Vibration analysis of rectangular plates coupled with fluid

The approach developed in this paper applies to vibration analysis of rectangular plates coupled with fluid. This case is representative of certain key components of complex structures used in industries such as aerospace, nuclear and naval. The plates can be totally submerged in fluid or floating on its free surface. The mathematical model for the structure is developed using a combination of the finite element method and Sanders’ shell theory. The in-plane and out-of-plane displacement components are modelled using bilinear polynomials and exponential functions, respectively. The mass and stiffness matrices are then determined by exact analytical integration. The velocity potential and Bernoulli’s equation are adopted to express the fluid pressure acting on the structure. The product of the pressure expression and the developed structural shape function is integrated over the structure-fluid interface to assess the virtual added mass due to the fluid. Variation of fluid level is considered in the calculation of the natural frequencies. The results are in close agreement with both experimental results and theoretical results using other analytical approaches.     

Natural frequencies of rectangular Mindlin plates coupled with stationary fluid

The present study is concerned with the free vibration analysis of a horizontal rectangular plate, either immersed in fluid or floating on its free surface. The governing equations for a moderately thick rectangular plate are analytically derived based on the Mindlin plate theory (MPT), whereas the velocity potential function and Bernoulli’s equation are employed to obtain the fluid pressure applied on the free surface of the plate. The simplifying hypothesis that the wet and dry mode shapes are the same, is not assumed in this paper. In this work, an exact-closed form characteristics equation is used for the plate subjected to a combination of six different boundary conditions. Two opposite sides are simply supported and any of the other two edges can be free, simply supported or clamped. To demonstrate the accuracy of the present analytical solution, a comparison is made with the published experimental and numerical results in the literature, showing an excellent agreement. Then, natural frequencies of the plate are presented in tabular and graphical forms for different fluid levels, fluid densities, aspect ratios, thickness to length ratios and boundary conditions. Finally, some 3-D mode shapes of the rectangular Mindlin plates in contact with fluid are illustrated.     

Asymmetric free vibration of circular plate in contact with incompressible fluid

Vibration of circular plates in contact with fluid has extensive applications in the industry. This paper derives added mass and frequencies for asymmetric free vibration of coupled system including clamped circular plate in contact with incompressible bounded fluid. Considering small oscillations induced by the plate vibration in the incompressible and inviscid fluid, velocity potential function is used to describe the fluid motion. Derivation uses Kirchoff’s thin plate theory. Two approaches are used to derive the free vibration frequency of the system. The solutions include an analytical solution employing Fourier–Bessel series and a variational formulation applied simultaneously on the plate and fluid. Strong correlation is found between free vibration frequencies of the two solutions. Finally the effect of fluid depth on the added mass and free vibration frequencies of the coupled system is investigated.     

Modified mixed Ritz-DQ formulation for free vibration of thick rectangular and skew plates with general boundary conditions

Recently, the present authors proposed a simple mixed Ritz-differential quadrature (DQ) methodology for free and forced vibration, and buckling analysis of rectangular plates. In this technique, the Ritz method is first used to discretize the spatial partial derivatives with respect to a coordinate direction of the plate. The DQ method is then employed to analogize the resulting system of ordinary or partial differential equations. The mixed method was shown to work well for vibration and buckling problems of rectangular plates with simple boundary conditions. But, due to the use of conventional Ritz method in one coordinate direction of the plate, the geometric boundary conditions of the problem can only be satisfied in that direction. Therefore, the conventional mixed Ritz-DQ methodology may encounter difficulties when dealing with rectangular plates involving adjacent free edges and skew plates. To overcome this difficulty, this paper presents a modified mixed Ritz-DQ formulation in which all the natural boundary conditions are exactly implemented. The versatility, accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method for free vibration analysis of thick rectangular and skew plates are tested against other solution procedures. It is revealed that the proposed method can produce highly accurate solutions for the natural frequencies of thick rectangular plates involving adjacent free edges and skew plates using a small number Ritz terms and DQ sampling points.     

