数字状张拉整体结构的构型设计与力学性能模拟

针对大型张拉整体结构的设计问题,选取四棱柱状张拉整体结构和截角正八面体状张拉整体结构作为基本胞元,采用节点连接节点的方式建立球柱组合式数字状张拉整体结构,并使用基于结构刚度矩阵的大变形非线性数值求解方法对其进行力学性能分析.在两类胞元满足各自的自平衡条件和稳定性条件的前提下,组合得到的数字状张拉整体结构亦处于自平衡稳定状态,搭建了实物模型进行验证.以数字8状张拉整体结构为例,模拟研究了结构承受自重等分布载荷和单轴拉压等端部载荷时的静力学响应,以及结构无阻尼振动时的固有频率和模态等动力学性能.结果表明,结构在自重作用下的变形行为受初始预应力、压杆密度和拉索刚度的影响较大,对其进行合理配置方可确保结构具有足够刚度抵抗自重;结构在单轴拉压作用下呈现非线性的载荷-位移曲线,拉伸刚度随变形量的增大而增大,压缩刚度随变形量的增大而减小;结构的固有频率随初始预应力的增大而增大,而模态振型基本不变.研究结果丰富了大型张拉整体结构的外形种类,有望推动此类结构在土木建筑、结构材料等领域的应用.     

数字状张拉整体结构的构型设计与力学性能模拟

针对大型张拉整体结构的设计问题,选取四棱柱状张拉整体结构和截角正八面体状张拉整体结构作为基本胞元,采用节点连接节点的方式建立球柱组合式数字状张拉整体结构,并使用基于结构刚度矩阵的大变形非线性数值求解方法对其进行力学性能分析.在两类胞元满足各自的自平衡条件和稳定性条件的前提下,组合得到的数字状张拉整体结构亦处于自平衡稳定状态,搭建了实物模型进行验证.以数字8状张拉整体结构为例,模拟研究了结构承受自重等分布载荷和单轴拉压等端部载荷时的静力学响应,以及结构无阻尼振动时的固有频率和模态等动力学性能.结果表明,结构在自重作用下的变形行为受初始预应力、压杆密度和拉索刚度的影响较大,对其进行合理配置方可确保结构具有足够刚度抵抗自重;结构在单轴拉压作用下呈现非线性的载荷-位移曲线,拉伸刚度随变形量的增大而增大,压缩刚度随变形量的增大而减小;结构的固有频率随初始预应力的增大而增大,而模态振型基本不变.研究结果丰富了大型张拉整体结构的外形种类,有望推动此类结构在土木建筑、结构材料等领域的应用.      

环形桁架结构径向振动的等效圆环模型

在大型环形网架式可展天线中,环形桁架结构的动力学性能对于整个天线的工作状态至关重要.针对大型空间桁架结构,基于连续体等效的思想,将其动力学模型简化为简单的弹性连续体模型一直是动力学研究的热点.将环形桁架结构看作由重复的平面桁架单元构成的环形周期结构,在周期桁架单元等效梁模型的基础上,提出采用不计剪切变形和转动惯量的等效圆环模型分析环形桁架结构的径向振动,并对等效圆环模型的偏微分运动方程进行了解析求解.首先通过变量代换将描述圆环径向振动的四阶偏微分方程组降阶为一阶偏微分方程组,然后通过对降阶后的偏微分方程组进行Laplace变换将其转化为常微分方程组,并采用微分方程组的Green函数解法,获得了等效圆环模型在复频域下动力响应的解析表达式,进而得到等效圆环模型固有振动的特征方程及传递函数的表达式.最后通过数值算例对环形桁架有限元模型与等效圆环模型的固有频率和振型以及传递函数进行了对比分析,验证了等效圆环模型用于环形桁架结构径向振动分析的可行性.     

限制失稳模态方程及约束载荷计算

针对受压限制失稳结构,利用点接触、线接触屈曲模型,建立了杆在各种屈曲模态下的挠度曲线方程.通过求解曲线方程,可以得到发生限制失稳结构在各种屈曲模态下,与外部限制失稳构件之间的接触载荷大小,分析了受压结构与限制失稳构件之间的间隙对接触载荷的影响.通过对屈曲模态中各波形的形态进行调整,研究了同一屈曲模态,不同失稳波形下接触载荷的差异.     

