Load-Carrying Capacity of Circular Plates Made of a Fiber-Reinforced Composite

The load-carrying capacity of circular plates made of a fiber-reinforced composite and loaded with axisymmetric transverse forces under axisymmetric boundary conditions is investigated. The plates can be freely supported or clamped along their contour. To the known yield condition used, in the plane of main bending moments, there correspond irregular hexagons, which depend on the mechanical properties of composite constituents and some characteristic geometrical parameters. It is shown that, depending on the ratio of ultimate radial and circumferential bending moments, in the plastic state, the circular plates (the central part of the clamped plates) take the form of a cone or a frustum of cone. For each of the cases, the limit load is found, which is a function of the above-mentioned mechanical parameters. The statically allowable fields of bending moments and the corresponding allowable fields of deflection rates are determined. The solutions found are exact. Special cases for the freely supported plates are analyzed, and the results obtained are presented in the form of graphs.__________Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 177–192, March–April, 2005.     

Stability of transversely isotropic annular plates with low shear resistance

The stability differential equations of a cylindrically orthotropic circular plate are obtained on the assumption of an axisymmetric buckling mode with allowance for transverse shears. These equations are solved for the case of a transversely isotropic material when the inner and outer edges of the plate are identically loaded by uniformly distributed radial forces. The transcendental equations for the critical load parameter are constructed for various edge conditions. The dependence of this parameter on the boundary conditions and the relative thickness of the plate, Poisson's ratio, and the ratio of the Young's and shear moduli of the material are investigated. Certain conclusions are reached concerning the design of reinforced-plastic plates.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 872–880, September–October, 1969.     

Calculation of rigidly clamped circular plates in the statement of the problem on contact interaction in a two-layer package

The use of a mechanicomathematical model of bending of thick transversely isotropic plates is illustrated, where the plate is divided in an arbitrary number of equally thick conditional layers. This model allows one to approximately reduce the problem of determination of stresses and displacements in the thick plate to a corresponding contact problem for a bent pack age of layers. The axisymmetric bending of a rigidly clamped package consisting of two plates rigidly fastened together is considered. The results of numerical calculations are presented, which are compared with those obtained within the framework of a refined bending model of plates (with account of transverse compression and shear) and of the Timoshenko model, as well as in the statement of the three-dimensional theory of elasticity. The accuracy of satisfying the boundary conditions in each model is analyzed. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 93–108, January–February, 2007.     

Transmission of sound through a pair of rectangular elastic plates

^** Email: f.leppington{at}ukonline.co.uk Two thin elastic plates, which may have different physical parameters,occupy the parallel regions 0 < x < a, 0 < y < b,z = – d and 0 < x < a, 0 < y < b, z = 0, ina Cartesian coordinate system, where the separation distanced is much less than the dimensions a and b. The plates are simplyconnected to a structure that occupies the rest of the region– d < z < 0. The side walls (x = 0 or a, 0 <y < b, – d < z < 0 and y = 0 or b, 0 < x <a, – d < z < 0) are taken to be acoustically soft;the surfaces z = – d and z = 0, outside the rectangularregions occupied by the plates, are taken to be acousticallyhard. Light compressible fluid (air) is in each of the half-spacesoutside the plates and in the rectangular region between them.A sound field is induced by a high-frequency plane wave. Allowanceis made for a small element of damping in the fluid trappedbetween the plates, as well as damping in the plates. Estimatesare derived for the transmitted power, averaged over a frequencyband and with respect to all incidence directions, in the asymptoticlimits of small fluid loading and high frequency. For the casewhere the two plates have identical physical properties, detailedasymptotic estimates are given for the form of the peaks inthe transmitted power, at a discrete set of operating frequencies,both above and below the plates' coincidence frequency.     

