Stress Functions - Beltrami Stress Functions

Beltrami Stress Functions

It can be shown that a complete solution to the equilibrium equations may be written as

Using index notation:

Engineering notation
\sigma_x = \frac{\partial^2\Phi_{yy}}{\partial z \partial z} + \frac{\partial^2\Phi_{zz}}{\partial y \partial y} -2\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{yz}}{\partial y \partial z} \sigma_{xy} =-\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{xy}}{\partial z \partial z} -\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{zz}}{\partial x \partial y} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{yz}}{\partial x \partial z} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{zx}}{\partial y \partial z}
\sigma_y = \frac{\partial^2\Phi_{xx}}{\partial z \partial z} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{zz}}{\partial x \partial x} -2\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{zx}}{\partial z \partial x} \sigma_{yz} =-\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{yz}}{\partial x \partial x} -\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{xx}}{\partial y \partial z} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{zx}}{\partial y \partial x} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{xy}}{\partial z \partial x}
\sigma_z = \frac{\partial^2\Phi_{yy}}{\partial x \partial x} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{xx}}{\partial y \partial y} -2\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{xy}}{\partial x \partial y} \sigma_{zx} =-\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{zx}}{\partial y \partial y} -\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{yy}}{\partial z \partial x} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{xy}}{\partial z \partial y} +\frac{\partial^2\Phi_{yz}}{\partial x \partial y}

where is an arbitrary second-rank tensor field that is continuously differentiable at least four times, and is known as the Beltrami stress tensor. Its components are known as Beltrami stress functions. is the Levi-Civita pseudotensor, with all values equal to zero except those in which the indices are not repeated. For a set of non-repeating indices the component value will be +1 for even permutations of the indices, and -1 for odd permutations. And is the Nabla operator

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