Skip to main content

Notes for Computer Assignment #1 Q5

Submitted by Nanshu Lu on

The notes mentioned in the problem (Rice, Solid Mechanics, pp65-68) is attached.

Attachment Size
solidmechanics_rice.pdf 730.34 KB

There is a typo in this passage. On the top of page 67, the formula for σ22 should be as follows:

σ22=(1+2a/b) σ

We can check this by plugging ρtip into the more general form of σ22, or just considering the fact that it doesn't make sense the way it is written in the text.

 

Wed, 11/08/2006 - 07:45 Permalink