THE TRANSVERSE NONLINEAR FREE VIBRATION AND THE BUCKLING OF A COMPRESSIVE BAR ON AN ELASTIC FOUNDATION

基于Hamilton 原理,运用假设时间模态法,得到了弹性基础上压杆的横向非线性自由振动与屈曲的位移型常微分控制方程. 考虑一端固定另一端可移简支边界条件,采用打靶法得到了结构第一至第三阶结构频率与一阶屈曲载荷的数值结果. 结果表明：随轴心压力增加,结构频率减小;随弹性基础刚度增加,结构频率与屈曲载荷均增加;弹性基础刚度对结构频率的影响随振型阶数增加在减小;在小振幅的情形下,不同振型对一阶屈曲载荷的影响很小.     

高温下受压钢构件考虑屈曲的有限元本构模型

为计算大空间钢结构高温下的力学性能, 需考虑受压钢构件屈曲. 将钢构件屈
曲特性反映在材料的本构模型中, 进行高温下大空间钢结构有限元计算. 通过研究轴心
受压钢构件在不同温度下的弯曲变形, 推导出考虑长细比、初始缺陷、临界力等因素的
受压钢构件名义轴向刚度; 通过能量等效, 用等效刚度代替名义轴向刚度, 得到高温下
受压钢构件考虑屈曲的钢材两折线应力--应变本构模型, 数值计算验证了模型的正确性.     

基于模态缺陷的受压球壳屈曲特性研究

针对受压球壳非线性屈曲过程,对含初始缺陷受压球壳的稳定性进行研究。根据EN1993-1-6(2007)规范,给出不同制造等级壳体的等效缺陷值计算方法;基于线性特征值分析的模态构型给出初始缺陷的分布。利用非线性有限元弧长法对球壳受压失稳过程进行数值模拟,得到屈曲前后球壳变形情况及全过程载荷-位移曲线。计算一致缺陷模态法和N阶缺陷模态法对应的球壳屈曲临界载荷,结果表明,受压球壳对缺陷较敏感,承载能力随缺陷值增大而降低;一致缺陷模态法计算便捷,在工程应用上具有合理性,N阶缺陷模态法考虑高阶模态缺陷构型,结果更加全面,可以为工程中缺陷结构稳定性设计提供参考。     

基于模态缺陷的受压球壳屈曲特性研究

针对受压球壳非线性屈曲过程，对含初始缺陷受压球壳的稳定性进行研究。根据EN1993-1-6（2007）规范，给出不同制造等级壳体的等效缺陷值计算方法；基于线性特征值分析的模态构型给出初始缺陷的分布。利用非线性有限元弧长法对球壳受压失稳过程进行数值模拟，得到屈曲前后球壳变形情况及全过程载荷-位移曲线。计算一致缺陷模态法和N阶缺陷模态法对应的球壳屈曲临界载荷，结果表明，受压球壳对缺陷较敏感，承载能力随缺陷值增大而降低；一致缺陷模态法计算便捷，在工程应用上具有合理性，N阶缺陷模态法考虑高阶模态缺陷构型，结果更加全面，可以为工程中缺陷结构稳定性设计提供参考。     

并联机器人刚度与静力学研究现状与进展

并联机器人的刚度与静力学分析, 对于机构力学性能研究具有重要的理论价值和意义. 本文围绕杆支撑、绳牵引和钢带传动 3 种结构形式, 详细阐述了国内外并联机构刚度和静力学分析的研究现状. 着重从有限元、解析模型和性能分析 3 方面分析了杆支撑并联机构的刚度研究进展. 讨论了有关绳牵引并联机构中绳拉力、动载荷频率、绳牵引预紧力与刚度、静力学之间关系的研究成果. 根据钢带并联机器人结构的特殊性, 对钢带并联机构的刚度与静力学分析中可能遇到的失稳与振动问题进行了探讨. 最后, 对并联机器人技术发展情况进行总结与展望, 指出随着刚度分析与静力学分析的不断深入, 并联机器人的力学理论将会日趋成熟和完善, 为并联机器人机构优化设计提供更深入、系统的理论依据.      

正交各向异性Kagome蜂窝材料宏观等效力学性能

由于微结构的布局和尺寸的方向性,人造和天然的蜂窝材料都会不同程度呈现各向异性,其中正交各向异性的蜂窝材料较为常见.该文采用桁架模型推导了正交各向异性Kagome单胞蜂窝材料等效刚度和强度的解析表达式,给出了初始屈服函数和近似弹性屈曲强度,讨论了等效刚度与各向异性率和相对密度的关系.等效刚度的解析结果与单胞壁杆采用梁单元建模的刚架模型均匀化结果进行比较,结果令人满意.需要说明的是这类"组合蜂窝"材料具有多功能性和潜在的可设计性,正在受到人们关注.     

