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An analytical technique is developed that reduces the unknown elastic-plastic boundary of a linear elastic-perfectly plastic material containing an elliptical hole under tensile plane stress loading conditions into an equivalent mathematical problem with known boundaries. This mathematical transformation may facilitate this problem’s solution by either analytical or numerical means. Yield is assumed to occur in this analysis under the Tresca yield criterion. An example elastic-plastic problem illustrating this method is drawn from existing literature in the form of a perturbation solution for an elliptical hole derived by a series expansion about a circular boundary.
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Support from the Institute of Global Enterprise in Indiana is gratefully acknowledged under the University of Evansville Global Scholar program. Additional thanks go to the late Dr. Michał Życzkowski for searching the Russian language literature for references concerning the elliptical hole problem.
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Appendix: Various Coordinate Transformations
Appendix: Various Coordinate Transformations
From (4.4) and (3.29), one derives using a chain rule that
Similarly, from (4.6) and (3.29) one finds
Second order transformations of Δ, for substitution into (4.10), follow analogously as
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Unger, D.J. Contact Transform for the Biharmonic Equation Applicable to Plane Stress Elastoplastic Elliptical Hole Problems. J Elast 117, 139–161 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-014-9468-3
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