Explicit solutions for the coupled stretching–bending problems of holes in composite laminates

Although the classical lamination theory was developed long time ago, it is still not easy to apply this theory to find the analytical solutions for the curvilinear boundary value problems especially when the stretching and bending are coupled each other. To overcome the difficulties, recently we developed a Stroh-like formalism for the general composite laminates. By using this formalism, most of the relations for the coupled stretching–bending problems can be organized into the forms of Stroh formalism for two-dimensional anisotropic elasticity problems. With this newly developed Stroh-like formalism, it becomes easier to obtain an analytical solution for the coupled stretching–bending problems of holes in composite laminates. Because the Stroh-like formalism is a complex variable formalism, the analytical solutions for the whole field are expressed in complex form. Through the use of some identities derived in this paper, the resultant forces and moments around the hole boundary are obtained explicitly in real form. Due to the lack of analytical solutions for the general cases, the comparison is made with the existing analytical solutions for some special cases. In addition, to show the generality of our analytical solutions, several numerical examples are presented to discuss the coupling effect of the laminates and the shape effect of the holes.     

SINGULAR SOLUTIONS OF ANISOTROPIC PLATE WITH AN ELLIPTICAL HOLE OR A CRACK

In the present paper, closed form singular solutions for an infinite anisotropic plate with an elliptic hole or crack are derived based on the Stroh-type formalism for the general anisotropic plate. With the solutions, the hoop stresses and hoop moments around the elliptic hole as well as the stress intensity factors at the crack tip under concentrated in-plane stresses and bending moments are obtained. The singular solutions can be used for approximate analysis of an anisotropic plate weakened by a hole or a crack under concentrated forces and moments.They can also be used as fundamental solutions of boundary integral equations in BEM analysis for anisotropic plates with holes or cracks under general force and boundary conditions.     

Analytical solution for bending stress intensity factor in an orthotropic elastic plate containing a crack and subjected to concentrated moments

The problem of estimating the bending stress distribution in the neighborhood of a crack located on a single line in an orthotropic elastic plate of constant thickness subjected to out-of-plane concentrated moments is examined. Using classical plate theory and integral transform techniques, the general formulae for the bending moment and twisting moment in an elastic plate containing cracks located on a single line are derived. The solution is obtained in a closed form for the case in which there is a single crack in an infinite plate subjected to symmetric concentrated moments.     

含椭圆刚性核有限大复合材料层板弯曲应力分析Bending problem of a finite composite laminated plate with elliptical rigid inclusions

基于经典的复合材料层板理论,将有限大复合材料层板等效成各向异性弹性平板。采用复变函数理论中的Faber级数分析方法,使用最小二乘边界配点法,对含多椭圆刚性核有限大各向异性板弯曲问题进行应力分析,得到了该问题的级数解形式,分析了含椭圆刚性核层板在弯曲载荷下的应力分布,并讨论了形状和结构参数对应力分布的影响。结果表明,本文方法对于分析含多个椭圆形刚性核有限大薄板弯曲应力问题非常有效,该方法具有精度高及计算方便等优点。     

含椭圆孔非对称层合板的Green函数

运用作者建立的复合材料层合板问题的求解方法，得到了含椭圆孔和裂纹的无限大非对称层合板在广义集中载荷作用下的Ｇｒｅｅｎ函数．利用这些结果可研究含孔或裂纹的非对称层合板在集中载荷作用下的力学行为，还可结合边界元方法对复杂层合板结构建立有效的数值分析方法     

基体开裂的正交复合材料对称层合板的粘弹性力学行为

本文讨论了含有均匀基体裂纹的正交复合材料对称层合板的线性粘弹性力学行为.采用二维剪切滞后模型并对其层间剪应力在厚度方向进行线性假设分布,求得层合板的平均应力应变的线弹性解,利用等效约束模型和经典层合理论可得到层合板因为含有基体裂纹而所引起的刚度退化现象.在弹性-粘弹性对应原理的基础上对其层合板的线粘弹性进行了讨论和研究.结果表明:层合板的松弛模量和蠕变泊松比随着时间的增加而减少,到达稳态后其值基本上是恒值.并跟Zocher的解析解和有限元数值解作了比较,发现结果非常吻合.     

Static, stability and dynamic analysis of gradient elastic flexural Kirchhoff plates

The governing equation of motion of gradient elastic flexural Kirchhoff plates, including the effect of in-plane constant forces on bending, is explicitly derived. This is accomplished by appropriately combining the equations of flexural motion in terms of moments, shear and in-plane forces, the moment–stress relations and the stress–strain equations of a simple strain gradient elastic theory with just one constant (the internal length squared), in addition to the two classical elastic moduli. The resulting partial differential equation in terms of the lateral deflection of the plate is of the sixth order instead of the fourth, which is the case for the classical elastic case. Three boundary value problems dealing with static, stability and dynamic analysis of a rectangular simply supported all-around gradient elastic flexural plate are solved analytically. Non-classical boundary conditions, in additional to the classical ones, have to be utilized. An assessment of the effect of the gradient coefficient on the static or dynamic response of the plate, its buckling load and natural frequencies is also made by comparing the gradient type of solutions against the classical ones.     