Influence of spring dynamics and friction on a spring-actuated cam system

Summary  The paper investigates two important aspects, friction and spring motion, of the dynamics of a spring-actuated cam system. The characteristics of the friction on the camshaft are analyzed using the nonlinear pendulum experiment, while the parameters of the friction model are estimated using the optimization technique. The analysis reveals that the friction of the camshaft depends on stick–slip, Stribeck effect and viscous damping. Spring elements are found to have much influence on the dynamic characteristics. Hence, they are modeled as four-degrees-of-freedom lumped masses with equivalent springs. The lumped masses and equivalent springs are obtained to match the static stiffness and natural frequency of the actual spring. The appropriateness of the derived friction and spring model are verified by its application to a vacuum circuit-breaker mechanism of the cam-follower type. Received 23 March 2000; accepted for publication 21 November 2000     

An experimental study on the static and impact torsional buckling of cylindrical shells

In this paper, experimental studies are carried out on the buckling of circular cylindrical thin shells under impact torque. Experiments of impact buckling are made on a Hopkinson torsional bar. The torsional bar gives a step torque on the shells. Through an analysis of the strain-time curve obtained in experiment, the dynamic buckling critical torqueM _er and buckling waves numbern of the shell with different geometric data and some qualitative results are obtained. The buckling behavior of circular cylindrical thin shells under static and impact torque is compared.     

Steady-state dynamics of a 3D tensegrity structure: Simulations and experiments

This paper considers a modeling and analysis approach for the investigation of the linear and nonlinear steady-state dynamics of a base excited 3D tensegrity module carrying a top mass. The tensegrity module contains three compressive members, which may buckle and six cables (tendons). First, a dynamic model of the system is derived using Lagrange’s equation with constraints. The buckling modeling of the compressive members is based on the assumed-mode method with a single mode discretization. The tendons are modeled as piecewise linear springs, which can only take tensile forces. This research focusses on the dynamic stability of the tensegrity structure by defining the geometrical and material properties in such a way that the system is just below the static stability boundary. Static and linear dynamic analysis is performed. In the nonlinear steady-state analysis, frequency-amplitude plots, power spectral density plots, bifurcation point continuation diagrams, and Poincaré maps are presented. A tensegrity structure is designed and manufactured and an experimental set-up is realized in order to validate the model by comparing experimentally and numerically obtained responses. In the validation stage, the numerical results are based on an amplifier-shaker-tensegrity structure model. It can be concluded that the numerical results match partly quantitatively and partly qualitatively with the experimentally obtained responses.     

Dynamic torsional buckling of a double-walled carbon nanotube embedded in an elastic medium

An elastic double-shell model based on continuum mechanics is presented to study the dynamic torsional buckling of an embedded double-walled carbon nanotube. Based on the presented model, a condition is derived to predict the buckling load of the embedded double-walled nanotube, and the effect of the van der Waals forces to the buckling load is discussed when an inner nanotube is inserted into an embedded outer one. In particular, the paper shows that the buckling load of the embedded double-walled nanotube is always between that of the isolated inner nanotube and that of the embedded outer nanotube for both dynamic and static torsional buckling, due to the effect of the van der Waals forces. This result is different from that obtained by the existing analysis neglecting the difference of the radii for the embedded double-walled nanotube, which indicates that disregarding the difference of the radii of multi-walled nanotubes cannot properly describe the effect of the van der Waals forces between interlayer spacing. In particular, for static torsional buckling of a double-walled nanotube, it is shown that the critical buckling load cannot only be enhanced, but also be reduced when inserting an inner nanotube into an isolated single-walled one. Additionally, it is shown that the elastic medium always increases the critical buckling load of double-walled nanotubes. The critical buckling load of embedded double-walled nanotubes for dynamic torsional buckling is proved to be no less than that for static torsional buckling.     

圆柱形薄壳冲击扭转屈曲的实验研究

本文对受冲击扭矩作用下的圆柱形簿壳扭转屈曲进行了实验研究，利用Ｈｏｐｋｉｎｓｏｎ扭杆使圆柱受阶跃扭矩作用，分析所得到的应变－时间曲线，得到了不同几何参数的圆柱壳的冲击临界扭矩Ｍｄｅｒ和屈曲波数ｎ及几条定性结论，同时找出了圆柱壳静力扭转屈曲行为和冲击扭转屈曲行为之间的异同。     

薄壁杆约束扭转的单肢解析化分析方法

针对薄壁杆件约柬扭转的基本受力反应分析问题,采用与符拉索夫的经典约束扭转理论截然不同的立论途径,将自由扭转刚度视为调整因素,而将剥离了该抗力效应的薄壁杆件基本体系作为主要分析对象,推导出基于翘曲理论并考虑了自由扭转刚度影响的杆件刚度方程及结问荷载的等效措施.此外,提出了基于微段薄壁杆简化单刚的有效数值化分析方法.上述研究表明,对于钢构件等具有薄壁构型截面形式的杆件,这种单肢解析化分析方法无需进行复杂的截面特性如弯、翘曲惯矩或弯、形心坐标等的分析,力与变形的表达简洁、直接,本文的抗力性能分析和表述方式可为薄壁构件的稳定及畸变等研究提供新的思路切入点.     

