Boundary Element Methods for Engineers:

Part I: Potential Problems

Introduction

Using the definitions of strains given in Equations 1.2 to 1.5

 






(1.33)

With displacements being chosen as the unknowns, compatibility Equations 1.13 to 1.18 are automatically
satisfied. In the absence of temperature change, constitutive Equations 1.20 to 1.25, give the only nonzero
stress components as  and . Among the equilibrium Equations 1.6 to 1.8, only

the last is relevant, and ignoring body forces becomes



Consequently

(1.34)



 (1.35)

Figure 1.4 Part of the boundary of a cross-section of a prismatic bar

The boundary conditions for this torsion problem are for the shear stresses acting on the outer surface
of the bar to be zero. At a particular point on the surface let n be the direction of the outward normal
there, in which case the surface stress  is zero, and so is the complementary stress . Consequently


(1.36)

(1.37)


where  is the angle between the direction of n and the x-axis. Boundary conditions for displacement

of this type are not straightforward to apply, particularly for asymmetrical bar cross-sections where the
position of the axis of rotation is not obvious.

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