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It has been known for some time that certain radial anisotropies in some linear elasticity problems can give rise to stress singularities which are absent in the corresponding isotropic problems. Recently related issues were examined by other authors in the context of plane strain axisymmetric deformations of a hollow circular cylindrically anisotropic linearly elastic cylinder under uniform external pressure, an anisotropic analog of the classic isotropic Lamé problem. In the isotropic case, as the external radius increases, the stresses rapidly approach those for a traction-free cavity in an infinite medium under remotely applied uniform compression. However, it has been shown that this does not occur when the cylinder is even slightly anisotropic. In this paper, we provide further elaboration on these issues. For the externally pressurized hollow cylinder (or disk), it is shown that for radially orthotropic materials, the maximum hoop stress occurs always on the inner boundary (as in the isotropic case) but that the stress concentration factor is infinite. For circumferentially orthotropic materials, if the tube is sufficiently thin, the maximum hoop stress always occurs on the inner boundary whereas for sufficiently thick tubes, the maximum hoop stress occurs at the outer boundary. For the case of an internally pressurized tube, the anisotropic problem does not give rise to such radical differences in stress behavior from the isotropic problem. Such differences do, however, arise in the problem of an anisotropic disk, in plane stress, rotating at a constant angular velocity about its center, as well as in the three-dimensional problem governing radially symmetric deformations of anisotropic externally pressurized hollow spheres. The anisotropies of concern here do arise in technological applications such as the processing of fiber composites as well as the casting of metals.
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Horgan, C.O., Baxter, S.C. Effects of curvilinear anisotropy on radially symmetric stresses in anisotropic linearly elastic solids. J Elasticity 42, 31–48 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041222
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041222