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Calculation of Elastic
Deformations
The details of evaluating Eq. (18.29) are presented in this appendix. The in-
terval [XmintXgnd] can be divided into small intervals [X-,'-i,X.;+i] so that the
deformation <5tj at node ! is the sum of all the small elementary deforma-
tions cMjj calculated at node t and due to the pressure deAned in the interval
where
ai = -JL (A.4a)
1^+aiX^ (A.4b)
"1
X,) (X^i - X,+i) (A.4c)
683
;. 0
X'min ^ X
^',max
2
(A.4d)
^J
,^)
14 = 1- 03 A., (A.4e)
"2
= (X,, - X?-i) (Xj - (A.4f)
as = -7- (A.4g)
"3
(A.4h)
From the expression for ^.P/a^f' it can be seen that a*<^j can be expressed as
^/ i \ / v^ _ y. _ y'*s
— Xt *** X^ — X
z^
2
+ 2 - (A.8
1 / M\
r + Q4ir (A.9b)
''** 2?r \ 2/
1 / M\)
y^ ,
(A.9c)
^Yy<
where
M = Z^^ (In Z^^ - 3) -Z^,(lnZ^
, ,x-3) (A.lOa)
= Z^... \
fin IZmaxI^ - 4) .:^(tnl^minl'--4)
y - Z^mi (A.lOb)
-, ,,.y\.i —^i' z^v /. ^^ ^
X = M—^ ^- -I (A.lOc)
There is no problem concerning the singularity occurring for X, — X.,. When
there is a singularity in the interval [X^-i,Xt+i], we can integrate along the
two half-intervals [X^-i,Xt] and [X^X^+i and use the relation
which shows the relations (A. 9) to be also valid for Xt = X,-. Finally, the
deformation ^ is obtained by summing all the elementary small deformations
JV-l
^'=2,4,...
^
3'=1
and
Di,^ = dDi,Ar (A.14b)
Note now that ^ Di^P, is independent of the load. At high loads the
dimensionless film thickness R^t becomes very small with respect to <5;. How-
ever, by using an appropriate chance of variable (X = a:/6c), the maximum
deformation J^ can be kept equal to R^- Using the last change of variable
gives
where Dj - are the new influence coefficients obtained with the new value of X.
From the definition of c
The numerical "trick" was definitely helpful at high loads but was not used to
obtain the results presented herein.