The elastic sphere under nonsymmetric loading

The phenomenon of stability loss of a hollow elastic sphere containing distributed dislocations and loaded with external hydrostatic pressure is studied. The study was carried out in the framework of the nonlinear elasticity theory and the continuum theory of continuously distributed dislocations. An exact statement and solution of the stability problem for a three-dimensional elastic body with distributed dislocations are given. The static problem of nonlinear elasticity theory for a body with distributed dislocations is reduced to a system of equations consisting of equilibrium equations, incompatibility equations with a given dislocation density tensor, and constitutive equations of the material. The unperturbed state is caused by external pressure and a spherically symmet-ric distribution of dislocations. For distributed edge dislocations in the framework of a harmonic (semi-linear) mate-rial model, the unperturbed state is defined as an exact spherically symmetric solution to a nonlinear boundary value problem. This solution is valid for any function that characterizes the density of edge dislocations. The perturbed equilibrium state is described by a boundary value problem linearized in the neighborhood of the equilibrium. The analysis of the axisymmetric buckling of the sphere was performed using the bifurcation method. It consists in determining the equilibrium positions of an elastic body, which differ little from the unperturbed state. By solving the linearized problem, the value of the external pressure at which the sphere first loses stability is found. The effect of dislocations on the buckling of thin and thick spherical shells is analyzed.

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Contact Response Analysis of Vertical Impact between Elastic Sphere and Elastic Half Space

Shock and Vibration ◽

10.1155/2018/1802174 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 ◽

pp. 1-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Yang Yang ◽

Qingliang Zeng ◽

Lirong Wan

Keyword(s):

Rigid Body ◽

Half Space ◽

Contact Process ◽

Elastic Half Space ◽

Metal Plate ◽

3D Simulation ◽

Elastic Sphere ◽

Research Results ◽

Contact Response ◽

Vertical Impact

At present, the contact problem between the particle and the plane plate is generally equivalent to the rigid sphere impacting the elastic half space or the elastic sphere impacting the rigid surface. However, in the actual contact process, there will be no rigid body, and both contact and contacted object will deform and absorb energy. The research results obtained from the equivalent of the contact material to the rigid body are less accurate. In order to obtain the accurate mechanical relation and contact response, we took the research of impact between particles and the metal plate as a breakthrough in which the particle is equivalent to an elastic sphere and the metal plate is equivalent to an elastic half space and established the theory of vertical impact contact between elastic sphere and elastic half space by the Hertz contact theory. Through the dynamic simulation of an elastic sphere which has similar properties with rock impacting target in elastic half space in LS-DYNA, the correctness of the established theory and the feasibility of the contact process simulated by LS-DYNA are verified. Based on the established theory and 3D simulation, we studied the influence law of material parameters on the contact response and analyzed the differences of the collision vibration signals caused by the different contact objects. From the above research results, we obtain that the theoretical model is more accurate to predict the maximum contact force and contact displacement in this paper than traditional Hertz theory. And the sphere radius and both contact objects’ elastic modulus have larger influence on the contact response than sphere density, while the Poisson’s ratio has the smallest influence on the contact response results. Different material properties will cause the different contact response. The conclusions of this paper provide a theoretical calculation method for contact and a 3D simulation method for elastic half space and provide theoretical guidance for the differences analysis of the vibration signal.

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