von-mises stress for axisymmetric problem

Jun 24, 2004 1 Replies

Can someone help me to understand how the von-mises stress might be computed for the following axisymmetric plate bending problem in cylindrical co-ordinates:



u_r(r) u_theta = 0 u_z(r)



So, the following strains are non-zero: e_rr, e_theta_theta, e_rz



This gives the following non-zero stress components: sigma_rr, sigma_zz, sigma_theta_theta, sigma_rz



Once I have the values for the above 4 stress components at a point, how do I proceed to compute the von-mises stress at that point. How do I go about computing all three principal normal stresses at that point?



Any help/clarifications are appreciated



~ankush


First of all write down matrix view of your stress tensor. Second - use the definition that von Mises stress is square root of double scalar product of stress tensor multiplicated on sqrt(2/3).

S. Gladkov

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