膜与不可压缩有界流体接触时的自由振动

圆形膜与流体接触时的振动被广泛应用于工业中．推导了圆形膜在与不可压缩有界流体接触时,非对称自由振动的自振频率．鉴于膜在不可压缩、非粘性流体中振动引起的小振幅,采用速度势函数来描述流体场．使用两种方法来推导系统的自由振动频率．它们包括变分法及一种近似解法——Rayleigh商法．在用两种方法求得的自由振动频率值之间具有良好的相关性．最后,研究了流体的深度、质量密度以及径向张力对耦合系统自由振动频率的影响．     

An exact deformation analysis for the magneto-electro-elastic fiber-reinforced thin plate

A closed form expressions for bending problem of magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) rectangular thin plates are derived, the exact solutions for the deformation behaviors of the fiber-reinforced BaTiO₃/CoFe₂O₄ composites subjected to certain types of surface loads are analytically obtained. Based on Kirchhoff thin-plate theory, structural characteristics such as elastic displacements, electric potential and magnetic induction for magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) rectangular plates are investigated, the governing equation in terms of the transverse displacement is presented in a rather compact form due to the omission of the transverse shear deformation and rotatory inertia. The material coefficients for the MEE plate can be uniquely expressed by the volume-fraction (v.f.) of piezoelectric constituent BaTiO₃ in the fiber-reinforced composite, and are tabulated with 25% offset of the volume-fraction. The deformation variations of the MEE thin plate with closed-circuit electric restriction are evaluated analytically according to their specified boundary conditions, and the effects of the volume-fractions on the deformations variations are discussed. It can be found that all the results obtained by using the proposed model have reached good agreements with the other available research works, whereas, the present study provides a much simpler way in seeking the analytic solutions for the interactively coupled quantities of a multiphase medium.     

Exact solutions for free flexural vibration of Lévy-type rectangular thick plates via third-order shear deformation plate theory

In this paper, exact closed-form solutions in explicit forms are presented for transverse vibration analysis of rectangular thick plates having two opposite edges hard simply supported (i.e., Lévy-type rectangular plates) based on the Reddy’s third-order shear deformation plate theory. Two other edges may be restrained by different combinations of free, soft simply supported, hard simply supported or clamped boundary conditions. Hamilton’s principle is used to derive the equations of motion and natural boundary conditions of the plate. Several comparison studies with analytical and numerical techniques reported in literature are carried out to demonstrate accuracy of the present new formulation. Comprehensive benchmark results for natural frequencies of rectangular plates with different combinations of boundary conditions are tabulated in dimensionless form for various values of aspect ratios and thickness to length ratios. A set of three-dimensional (3-D) vibration mode shapes along with their corresponding contour plots are plotted by using exact transverse displacements of Lévy-type rectangular Reddy plates. Due to the inherent features of the present exact closed-form solution, the present findings will be a useful benchmark for evaluating the accuracy of other analytical and numerical methods, which will be developed by researchers in the future.     

缓变厚度中厚板的自由振动

本文将中厚板的厚度函数按一小参数展开,并采用奇异摄动方法,把原来变系数的微分方程组化成一系列常系数微分方程组求解.文中给出了任意变厚度中厚板的自振频率计算显式表达式,由此式,我们不仅可以方便地计算出各种变厚度的自振频率值,而且也可以根据频率的要求来优化板的厚度.文中的算例表明,本文的方法具有较好的精度、方法简便、有效等其他优点,可以考虑作为分析各种变厚度板壳的振动及稳定特征问题的有效方法之一.     

Free vibration and buckling analyses of composite plates with straight-sided quadrilateral domain based on DSC approach

Discrete singular convolution (DSC) method has been proposed to obtain the frequencies and buckling loads of composite plates. By using geometric transformation, the straight-sided quadrilateral domain is mapped into a square domain in the computational space using a four-node element. Plates having different geometries such as rectangular, skew, trapezoidal and rhombic plates are presented. The obtained results are compared with those of other numerical methods. Numerical results indicate that the DSC is a simple, accurate and reliable algorithm for vibration and buckling analyses of composite plates.     

Free vibration of functionally graded rectangular plates using first-order shear deformation plate theory

The main objective of this research work is to present analytical solutions for free vibration analysis of moderately thick rectangular plates, which are composed of functionally graded materials (FGMs) and supported by either Winkler or Pasternak elastic foundations. The proposed rectangular plates have two opposite edges simply-supported, while all possible combinations of free, simply-supported and clamped boundary conditions are applied to the other two edges. In order to capture fundamental frequencies of the functionally graded (FG) rectangular plates resting on elastic foundation, the analysis procedure is based on the first-order shear deformation plate theory (FSDT) to derive and solve exactly the equations of motion. The mechanical properties of the FG plates are assumed to vary continuously through the thickness of the plate and obey a power law distribution of the volume fraction of the constituents, whereas Poisson’s ratio is set to be constant. First, a new formula for the shear correction factors, used in the Mindlin plate theory, is obtained for FG plates. Then the excellent accuracy of the present analytical solutions is confirmed by making some comparisons of the results with those available in literature. The effect of foundation stiffness parameters on the free vibration of the FG plates, constrained by different combinations of classical boundary conditions, is also presented for various values of aspect ratios, gradient indices, and thickness to length ratios.     

