Elastic-plastic problem in the case of inhomogeneous plasticity under complex shear conditions

In this research, the authors solved a two-dimensional elastic-plastic problem of the stress state under com-plex shear conditions in the body weakened by a hole that is bounded by a piecewise smooth contour. The stress state of a complex shear occurs in a cylindrical body of infinite length under the action of loads directed along the cylinder generators and constant along the generators. At the same time, with a sufficiently large load, both elastic and plastic zones appear in the body. As in any problem of this kind, it is necessary to find a previously unknown boundary separating the elastic and plastic zones. Finding such a boundary is not an easy task, but the specificity of elastic-plastic problems of complex shear is that solving such problems is easier than solving simi-lar elastic problems. Apparently, for the first time this fact was noted by G. P. Cherepanov. A lot of research is devoted to elastic-plastic problems of complex shear in the case of homogeneous and iso-tropic plasticity. All articles that solve complex shear problems essentially use the representation of stresses and displacements in the elastic zone in a complex form. In this research, the problems of complex shear are solved using conservation laws. It is assumed that the yield strength is a function of the coordinates of the point where the stress state is being studied. It is known that the elastic properties of structural materials can be homogene-ous and isotropic, while their yield point and strength are inhomogeneous. This situation is observed, for exam-ple, in the case of neutron bombardment of structural materials. This research will examine exactly this situa-tion. The article presents conservation laws for equations describing a complex shear. It was assumed that the components of the conserved current depend on the components of the stress tensor and coordinates. The com-ponents of the stress tensor are included in them linearly. The problem of finding the components of the con-served current was reduced to the Cauchy-Riemann system. The solution of this system allowed us to reduce the calculations of the stress tensor components to a curvilinear integral along the contour of the hole and thus find the boundary between the elastic and plastic areas.