{"title":"Potential Functions for Functionally Graded Transversely Isotropic Media Subjected to Thermal Source in Thermoelastodynamics Problems","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10024-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10024-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>This paper develops a novel set of displacement temperature potential functions to solve the thermoelastodynamic problems in functionally graded transversely isotropic media subjected to thermal source. For this purpose, three-dimensional heat and wave equations are considered to obtain the displacement temperature equations of motion for functionally graded materials. In the present study, a systematic method is used to decouple the elasticity and heat equations. Hence one sixth-order differential equation and two second-order differential equations are obtained. Completeness of the solution is proved using a retarded logarithmic Newtonian potential function for functionally graded transversely isotropic domain. To verify the obtained solution, in a simpler case, potential functions are generated for homogeneous transversely isotropic media that coincide with respective equations. Presented potential functions can be used to solve the problems in various media like infinite and semi-infinite space, beams and columns, plates, shells, etc., with arbitrary boundary conditions and subjected to arbitrary mechanical and thermal loads.</p>","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139560840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting Stress Propagation in a Two-Dimensional Elastic Circular Disk Under Diametric Loading","authors":"Yosuke Sato, Haruto Ishikawa, Satoshi Takada","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10047-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10047-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we present a comprehensive investigation of stress propagation in a two-dimensional elastic circular disk. To accurately describe the displacements and stress fields within the disk, we employ a scalar and vector potential approach, representing them as sums of Bessel functions. The determination of the coefficients for these expansions is accomplished in the Laplace space, where we compare the boundary conditions. By converting the inverse Laplace transforms into complex integrals using residue calculus, we successfully derive explicit expressions for the displacements and stress fields. Notably, these expressions encompass primary, secondary, and surface waves, providing a thorough characterization of the stress propagation phenomena within the disk. Our findings contribute to the understanding of mechanical behavior in disk-shaped components and can be valuable in the design and optimization of such structures across various engineering disciplines.</p>","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139423611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Approach to Setting the Problem of Lagrange for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Elastodynamics","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10045-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10045-6","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>The classical Lagrange problem for dynamical systems introduces a <em>Lagrangian action functional</em> defined for any dynamical process that is envisioned to take place over a fixed interval of time with its state at each time lying on an unknown, but prescribed, configuration between two given end points in an <span> <span>(n)</span> </span>-dimensional state space <span> <span>(mathbb{R}^{n})</span> </span>. It is proposed that the fundamental dynamical field equation that characterizes the dynamical process and determines the precise motion between the two given end points is the Euler–Lagrange equation related to the stationarity of the Lagrangian action functional, expressed as the integral of a particularly formulated <em>action density</em> over the fixed time interval, among all admissible configurations that span the two given end points. Thus stated, this variational calculus problem introduces <em>variations of a configuration</em> that carries a dynamical process, and emphasizes the novelty and need to express explicitly how the configuration influences the state of that process. At each time during a dynamical process the state is subjected to an extrinsic force (classically taken to be conservative) which must be transmitted to the configuration that carries the process and, by action-reaction the configuration responds with a configuration contact force on the state of equal magnitude but opposite direction. This allows the Lagrangian action functional for a dynamical process to be interpreted as the <em>difference</em> between the <em>average kinetic energy of the dynamical process that is carried by that configuration</em> and the <em>average configurational work done by the configuration contact force on the moving state</em> as the state traverses that configuration during the fixed time interval. The aim in the Problem of Lagrange is to extremize this difference over all admissible configurations. The implication is that given a time interval and initial and final end points in the space of all states, the dynamical process of physical interest must follow a configuration that optimizes the gap between the average expended kinetic energy and the average expended configurational work. When the optimal condition is met and the dynamical process is so restricted, the difference between these average expenditures of energy and work will be at a local maximum, a local minimum, or a saddle point known as a condition of “least action”.</p> <p>Herein, we investigate the optimization implications of this novel interpretation of the action functional for the Problem of Lagrange for dynamical systems for a general, possibly non-conservative, state-dependent extrinsic force field. We show that only a conservative state-dependent extrinsic force field is allowable within the statement of the problem and, thus, reaffirm the predominant classical hypothesis of restricting attention to conservative extrinsic force field","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139412375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scholarly Works, Academic Lineage, and Doctoral Advisees of Jerald L. Ericksen","authors":"Roger Fosdick, Eliot Fried, Chi-Sing Man","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10044-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10044-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this tribute to Jerald L. Ericksen, we present a multifaceted contribution that honors his exceptional legacy as a scientist, educator, and mentor. The contribution is divided into three sections, each providing a unique perspective on his life and work. Through these sections, we aim to preserve and celebrate Jerry’s legacy, a legacy that extends far beyond his scholarly contributions and reverberates through the lives and careers of those he inspired and guided.</p>","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139093655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translation of Jerald L. Ericksen’s Introduction to the Collection “Studies on Mechanics of Continua”","authors":"Alexander B. Freidin","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10043-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10043-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139387684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of ElasticityPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1007/s10659-022-09952-x