Solving the Problem of Bending of Multiply Connected Plates with Elastic Inclusions

This paper describes a method for determining the strain state of a thin anisotropic plate with elastic arbitrarily arranged elliptical inclusions. Complex potentials are used to reduce the problem to determining functions of generalized complex variables, which, in turn, comes down to an overdetermined system of linear algebraic equations, solved by singular expansions. This paper presents the results of numerical calculations that helped establish the influence of rigidity of elastic inclusions, distances between inclusions, and their geometric characteristics on the bending moments occurring in the plate. It is found that the specific properties of distribution of moments near the apexes of linear elastic inclusions, characterized by moment intensity coefficients, occur only in the case of sufficiently rigid and elastic inclusions.     

ELASTICITY SOLUTIONS OF SPHERICALLY ISOTROPIC CONES UNDER CONCENTRATED LOADS AT APEX

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Photoelastic analysis of a thick plate with an elliptical hole subjected to simple out-of-plane bending

A three-dimensional photoelastic analysis using the stress freezing and slicing techniques was employed to study the stress distribution and the stress-concentration factors around an elliptical hole in a plate of finite thickness. The plate was subjected to simple out-of-plane bending. A special bending device was designed to produce uniform bending moment at the two opposite free edges of the plate. Six plates with various elliptical holes were studied. The stress variation across the plate thickness at the periphery of the elliptical hole was also investigated. The experimental results were correlated with the existing theoretical solutions.     

Interaction between elliptical and ellipsoidal inclusions under bending stress fields

Summary  This paper deals with interaction problems of elliptical and ellipsoidal inclusions under bending, using singular integral equations of the body force method. The problems are formulated as a system of singular integral equations with Cauchy-type or logarithmic-type singularities, where unknown functions are densities of body forces distributed in the x,y and r,θ,z directions in infinite bodies having the same elastic constants as those of the matrix and inclusions. In order to satisfy the boundary conditions along the elliptical and the ellipsoidal boundaries, the unknown functions are approximated by a linear combination of fundamental density functions and polynomials. The present method is found to yield the exact solutions for a single elliptical or spherical inclusion under a bending stress field. It yields rapidly converging numerical results for interface stresses in the interaction of inclusions. Received 9 September 1999; accepted for publication 15 January 2000     

Surface effects in the deformation of an anisotropic elastic material with nano-sized elliptical hole

We examine the effect of surface energy on an anisotropic elastic material weakened by an elliptical hole. A closed-form, full-field solution is derived using the standard Stroh formalism. In particular, explicit expressions for the hoop stress, normal, in-plane tangential and out-of-plane displacement components along the edge of the hole are obtained. These expressions clearly demonstrate the effect of elastic anisotropy of the bulk material on the corresponding field variables. When the material becomes isotropic, the hoop stress agrees with the well-known result in the literature while both the in-plane tangential and out-of-plane displacements vanish and the normal displacement is constant along the entire boundary of the elliptical hole.     

含多椭圆孔(核)复合材料加筋层板的应力集中研究

基于各向异性体平面弹性理论中的复势方法,应用杂交变分原理建立了一种与常规有限元相协调的含任意椭圆核各向异性板杂交应力有限元,采用该杂交应力有限元来描述层板的椭圆核区域,采用杆单元来描述加强筋(杆单元的刚度取为层板沿筋条方向的刚度),其余区域采用常规8节点等参单元进行模拟,建立起分析含多椭圆核复合材料加筋壁板问题的力学分析方法,详细讨论了椭圆核大小、位置、筋条尺寸、相对位置、铺层比例等诸参数的影响规律,得到了一些有益的结论。     

Singular potentials and double-force solutions for anisotropic laminates with coupled bending and stretching

Summary Exact solutions are obtained in the framework of the classical theory of laminates subjected to the action of normal moments, double forces, double moments or momentless double dipoles. Seven cases of such loads are considered and completed by considering the case of given transversal discontinuity of normal deflection. It is shown that, in contrast to the case of infinite straight dislocations in a pure in-plane problem, the energy of this eighth solution depends on the discontinuity orientation. Some numerical examples are presented. Besides the formal value, the obtained double-force and double-moment solutions, as well as dimensionless double dipoles, can be used to construct kernels of additional boundary integral equations (BIE). Due to the coupling phenomena in the BIE system for the region with a corner point, additional variable such as corner forces appear and require the mentioned equation. Received 22 June 1999; accepted for publication 6 March 2000     

Optimal design of a compound plate weakened by a periodic crack system

We use the minimax criterion to perform atheoretical analysis of determining the optimal interference for fitting elastic inclusions into holes in an isotropic elastic plate weakened by a periodic system of rectilinear cracks. We construct a closed system of algebraic equations that allows us to minimize the fracture parameters depending on the geometric and mechanical characteristics of the inclusions. The obtained fitting interference for the inclusions ensures an increase in the bearing strength of the compound plate under bending.     

