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The Airy Stress Function

The document discusses the Airy stress function approach for solving plane stress problems. It states that the three components of stress and strain fields can be expressed in terms of a function known as the Airy stress function. Eliminating displacements from strain-displacement relations yields the compatibility equation. Inserting strain expressions in terms of the Airy stress function into the compatibility equation results in the biharmonic equation, which is a fourth order partial differential equation. Solving this PDE for the Airy stress function allows calculating stresses and strains, from which displacements can then be obtained.

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The Airy Stress Function

The document discusses the Airy stress function approach for solving plane stress problems. It states that the three components of stress and strain fields can be expressed in terms of a function known as the Airy stress function. Eliminating displacements from strain-displacement relations yields the compatibility equation. Inserting strain expressions in terms of the Airy stress function into the compatibility equation results in the biharmonic equation, which is a fourth order partial differential equation. Solving this PDE for the Airy stress function allows calculating stresses and strains, from which displacements can then be obtained.

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The Airy stress function.

 xx  xy
We now apply the above theorem to the equilibrium equations. From   0,
x y

we deduce that there exists a function Ax, y  , such that


A A
 xx  ,  xy   .
y x
 xy  yy
From   0 , we deduce that that there exists a function Bx, y  , such that
x y
B B
 yy  ,  xy   .
x y
A B
Finally, from  , we deduce that that there exists a function  x, y  , such that
x y
 
A , B .
y x
The function  x, y  is known as the Airy (1862) stress function. The three components
of the stress field can now be represented by the stress function:
 2  2  2
 xx  2 ,  yy  2 ,  xy   .
y y yx
Using the stress-strain relations, we can also express the three components of strain field
in terms of the Airy stress function:

1   2  2  1   2  2  21     2
 xx   2  2  ,  yy   2  2  ,  xy   .
E  y x  E  x y  E xy
Compatibility equation. Recall the strain-displacement relations:
w u w v w
 zz  ,  xz   ,  yz   .
z z x z y
Eliminate the two displacements in the three strain displacement relations, and we obtain that

 2 xx   yy   xy
2 2

  .
y 2 x 2 xy
This equation is known as the compatibility equation.
Biharmonic equation.
Inserting the expressions of the strains in terms of  x, y  into the compatibility equation,
and we obtain that
 4  4  4
 2  0.
x 4 x 2y 2 y 4
This equations can also be written as

 2  2   2  2 
 2  2  2  2   0 .
 x y  x y 
It is called the biharmonic equation.
Thus, a procedure to solve a plane stress problem is to solve for  x, y  from the above
PDE, and then calculate stresses and strains. After the strains are obtained, the displacement
field can be obtained by integrating the strain-displacement relations.

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