11.

1 INTRODUCTION
In the previous chapter we were concerned with the relations existing between forces and deformations under various loading conditions. Our analysis was based on two fundamental concepts, the concept of stress (Chap. 1) and the concept of strain (Chap. 2). A third important concept, the concept of strain energy, will now be introduced. In Sec. 11.2, the strain energy of a member will be defined as the increase in energy associated with the deformation of the member. You will see that the strain energy is equal to the work done by a slowly increasing load applied to the member. The strain-energy density of a material will be defined as the strain energy per unit volume; it will be seen that it is equal to the area under the stressstrain diagram of the material (Sec. 11.3). From the stress-strain diagram of a material two additional properties will be defined, namely, the modulus of toughness and the modulus of resilience of the material. In Sec. 11.4 the elastic strain energy associated with normal stresses will be discussed, first in members under axial loading and then in members in bending. Later you will consider the elastic strain energy associated with shearing stresses such as occur in torsional loadings of shafts and in transverse loadings of beams (Sec. 11.5). Strain energy for a general state of stress will be considered in Sec. 11.6, where the maximum-distortion-energy criterion for yielding will be derived. The effect of impact loading on members will be considered in Sec. 11.7. You will learn to calculate both the maximum stress and the maximum deflection caused by a moving mass impacting on a member. Properties that increase the ability of a structure to withstand impact loads effectively will be discussed in Sec. 11.8. In Sec. 11.9 the elastic strain of a member subjected to a single concentrated load will be calculated, and in Sec. 11.10 the deflection at the point of application of a single load will be determined. The last portion of the chapter will be devoted to the determination of the strain energy of structures subjected to several loads (Sec. 11.11). Castiglianos theorem will be derived in Sec. 11.12 and used in Sec. 11.13 to determine the deflection at a given point of a structure subjected to several loads. In the last section Castiglianos theorem will be applied to the analysis of indeterminate structures (Sec. 11.14).

11.2 STRAIN ENERGY

Consider a rod BC of length L and uniform cross-sectional area A, which is attached at B to a fixed support, and subjected at C to a slowly increasing axial load P (Fig. 11.1). As we noted in Sec. 2.2, by plotting the magnitude P of the load against the deformation x of the rod, we obtain a certain load-deformation diagram (Fig. 11.2) that is characteristic of the rod BC.
Fig. 11.1 Axially loaded rod.