Large deflection analysis of floating roofs subjected to earthquake ground motions

Storage tanks with floating roofs have suffered severe damages during past earthquakes. To evaluate the seismic response of the cylindrical liquid storage tanks with floating roofs Hamilton’s variational principle is used. This study investigates the seismic response of the tanks accounting for nonlinearity due to large deflection of the deck plate. The ground motions include the long-period far-field record of Tokachi-oki, the near-source record of Kobe and far-field record of El Centro. It is found that accounting for large deflections in some cases could slightly magnify the roof deflection. However, usually the suppressing effect of the large deflection is more pronounced. Moreover, the frequency range in which large deflections have a suppressing effect is where ground motions are rich in the frequency content. These results are applicable for all of the ground motions considered in the analysis.     

圆薄板大挠度问题的摄动参数

本文研究了在用正规摄动法求解均布载荷下的圆薄板大挠度问题时,与载荷,挠度,转角,内力等有关的各种摄动参数,并对一般摄动参数情形用变分原理求得了解答本文从实验的角度阐明了各参数的适用范围,结果表明,相应的解答与用中心挠度为参数的解有较好的一致性;对均布载荷的情形,中心挠度仍可看做是较为合适的摄动参数;本文推荐的摄动参数及用变分原理确定摄动解的方法,具有普遍的适用性,可以用来处理载荷联合作用等更为复杂的情形.     

合成展开法求解圆薄板大挠度问题

本文用合成展开摄动法,把外场解和内层解结合起来,求解圆薄板大挠度问题.本文把Hencky的薄膜解当作外场解的一级近似解,并求出了外场解的二级近似解.利用边界内层坐标,求得了相应的各级内层解,即边界层解.本文采用最大位移和板厚之比的倒数作为小参数,所得结果大大改进了1948年作者所得的结果.     

Analysis of fluid storage tanks including foundation-superstructure interaction

An analytical formulation is developed to predict the flexural behavior of a cylindrical liquid storage tank resting on an isotropic elastic soil medium, which is modelled as a half space. The interface between the plate foundation and the soil medium is considered to be smooth and continuous. The plate deflection function is assumed in the form of a power series expansion in terms of the radial coordinate. The procedure accounts for the interactions between the tank wall and the plate foundation, and between the plate foundation and the soil medium. The principle of minimum potential energy is used to evaluate the unknown coefficients appearing in the assumed power series expansion and also the unknown interacting forces at the tank wall-plate foundation junction. Any number of terms can be considered in the assumed deflection function. Analytical expressions are obtained for the plate foundation deflections and radial moment, the contact stress distribution, the tank wall displacements, and the tank wall stress resultants. The results obtained compare well with the finite element analysis of a similar problem. Results of a parametric study are also presented to demonstrate the effect of the various geometric and material parameters on the flexural behavior of the system.     

基础动力分析的一种半解析、半数值方法

提出了一种基础动力分析的半解析、半数值计算方法．采用Lamb解及其相应的近似公式,建立了基础动反力和位移的关系式．从而可象静力问题那样将基础板分离出来,将板看作上部作用已知载荷,下部作用用挠度表示的地基反力,因此只需要对板进行有限元分析．采用这种方法分析了不同形状、 不同刚度、不同频率下的地基板的振动问题, 而且可以考虑基础埋深的影响．算例分析表明,提出的方法是一种计算简便、精度较高、适用范围广泛的有效数值方法．     

Effect of a Floating Elastic Plate/Membrane on the Motion Due to a Ring Source in Water With Porous Bed

The velocity potentials due to the presence of a horizontal circular ring of wave sources of timedependent strength in water of finite constant depth with a floating elastic plate or a floating membrane are determined. The uniform bottom is composed of non-dissipative porous medium. The problems are formulated as the initial value problems and the Laplace transform method is used to solve these. For time-harmonic source strength, the steady-state analysis of the potentials reveals the existence of outgoing progressive waves. Graphs for the surface profiles are presented for different values of the tension parameter for the membrane, flexural rigidity of ice and the porous-effect parameter.     

