On shear and torsion factors in the theory of linearly elastic rods

DOI10.1007/S10659-010-9243-ZMaRDI QIDQ982242zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonino Favata, Andrea Micheletti, Paolo Podio-Guidugli

Publication date 6 July 2010

Published in Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2622

zbMATH Keywords

shear stiffnesstorsion stiffnessRod theoryshear factortorsion factor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10)

Abstract: Lower bounds for the factors entering the standard notions of shear and torsion stiffness for a linearly elastic rod are established in a new and simple way. The proofs are based on the following criterion to identify the stiffness parameters entering rod theory: the rod's stored-energy density per unit length expressed in terms of force and moment resultants should equal the stored-energy density per unit length expressed in terms of stress components of a Saint-Venant cylinder subject to either flexure or torsion, according to the case. It is shown that the shear factor is always greater than one, whatever the cross section, a fact that is customarily stated without proof in textbooks of structure mechanics; and that the torsion factor is also greater than one, except when the cross section is a circle or a circular annulus, a fact that is usually proved making use of Saint-Venant's solution in terms of displacement components.

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