THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE OF LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY FOR PROBLEMS THAT INVOLVE TIME-DEPENDENT REGIONS G. A. C. GRAHAM
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby 2, British Columbia, Canada
G. C. W. SABIN Department of Mathematics,
Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland,
Canada
Abstract-A version of the correspondence principle of linear viscoelasticity theory that is based on an alternative form of the Laplace transform inversion theorem and is valid for bodies that OCCUPY time-dependent ablating regions of space is presented and used to derive solutions to certain thermoviscoelastic boundary value problems for hollow ablating right circular cylinders. The application of this version of the correspondence principle to bodies occupying fixed regions of space but for which the boundary regions, over which different types of boundary conditions are specified, vary with time is investigated and exploited to study the thermoviscoelastic problem of an infinite body containing an extending penny shaped crack on whose surface various thermal conditions may prevail.
1. INTRODUCTION THE STANDARD
way to solve boundary value problems in the linear quasi-static theory of viscoelasticity is to apply the Laplace transform, with respect to time, to the timedependent field equations and boundary conditions. Then, if a solution to the transformed problem can be found, the solution to the original problem is reduced to transform inversion. This method of solving viscoelastic stress analysis problems is referred to as the Correspondence Principle. In its classical form (see Lee[l] and Sternberg[2]) the correspondence principle is inapplicable unless the shape of the body under consideration and the type of condition specified at points of its boundary remain invariant with time. However, certain variations of the principle, introduced by one of the present authors[3,4] and by Ting [S] remain valid, for bodies occupying fixed regions of space, even if the type of condition specificed at points of the boundary changes with time. The purpose of this paper is to present a version of the principle that is applicable to the solution of viscoelastic boundary value problems for bodies that occupy time-dependent ablating regions of space. The only other genera1 method of solution to such problems appears to be the extension of the Papkovich-~euber stress-function solution of homogeneous and isotropic elasticity that was introduced and applied in Graham]6]. In section 2 of the present paper, following a statement of the fundamental field equations of linear thermo-viscoelasticity theory and the classical correspondence principle, we give another version of that principle which is based on an alternative form of the Laplace transform inversion theorem (see appendix) and is valid for bodies that occupy time-dependent regions of space. The application of this version of the correspondence principle to bodies occupying fixed regions of space but for which the boundary regions, over which different types of boundary conditions are specified, vary with time is investigated in some detail and the results of [S] and [4] are recovered. 123
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In section 3 the new correspondence principle is used to derive solutions to certain thermoviscoelastic boundary value problems for hollow ablating right circular cylinders. In section 4 the method is used to study the distribution of thermal stress in an infinite viscoelastic solid containing an extending penny shaped crack on whose surface various thermal conditions may prevail. 2. TIME-DEPENDENT
REGIONS.
THE
CORRESPONDENCE
PRINCIPLE
Suppose a time-dependent region respresented by R(r), with boundary 8R (t), 0 < t < ~0, is occupied by a homogeneous and isotropic linear viscoelastic solid. For future convenience it is appropriate to denote by I? the set of all (x, t) such that x is the position vector of a point of R (t) and 0 < t < COwhile an entirely similar notational agreement will apply to any time-dependent region of space. We will assume that as time progresses the region ablates in the sense that R ( tz) is contained in R (r,) whenever tz 2 tI. Thus, material may actually be removed from the body as time progresses. The case when R (t) remains constant for all time will therefore be a special example of an ablating region. Let uI(x, t), eij(x, r) and oij(x, t), each of which is a function defined onR, denote the Cartesian components of displacement, strain and stress respectively. Using indicial notation the strain-displacement relations, the stress equations of motion appropriate to the quasi-static theory and the constitutive equations of the material appear as follows (e.g. see Sternbergr21): k,j(X* qj,j(X, sij(X,
t)
=
{Gf
where eti and sil denote defined through
t) =
t) +Fi(x, hj}
Ui,j(Xy
t) =
(X3 t) 9
(Tu(X,
0, uklek(x,f)
the deviatoric
eU(x, t) = eij(x, t)
t) + Uj,i(X,
-&jekk(x, t):
=
t)
t),
(2.1)
= Cjji(X,
t),
(2.2)
{G~*~[EM-~~TI)(X,~),(2.3)
components
Sij(X, 1) =
of strain and stress which are
uij(X,
t)
f),
-&~kk(X,
(2.4)
in which ati is Kronecker’s delta. Here G, and Gz which are functions of time defined for 0 s t < m, refer to the relaxation functions of the material in shear and isotropic compression respectively. The components of body force density Fi (x, t) and the temperature T(x, t) are presumed to be given on i? and (Ystands for the constant coefficient of thermal expansiont. Here we have adopted the notation for ‘Sheltjes Convolutions’ used by Gut-tin and Stemberg [7] and Stemberg [21 so that if fand g are two functions of position and time then [f* dg] stands for the function defined by [f*
dg] (x, t) =f(x,
t)g(x, 0) +
t f(x,
J0
t--7)
w
dr,
whenever the right hand side is meaningful. In addition to equations (2.1)-(2.4) which must hold on I? certain boundary conditions must be given in order to specify a probtWhen the coefficient of thermal expansion depends on temperature a ‘pseudotemperature’ duced in terms of which the constitutive equations reduce to the form (2.3). See Sternberg[Z].
may be intro-
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principle of linear 6scoelasticity
If we prescribe the surface displacement and traction, respectively, on complimentary subsets cV?,(t), dR (t) - 8R1 (t) of the boundary 8R (t) then the boundary conditions take the form
lemt.
UI(X, t) = Ul(x, t)
on
CO?,
Q(X, t)nj(x, t) = Ti(x, t)
on
a&-al?,
(2.6) I
where Q(X, t) are the components of the outward unit normal to aR(t) and UI(x, t), Ti (x, t) are given functions. We will now briefly consider the case of an elastic solid. It is immediate from (2.3) and (2.5) that for the particular choice
Gt (t) = 2~7 where h and
K
GB(t)
are constants, the stress-strain sil(x, t) = 2peii(x, t),