关于圆簿板大挠度问题的正交条件解法

本文重新考察了钱伟长教授求解圆薄板大挠度问题的系统近似法,发现此法实质上可视为奇异摄动理论中的变形参数法.以无量纲中心挠度为小参数,将挠度、中面薄膜力和载荷参数作渐近展开,我们对所得的递推方程给出了正交条件(可解性条件),据此可确定圆薄板的刚度特性.本文指出,利用圆薄板小挠度解和正交条件,可以不经求解方程而导得载荷参数与中心挠度关系的三阶近似以及中心点、边缘处的薄膜力的首项近似.文中对若干特例(均布载荷、复合载荷、各种边界条件)进行了具体计算,所得的结果与钱伟长、叶开沅、黄黔等人在文[1～4]中给出的结果完全相符.     

Variational approach for settlement analysis of circular plate on multilayered soil

A continuum-based analysis method is developed to analyze a uniformly-loaded circular plate founded on a multilayered soil deposit. The multilayered soil deposit forms a semi-infinite half space, and the behavior of each soil layer is assumed to be linear elastic. The plate is considered to be isotropic, homogeneous, and linear elastic. We apply variational principles to obtain the governing differential equations of the plate-layered soil system and solve them semi-analytically. We then compare results from the present analyses with those from finite element analysis. Using the proposed analysis method we perform a parametric study, results from which provide important insights into the effects of soil layering – such as the thicknesses and stiffness ratios of multiple soil layers – on the flexural behavior of the circular plate. Analyses for wide ranges of plate-to-soil stiffness ratios provide further insights on plate-soil interactions.     

A variational approach for large deflection of ends supported nanorod under a uniformly distributed load,using intrinsic coordinate finite elements

This paper presents a variational formulation that can be used for large deflection analysis of ends supported nanorod including the coupled effects of nonlocal elasticity and surface stress under a uniformly distributed load. The variational formulation involving the strain energy due to bending of nonlocal elasticity including the surface stress effect and virtual work done by a uniformly distributed load, is expressed in terms of the intrinsic coordinates. The Lagrange multiplier technique is applied to impose the boundary conditions which accomplished in the formulation. The validity of the variational approach is ensured by Euler's equation, which identical to the one derived by the force equilibrium consideration of an infinitesimal nanorod segment. The finite element method and Newton–Raphson iterative procedure based on the variational formulation are used to solve a system of nonlinear equations. Moreover, the very large deflection configurations of ends supported nanorod are highlighted in this study.     

Numerical techniques for a class of unilateral problems

In this paper, we use the variational inequality theory coupled with Pade approximants to obtain an approximate solution for a class of unilateral problems in elasticity. The results obtained are more efficient than the previously known methods of the same order. The variational inequality formulation is used to discuss the problem of uniqueness and existence of the solution of these unilateral problems.     

Postbuckling of Composite Airframe Structures: Closed-Form Approximate Solutions

In this contribution, the postbuckling behaviour of imperfect rectangular composite plates under compression is treated in a closed-form analytical manner. Based on rather simple shape functions for the postbuckling deflections and the plate imperfections, the requirement for compatibility of the membrane strains leads to an explicit solution for Airy's stress function. The equilibrium condition in the out-of-plane direction is not fulfilled explicitly, but rather in an integral sense using a Galerkin-type formulation, leading to an approximate closed-form solution for the postbuckling deflections. Eventually, rather simple closed-form approximate solutions for all postbuckling state-variables can be derived that can be used conveniently in engineering practice. The quality of the closed-form solution is established by comparison with the results of other authors. (© 2010 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Eigenvalue and eigenfunction error estimates for finite element formulations of linear hydroelasticity

Convergence of an approximate method for determining vibrational eigenpairs of an elastic solid containing an incompressible fluid is examined. The field variables are solid displacement and fluid pressure. We show that in suitable Sobolev spaces a variational formulation exists whose solution eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are identified with those of a compact operator. A nonconforming finite element approximation of this variational problem is described and optimal a priori error estimates are obtained for both the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.

     

On patched variational principles with application to elliptic and mixed elliptic-hyperbolic problems

Summary Variational principles are important tools for the approximate solution of boundary-value problems. There are many types of variational principles, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. In this paper we show how to use a combination of variational principles, each for a given subregion of the underlying region of space, so as to best utilize the chief benefits of the individual principles. Such a patched principle is particularly useful in solving transonic flow problems, where we use different principles in the elliptic and hyperbolic regions. We present the results of some numerical experiments for the Tricomi problem. These seem to indicate that our patched principle, when used in conjunction with the finite element method, leads to accuracy which is second-order in the mesh spacing, as compared to the standard numerical methods of solving this problem, which are only first-order.     

