ANALYSIS OF THE BENDING OF A NEO-HOOKEAN ELECTRO-ELASTIC SHELL OF ARBITRARY THICKNESS UNDER AN EXTERNALLY-APPLIED HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-78256692

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‎ THE PRESENT STUDY ANALYZES THE BENDING OF A SIMPLE ELECTRO-ELASTIC CYLINDRICAL SHELL BY THE COMPOUND MATRIX METHOD‎. THE CROSS-SECTION OF THE CIRCULAR CYLINDRICAL SHELL IS A NON-CIRCULAR CURVED SHAPE‎, ‎WITH A FUNCTION OF   AND THE MODE NUMBER‎, ‎WHERE  AND  ARE THE PRE-DEFORMATION INNER AND OUTER RADII OF THE CYLINDRICAL SHELL‎, ‎AND  IS THE RATIO OF THE DEFORMED INNER RADIUS TO  ‎. ‎IN THE FIRST STEP‎, ‎A NUMERICAL MODEL OF THE PROBLEM IS DEVELOPED TO OBTAIN SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS‎. ‎THE MODELING YIELDS A SYSTEM OF TWO ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH THREE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS OF THE SAME TYPE‎. ‎NEXT‎, ‎IT IS SHOWN THAT THE DEPENDENCE OF  TO   HAS A BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE‎. ‎SIMPLE NUMERICAL OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE FOR BIFURCATION CONDITIONS‎. ‎THE ANALYSIS IS‎, ‎IN FACT‎, ‎BASED ON THE VARIATIONS OF THE INNER AND OUTER RADII  AND  ‎, ‎ASSUMING  AND , ‎AND BASED ON THE BIFURCATION OF  AND RATIOS WITH RESPECT TO RADIUS‎. ‎FOR THIS PURPOSE‎, ‎THE COMPOUND MATRIX METHOD IS USED TO SHOW THE VALIDITY OF THE ARGUMENTS‎.

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2021-11-22

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