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Continuum Mechanics Homework

This document is a homework assignment for a continuum mechanics course that includes 5 questions. Students can work in groups of up to 4 people but each student must be able to complete problems independently. Question 1 asks students to determine boundary conditions for plane elasticity problems from the textbook. Question 2 involves determining displacement and stress fields for an elastic spherical body with an internal rigid spherical inclusion subjected to external pressure. Question 3 asks students to determine what problem is solved by a given Airy stress function. Question 4 asks students to show that another given Airy stress function satisfies the compatibility condition and to determine the corresponding stress field and problem. Question 5 involves deriving expressions, plotting stress distributions, and normalizing stresses for a rotating thick-walled cylinder

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Continuum Mechanics Homework

This document is a homework assignment for a continuum mechanics course that includes 5 questions. Students can work in groups of up to 4 people but each student must be able to complete problems independently. Question 1 asks students to determine boundary conditions for plane elasticity problems from the textbook. Question 2 involves determining displacement and stress fields for an elastic spherical body with an internal rigid spherical inclusion subjected to external pressure. Question 3 asks students to determine what problem is solved by a given Airy stress function. Question 4 asks students to show that another given Airy stress function satisfies the compatibility condition and to determine the corresponding stress field and problem. Question 5 involves deriving expressions, plotting stress distributions, and normalizing stresses for a rotating thick-walled cylinder

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MKM320 Continuum Mechanics 2010

Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

University of Pretoria

Homework Assignment 11
Assigned: 19 October 2010 Due: In class, 1 November 2010

• You may work in groups of up to 4 students. Remember that each student needs to be able
to do each problem independently in order to be successful in tests and exams.
• Please make sure that your work is neat and legible, and that you show all working.

Question 1

For the plane elasticity problems shown in Figure P7.3 of the textbook (p. 266), write the boundary
conditions and classify them into Type I, Type II or Type III.

Question 2

An external hydrostatic pressure of magnitude p is applied to the surface of a spherical body of


radius b with a concentric rigid spherical inclusion of radius a (shown in Figure P7.13.) Determine
the displacement and stress fields in the spherical body.

Question 3

Investigate what problem is solved by the Airy stress function

xy 3
 
3A B
Φ= xy − 2 + y 2 .
4b 3b 4b

Question 4

Show that the Airy stress function


 
q0 2 3 2 3
 1 3 2 2

Φ = 3 x y − 3b y + 2b − y y − 2b
8b 5

satisfies the compatibility condition. Determine the stress field and find out what problem it corre-
sponds to when applied to the region −b ≤ y ≤ b and 0 ≤ x ≤ L.

Question 5

For the rotating thick-walled cylinder problem which we worked through in class (§7.7.2):

(a) Derive the general expressions for σrθ and σθθ .


(b) Plot the distributions of σrr , σrθ and σθθ as a function of r/a for the case when ω = 10 rad/s,
pa = 100 MPa, pb = 0 MPa, and b = 2a.

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(c) Plot the distributions of σrr /pa , σrθ /pa and σθθ /pa as a function of r/a for the case when
ω = 0 rad/s, pb = 0.5pa and b = 2a.

You can plot using Octave, Matlab, a spreadsheet or another software method of your choice.

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