A finite element solution of an added mass formulation for coupled fluid-solid vibrations

Summary. A finite element method to approximate the vibration modes of a structure in contact with an incompressible fluid is analyzed in this paper. The effect of the fluid is taken into account by means of an added mass formulation, which is one of the most usual procedures in engineering practice. Gravity waves on the free surface of the liquid are also considered in the model. Piecewise linear continuous elements are used to discretize the solid displacements, the variables to compute the added mass terms and the vertical displacement of the free surface, yielding a non conforming method for the spectral coupled problem. Error estimates are settled for approximate eigenfunctions and eigenfrequencies. Implementation issues are discussed and numerical experiments are reported. In particular the method is compared with other numerical scheme, based on a pure displacement formulation, which has been recently analyzed. Received August 31, 1998 / Published online July 12, 2000     

Effect of hydrostatic pressure on vibrating functionally graded circular plate coupled with bounded fluid

This study investigates free vibration of a thick FG circular plate in contact with an inviscid, and incompressible fluid. Analysis of plate is based on First-order Shear Deformation Reissner–Mindlin Theory (FSDT) with consideration of rotational inertial effects and transverse shear stresses. Potential theory together Bernouli's equation are utilized to obtain the fluid pressure on the free surface of the plate. The governing equation of the oscillatory behavior of the fluid is obtained by solving Laplace equation and satisfying its boundary conditions. The natural frequencies and mode shapes of the plate are determined using Chebyshev polynomials. The effects of the geometrical parameters such as plate thickness to its radius ratio, boundary conditions, fluid density, volume fraction index, and height of the fluid on natural frequencies and mode shapes are investigated. Comparison of analytically outcome of this study is made with similar publications in the literature.     

Numerical manifold method for vibration analysis of Kirchhoff's plates of arbitrary geometry

Many rectangular plate elements developed in the history of finite element method (FEM) have displayed excellent numerical properties, yet their applications have been limited due to inability to conform to the arbitrary geometry of plates and shells. Numerical manifold method (NMM), considered to be a generalization of FEM, can easily solve this issue by viewing a mesh made up of rectangular elements as mathematical cover. In this study, ACM element (Adini and Clough element from A. Adini, R.W. Clough, Analysis of plate bending by the finite element method, University of California, 1960), a typical rectangular plate element is first integrated in the framework of NMM. Then, vibration analysis of arbitrary shaped thin plates is conducted employing the tailored NMM. Using the definition of integral of scalar functions on manifolds, we developed a mathematically rigorous mass lumping scheme for creating a symmetric and positive definite lumped mass matrix that is easy to inverse. A series of numerical experiments have been studied and analyzed, including free and forced vibration of thin plates with various shapes, validating the proposed mass lumping scheme can supersede the consistent mass formulation in those cases.     

A two-variable first-order shear deformation theory considering in-plane rotation for bending,buckling and free vibration analyses of isotropic plates

This paper presents a two-variable first-order shear deformation theory considering in-plane rotation for bending, buckling and free vibration analyses of isotropic plates. In recent studies, a simple first-order shear deformation theory (S-FSDT) was developed and extended. It has only two variables by separating the deflection into bending and shear parts while the conventional first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) has three variables. However, the S-FSDT provides incorrect predictions for the transverse shear forces on the insides and the twisting moments at the boundaries except simply supported plates since it does not consider in-plane rotation. The present theory also has two variables but considers in-plane rotation such that it is able to correctly predict the responses of plates with any boundary conditions. Analytical solutions are obtained for rectangular plates with two opposite edges that are simply supported, with the other edges having arbitrary boundary conditions. Numerical results of deflections, stress resultants, buckling loads and natural frequencies are presented with the FSDT, the S-FSDT and the present theory. Comparative studies demonstrate the effects of in-plane rotation and the accuracy of the present theory in predicting the bending, buckling and free vibration responses of isotropic plates.     

