Continuum Mechanics for Hillslopes: Part III Today we will focus on Deformation and Strain. Conservation Laws and Constitutive Relations on Thursday. 12/4/2018
Deformation Driven by both body forces and stresses Style and rate of deformation differs based on material properties (liquids, solids, etc.) Deformation described by a ‘displacement field’ Vectors connect positions before and after deformation Rigid-body translation Rigid-body rotation Distortion (strain) 12/4/2018
Normal Strain Elongation of contraction of a displacement vector. 12/4/2018
Normal Strain Displacement of point b can be described as: Displacement of point a PLUS Product of the gradient of displacement and the original line length PLUS An expansion series of higher order terms (using Taylor’s Theorem) 12/4/2018
Normal Strain 12/4/2018
Normal Strain (by definition: the normal component of strain is a change in line length) (note: strain is a dimensionless quantity) 12/4/2018
Normal Strain For infinitesimal strains, can assume only linear relationships matter. Assumption good for strains as large as 0.1% or even 1%. Works for large strains, if considered over short periods of time. 12/4/2018
Normal Strain By definition: positive in elongation. Relates infinitesimal normal strain to the gradient of displacement, along a coordinate direction. Note subscripts: If related: normal If unequal: shear 12/4/2018
Normal Strain (Area) Fractional change in area 12/4/2018
Normal Strain (Area) Calculating the area Of the final region, A1 Substituting the expression last into: 12/4/2018
Normal Strain (Area) and because are <<1, their product is very small. Thus, and in 3 dimensions, dilation is: 12/4/2018
Shear Strain The change in angle between lines that were originally perpendicular. Rotation α1 is positive in ccw direction because produces a displacement in the + y direction. Same for α2. When α1 = α2, this is pure shear 12/4/2018
Shear Strain By the small angle approximation where: 12/4/2018
Shear Strain DEFINING: The average angular change from the original right angle of the elemental area (average shear strain): Plugging in from above: Or: Finding components as symmetric: 12/4/2018
Shear Strain Same derivations can be done for: Many engineering applications use the total shear strain (the sum of the angular changes, α1 + α2), But most geological analyses use the average shear strain. 12/4/2018
Combined normal strain and average shear strain give a strain tensor: Total shear strain would remove the ½’s from the off-diagonal terms. 12/4/2018
Application: Debris Flows 12/4/2018
Rotation 12/4/2018
Rotation 12/4/2018
Rotation 12/4/2018
Strain in Alternate Coordinate Systems 12/4/2018
Strain in Alternate Coordinate Systems 12/4/2018
Rate of Deformation 12/4/2018