Sergio Conti, Robert V Kohn, Oleksandr Misiats
{"title":"An Energy Minimization Approach to Twinning with Variable Volume Fraction.","authors":"Sergio Conti, Robert V Kohn, Oleksandr Misiats","doi":"10.1007/s10659-022-09952-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10659-022-09952-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In materials that undergo martensitic phase transformation, macroscopic loading often leads to the creation and/or rearrangement of elastic domains. This paper considers an example involving a single-crystal slab made from two martensite variants. When the slab is made to bend, the two variants form a characteristic microstructure that we like to call \"twinning with variable volume fraction.\" Two 1996 papers by Chopra et al. explored this example using bars made from InTl, providing considerable detail about the microstructures they observed. Here we offer an energy-minimization-based model that is motivated by their account. It uses geometrically linear elasticity, and treats the phase boundaries as sharp interfaces. For simplicity, rather than model the experimental forces and boundary conditions exactly, we consider certain Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions whose effect is to require bending. This leads to certain nonlinear (and nonconvex) variational problems that represent the minimization of elastic plus surface energy (and the work done by the load, in the case of a Neumann boundary condition). Our results identify how the minimum value of each variational problem scales with respect to the surface energy density. The results are established by proving upper and lower bounds that scale the same way. The upper bounds are ansatz-based, providing full details about some (nearly) optimal microstructures. The lower bounds are ansatz-free, so they explain why no other arrangement of the two phases could be significantly better.</p>","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11255090/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43912834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Distance to Cubic Symmetry Class as a Polynomial Optimization Problem","authors":"P. Azzi, R. Desmorat, B. Kolev, F. Priziac","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10041-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10041-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138981791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Euler–Bernoulli Limit of Thin Brittle Linearized Elastic Beams","authors":"Janusz Ginster, Peter Gladbach","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10040-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10040-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We show that the linear brittle Griffith energy on a thin rectangle <span>(varGamma )</span>-converges after rescaling to the linear one-dimensional brittle Euler–Bernoulli beam energy.</p><p>In contrast to the existing literature, we prove a corresponding sharp compactness result, namely a suitable weak convergence after subtraction of piecewise rigid motions with the number of jumps bounded by the energy.</p>","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complete General Solutions for Equilibrium Equations of Isotropic Strain Gradient Elasticity","authors":"Yury Solyaev","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10039-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10039-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we consider isotropic Mindlin–Toupin strain gradient elasticity theory, in which the equilibrium equations contain two additional length-scale parameters and have the fourth order. For this theory, we developed an extended form of Boussinesq–Galerkin (BG) and Papkovich–Neuber (PN) general solutions. The obtained form of BG solution allows to define the displacement field through a single vector function that obeys the eight-order bi-harmonic/bi-Helmholtz equation. The developed PN form of the solution provides an additive decomposition of the displacement field into the classical and gradient parts that are defined through the standard Papkovich stress functions and modified Helmholtz decomposition, respectively. Relations between different stress functions and the completeness theorem for the derived general solutions are established. As an example, it is shown that a previously known fundamental solution within the strain gradient elasticity can be derived by using the developed PN general solution.</p>","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controllable Deformations of Unconstrained Ideal Nematic Elastomers","authors":"L. Angela Mihai, Alain Goriely","doi":"10.1007/s10659-023-10038-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-023-10038-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We establish that, for ideal unconstrained uniaxial nematic elastomers described by a homogeneous isotropic strain-energy density function, the only smooth deformations that can be controlled by the application of surface tractions only and are universal in the sense that they are independent of the strain-energy density are those for which the deformation gradient is constant and the liquid crystal director is either aligned uniformly or oriented randomly in Cartesian coordinates. This result generalizes the classical Ericksen’s theorem for nonlinear homogeneous isotropic hyperelastic materials. While Ericksen’s theorem is directly applicable to liquid crystal elastomers in an isotropic phase where the director is oriented randomly, in a nematic phase, the constitutive strain-energy density must account also for the liquid crystal orientation which leads to significant differences in the analysis compared to the purely elastic counterpart.","PeriodicalId":624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Elasticity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}