Faculty of Civil Engineering of Subotica, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Niš, University of Nis, Niš, Serbia
The state of stress around cavities of the revolving ellipsoidal shape (prolate or oblate) in the extreme cases of their degeneration is a very complex problem. Namely, the shape of cavities is defined by an appropriate curvilinear coordinate system, which contains hyperbolic and trigonometric functions. In this paper, the treatment of revolving ellipsoid coordinates has been presented, along with transformations of ellipsoids for corresponding limiting values of their coordinates. Various forms of cracking can be defined through the ellipsoid degeneration process. In addition, the paper is dealing with a definition of the stress state for the limiting cases of degeneration.
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