Physics – Classical Physics
Scientific paper
2010-12-23
International Journal of Damage Mechanics 16 (2007) 95-126
Physics
Classical Physics
Scientific paper
Several families of elastic anisotropies were introduced by Saint Venant (1863) for which the polar diagram of elastic parameters in different directions of the material (indicator surface) are ellipsoidal. These families recover a large variety of models introduced in recent years for damaged materials or as effective modulus of heterogeneous materials. On the other hand, ellipsoidal anisotropy has been used as a guideline in phenomenological modeling of materials. A question that then naturally arises is to know in which conditions the assumption that some indicator surfaces are ellipsoidal allows one to entirely determine the elastic constants. This question has not been rigorously studied in the literature. In this paper, first several basic classes of ellipsoidal anisotropy are presented. Then the problem of determination of the elastic parameters from indicator surfaces is discussed in several basic cases that can occur in phenomenological modelling. Finally the compatibility between the assumption of ellipsoidal form for different indicator surfaces is discussed and in particular, it is shown that if the indicator surfaces of the fourth root of E(n) and of 1/c(n) where E(n) and c(n) are respectively the Young's modulus and the elastic coefficient in the direction n) are ellipsoidal, then the two ellipsoids have necessarily the same principal axes and the material in this case is orthotropic.
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