PSEUDOTENSOR FORMULATION OF THE MECHANICS OF HEMITROPIC MICROPOLAR MEDIA

Abstract

The possibility of applications of relative tensors concepts to the mechanics of micropolar continuum and, in particular, for the hemitropic micropolar continua is considered. The fundamental tensors and orienting relative scalars in three-dimensional space are introduced. Permutation symbols and absolute Levi-Civita tensors are investigated in further details. Algebraic and differential properties of the relative tensors are discussed. The weights of the fundamental kinematic tensors are determined. The wryness tensor and the asymmetric strain tensor are constructed in terms of the vectors of micro-rotation and displacements. Notions of force and couple traction vectors, associated force and associated couple stress vector, force and couple stresses tensors are discussed in the frameworks of relative tensors algebra. The weights of the basic micropolar elasticity tensors are determined and discussed. The constitutive form of the micropolar elastic potential is introduced as an absolute scalar in order to obtain micropolar constitutive equations. In the linear case, the elastic potential is a quadratic form whose coefficients are pseudoscalars. The weights of the constitutive pseudoscalars are calculated. The dimensionless constitutive micropolar constants and constitutive constants with physical dimensions are discriminated. Statics and dynamics of micropolar elastic continua are developed in terms of relative tensors. Dynamic equations involving displacements and microrotations in the case of semi-isotropic (hemitropic) symmetry are derived and represented by the pseudotensor technique. The paper can be considered as a script of fundamental formulas and concepts related to the algebra and differentiation of relative tensors of arbitrary rank.