Axisymmetric strain of a thick-walled pipe made of a highly elastic material

We reduce the plane strain problem to a nonlinear elasticity problem for inhomogeneous bodies by choosing a new form of the elastic potential, whose parameters are determined from the data known in the literature. By using the geometric linearization method, we reduce that problem to a sequence of linear elasticity problems for inhomogeneous bodies. We obtain an analytic solution of the corresponding linear elasticity problem in the case of an arbitrary continuously differentiable dependence of the shear modulus on the radial coordinate. We determine the pipe stress-strain state and parameters in the case of finite and large strains for given sets of initial data and estimate the accuracy of the solution thus obtained.