Analysis of building structures by replacement sandwich beams

In this paper replacement beams of building structures are developed, and the stiffnesses of the replacement beams are derived. The analysis is robust and can be used for slender and wide structures consisting of frames, trusses, shear walls, or coupled shear walls. The utility of the derived replacement beam is demonstrated through the examples of the in plane and flexural–torsional buckling and vibration analyses of high-rise buildings.     

Investigation of clustered actuation in tensegrity structures

As tensegrity research is moving away from static structures toward active structures it is becoming critical that new actuation strategies and comprehensive active structures theories are developed to fully exploit the properties of tensegrity structures. In this paper a new general tensegrity paradigm is presented that incorporates a concept referred to as clustered actuation. Clustered actuation exploits the existence of cable elements in a tensegrity structure by allowing cables to be run over frictionless pulleys or through frictionless loops at the nodes. This actuation strategy is a scalable solution that can be utilized for active structures that incorporate many active elements and can reduce the number of actuators necessary for complex shape changes. Clustered actuation also has secondary benefits, specifically reducing the force requirements of actuators in dynamic structures, reducing the number of pre-stress modes to potentially one global mode and relieving element size limitations that occur with embedded actuation. Newly formulated clustered equilibrium equations are developed using energy methods and are shown to be a generalization of the classic tensegrity governing equations. Pre-stress analysis, mechanism analysis and stability of clustered structures are discussed. Lastly, examples compare the mechanics of a clustered structure to an equivalent classic structure and the utility of clustering is highlighted by allowing for actuation throughout a class 1 (no bar-to-bar connections) tensegrity while not embedding the actuators into the structure.     

Nonlinear analysis on dynamic buckling of eccentrically stiffened functionally graded material toroidal shell segment surrounded by elastic foundations in thermal environment and under time-dependent torsional loads

The nonlinear analysis with an analytical approach on dynamic torsional buckling of stiffened functionally graded thin toroidal shell segments is investigated. The shell is reinforced by inside stiffeners and surrounded by elastic foundations in a thermal environment and under a time-dependent torsional load. The governing equations are derived based on the Donnell shell theory with the von K′arm′an geometrical nonlinearity,the Stein and McE lman assumption, the smeared stiffeners technique, and the Galerkin method. A deflection function with three terms is chosen. The thermal parameters of the uniform temperature rise and nonlinear temperature conduction law are found in an explicit form. A closed-form expression for determining the static critical torsional load is obtained. A critical dynamic torsional load is found by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and the Budiansky-Roth criterion. The effects of stiffeners, foundations, material,and dimensional parameters on dynamic responses of shells are considered.     

Dynamics of a nonlinear microresonator based on resonantly interacting flexural-torsional modes

A novel microresonator operating on the principle of nonlinear modal interactions due to autoparametric 1:2 internal resonance is introduced. Specifically, an electrostatically actuated pedal-microresonator design, utilizing internal resonance between an out-of-plane torsional mode and a flexural in-plane vibrating mode is considered. The two modes have their natural frequencies in 1:2 ratio, and the design ensures that the higher frequency flexural mode excites the lower frequency torsional mode in an autoparametric way. A Lagrangian formulation is used to develop the dynamic model of the system. The dynamics of the system is modeled by a two degrees of freedom reduced-order model that retains the essential quadratic inertial nonlinearities coupling the two modes. Retention of higher-order model for electrostatic forces allows for the study of static equilibrium positions and static pull-in phenomenon as a function of the bias voltages. Then for the case when the higher frequency flexural mode is resonantly actuated by a harmonically varying AC voltage, a comprehensive study of the response of the microresonator is presented and the effects of damping, and mass and structural perturbations from nominal design specifications are considered. Results show that for excitation levels above a threshold, the torsional mode is activated and it oscillates at half the frequency of excitation. This unique feature of the microresonator makes it an excellent candidate for a filter as well as a mixer in RF MEMS devices.