Accession Number:

AD0741190

Title:

Instability of an Elastic Material.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

LEHIGH UNIV BETHLEHEM PA CENTER FOR THE APPLICATION OF MATHEMATICS

Personal Author(s):

• Sawyers,K. N.
• Rivlin,R. S.

Report Date:

1972-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

Conditions are derived which are necessary for stability of incompressible elastic materials. These are obtained by considering the speeds of small-amplitude plane waves superposed on a finitely deformed state of the material. Author

Descriptors:

• (*ELASTIC PROPERTIES
• *MATERIALS)
• STABILITY
• DEFORMATION
• PROPAGATION
• MECHANICAL WAVES
• EQUATIONS OF MOTION

Subject Categories:

• Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE