Some equilibrium problems for fibrillar bodies (Q1309699)

The structure of a laminated plate may be characterized by a planar laminated configuration relative to which the response functions depend on a single coordinate, \(x_ 3\) of a rectangular coordinate system. Similarly, for a fibrillar composite rod there is a rectilinear fibrillar configuration relative to which the response functions depend only on two coordinates, \(x_ 1\) and \(x_ 2\) of a rectangular coordinate system. Certain elastostatic problems of laminated and fibrillar bodies are governed by systems of ordinary differential equations in \(x_ 3\) and by systems of partial differential equations in the two space variables \(x_ 1\) and \(x_ 2\), respectively. These special cases include rectilinear, circular and helical fibrillar configurations. The equilibrium equations in such configurations are explicitly written in terms of rectangular, cylindrical and helical coordinates. Nine families of equilibrium solutions representing deformations between fibrillar configurations that can be produced by surface tractions alone (without requiring suitable body force fields) are presented. They include bending of beams and torsion of shafts of arbitrary cross-sections, torsion of axially symmetric shafts, eversion of tubes of arbitrary profiles, and bending and twisting of rods into helical springs.