ANALYSIS OF STEADY-STATE AND DYNAMICAL RADIALLY-SYMMETRIC PROBLEMS OF NONLINEAR VISCOELASTICITY

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dc.contributor.advisorAntman, Stuart S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorStepanov, Alexeyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentApplied Mathematics and Scientific Computationen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-06T06:40:11Z
dc.date.available2016-02-06T06:40:11Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis treats radially symmetric steady states and radially symmetric motions of nonlinearly elastic and viscoelastic plates and shells subject to dead-load and hydrostatic pressures on their boundaries and with the plate subject to centrifugal force. The plates and shells are described by specializations of the exact (nonlinear) equations of three-dimensional continuum mechanics. The treatment in every case is very general and encompasses large classes of constitutive functions (characterizing the material response). We first treat the radially symmetric steady states of plates and shells and the radially symmetric steady rotations of plates. We show that the existence, multiplicity, and qualitative behavior of solutions for problems accounting for the live loads due to hydrostatic pressure and centrifugal force depend critically on the material properties of the bodies, physically reasonable refined descriptions of which are given and examined here with great care, and on the nature of boundary conditions.The treatment here, giving new and sharp results, employs several different mathematical tools, ranging from phase-plane analysis to the mathematically more sophisticated direct methods of the Calculus of Variations, fixed-point theorems, and global continuation methods, each of which has different strengths and weaknesses for handling intrinsic difficulties in the mechanics. We then treat the initial-boundary-value problems for the radially symmetric motions of annular plates and spherical shells that consist of a nonlinearly viscoelastic material of strain-rate type. We discuss a range of physically natural constitutive equations. We first show that when the material is strong in a suitable sense relative to externally applied loads, solutions exist for all time, depend continuously on the data, and consequently are unique. We study the role of the constitutive restrictions and that of the regularity of the data in ensuring the preclusion of a total compression and of an infinite extension for finite time. We then show that when the material is not sufficiently strong then under certain conditions on the (hydrostatic) pressure terms there are globally defined unbounded solutions and there are solutions that blow up in finite time. The practical importance of these results is that for each problem involving live loads they furnish thresholds in material response delimiting materials for which solutions are ill behaved. A mathematical or numerical study limited to a particular class of materials may dangerously indicate well-behaved solutions when there are other realistic materials for which solutions are ill behaved. Moreover this work furnishes so-called trivial solutions for the subsequent study (not given here) of bifurcation of stable equilibrium configurations from these trivial solutions.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2SM68
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/17278
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMathematicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMaterials Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledblowupen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledelasticityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledexistenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlive loaden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmaterialen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledviscoelasticityen_US
dc.titleANALYSIS OF STEADY-STATE AND DYNAMICAL RADIALLY-SYMMETRIC PROBLEMS OF NONLINEAR VISCOELASTICITYen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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