NUMERICAL IDENTIFICATION OF ELASTICITY COEFFICIENTS FOR THE BENDING PROBLEM

Abstract

A test for identifying elasticity coefficients for the bending problem is discussed. Bending is a problem of flat textiles, and its existence is demonstrated by experimental material on the basis of coordinates of a bent sample. In this paper, we propose another usage of Peirce’s cantilever test for determining the relationship between bending moment and curvature. Measuring error was taken into consideration during analysis. The results of calculation have been limited to the relationship between bending moment and curvature mainly of the second-degree, but in this way the relationships of a higher degree can be examined. For the analysis a special computer program was developed, which can calculate the coordinates of a bent sample on the basis of an image saved as a .bmp file (bitmap).