Load capacity of bodies

Publication date 24 November 2010

Abstract: For the stress analysis in a plastic body

O m e g a

, we prove that there exists a maximal positive number

C

, the emph{load capacity ratio,} such that the body will not collapse under any external traction field

t

bounded by

Y_{0} C

, where

Y_{0}

is the elastic limit. The load capacity ratio depends only on the geometry of the body and is given by

frac{1}{C}=sup_{win LD(Omega)_D} frac{int_{partialOmega}|w|dA} {int_{Omega}|epsilon(w)|dV}=left|gamma_D ight|.

Here,

L D (O m e g a)_{D}

is the space of isochoric vector fields

w

for which the corresponding stretchings

e p s i l o n (w)

are assumed to be integrable and

g a m m a_{D}

is the trace mapping assigning the boundary value

g a m m a_{D} (w)

to any

w i n L D (O m e g a)_{D}

.

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