Minimum weight design of circular plates under arbitrary loading

Zussamenfassung Das Dimensionierungsverfahren vonDrucker undShield [1, 2] wurde kürzlich auf die Dimensionierung rotationssymmetrisch belasteter Kreisplatten für Mindestgewicht angewandt [3], wobei sowohl gelenkig gestützte als auch eingespannte Sandwichplatten betrachtet wurden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden diese Untersuchungen auf kreisförmige Sandwichplatten unter nicht rotationssymmetrischer Belastung ausgedehnt. Es zeigt sich, dass auch für solche Lasten der Dimensionierung für Mindestgewicht diejenigen Verformungszustände zugrunde gelegt werden könne, welche schon zur Lösung der entsprechenden Aufgabe bei rotationssymmetrischer Belastung konstruiert wurden. Für Belastung einer gelenkig gestützten oder eingespannten Kreisplatte durch eine Einzellast mit beliebigem Angriffspunkt werden explizite Dimensionierungsformeln gewonnen, für beliebig verteilte Belastung werden Integraldarstellungen der optimalen Dimensionierung gegeben.

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To Professor F. K. G. Odqvist on the occasion of his 60th anniversary

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The results presented in this paper were obtained in the course of research sponsored by the Office of Ordnance Research, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-19-020-ORD-4564.     

External circular crack under arbitrary shear loading

An exact closed form solution in terms of elementary functions has been obtained to the governing integral equation of an external circular crack in a transversely isotropic elastic body. The crack is subjected to arbitrary tangential loading applied antisymmetrically to its faces. The recently discovered method of continuity solutions was used here. The solution to the governing integral equation gives the direct relationship between the tangential displacements of the crack faces and the applied loading. Now a complete solution to the problem, with formulae for the field of all stresses and displacements, is possible.     

Post-bucking of angle-ply laminated plates under thermal loading

Notionsa. b, h Plate dimensionsL', [-. [1- mid-plane displacement componentsu- v- Ic dboensionless mid-plane displacement componentsVy., ac'~ slOPeS in xo and gi plane, ropectivelyJll, N number of terms in Cheby-shev series in x and y directions, respectivelyCCCC all edges clampedSSSS all edges simply supportedCCCS three edges (x = fi and y = 1) clamped and one (y = --1) simply supportedCCSS two edges (x = 11) clamped and two (y = fi) simply supportedCSSS one edge (x = --1) clamped …     

Torsion vibrations of a hemisphere under an arbitrary circumferential load

By using the expansion of the displacements in a series in a small parameter depending on the characteristics of the material and the load frequency, we study the steady-state torsion vibrations of a hemisphere subject to tangential forces arbitrarily distributed over its surface. We give the results of numerical studies. Three figures. Bibliography: 5 titles. Translated fromTeoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mekhanika, No. 28, 1998, pp. 98–107.     

The deformation of a half-space with a gradient elastic coating under arbitrary axisymmetric loading

An analytical-numerical method of solving the Neumann boundary-value problem for an elastic half-space with a gradient elastic coating is proposed. The problem is formulated and the construction of the fundamental solution (Green’s function) is described. The method enables a solution of the problem to be obtained for a fairly wide class of types of non-uniformity of the medium, and effects related to the non-uniformity are investigated analytically. A procedure for calculating the displacement, stress and strain fields is described. Particular attention is devoted to analysing the mechanical characteristics in the transition region from the coating to the elastic substrate.     

Large deflections of circular plates under uniform and concentrated central loads

Zusammenfassung Die gewöhnlichen von Kármán-Föppl-Gleichungen für grosse Durchbiegungen einer kreisförmigen Platte unter kombinierter, gleichmässiger und konzentrierter Belastung werden in Potenzreihen gelöst.

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This work was supported in part by the Office of Ordnance Research, U.S. Army.

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Formerly Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute     

Estimation of the long-term strength of polymer materials under arbitrary loading histories

A nonlinear version of the phenomenological theory of long-term strength of polymer materials (viscoelastic bodies) is proposed. It is based on the introduction of a function accounting for the damage accumulation connected with changes in the load intensity. The form of this function may be determined from the results of testing the material with a load changing with time in a certain way, for instance, periodically. As a parameter, the function contains the rate of the changing load or the frequency for periodic loads. For a quasi-isotropic material, the basic relationships of the theory proposed are generalized to the case of combined stresses. The durability (failure time) calculations of the material based on this theory are compared with experimental data for a number of polymer and composite materials in a wide range of loading modes. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 585–594, September–October, 1999.     

The minimum weight design of circular sandwich plates

Résumé Dans ce mémoire nous étudions le problème statique du choix des dimensions suivant: Comment doit varier l'épaisseur de point en point dans les plaques circulaires fléchies du type sandwich, pourque leur poids soit minimum, mais sans qu'il existe du fluage illimité? Comme hypothèse de base, nous avons pris la condition de plasticité devon Mises et la règle de fluage associée. Les plaques sont simplement posées ou encastrées le long de leur contour et portent une charge répartie symétriquement par rapport à l'axe. Les résultats obtenus sont comparés à ceux du problème analogue, où l'on utilise la condition de plasticité deTresca. Nous avons présenté finalement quelques résultats numériques.     

Delamination growth of laminated circular plates under in-plane loads and movable boundary conditions

An investigation is made on interlaminar delamination growth of composite laminated circular plates under in-plane loads and movable delamination boundary conditions. A four-dissociated-region model is developed on the basis of von-Karman plate theory. The model is geometrically nonlinear and the laminated circular plate considered is subjected to axisymmetrical delamination. The effects of transverse shear deformation and contact effect of the delamination on the laminated plates are taking into account in the development of the governing equations of the laminated circular pates with random axisymmetrical delamination. The formulas for describing the total energy release rate and its individual mode components along the delamination front are also derived with considerations of Griffith criterion for fracture. Based on the model established, the delamination growth is numerically studied; and the influences of the parameters such as delamination radii and depths, together with material properties of the plates on the energy release rate are analyzed in detail.     

