The Bonded-Punch Problem
Welcome to the Bonded Punch Problem home page at
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus. This page is
designed to ...
- Display graphically some interesting results concerning singular
fields in the theory of elasticity; especially, the highly localized
self-intersecting deformation behavior of the solution
of the bonded punch problem in classical linear theory of elasticity.
- Offer a supplemental educational resource for graduate students
enrolled in the graduate program at the Department of
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics.
The bonded punch problem has a long history in Mechanics of Materials
and has been the subject of many investigations because of its
elementary mathematical structure, its usefulness in giving insight into
more complex problems of material behavior, and its many important
engineering applications. To find out more about its
formulation
and to visualize some "gif" pictures and "mpeg" movies click on the
items shown in the main menu. Some pages are still under construction.
Please, check them latter!
The visualization consists of three parts:
- The deformation of the free-surface ;
- The behavior of internal material lines and
the free-surface shape;
- The free-surface shape at
small scale
distance, order O(e-10 L), from the corner of the punch (width = L).
Each part has two corresponding
MPEG movies; one movie being the short version
of the other.
The work presented in this web site is part of the broader project
Singular States and Stress-Induced Phase Structures in Solids .
The results shown correspond to the solution of the The Bonded Punch
Problem in Classical Linear Elasticity Theory . The visualization
of these results was greatly facilitated by the
Supercomputing
Institute head of technical support
Barry Schaudt .
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