The elastic-plastic shrink fit with supercritical interference (Q1073610)

An interference, for which Tresca's yield criterion predicts vanishing of the circumferential stress at the bore of the hub of an elastic-plastic shrink fit, is called critical. It is shown that Tresca's criterion does not admit a solution of the supercritical shrink fit problem for perfectly plastic materials. For hardening materials, stress, displacement and plastic strain in the supercritical shrink fit are derived. The occurrence of a supercritical interference as well as the range of validity of the results presented are discussed.