Circular hole in a shear field edit

 
Elastic plate with circular hole under shear

Given:

  • Large plate in pure shear.
  • Stress state perturbed by a small hole.

The BCs are

at  
 
at  
 

We will solve this problem by superposing a perturbation due to the hole on the unperturbed solution. The effect of the perturbation will decrease with increasing distance from the hole, i.e. the effect will be proportional to  .

Unperturbed Solution edit

 

Therefore,

 

Integrating,

 

Since   is a potential, we can neglect the integration constants (these do not affect the stresses - which are what we are interested in). Hence,

 

or,

 

Note that we have arranged the expression so that it has a form similar to the Fourier series of the previous section.

Perturbed Solution edit

For this we have to add terms to   in such a way that

  • The unperturbed solution continues to be true as  .
  • The terms have the same form as the unperturbed solution,i.e.,   terms.
  • The new   leads to stresses that are proportional to  .

Recall,

 

where,

 

So the appropriate stress function for the perturbation is

 

or,

 

Hence, the stress function appropriate for the superposed solution is

 

We determine   and   using the boundary conditions at  .

The stresses are

 

Hence,

 

or,

 

Solving,

 

Back substituting,

 

Example homework problem edit

Consider the elastic plate with a hole subject to pure shear.

 
Elastic plate with a circular hole under pure shear

The stresses close to the hole are given by

 
  • Show that the normal and shear traction boundary conditions far from the hole are satisfied by these stresses.
  • Calculate the stress concentration factors at the hole, i.e., ( ) (shear) and ( ) (normal).
  • Calculate the displacement field corresponding to this stress field (for plane stress). Plot the deformed shape of the hole.


Solution edit

Far from the hole,  . Therefore,

 

To rotate the stresses back to the   coordinate system, we use the tensor transformation rule

 

Setting   and  , we get the simplified set of equations

 

Plugging in equations (32-34) in the above, we have

 

Hence, the far field stress BCs are satisfied.


The stresses at the hole ( ) are

 

The maximum (or minimum) hoop stress at the hole is at the locations where  . These locations are   and  . The value of the hoop stress is

 

The maximum shear stress is given by

 

Therefore, the stress concentration factors are

 

The stress function used to derive the above results was

 

From Michell's solution, the displacements corresponding to the above stress function are given by

 

or,

 

For plane stress,  . Hence,

 

At  ,

 

Now  . Hence, we have

 

The deformed shape is shown below

 
Displacement field near a hole in plate under pure shear