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J.R.BARBER, ELASTICITY, 2nd edition

ERRATA — last updated May 30, 2012

Page 39, Problem 1: Replace

3νF xy 3νF xy
− by
2b3 2b3
— i.e. delete the negative sign.

Page 63, Equations (5.100, 5.101) should read

σxx = f ′′ (y) cos(λx) ; σxy = λf ′(y) sin(λx) ; σyy = −λ2 f (y) cos(λx)

and
σxx (a, y) = f ′′ (y) cos(λa) ; σxy (a, y) = λf ′ (y) sin(λa)
respectively.

Page 74, In equations (6.11, 6.12) replace ‘y’ by ‘b’ in the last term.
Page 107, Table 8.1: In the entry for the stress function rθ cos θ, the stress component
σrr requires a negative sign — i.e.

σrr = −2 sin θ/r .

Page 116, equation (9.34)

(1 + ν)a4
Replace (1 + ν)a4 r 3 by .
r3

Page 129, equation (10.35): Add a ‘+’ sign in the second line to read

φ = A′ r 3 (ln(r) sin θ + θ cos θ) + B ′ r −1 (θ cos θ − ln r sin θ)

+C ′ r ln(r)θ cos θ + D ′ r(ln2 r sin θ − θ2 sin θ) .

Page 130, equation (10.36): Correct coefficients on D ′ to read

σrr = (2A′ r − 2B ′ r −3 + C ′ r −1 − 4D ′ r −1 )θ cos θ

+(2A′ r ln(r) − A′ r + 2B ′ r −3 ln(r) − 3B ′ r −3
−2C ′ r −1 ln(r) + 2D ′ r −1 ln(r) − 2D ′ r −1 ) sin θ
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Page 133, equation (10.56): Omit the first power of 2, obtaining

Sb(b2 − a2 )
A1 (1) = A2 (1) = .
2

Page 153, lines 5 and 11: §11.3 should read §11.2.

Page 158, equation (12.3): The first line should read

σrr = r −1 (2C1 cos θ − 2C2 sin θ + C3 cos θ + C4 sin θ)

In other words, the ‘C2 ’ term should be negative.

Page 159, equation (12.7): should read

2C1 cos θ 2C2 sin θ
σrr = −
r r
In other words, the ‘C2 ’ term should be negative.

Page 215, Problem 8: Replace “...a uniform antiplane shear stress σθz = S...” by “...a
uniform antiplane shear traction σθz = S...”

Page 236, Figure 16.6: The 500 N force and the 24o angle are irrelevant to this problem
and should be deleted. The corrected figure is as follows:-

Figure 16.6: Turbine blade cross-section.

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Page 245, equation (17.44):

12(−1)m a3 3(−1)m F νa2

should read
π 2 m2 2π 2 m2 b3 (1 + ν)

Page 247, Problems 3 and 4: “Find the shear stresses.... on the cross-section.” should
read “Find the shear stresses.... on the cross-section for the special case where ν =
0.5...”
√
Page 247, Problems 3 and 4: “...the centroid
√ of the section (0, a/2 3)...” should read
“...the centroid of the section (0, a/ 3)...”

Page 247, Problem 6: x/(x2 +r 2 ) and (x3 −3xy 2 )/(x2 +y 2 ) should read x/(x2 +y 2 ) and
(x3 −3xy 2 )/(x2 +y 2)3

Page 247, Problem 7:

r γ cos(γθ) should read r γ sin(γθ)

Page 275, Equation (19.66): should read

Φα = e−2ıα Φ

Page 287, Problem 1: “solution A of Table 19.1” should read “solution A of Table
19.2”.

Page 288, Problem 2: “Table 9.1” should read “Table 19.1”.

Page 307, Equation (22.34): The first of the three equations should have a 1/2 multi-
plier. i.e.
1 R+z
 
0
R Q0 (z/R) = ln
2 R−z

Page 320, equations (23.49): The term “−6B4 νzr” in σrz should read “−6B3 νzr”.

Page 322, §23.3.1: The first line should read “...the solid cylinder 0 < r < a, 0 < z < L,
built-in at z = L...”

Page 324, Problem 4: The third line of the boundary conditions should read

σzr = σzz = 0 ; z=0.

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Page 329, Equation (24.13): The last term 2(1 + ν)B2 /R3 should be positive, giving
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12A2 2(1 + ν)B2
σRβ = −3A1 + − 2(1 − 2ν)B1 + sin β cos β
R 5 R3
The same change should be made in the last of the three equations on the next page,
which becomes
12A2 2(1 + ν)B2
−3A1 + − 2(1 − 2ν)B1 + =0
a5 a3

Page 330, Equation (24.15): There are errors in the expressions for σθθ , σββ and σRβ .
The correct expressions are
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3S a3 2 a5
σθθ = (5ν − 2 + 5(1 − 2ν) cos β) + (1 − 5 cos2 β)
2(7 − 5ν) R3 R5
σββ = S sin2 β
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S a3 2 3a5 2
+ (4 − 5ν + 5(1 − 2ν) cos β) + 5 (3 − 7 cos β)
2(7 − 5ν) R3 R
( !)
1 5a3 (1 + ν) 12a5
σRβ = S −1 + − + 5 sin β cos β .
(7 − 5ν) R3 R

Page 331, equation (24.19): Add = F at the end of the equation, giving
Z 2π Z β0
{σRR (Rb , θ, β) cos β − σRβ (Rb , θ, β) sin β}Rb2 sin βdβdθ = F .
0 0

Page 341, Figure 25.1: The surfaces ABCD need to be added. The corrected figure is
as follows:-

Figure 25.1: Vector representation of the shear stresses on the cross-sectional plane.
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Page 347, equation (25.40): There should be a negative sign in the last term, — i.e.

1 ∂φ 1 ∂φ
σθβ = − =− 2 2
r ∂R
2 R sin β ∂R

Pages 349, 350, Problems. All references to ‘equation (25.14)’ should read ‘equation
(25.11)’.

Page 362, equation (27.18) should have a 2/π multiplier — i.e.

2u0 a
uz (r, 0) = sin−1 ; r>a
π r

Page 375, equation (28.19): replace

uz by uz (r, 0+ )

Also in the line above this equation, replace z = 0 by z = 0+ .

Page 379, Problem 4:

0≤a should read 0≤r<a