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Introduction To Continuum Mechanics - Mechanical Engineering (PDFDrive)
Introduction To Continuum Mechanics - Mechanical Engineering (PDFDrive)
h > ..., each15%. member of which is similar to T with three mutually orthogonal faces having outward unit nor- mals —e; and an inclined plane with outward unit normal gn. Next, apply (20) to each member of the sequence and, in the limit as h—> 0, obtain oti] $0, 1) Vis ~ where the stress vectors in (21) are evaluated at the point «x which is the common vertex of the family of tetrahedra. It follows from (21) that tiny =t" oti (22) ‘Since (22) must hold at any point gx and corresponding to any direction on, without ambiguity, "we suppress henceforth the designation star, replace ox by x, oi by n and write fa) = tins (23) We now define ty; by tithe Or t= ti ek « (24) Let ty, denote the components of the stress vector tiay, i, tx = f(a)“ ‘Then, from (23) and (24) we have teats ec = time = thin, 23) where in (25); we have written for simplicity t in place of tia). Thus, if t= t(x , t; n) is the stress vector at the point x acting on a surface whose outward unit normal is n, then it is clear that tyi=ti(X, 1) are defined at x and are independent of n. The relation (25) establishes the existence of the set of quantities t,;. It remains to show that ty; are Cartesian components of a second order tensor. To this end, consider the transformation of two sets of Cartesian coordi- nates and recall XK! = AAA} » CX! = a (26) where-5T- ig =) - 7) (28) t= te, = th'e4! = thimie = te! and with the use of n= ayn, , ex’ = asx €s Where a,j are components of an orthogonal tensor, we obtain (tg — ayagitus¢,. But e; are linearly independent. Therefore, (tse ~ eat )Ds 29) which holds for all n and the quantity in parentheses is independent of n. Hence, tar = Qgkritk’ 5 (30) which establishes the tensor character of i. The second order tensor whose Cartesian com- ponents are defined by (24) is called the Cauchy stress tensor. With reference to a rectangular Cartesian system of spatial coordinates, consider a paral- lelepiped shown in Fig. 3.3 and recall the formula hitk ey In GI), t:is the stress vector acting on the face whose outward unit normal is e;. For example, con the front face of the parallelepiped in Fig. 3.3, the outward unit normal coincides with e,; and thus, from (31) with i= 1, the stress vector on this face is given by ty = tren = thre + ta1€2 + 5163 - Keeping the above in mind, an examination of the subscripts of the stress tensor ti in (31) easily reveals that (i) the second index "i" refers to the stress vector t; on the face whose outward unit normal is ¢,, while (ii) the first index "k" refers to the component of t; in the coordinate direc tions. Utilizing this convention, which stems from the definition of (24), the tractions (i.e. the forces per unit area) are sketched in Fig. 3.3.