Solving the problem of linear viscoelasticity for multiply connected anisotropic plates

This paper describes the method for solving the problems of linear viscoelasticity for thin plates under the influence of bending moments and transverse forces. The small parameter method was used to reduce the original problem to a sequence of boundary-value problems solved via complex potentials of the bending theory of multiply connected anisotropic plates. The general representations of complex potentials and boundary conditions for their determination are obtained. The method for determining the stress state of the plate at any time with respect to complex approximation potentials is developed by replacing the powers of the small parameter by the Rabotnov operators. The problem of a plate with elliptical holes is solved. The numerical calculation results in the case of a plate with one or two holes are given. The variation of bending moments in time until stationary condition is reached is studied, and the influence of geometric characteristics of the plate on these variable is described.     

Validation of the Rayleigh–Ritz method for the postbuckling analysis of rectangular plates with application to delamination growth

Postbuckling solutions of laminated rectangular plates are obtained by the Rayleigh–Ritz method using von Karman’s nonlinear strain displacement relations and high-order polynomial expansions of the displacements. The potential energy function and the nonlinear algebraic equations governing the undetermined coefficients are obtained by Mathematica. Reasonably accurate solutions for the membrane forces, the bending and twisting moments and the pointwise energy-release rates generally require more undeterminated coefficients. Such refined postbuckling solutions show significant non-uniformity of the in-plane forces and strains and certain boundary effects characterized by concentration of the curvatures and the bending moment.     

考虑弯曲刚度斜拉索面内面外内共振分析

本文研究桥梁工程中含弯曲刚度斜拉索的面内面外内共振问题．描述了工程中斜拉索变形的三种状态,考虑弯曲刚度、大变形及垂度等因素,忽略斜拉索纵向惯性力的影响,运用Hamilton变分原理建立了含弯曲刚度的斜拉索面内面外耦合偏微分控制方程,采用Galerkin方法对偏微分方程离散,并运用多尺度摄动方法进行了求解,获得了斜拉索可能存在的内共振模式,以工程中一根斜拉索为例,运用有限元法对其进行动力特性分析,列出了斜拉索前10阶面内面外振动频率,找出面内面外可能产生内共振的模态,分别研究了主共振条件下斜拉索面内和面外1:1、2:1内共振情形,获得了有意义的结论．     

An ALE method for simulations of axisymmetric elastic surfaces in flow

The dynamics of membranes, shells, and capsules in fluid flow has become an active research area in computational physics and computational biology. The small thickness of these elastic materials enables their efficient approximation as a hypersurface, which exhibits an elastic response to in-plane stretching and out-of-plane bending, possibly accompanied by a surface tension force. In this work, we present a novel arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method to simulate such elastic surfaces immersed in Navier-Stokes fluids. The method combines high accuracy with computational efficiency, since the grid is matched to the elastic surface and can, therefore, be resolved with relatively few grid points. The focus of this work is on axisymmetric shapes and flow conditions, which are present in a wide range of biophysical problems. We formulate axisymmetric elastic surface forces and propose a discretization with surface finite-differences coupled to evolving finite elements. We further develop an implicit coupling strategy to reduce time step restrictions. We show in several numerical test cases that accurate results can be achieved at computational times on the order of minutes on a single core CPU. We demonstrate two state-of-the-art applications which to our knowledge cannot be simulated with any other numerical method so far: we present first simulations of the observed shape oscillations of novel microswimming shells and the uniaxial compression of the cortex of a biological cell during an AFM experiment.     

缝纫复合材料层合板面内弹性模量分析

基于对缝纫孔附近局部细观结构的分析,提出了一种预测缝纫复合材料层合板面内力学性能的理论模型．从分析缝孔单胞的纤维弯曲几何特征入手,最终得到单向板及层合板的弹性常数．通过有限元分析研究了缝纫参数对复合材料层合板面内等效模量的影响．研究结果表明,缝纫造成单向板及层合板面内材料性质的不均匀,随着缝纫密度和缝纫线直径的增加,层合板的等效模量逐渐降低．