A homotopy analysis solution to large deformation of beams under static arbitrary distributed load

In this article, homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed to investigate non-linear large deformation of Euler–Bernoulli beams subjected to an arbitrary distributed load. Constitutive equations of the problem are obtained. It is assumed that the length of the beam remains constant after applying external loads. Different auxiliary parameters and functions of the HAM and the extra auxiliary parameter, which is applied to initial guess of the solution, are employed to procure better convergence rate of the solution. The results of the solution are obtained for two different examples including constant cross sectional beam subjected to constant distributed load and periodic distributed load. Special base functions, orthogonal polynomials e.g. Chebyshev expansion, are employed as a tool to improve the convergence of the solution. The general solution, presented in this paper, can be used to attain the solution of the beam under arbitrary distributed load and flexural stiffness. Ultimately, it is shown that small deformation theory overestimates different quantities such as bending moment, shear force, etc. for large deflection of the beams in comparison with large deformation theory. Finally, it is concluded that solution of small deformation theory is far from reality for large deflection of straight Euler–Bernoulli beams.     

Note on the large deflection of a circular plate under a concentrated load

Zusammenfassung Es werden die grossen Deformationen einer Kreisplatte unter zentrischer Einzellast nach der Methode vonBerger ermittelt.     

Effect of material properties on the bending of cantilevered plates under a concentrated load

In a continuation of a previous study [4] a solution is obtained for the problem of a transversely isotropic plate in the form of an infinite strip bent by a concentrated load applied at an arbitrary point. The solution obtained is investigated in relation to the geometric and physicomechanical properties of the plate. The results are compared with the corresponding classical Kirchhoff solution [7].Physicomechanical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, L'vov; Kamenets-Podol'skii General Engineering Department of Khmel'nitskii Technological Institute. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 4, pp. 704–707, July–August, 1971.     

Transient response of sandwich viscoelastic beams, plates, and shells under impulse loading

The transient response of sandwich beams, plates, and shells with viscoelastic layers under impulse loading is studied using the finite element method. The viscoelastic material behavior is represented by a complex modulus model. An efficient method using the fast Fourier transform is proposed. This method is based on the trigonometric representation of the input signals and the matrix of the transfer functions. The present approach makes it possible to preserve exactly the frequency dependence of the storage and loss moduli of viscoelastic materials. The logarithmic decrements are determined using the steady state vibrations of sandwich structures to characterize their damping properties. Test problems and numerical examples are given to demonstrate the validity and application of the approach suggested in this paper. Submitted to the 11th International Conference on Mechanics of Composite Materials (Riga, June 11–15, 2000). Published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 367–378, March–April, 2000.     

Analytical solution of piezolaminated rectangular plates with arbitrary clamped/simply-supported boundary conditions under thermo-electro-mechanical loadings

This paper extends an analytical method for static analysis of general cross-ply piezolaminated rectangular plates with any combination of clamped/simply-supported boundary conditions under uncoupled thermo-electro-mechanical loadings. This method is based on the novel superposition method and the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The FSDT enables this expanded method to consider the effect of shear deformation of the plate. The process of applying electrical and thermal resultants causes some advantages due to its simplicity and less computational process. In this analysis displacement components are written in terms of unknown force and moment resultants. Using Fourier series for displacement components, mechanical, thermal, and/or electrical stress resultants, the complex governing differential equations of the plate are reduced to a set of linear algebraic equations with non-trivial solution. The obtained equations may be solved analytically to determine the unknown stress resultants. Several examples are proposed, and their obtained numerical results are compared with those available in the literature to verify the convergence, high accuracy, and the capability of the present method to analyze the static behavior of piezolaminated plates. It is found that there is high agreement between the present results with those obtained by other investigators.     

The decision problem of provability logic with only one atom

The decision problem for provability logic remains PSPACE-complete even if the number of propositional atoms is restricted to one. This paper was supported by grant 401/01/0218 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.     

Nonlinear static analysis of arbitrary quadrilateral plates in very large deflections

Through a linear mapping, an arbitrary quadrilateral plate is transformed into a standard square computational domain in which the deformation and director fields are developed together with the general forms of the uncoupled nonlinear equations. By proper interpolation of displacement and rotation fields on the whole domain, such that the boundary conditions are satisfied, a mathematical model based on the elastic Cosserat theory, is developed to analyze very large deformations of thin plates in nonlinear static loading. The principle of virtual work is exploited to present the weak form of the governing differential equations. The geometric and material tangential stiffness matrices are formed through linearization, and a step by step procedure is presented to complete the method. The validity and the accuracy of the method are illustrated through certain numerical examples and comparison of the results with other researches.     

Optimization of vertical axisymmetric displacements of a thin circular plate under a nonstationary thermal load

We study the problem of optimal control of the distribution of vertical axisymmetric thermal displacements of a thin circular plate fixed along its edge. The displacements are caused by a nonstationary heat load on one of the end surfaces. The thermal action on the other end surface is chosen as the control function. Using the Hankel and Laplace transforms in the space of continuous functions, we construct the solution of the inverse problem of thermoelasticity to which the original control problem has been reduced.Translated fromMatematichni Metodi ta Fiziko-Mekhanichni Polya, Vol. 40, No. 3, 1997, pp. 148–153.