356
Article 356 (6 more) in sci.engr.civil:
From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech,sci.engr.civil,sci.engr.biomed,sci.engr

Subject: Re: FIBER REINFORCED CYLINDER ANSL
Message-ID: <1992Aug10.204952.8042@u.washington.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 92 20:49:52 GMT
References: <1992Aug5.150811.8641@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Sender: Dean Pentcheff
Reply-To: dean2@rocky.geol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Followup-To: sci.engr.biomed
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Lines: 20

tilak@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Tilak Ratnanather) writes:
>Can anyone direct me to the appropriate references for this 
>problem:
>Consider an orthotropic cylindrical shell with internal pressure
>composed of fibers at an angle with the axis. 
>       Show that for one fiber that for fiber angles less
>       than 55 degrees the shell will undergo an increase
>       in diameter and a decrease in axial length.
>       What might be the changes if the shell has a radial
>       force on the wall?
--MORE--(80%)>Specifically I would like to derive the equations relating the
>strains to the fiber angles.

Check Wainwright, Biggs, Currey, and Gosline (1976?) Mechanical design
of organisms.

You might also check work by William Kier (UNC Chapel Hill) on muscular
hydrostats and squid tentacles.

-Dean
End of article 356 (of 362)--what next? [npq] 