ON THE DYNAMICS OF RODS IN THE THEORY OF KIRCHHOFF AND CLEBSCH
ON THE DYNAMICS OF RODS IN THE THEORY OF KIRCHHOFF AND CLEBSCH
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00375625
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发表时间:
1993-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
TOBIAS, I
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作者:
COLEMAN, BD;DILL, EH;TOBIAS, I
We discuss here the dynamical equations of a theory of elastic rods that is due to Kmcm-ioFF [1, 2] and CL~ Bsc~[3, 4]. This properly invariant theory is applicable to motions in which the strains relative to an undistorted configuration remain small, although rotations may be large. It is constructed to be a first-order theory, ie, a theory that is complete to within an error of order two in an appropriate dimensionless measure of thickness, curvature, twist, and extension.In a first-order theory of thin rods, one can treat the rod as inextensible, and we do so here at the outset. Thus, at each time t, the arc-length parameter s for the axial curve~(t) is employed as a material coordinate, ie, a parameter whose value at a material point is constant in time, and not only the resultant of the shearing forces on a cross section, but also the tension in the rod, are reactive quantities not given by constitutive equations. Consider for a moment a rod that is naturally prismatic and dynamically symmetric, ie, a rod that in an undistorted stress-free configuration is a cylinder whose directrix, although not necessarily a circle, bounds a figure with equal principal moments of inertia. A motion of the rod is said to be planar and twist-flee, ie,, a motion of pure flexure, if it is such that~(t) lies at all times in a fixed plane~ which contains a principal axis of inertia of each cross section. For such a motion we employ a fixed Cartesian coordinate system on~, and, for consistency with a discussion of more general motions to be given later in this paper, we call the abscissa z and the ordinate x. We may write FZ (s, t), FX (s, t) for the z-and x-components of the resultant force F at time t on the cross section with arc-length coordinate s. The motion of the rod may be described by giving the (z, x)-coordinates of the points on~(t) as functions of s and t. With O (s, t) the counterclockwise angle from the z-axis to the tangent of~(t) at s, we have