On compressible materials capable of sustaining axisymmetric shear deformations. Part 3: Helical shear of isotropic hyperelastic materials

A helical shear deformation is a composition of non-universal, axisymmetric , anti-plane shear and rotational shear deformations, shear states that are separately controllable only in special kinds of compressible and incompre ssible, homogeneous and isotropic hyperelastic materials. For incompressibl e materials, it is only necessary to identify a specific material, such as a Mooney-Rivlin material, to determine the anti-plane and rotational shear displacement functions. For compressible materials, however, these shear de formations may not be separately possible in the same specified class of hy perelastic materials unless certain auxiliary conditions on the strain ener gy function are satisfied. We have recently presented simple algebraic cond itions necessary and sufficient in order that both anti-plane shear and rot ational shear deformations may be separately possible in the same material subclass. In this paper, under the same physical condition that the shear r esponse function be positive, we present an essentially algebraic condition necessary and sufficient to determine whether a class of compressible, hom ogeneous and isotropic hyperelastic materials is capable of sustaining cont rollable, helical shear deformations. It is then proved that helical shear deformations are possible in a specified hyperelastic material if and only if that material can separately sustain both axisymmetric, anti-plane shear and rotational shear deformations. The simplicity of the result in applica tions is illustrated in a few examples.