124 ELASTOSTATICS
consideration the constitutive relations (5.10) we have,
Ό
dx
J
=
-
Pic"*
J
r
2
h
ef
k
dQ + b
k
uidQ
P
k
utdr +
Jr. Jr.
Ptdr
(5.18)
For temperature effects for instance this equation becomes (see
equations (5.11) and (5.12)),
^u
fc
d0
4-
ü
8x
J
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k
sf
k
dQ
+
b
k
ui άΩ +
Pk"k
df +
P
k
u*dr =
i
u
k
p*
k
dr+ u
k
ptdr (5.19)
This shows that the initial stress field can be treated in a similar way to
the body force field b
k
. In addition to being used for temperature and
other problems the initial stress fields are important because they can
be applied to introduce the effect of non-linearities into the
formulation. These two effects do not produce any internal unknowns
and they relate to the boundary values in a similar way to the p term in
the Poisson equation.
The problem is to find a solution such that
dafjdxj = 0
(5.20)
In this way the first integral in equation (5.19) disappears which
reduces the problem to a boundary problem. We need to find the
solution to this homogeneous equation in order to apply (5.19)
without having to integrate the first term in equation (5.19) over the Ω
domain, which would produce internal unknowns.
5.3 FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTION
A way of applying (5.19) is to use the fundamental solution for the
elasticity problem, i.e. the solution corresponding to the equation
daf
k
dx
J
(5.21)
where δ is the Dirac delta function and represents a unit load at i
acting in one of the x
t
directions. This type of solution will produce for
each direction / the following equation (the initial stress term has not