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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 49, Issue 21, Pages 3038-3046Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2012.06.003
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SAINT-VENANT beam; Orthotropic elasticity; Shear and twist centres; PRANDTL stress function
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The relationship between twist and shear centres in an orthotropic SAINT-VENANT beam, with fiberwise homogeneous elastic moduli and constant Poisson ratios, is investigated. Arbitrary cross-sections are considered. As a new result the relative position of these points is expressed in terms of the scalar potential whose gradient is the rotated field of twist tangential stresses. Its evaluation requires the solution of n + 1 boundary value problems, being n 0 the number of holes in the cross-section. In an isotropic and homogeneous beam the potential is PRANDTL stress function and known formulae, providing the relative position of twist and shear centres, are recovered. Explicit expressions of sliding-torsional compliance blocks for TIMOSHENKO beams, defined by an energy condition of equivalence with the orthotropic and fiberwise homogeneous SAINT-VENANT theory, are provided. Coincidence of twist centre and TIMOSHENKO shear centre is proven. Numerical computations on homogeneous and composite orthotropic L-sections are performed. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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