On catastrophe and cavitation for spherical cavity

This work deals with catastrophe of a spherical cavity and cavitation of a spherical cavity for Hooke material with 1/2 Poisson's ratio. A nonlinear problem, which is the Cauchy traction problem, is solved analytically. The governing equations are written on the deformed region or on the present configuration. And the conditions are described on moving boundary. A closed form solution is found. Furthermore, a bifurcation solution in closed form is given from the trivial homogeneous solution of a solid sphere. The results indicate that there is a tangent bifurcation on the displacement-load curve for a sphere with a cavity. On the tangent bifurcation point, the cavity grows up suddenly, which is a kind of catastrophe. And there is a pitchfork bifurcation on the displacement-load curve for a solid sphere. On the pitchfork bifurcation point, there is a cavitation in the solid sphere.EI04249-254