Elasticity and stress functions

[daftdave11]

Hello

Could anyone give me a definition and simple applications of Beltrami, Maxwell, Morera stress functions as i am finding it difficult to find any information on the topic in texts and on the web. any help would be a great help to me.

Thanks in advance

David

 

[dhengr]

David:
Your certainly get an A for persistence.

Anyone seriously using those names in conjunction with the phrase stress functions, should have a good idea of where to look for this material and should have more than a passing interest in math. I’ll grant you, they do not crop up often in every day Mechanical or Structural design work. And, there are no simple definitions or applications. Does your school library have any good, serious, textbooks on The Theory of Elasticity any longer, or is it all truly on the internet now? Look at “Mathematical Theory of Elasticity,” by I.S. Sokolnikoff, or “The Mathematical Theory of Elasticity,” by A.E.H. Love. And, enjoy, that’s some pretty awful stuff.