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Transformations of Stress and Strain
*7.10 TRANSFORMATION OF PLANE STRAIN
Transformations of strain under a rotation of the coordinate axes will
now be considered. Our analysis will first be limited to states of plane
strain, i.e., to situations where the deformations of the material take
place within parallel planes, and are the same in each of these planes.
If the z axis is chosen perpendicular to the planes in which the defor-
mations take place, we have P
z
5 g
zx
5 g
zy
5 0, and the only remaining
strain components are P
x
, P
y
, and g
xy
. Such a situation occurs in a plate
subjected along its edges to uniformly distributed loads and restrained
from expanding or contracting laterally by smooth, rigid, and fixed sup-
ports (Fig. 7.54). It would also be found in a bar of infinite length
subjected on its sides to uniformly distributed loads since, by reason of
symmetry, the elements located in a given transverse plane cannot
move out of that plane. This idealized model shows that, in the actual
case of a long bar subjected to uniformly distributed transverse loads
(Fig. 7.55), a state of plane strain exists in any given transverse section
that is not located too close to either end of the bar.†
†It should be observed that a state of plane strain and a state of plane stress (cf. Sec. 7.1)
do not occur simultaneously, except for ideal materials with a Poisson ratio equal to zero.
The constraints placed on the elements of the plate of Fig. 7.54 and of the bar of Fig. 7.55
result in a stress s
z
different from zero. On the other hand, in the case of the plate of Fig.
7.3, the absence of any lateral restraint results in s
z
5 0 and P
z
Z 0.
Fixed support
Fixed support
y
x
Fig. 7.54 Plane strain example: laterally
restrained plate.
y
x
Fig. 7.55 Plane strain example: bar
of infinite length.
Q
Q
s
s
s (1 )
y
)
x
x
O
y
x
O
s (1
2
xy
2
xy
Fig. 7.56 Plane strain element deformation.
Q
Q
s
s
s (1 )
y'
s (1 )
x'
y
x
O
x
O
x'y'
2
x'y'
2
'
y'
x
x'
Fig. 7.57 Transformation of plane strain
element.
Let us assume that a state of plane strain exists at point Q (with
P
z
5 g
zx
5 g
zy
5 0), and that it is defined by the strain components
P
z
, P
y
, and g
xy
associated with the x and y axes. As we know from
Secs. 2.12 and 2.14, this means that a square element of center Q,
with sides of length Ds respectively parallel to the x and y axes, is
deformed into a parallelogram with sides of length respectively equal
to Ds (1 1 P
x
) and Ds (1 1 P
y
), forming angles of
p
2
2 g
x
and
p
2
1 g
x
with each other (Fig. 7.56). We recall that, as a result of the defor-
mations of the other elements located in the xy plane, the element
considered may also undergo a rigid-body motion, but such a motion
is irrelevant to the determination of the strains at point Q and will
be ignored in this analysis. Our purpose is to determine in terms of
P
x
, P
y
, g
xy
, and u the strain components P
x9
, P
y9
, and g
x9y9
associated
with the frame of reference x9y9 obtained by rotating the x and y
axes through the angle u. As shown in Fig. 7.57, these new strain
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