A Brézis-Browder principle on partially ordered spaces and related ordering theorems

Through a simple extension of Brézis-Browder principle to partially ordered spaces, a very general strong minimal point existence theorem on quasi ordered spaces, is proved. This theorem together with a generic quasi order and a new notion of strong approximate solution allow us to obtain two strong solution existence theorems, and three general Ekeland variational principles in optimization problems where the objective space is quasi ordered. Then, they are applied to prove strong minimal point existence results, generalizations of Bishop-Phelps lemma in linear spaces, and Ekeland variational principles in set-valued optimization problems through a set solution criterion.     

解任意四边形板弯曲问题的样条有限元法

关于用样条函数解板的弯曲问题,[1]在1979年讨论了矩形板和菱形板的弯曲;[2]在1981年对简支边界条件的矩形板,用振动梁函数和B样条函数组合作为插值函数,得到了效率更高的算式;[3]在1984年对[2]作了补充,采用拉格朗日乘子法,得到了在各种边界条件下平板弯曲的近似解,但所讨论的仍然是矩形板.     

On the semi-discrete stabilized finite volume method for the transient Navier–Stokes equations

A stabilized finite volume method for solving the transient Navier–Stokes equations is developed and studied in this paper. This method maintains conservation property associated with the Navier–Stokes equations. An error analysis based on the variational formulation of the corresponding finite volume method is first introduced to obtain optimal error estimates for velocity and pressure. This error analysis shows that the present stabilized finite volume method provides an approximate solution with the same convergence rate as that provided by the stabilized linear finite element method for the Navier–Stokes equations under the same regularity assumption on the exact solution and a slightly additional regularity on the source term. The stability and convergence results of the proposed method are also demonstrated by the numerical experiments presented.     

Reissner-Mindlin板问题带约束非协调旋转Q_1有限元方法

本文利用带约束非协调旋转Q_1元逼近Reissner-Mindlin板问题中旋度的两个分量.并分别选择Wilson元、双线性元和带约束非协调旋转Q_1元逼近挠度,相应地选取不连续的矢量值分片线性函数空间、最低阶旋转Raviart-Thomas元空间和矢量值分片常数函数空间为离散的剪应力空间,在矩形网格上构造了三个板元.通过证明一个离散的Korn不等式,并借助MITC4元的解构造了旋度、挠度和剪应力一个具有某种特殊且关键的可交换性的插值.再利用Helmholtz分解分析相容性误差.我们证明了这三个矩形元在能量范数意义下与板厚无关的一致最优收敛性.数值算例验证了我们的理论结果.     

Finite difference technique for solving obstacle problems

In this paper, we use the variational inequality theory coupled with finite difference technique to obtain an approximate solution for a class of obstacle problems in elasticity, like those describing the equilibrium configuration of an elastic string stretched over an elastic obstacle. The variational inequality formulation is used to discuss the problem of uniqueness and existence of the solution of the obstacle problems.     

复合载荷下圆薄板的大挠度问题

本文引入载荷分布函数使复合载荷依单参数变化,并选取平均挠角作为单一的位移摄动参数,给出了在均布载荷和中心集中力联合作用下边缘固定夹紧的圆薄板大挠度问题的摄动解,并讨论了中心点挠度为零的特殊情况.     

Analysis of the coupling of BEM, FEM and mixed-FEM for a two-dimensional fluid–solid interaction problem

In this paper we consider a fluid–solid interaction problem posed in the plane. We employ a mixed variational formulation in the obstacle, in which the Cauchy stress tensor and the rotation are the only unknowns. This new mixed formulation is coupled, through suitable transmission conditions on the wet interface, with a Helmholtz equation satisfied by the pressure of the fluid in the unbounded domain. We use a traditional primal variational formulation in this part of the domain and incorporate the far field information through boundary integral equations. We approximate the resulting weak formulation by a Galerkin scheme based on PEERS in the solid and on a FEM-BEM approach in the fluid part. We show that our scheme is uniquely solvable and convergent, and then provide optimal error estimates. Finally, we illustrate our analysis with some computational experiments.