Lecturenotes13

Date:18Nov2009

2Dplaneformulationinpolarcoordinates
Reference:UguralandFenster,Sections3.8and3.11
ChangefromCartesiancoordinatestoPolarcoordinates:

EquationsofEquilibriuminPolarCoordinates:

AiryStressfunctioninPolarCoordinates

StrainDisplacementRelationscanbeobtainedfromthefollowingfigures

HookesLawdoesnotchange:

CompatibilityequationgivestheBiharmonicEquationfortheAiryStressFunctioninpolar
coordinates:

Example1:
WewillwritetheAiryStressfunctionandthestressesinpolarcoordinatesforaplatepulledinthex
directionbyastresso.

TheAirystressfunctionthatwouldgivethisstressstateis
Thenusing

sin

ThestressescanbeobtainedfromtheAiryStressFunction(theycanalsobeobtainedbyusingthe
stresstransformationequations):

Example2:UsetheAirystressfunctiontoguessatasolutionforaholeinaplateproblem.

UsingtheAirystressfunctionforaplatewithnohole,weguessthesolutionfortheplatewithahole
tobeoftheform:

InsertingtheAirystressfunctionintothebiharmonicequationinpolarcoordinatesweobtain:

whichcanberewrittenas

Thesolutionsare:

Thestressesare

Tofindtheconstantsweusetheboundaryconditions:
.Inaddition,theymustassume
and becomezerobecausethestressesmustbefiniteas
theformsfortheplatewithnoholegivingustheexpressionsfor and

Atr=a,

0givingustherelations:

Finally,thestressesare: