stresses is studied, and the displacements are computed by superposing Mindlin plate solution with the solution obtained from Biot's theory of incremental deformation.

TL;DR: In this article, an elastic half-plane, subjected to loading by uniform tractions over a given length of its surface, is considered and the first quarter cycle of loading (shear tractions monotonically increased from zero) is considered.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical method for computing the tangential stress distribution in the nonelliptical contact area due to creepages during the rolling of two elastic bodies of revolution is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a perturbation technique is used to solve the nonlinear differential equation associated with the flexure of a Bernoulli-Euler beam resting on a nonlinear Winkler-type foundation.