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- From: rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo)
- Subject: Re: Is there a continuity equation in elasticity
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- In article <1992Jul30.180134.20278@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> spiegel@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Spiegel) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul27.141031.7047@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >
- > Mark
- >
- >
-
- What COULD I have been thinking? Next time I'll read the
- question more carefully. ;-)
-
- Tony
-
-