We study three “incompressibility flavors” of linearly elastic anisotropic solids that exhibit volumetric constraints: isochoric, hydroisochoric, and rigidtropic. An isochoric material deforms without volume change under any stress system. An hydroisochoric material does so under hydrostatic stress. A rigidtropic material undergoes zero deformations under a certain stress pattern. Whereas the three models coalesce for isotropic materials, important differences appear for anisotropic behavior. We find that isochoric and hydroisochoric models under certain conditions may be hampered by unstable physical behavior. Rigidtropic models can represent semistable physical materials of arbitrary anisotropy while including isochoric and hydroisochoric behavior as special cases.

Issue Section:
Brief Notes
Keywords:
constraint theory, internal stresses, continuum mechanics
Topics:
Anisotropy, Eigenvalues, Hydrostatics, Solids, Stress, Deformation, Continuum mechanics, Structural mechanics
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