A Saint-Venant principle for a theory of nonlinear plane elasticity
Authors:
C. O. Horgan and L. E. Payne
Journal:
Quart. Appl. Math. 50 (1992), 641-675
MSC:
Primary 73C10; Secondary 73C50
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1193661
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MR1193661
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Abstract: A formulation of Saint-Venant’s principle within the context of a restricted theory of nonlinear plane elasticity is described. The theory assumes small displacement gradients while the stress-strain relations are nonlinear. We consider plane deformations of such an elastic material occupying a rectangular region. The lateral sides are traction-free while the far end is subjected to a uniformly distributed tensile traction $\tau \ge 0$. The near end is subjected to a prescribed normal and shear traction. If this end loading were also that of uniform tension, then one possible corresponding stress state throughout the rectangle is that of uniform tension. When the near end loading is not uniform, the resulting stress field is expected to approach a uniform tensile state with increasing distance from the near end. This result is established here using differential inequality techniques for quadratic functionals. It is shown that, under certain constitutive assumptions, an energy-like quadratic functional, defined on the difference between the deformation field and the uniform tensile state, decays exponentially with distance from the near end. The estimated decay rate (which is a lower bound on the actual rate of decay) is characterized in terms of the load level $\tau$ , the domain geometry, and material properties. The results predict a progressively slower decay of end effects with increasing load level $\tau$. The mathematical issues of concern involve spatial decay of solutions of a fourth-order nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation.
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S. Breuer and J. J. Roseman, Phragmén-Lindelöf decay theorems for classes of nonlinear Dirichlet problems in a circular cylinder, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 113, 59–77 (1986)
S. Breuer and J. J. Roseman, Decay theorems for nonlinear Dirichlet problems in semi-infinite cylinders, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 94, 363–371 (1986)
C. O. Horgan, Some applications of maximum principles in linear and nonlinear elasticity, Maximum Principles and Eigenvalue Problems in Partial Differential Equations (P. W. Schaefer, ed.), Pitman Res. Notes Math. Ser., vol. 175, Longman, New York, 1988, pp. 49–67
C. O. Horgan and L. E. Payne, Decay estimates for a class of nonlinear boundary value problems in two dimensions, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 20, 782–788 (1989)
C. O. Horgan and L. E. Payne, On the asymptotic behavior of solutions of inhomogeneous second-order quasilinear partial differential equations, Quart. Appl. Math. 47, 753–771 (1989)
S. Breuer and J. J. Roseman, On spatial energy decay for quasilinear boundary value problems in cone-like and exterior domains, Differential Integral Equations 2, 310–325 (1989)
J. J. Roseman and S. Zimering, On the spatial decay of the energy for some quasilinear boundary value problems in semi-infinite cylinders, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 139, 194–204 (1989)
C. O. Horgan and D. Siegel, On the asymptotic behavior of a minimal surface over a semi-infinite strip, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 153, 397–406 (1990)
R. Quintanilla, Exponential decay for nonlinear second-order partial differential equations, preprint, Univ. Polit. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 1990
G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood, and G. Pólya, Inequalities, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1964
C. O. Horgan and W. E. Olmstead, Exponential decay estimates for a class of nonlinear Dirichlet problems, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 71, 221–235 (1979)
J. J. Roseman, The principle of Saint-Venant in linear and nonlinear plane elasticity, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 26, 142–162 (1967)
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