• DocumentCode
    3347729
  • Title

    Constitutive relation for exact model of a Cosserat elastic rod

  • Author

    Wei, Yu Jian ; Yun, Xue

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Mech. & Autom. Eng., Shanghai Inst. of Technol., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    26-28 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    6262
  • Lastpage
    6265
  • Abstract
    There are wide backgrounds of applications of a thin elastic rod. For an exact model of a Cosserat elastic rod which are not only bending and torsion but also shearable and extensible, constitutive relation for principal vector and principal moment on a cross section versus displacements of the section with arc coordinate are derived from Hooke´s low. It shows that derivative of generalized coordinates in bending components of curvature-twisting vector and axial components of strain vector of center of a cross section which are all composed of linear strain is about arc coordinate before deflection of the rod. And the one in torsion components of curvature-twisting vector and shear components of strain vector of center of a cross section which are all composed of shearing strain is about arc coordinate after deflection of the rod. In the senses of first-order approximation, the principal vector is proportional to the strain vector of a point in the center line, and the principal moment is also proportional to the curvature-twisting vector about intrinsic arc coordinate.
  • Keywords
    bending; elasticity; rods (structures); Cosserat elastic rod; Hooke´s low; axial components; bending components; constitutive relation; curvature-twisting vector; principal moment; principal vector; strain vector; Automation; Capacitive sensors; DNA; Shearing; Vectors; Cosserat elastic rod; arc coordinate; constitutive relation; curvature-twisting vector; exact model;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7737-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MACE.2010.5535517
  • Filename
    5535517