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- From: spiegel@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Spiegel)
- Subject: Re: Is there a continuity equation in elasticity
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.180134.20278@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- References: <14qp6nINNoqs@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul27.141031.7047@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 18:01:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.141031.7047@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo) writes:
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- >In article <14qp6nINNoqs@agate.berkeley.edu> jtrsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu () writes:
- >>Subject: Is there a continuity equation in elasticity?
- >>Hi,
- >>I have a question on the governing equations of solid mechanics:
- >>Do we have continuity equation of mass in solid mechanics?
- >>Or it is not necessary, or is it implied in other governing equations?
- >>
- >>If possible, please reply to this account. Thanks.
- >>
- >>JTR Smith
- >
- >Elasticity texts refer to such equations as the "compatibility equations."
- >You should be able to find them, typically, in the first 50 pages
- >of most popular elasticity texts.
-
- Compatibility equations have absolutely nothing to do with
- Conservation of Mass (continuity). Compatibility equations
- are only needed when in (classical) elasticity you are solving
- a problem by selecting an assumed strain distribution. Since
- you have more equations than unknowns (in 3D 6 strain expressions
- for only 3 displacements) it is likely that without additional
- conditions, no displacement field corresponds to your assumed
- strain field. The compatibility equations (equality of mixed
- partial derivatives) are the additional conditions that must be
- satisfied by your assumed strain distribution. If your elasticity
- problem is formulated in terms of displacements, rather than
- strains, no compatibility equations are needed.
-
- Conservaton of Mass (Continuity). Typical elasticity problems
- are formulated in terms of a material (Lagrangian) kinematic
- description. As such you are keeping track of all particles
- of mass in your problem, and conservation of mass/continuity is
- trivially/automatically satisfied. If, alternatively, you
- formulated your elasticity problem in terms of a spatial
- (Eulerian) kinematic description (for REALLY large deformation
- problems, for example), you end up with a conservation of
- mass/continuity equation just as you typically do in a
- fluid mechanics formulation (which because of the very
- large deformations involved are invariably always spatial
- formulations). You would then have to solve both continuity
- and balance of momenta equations for your elasticity problem.
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- Mark
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