Example 3
Given:
If a material is incompressible (
= 0.5), a state of hydrostatic stress (
) produces no strain. The corresponding stress-strain relation can be written as

where
is an unknown hydrostatic pressure which will generally vary with position. Also, the condition of incompressibility requires that the dilatation

Show:
Show that the stress components and the hydrostatic pressure
must satisfy the equations

where
is the body force.
Solution
We have,
Also,

Therefore,

Since
, the above relation
gives
.
Therefore,

The strain-stress relations are

Differentiating the strains so that they correspond to the compatibilityrelation is two-dimensions, we have

In terms of the compatibility equation,

From the two-dimensional equilibrium equations,

Therefore, differentiating w.r.t
and
respectively,

Adding,

Hence,

Substituting back into the compatibility equation,

Hence,
