Initial Stresses in a Twisted Porous Fluid-Saturated Cylinder.

In this paper a porous fluid-saturated cylinder subjected to a finite twist deformation is analyzed. The material of the skeleton of the porous cylinder is hyperelastic of Ogden-type and assumed nearly incompressible. The twist is applied to the cylinder in a fast rate so that the fluid pressure develops in the pores of the cylinder. The main objective of this paper is to study the stresses and the fluid pressure in the cylinder over a short period of time after the twist has been applied, or to study the initial response. The analytical expressions for the stress components and the fluid pressure are derived for Ogden material with arbitrary material parameters. The quantitative picture for the stress state is given and the signs of the normal stresses are explained. The stress arising in some imaginary fibers that were initially parallel to the axis of the cylinder is obtained. The present problem is similar to the torsion problem of a totally incompressible and nonporous cylinder in a sense that the total stresses are identical in both problems. But decomposition of the total stresses into the fluid pressure and the effective stresses, which is specific for the fluid-saturated body, can be found only using the present analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]