Decomposition of rod displacements via Bernoulli-Navier displacements. Application: a loading of the rod with shearing (Q6608094)

The paper is concerned with the analysis of rods in the framework of linear elasticity. When the thickness of the rod is negligible, a standard assumption is that the cross-sections of the rod remain plane and perpendicular to the centerline of the rod: this is called Bernoulli-Euler hypothesis and was justified by dimension reduction arguments. When the rod is thicker, its response to loading is more complex. The author provides a decomposition of the displacement of a rod into three terms: the first is called Bernoulli-Euler displacement and represents a rotation leaving each cross-section perpendicular to the rod's centerline; the second term is related to shear and includes two rotations whose axes are orthogonal to the rod's centerline; the third term is referred to as warping term and is related to a deformation such that the cross-section does not remain planar. The paper provides estimates on the order of these terms with respect to the order of the elastic strain energy.