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- From: hatay@spot.Colorado.EDU (Ferhat F. Hatay)
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- Subject: Re: Is there a continuity equation in elasticity
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.175835.9486@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 17:58:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.221303.15864@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> luj@ecn.purdue.edu writes:
- >In article <14qp5fINNoqg@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?
- >
- >Yes, by the law of the conservation of mass.
- >
- >|> Or it is not necessary, or is it implied in other governing equations?
- >|>
- >
- >However, in _solid_ mechanics the mass does not flow away
- >and one usually keep track of all the particles(Lanrangian method),
- >the "continuity" eqn in the sense of fluid mechnics is trivially satisfied.
- >In other words, it is not necessary to explicitly establish the trivial
- >continuity equation in solid mechanics.
- >
- >--
- >-- John Lu
- > luj@ecn.purdue.edu
-
- In mechanics the conservation of mass principle
- can be expressed as "local" conservation of mass to
- be valid for every volume element.
- If we consider a volume element going through some
- deformation, it is possible to relate the density change
- in the volume element to the invariants of the strain tensor.
- (see Mechanics of Continua, C. Eringen). So one has
- to introduce the assumption of zero-dilatation (no-volume-change)
- to make this relation trivial (certainly some other assumptions,
- as well.) However, this is not so possible
- when playing with elastic, hyperelastic materials and certainly
- with fluids.
-
-
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