Resultados sobre a forma fraca do princípio de Saint-Venant

Abstract

The present paper, cornpletely restricted to Linear Elasticity, is presented in three chapters. In the first chapter, a review on Saint-Venant' s problem (torsion and flexion of beams) is made and the necessity of the so-called "Saint-Venant's Hypotesis" is indicated. The generalizations of the hypotesis made by Boussinesq and Love, as well as Sernberg's and Zanaboni's Theorems, are discussed. In the seoond chapter, Toupin' s Theorem on the weak form of Saint-Venant Principle is presented and some of his results are discusses. Finally, the author presents some results related to the weak form of Saint-Venant's Principle obtained in his reoent research.