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Mohrscirclein3dimensions
particularcutplanewithafixednormaldirection.Inthegeneral3
dimensionalcase,foragivenstateofstressatapoint,theMohr
circle diagram has three circles as shown in Fig. 1. Mohrs circle
diagram is used frequently in conjunction with failure criteria like
theMohrCoulombfailurecriterion.
Figure1:Mohrscircleinthreedimensionalcase(123)
Assumethatthestressstateatapointisgivenbythestress
tensor:
(1)
ThecenterofeachcircleinMohrsdiagramlieson axisandis
givenby:
(2)
whiletheradiiofthecirclesarecalculatedby:
(3)
forcenters , and
,respectively.Iftheprincipalstressesare
):
(4)
and
(5)
and
for this
planelieinsideorontheboundariesoftheregionboundedbythe
circles
and
giveninthisarticlebutitcanbefoundinmanyrelatedbooks.
Inordertocalculatethenormalandshearstressesactingonany
plane,throughMohrscirclediagram,itisnecessarytoknowthe
direction cosines of the normal unit vector of the plane with
respect to the principal directions. Assume that , and are
the direction cosines of the plane with respect to the principal
directionsof , and ,respectively.Foragivenvalueof the
point
. By using center
as
center (the only center that does not depend on ) we draw the
arc
thearc
.Wedrawline
andmeasureangle
arc
.The
wedrawthearc
lies on
. We
isadequatetouseonlytwodirectioncosinesinordertodetermine
the values
Example
Considerthefollowingstressstateactingonapoint:
(6)
Calculatethenormalandshearstressontheplanewithnormal
vector:
(7)
Solution
Fromequations(4)and(5)wecalculatethecenters ,
and
andtheradii , and :
(8)
NextwedrawMohrscirclediagramasshowninFig.2.
Figure2:Mohrscirclediagramexample(3d).
Fromthedirectioncosineswecalculatetheangles , and :
(9)
Usingtheaboveangles(weneedonlytwo,forexample and )
wedrawthearcsandwefindthenormalandshearstressonthe
plane:
(10)
We can also confirm the solution by using the methodology
describedinthearticle:Calculationofnormalandshearstresson
aplane.
SuggestedBibliography
L.E. Malvern. Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous
Medium.PrenticeHall,EnglewoodCliffs,NewJersey,1969.
J.C. Jaeger, N.G.W. Cook and R.W. Zimmerman. Fundamentals
ofRockMechanics.BlackwellPublishing,MaldenMA,4thedition,
2007.
W.F. Chen and D.J. Han. Plasticity for Structural Engineers.
SpringerVerlag,NewYork,1988.
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