Buckling and free vibration analysis of thick rectangular plates resting on elastic foundation using mixed finite element and differential quadrature method

In this article, a combination of the finite element (FE) and differential quadrature (DQ) methods is used to solve the eigenvalue (buckling and free vibration) equations of rectangular thick plates resting on elastic foundations. The elastic foundation is described by the Pasternak (two-parameter) model. The three dimensional, linear and small strain theory of elasticity and energy principle are employed to derive the governing equations. The in-plane domain is discretized using two dimensional finite elements. The spatial derivatives of equations in the thickness direction are discretized in strong-form using DQM. Buckling and free vibration of rectangular thick plates of various thicknesses to width and aspect ratios with Pasternak elastic foundation are investigated using the proposed FE-DQ method. The results obtained by the mixed method have been verified by the few analytical solutions in the literature. It is concluded that the mixed FE-DQ method has good convergancy behavior; and acceptable accuracy can be obtained by the method with a reasonable degrees of freedom.     

Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates Resting on Elastic Foundations by Using a Refined Hyperbolic Shear Deformation Theory

The free vibration of laminated composite plates on elastic foundations is examined by using a refined hyperbolic shear deformation theory. This theory is based on the assumption that the transverse displacements consist of bending and shear components where the bending components do not contribute to shear forces, and likewise, the shear components do not contribute to bending moments. The most interesting feature of this theory is that it allows for parabolic distributions of transverse shear stresses across the plate thickness and satisfies the conditions of zero shear stresses at the top and bottom surfaces of the plate without using shear correction factors. The number of independent unknowns in the present theory is four, as against five in other shear deformation theories. In the analysis, the foundation is modeled as a two-parameter Pasternak-type foundation, or as a Winkler-type one if the second foundation parameter is zero. The equation of motion for simply supported thick laminated rectangular plates resting on an elastic foundation is obtained through the use of Hamilton’s principle. The numerical results found in the present analysis for free the vibration of cross-ply laminated plates on elastic foundations are presented and compared with those available in the literature. The theory proposed is not only accurate, but also efficient in predicting the natural frequencies of laminated composite plates.     

Frequency-dependent vibration analysis of symmetric cross-ply laminated plate of Levy-type by spectral element and finite strip procedures

This research describes spectral finite element formulation for vibration analysis of rectangular symmetric cross-ply laminated composite plates of Levy-type based on classical lamination plate theory (CLPT). Formulation based on SFEM includes partial differential equations of motion, spectral displacement field, dynamic shape functions, and spectral element stiffness matrix (SESM). In this paper, vibration analysis of composite plate is investigated in two sections: free vibrations and forced vibrations. In free vibrations, natural frequencies are calculated for different Young’s moduli ratios and boundary conditions. In forced vibrations, plate vibrations are investigated under high-frequency concentrated impulsive loads. The resulting responses due to spectral element formulation are compared with those of (time-domain) finite element and analytical formulations, whenever available. The results demonstrate the superiority of SFEM with respect to FEM, in reducing computational burden, simultaneously increasing numerical accuracy, specifically for excitations of high-frequency content. By reducing the time duration of impulsive loads, and consequently increasing the modal contribution of higher modes in the transient response of plate, the accuracy of FEM responses decreases substantially accompanied with a high volume of computations, while the accuracy of the SFEM response results is very high and simultaneously, with a low computational burden. Practically, SFEM follows very closely exact analytical solutions.     

Free vibration of sandwich plates with impact-induced damage

Free vibrations of impact-damaged sandwich plates with honeycomb and foam cores are studied. It is assumed that damages caused by impact events are to exist before the vibration start and to be constant during oscillations. The influence of the impact damage modes involving the core crushing (planar damage), face sheets fracture (indentation) and the core to face sheets interface degradation (debonding) on the natural frequencies and associated mode shapes of the sandwich plates was investigated using commercially available finite element code ABAQUS. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Fundamental frequency of isotropic and orthotropic rectangular plates with linearly varying thickness by discrete singular convolution method

The subject of this article is solving free vibration problems of isotropic and orthotropic rectangular plates with linearly varying thickness along one direction. For the numerical solution to evaluate the frequencies of plates, the method of discrete singular convolution (DSC) is adopted. Frequency parameters are obtained for different types of boundary conditions, taper and aspect ratios. The effect of the mode number is also analyzed. The results obtained by the present numerical method show an excellent agreement with available published results.     

边缘有弹性点支矩形板的横向振动*

本文研究了两对边简支、另两对边任意支承的自由边有弹性点支的矩形板的横向振动问题,提供了一种求其固有频率和振型的高精度解法,自由边上弹性点支的个数及位置均可任意,本文用脉冲函数表示弹性点支的反力和力矩,利用Fourier级数将脉冲函数沿边缘展开,从而得到了满足全部边界条件的特征方程,可求得任意精度的任意阶固有频率及振型.