Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the fact that the routine application of Saint-Venant’s principle in the solution of elasticity problems involving highly anisotropic or composite ...

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate the steady rotation of a solid cylinder for a class of strain-energy densities that are able to describe hardening phenomena in rubber. It is ...

Abstract: Recent advances in smart structures technology have lead to a resurgence of interest in piezoelectricity, and in particular, in the solution of fundamental boundary value problems. In this paper, ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with obtaining stress estimates for the problem of axisymmetric torsion of thin elastic shells of revolution subject to self-equilibrated end loads. The results are ...

Abstract: In this paper, the effect of material inhomogeneity on void formation and growth in incompressible nonlinearly elastic solids is examined. A bifurcation problem is considered for a solid composite ...

Abstract: Antiplane shear deformations of a cylindrical body, with a single displacement field parallel to the generators of the cylinder and independent of the axial coordinate, are one of the simplest ...

Abstract: Cavitation phenomena in nonlinearly elastic solids have been the subject of extensive investigation in recent years. The impetus for much of these theoretical developments has been supplied by ...