The problem of concentrated force acting on a half-plane made of a power-law creep
material is solved analytically. In our approach, the constitutive equation that
describes the process of dilatational deformation is omitted. The incomplete material
description is used for constructing a solution by bringing the dilatational
deformation to zero and, in this manner, making the material incompressible. We find
solutions for two cases; one solution is for a linear viscous material, while the second
is for a power-law material where the power exponent is equal to three. Solutions of
the two problems are found to be very different. While the linear viscous
solution is found to be the same as the linear elastic solution, the nonlinear
solution is found to be significantly different. This result may give rise to a new
experimental technique for characterization of materials with a nonlinear creep
behavior.
Keywords
concentrated force, power-law material, creep, viscous
material, incompressible material