The incompressible limit in linear anisotropic elasticity, with applications to surface waves and elastostatics (Q1612671)

The conditions for the incompressibility for two- and three-dimensional deformations of an anisotropic linear elastic materials are formulated in terms of elastic compliance. The analysis of necessary and sufficient conditions for strain energy density to be positive semidefinite is also presented. Incompressibility for surface waves in linear anisotropic elasticity is considered for monoclinic material with symmetry plane \(x_3= 0\). It is shown that the explicit form of secular equation for surface waves in the case of incompressible monoclinic material can be deduced from the general (compressible) case by imposing incompressibility conditions. The Stroh formalism is used to study the steady-state two-dimensional motion of incompressible materials. Many interesting physical phenomena such as the connection of the applied line load with Burgers vector in the case of line dislocation are derived by using special properties of three Barnett-Lothe tensors.