Axisymmetric flow over a backward-facing step in an annular pipe

The incompressible flow of a Newtonian fluid over a backward-facing step is investigated numerically. The geometry is an annular pipe in which the radius of the inner cylinder decreases suddenly. Keeping the radial expansion ratio fixed axisymmetric flows are computed for outlet radius ratios from 0.1 to 1 (ratio of the inner to the outer outlet radius). The Reynolds number at which the flow separates from the outer cylinder decreases as the outlet radius ratio decreases for constant inlet geometry. The growth with Reynolds number of the recirculation zone on the inner outlet cylinder just behind the step is strongly reduced when the recirculation zone on the outer cylinder is established. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

不用克希霍夫—拉夫假设的弹性圆板理论再探

本文在不用克希霍夫一拉夫假设的弹性板一般理论的基础上,建立了不用克希霍夫一拉夫假设的弹性圆板的一级近似理论,对圆板在四周固定和均布载荷的条件下,得到了具体的轴对称分析解,并和经典的圆薄板解进行了比较,证明本文新解更加接近实验结果,本文也具体地讨论了理论结果中厚度增大时的影响。     

Uncovering the finite difference model equivalent to Hencky bar-net model for axisymmetric bending of circular and annular plates

As there are a few finite difference models in the literature for axisymmetric bending of plates, only one of these models is equivalent to the Hencky bar-net model (HBM) that comprises a finite number of rigid circular arcs and straight radial segments joined by frictionless hinges with elastic rotational springs. This paper is concerned with uncovering the one finite difference model (FDM) that is equivalent to the HBM. Based on the energy formulation, the governing equation for HBM is derived and it will be used to identify the FDM that has the same discrete set of equations. By using this equivalency between the HBM and the identified FDM, the expressions of edge spring stiffnesses of HBM are derived for various boundary conditions. As illustrative examples, the HBM is used to solve the bending problems of circular plates under uniformly and linearly increasing distributed loads. The analytical solutions of HBM avoids the singularity problem faced in FDM at the plate center. This paper also presents some benchmark bending solutions for annular plates with and without an internal ring support for different boundary restraints by using the HBM.     

A method of constructing weighting functions for a circular crack

A general formulation is used to consider a static problem for a linearly elastic body with internal circular crack of normal separation. It is shown that the corresponding weighting function enabling a direct calculation to be made of the stress intensity factor (SIF) under arbitrary loading conditions is equal to the product of the axisymmetric weighting function and Poisson's kernel. The known axisymmetric solution /1/ is used to construct, as an example, the weighting function for a circular crack in an unbounded inhomogeneous body with periodic law of variation in the value of Poisson's ratio. An asymptotic analysis of the solution obtained is carried out for a material with rapidly oscillating elastic characteristics.

Some problems of the inhomogeneous theory of elasticity were studied for bodies with variable Poisson's ratio in /1–4/.     

Axisymmetric vibrations of circular plates of linearly varying thickness

Summary Free axisymmetric vibrations of circular plates of linearly varying thickness have been studied on the basis of classical theory of plates. The differential equation governing the motion of such plates have been solved by Frobenius method. The transverse displacement has been expressed as an infinite power series in the radial coordinate. Frequency parameters have been computed for the first three modes of vibration for clamped as well as simply supported circular plates corresponding to different values of taper constant.

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Zusammenfassung Auf Grund der klassischen Scheibentheorie werden die freien axialsymmetrischen Schwingungen der Kreisscheibe mit linear veränderlicher Dicke studiert. Die Differentialgleichung der Bewegung wird mit Hilfe der Methode von Frobenius gelöst. Die transversale Verschiebung wird als eine Reihe der radialen Koordinaten ausgedrückt. Die Schwingungsparameter werden für die ersten drei Eigenschwingungen sowohl für die eingespannte als auch für die aufgelegte Kreisscheibe für verschiedene Werte des Anzugs berechnet.

     

Transverse vibration of nonhomogeneous orthotropic viscoelastic circular plate of varying parabolic thickness

An analysis of the transverse vibration of nonhomogeneous orthotropic viscoelastic circular plates of parabolically varying thickness in the radial direction is presented. The thickness of a circular plate varies parabolically in a radial direction. For nonhomogeneity of the circular plate material, density is assumed to vary linearly in a radial direction. This paper used the method of separation of variables in solving the governing differential equation. In this paper, an approximate but quite convenient frequency equation is derived by using the Rayleigh–Ritz technique with a two‐term deflection function. Deflection, time period and logarithmic decrement for the first two modes of vibration are computed for the nonhomogeneous orthotropic viscoelastic circular plates of varying parabolic thickness with clamped edge conditions for various values of nonhomogeneity constants and taper constants and these are shown in tabular form for the Voigt–Kelvin model. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.