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XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

Transient Eigenstrains Without Incremental Displacements in a Hyperelastic Body

Hans Irschik, Uwe Pichler
Institute for Technical Mechanics, University of Linz, Linz, Austria


We consider a hyperelastic body in a static intermediate configuration, loaded by an additional distribution of transient eigenstrains, the latter being e.g. due to the electric field in a piezoelastic body, or due to the temperature in a thermoelastic body. We seek for distributions of eigenstrain, such that that the incremental displacements vanish throughout the body. In the present paper, within the framework of the theory of small dynamic deformations superimposed upon a static strain, we derive solutions for eigenstrains that are applied at a sub-region of the body only.



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