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1MathematicalPreliminaries
Similartootherfieldtheoriessuchasfluidmechanics,heatconduction,andelectromagnetics,
thestudyandapplicationofelasticitytheoryrequiresknowledgeofseveralareasofapplied
mathematics.Thetheoryisformulatedintermsofavarietyofvariablesincludingscalar,
vector,andtensorfields,andthiscallsfortheuseoftensornotationalongwithtensoralgebra
andcalculus.Throughtheuseofparticularprinciplesfromcontinuummechanics,thetheoryis
developedasasystemofpartialdifferentialfieldequationsthataretobesolvedinaregionof
spacecoincidingwiththebodyunderstudy.Solutiontechniquesusedonthesefieldequations
commonlyemployFouriermethods,variationaltechniques,integraltransforms,complex
variables,potentialtheory,finitedifferences,andfiniteandboundaryelements.Therefore,to
developproperformulationmethodsandsolutiontechniquesforelasticityproblems,itis
necessarytohaveanappropriatemathematicalbackground.Thepurposeofthisinitialchapter
istoprovideabackgroundprimarilyfortheformulationpartofourstudy.Additionalreviewof
othermathematicaltopicsrelatedtoproblemsolutiontechniqueisprovidedinlaterchapters
wheretheyaretobeapplied.
1.1Scalar,Vector,Matrix,andTensorDefinitions
Elasticitytheoryisformulatedintermsofmanydifferenttypesofvariablesthatareeither
specifiedorsoughtatspatialpointsinthebodyunderstudy.Someofthesevariablesarescalar
quantities,representingasinglemagnitudeateachpointinspace.Commonexamplesinclude
thematerialdensityrandmaterialmodulisuchasYoung’smodulusE,Poisson’sration,or
theshearmodulusm.Othervariablesofinterestarevectorquantitiesthatareexpressiblein
termsofcomponentsinatwo-orthree-dimensionalcoordinatesystem.Examplesofvector
variablesarethedisplacementandrotationofmaterialpointsintheelasticcontinuum.
Formulationswithinthetheoryalsorequiretheneedformatrixvariables,whichcommonly
requiremorethanthreecomponentstoquantify.Examplesofsuchvariablesincludestressand
strain.Asshowninsubsequentchapters,athree-dimensionalformulationrequiresnine
components(onlysixareindependent)toquantifythestressorstrainatapoint.Forthis
case,thevariableisnormallyexpressedinamatrixformatwiththreerowsandthreecolumns.
Tosummarizethisdiscussion,inathree-dimensionalCartesiancoordinatesystem,scalar,
vector,andmatrixvariablescanthusbewrittenasfollows:
3massdensityscalar¼r
displacementvector¼u¼ue
1þve
2þwe
3
stressmatrix¼[s]¼s
xt
xyt
xz
t
yxs
yt
yz
t
zxt
zys
z2
6
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7
5
wheree
1,e
2,e
3aretheusualunitbasisvectorsinthecoordinatedirections.Thus,scalars,
vectors,andmatricesarespecifiedbyone,three,andninecomponents,respectively.
Theformulationofelasticityproblemsnotonlyinvolvesthesetypesofvariables,butalso
incorporatesadditionalquantitiesthatrequireevenmorecomponentstocharacterize.Because
ofthis,mostfieldtheoriessuchaselasticitymakeuseofatensorformalismusingindexnotation.
Thisenablesefficientrepresentationofallvariablesandgoverningequationsusinga
singlestandardizedscheme.Thetensorconceptisdefinedmorepreciselyinalatersection,
butfornowwecansimplysaythatscalars,vectors,matrices,andotherhigher-ordervariables
canallberepresentedbytensorsofvariousorders.Wenowproceedtoadiscussiononthe
notationalrulesoforderforthetensorformalism.Additionalinformationontensorsandindex
notationcanbefoundinmanytextssuchasGoodbody(1982)orChandrasekharaiahand
Debnath(1994).
1.2IndexNotation
Indexnotationisashorthandschemewherebyawholesetofnumbers(elementsorcompon-
ents)isrepresentedbyasinglesymbolwithsubscripts.Forexample,thethreenumbers
a
1,a
2,a
3aredenotedbythesymbola
i,whereindexiwillnormallyhavetherange1,2,3.
Inasimilarfashion,a
ijrepresentstheninenumbersa
11,a
12,a
13,a
21,a
22,a
23,a
31,a
32,a
33.
Althoughtheserepresentationscanbewritteninanymanner,itiscommontouseascheme
relatedtovectorandmatrixformatssuchthat
a
i¼a
1
a
2
a
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5,a
ij¼a
11a
12a
13
a
21a
22a
23
a
31a
32a
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5(1:2:1)
Inthematrixformat,a
1jrepresentsthefirstrow,whilea
i1indicatesthefirstcolumn.Other
columnsandrowsareindicatedinsimilarfashion,andthusthefirstindexrepresentstherow,
whilethesecondindexdenotesthecolumn.
Ingeneralasymbola
ij...kwithNdistinctindicesrepresents3Ndistinctnumbers.It
shouldbeapparentthata
ianda
jrepresentthesamethreenumbers,andlikewisea
ijand
a
mnsignifythesamematrix.Addition,subtraction,multiplication,andequalityofindex
symbolsaredefinedinthenormalfashion.Forexample,additionandsubtractionare
givenby
a
iÆb
i¼a
1Æb
1
a
2Æb
2
a
3Æb
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5,a
ijÆb
ij¼a
11Æb
11a
12Æb
12a
13Æb
13
a
21Æb
21a
22Æb
22a
23Æb
23
a
31Æb
31a
32Æb
32a
33Æb
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5(1:2:2)
andscalarmultiplicationisspecifiedas
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