Analysis of interlaminar stress and nonlinear dynamic response for composite laminated plates with interfacial damage

By considering the effect of interfacial damage and using the variation principle, three-dimensional nonlinear dynamic governing equations of the laminated plates with interfacial damage are derived based on the general sixdegrees-of-freedom plate theory towards the accurate stress analysis. The solutions of interlaminar stress and nonlinear dynamic response for a simply supported laminated plate with interfacial damage are obtained by using the finite difference method, and the results are validated by comparison with the solution of nonlinear finite element method. In numerical calculations, the effects of interfacial damage on the stress in the interface and the nonlinear dynamic response of laminated plates are discussed.     

MULTI-PULSE ORBITS AND CHAOTIC DYNAMICS OF A COMPOSITE LAMINATED RECTANGULAR PLATE

This paper presents an analysis on the nonlinear dynamics and multi-pulse chaotic motions of a simply-supported symmetric cross-ply composite laminated rectangular thin plate with the parametric and forcing excitations. Firstly, based on the Reddy’s third-order shear deformation plate theory and the model of the von Karman type geometric nonlinearity, the nonlinear governing partial difirential equations of motion for the composite laminated rectangular thin plate are derived by using the Hamilton’s principle. Then, using the second-order Galerkin discretization, the partial differential governing equations of motion are transformed to nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The case of the primary parametric resonance and 1:1 internal resonance is considered. Four-dimensional averaged equation is obtained by using the method of multiple scales. From the averaged equation obtained here, the theory of normal form is used to give the explicit expressions of normal form. Based on normal form, the energy phase method is utilized to analyze the global bifurcations and multi-pulse chaotic dynamics of the composite laminated rectangular thin plate. The theoretic results obtained above illustrate the existence of the chaos for the Smale horseshoe sense in a parametrical and forcing excited composite laminated thin plate. The chaotic motions of the composite laminated rectangular thin plate are also found by using numerical simulation, which also indicate that there exist different shapes of the multi-pulse chaotic motions for the composite laminated rectangular thin plate.     

ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE LAMINATED PLATES

In the static and dynamic analysis of composite laminates, a theory for the laminated plates is presented in this paper. Because the deflection W_b which is caused by the classical bending deformation and the deflection W_s which is caused by the shear deformation are divided from the total deflection W in the theory, this makes it easy to solve the governing equations. In addition, this theory is convenient for the discussion and analysis of the effects of transverse shear deformations on bendings, vibrations and stabilities of laminated plates.     

ANALYSIS OF INTER-LAMINAR STRESSES FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATED PLATE WITH INTERFACIAL DAMAGE

A constitutive model for composite laminated plates with the damage effect of the intra-layers and inter-laminar interface is presented. The model is based on the general six-degrees-of-freedom plate theory, the discontinuity of displacement on the interfaces are depicted by three shape functions, which are formulated according to solutions satisfying three equilibrium equations, By using the variation principle, the three-dimensional non-linear equilibrium differential equations of the laminated plates with two different damage models are derived. Then, considering a simply supported laminated plate with damage, an analytical solution is presented using finite difference method to obtain the inter-laminar stresses.     

Corotational nonlinear analyses of laminated shell structures using a 4-node quadrilateral flat shell element with drilling stiffness

A new 4-node quadrilateral flat shell element is developed for geometrically nonlinear analyses of thin and moderately thick laminated shell structures. The fiat shell element is constructed by combining a quadrilateral area co- ordinate method （QAC） based membrane element AGQ6- II, and a Timoshenko beam function （TBF） method based shear deformable plate bending element ARS-Q12. In order to model folded plates and connect with beam elements, the drilling stiffness is added to the element stiffness matrix based on the mixed variational principle. The transverse shear rigidity matrix, based on the first-order shear deformation theory （FSDT）, for the laminated composite plate is evaluated using the transverse equilibrium conditions, while the shear correction factors are not needed. The conventional TBF methods are also modified to efficiently calculate the element stiffness for laminate. The new shell element is extended to large deflection and post-buckling analyses of isotropic and laminated composite shells based on the element independent corotational formulation. Numerical re- sults show that the present shell element has an excellent numerical performance for the test examples, and is applicable to stiffened plates.     

Nonlinear free vibration analysis of piezoelastic laminated plates with interface damage

This paper presents a nonlinear model for piezoelastic laminated plates with damage effect of the intra-layers and inter-laminar interfaces. Discontinuity of displacement and electric potential on the interfaces are depicted by three shape functions. By using the Hamilton variation principle, the three-dimensional nonlinear dynamic equations of piezoelastic laminated plates with damage effect are derived. Then, by using the Galerkin method, a mathematical solution is presented. In the numerical studies, effects of various factors on the natural frequencies and nonlinear amplitude-frequency response of the simply-supported peizoelastic laminated plates with interfacial imperfections are discussed. These factors include different damage models, thickness of the piezoelectric layer, side-to-thickness ratio, and length-to-width ratio.     

Approximate and numerical analysis of nonlinear forced vibration of axially moving viscoelastic beams

Steady-state periodical response is investigated for an axially moving viscoelastic beam with hybrid supports via approximate analysis with numerical confirmation. It is assumed that the excitation is spatially uniform and temporally harmonic. The transverse motion of axially moving beams is governed by a nonlinear partial-differential equation and a nonlinear integro-partial-differential equation. The material time derivative is used in the viscoelastic constitutive relation. The method of multiple scales is applied to the governing equations to investigate primary resonances under general boundary conditions. It is demonstrated that the mode uninvolved in the resonance has no effect on the steady-state response. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effects of the boundary constraint stiffness on the amplitude and the stability of the steady-state response. The results derived for two governing equations are qualitatively the same,but quantitatively different. The differential quadrature schemes are developed to verify those results via the method of multiple scales.     

Analytic solution to the micropolar-fluid flow through a semi-porous channel with an expanding or contracting wall

The flow of a micropolar fluid in a semi-porous channel with an expanding or contracting wall is investigated. The governing equations are reduced to ordinary ones by using similar transformations. To get the analytic solution to the problem, the homotopy analysis method （HAM） is employed to obtain the expressions for velocity fields. Graphs are sketched and discussed for various parameters, especially the effect of the expansion ratio on velocity and micro-rotation fields.     

Vibration and stability of hybrid plate based on elasticity theory

The governing equations of elasticity theory for natural vibration and buck- ling of anisotropic plate are derived from Hellinger-Reissner＇s variational principle with nonlinear strain-displacement relations. Simply supported rectangular hybrid plates are studied with a precise integration method. This method, in contrast to the traditional finite difference approximation, gives highly precise numerical results that approach the full computer precision. So the results for natural vibration and stability of hybrid plates presented in the paper can be riewed as approximate analytical solutions. Furthermore, several types of coupling effects such as coupling between bending and twisting, and coupling between extension and bending, when the layer stacking sequence is asymmetric, are considered by only one set of governing equations.     

ELASTO－PLASTICITY ANALYSIS BASED ON COLLOCATION WITH THE MOVING LEAST SQUARE METHOD

A meshless approach based on the moving least square method is developed for elasto-plasticity analysis, in which the incremental formulation is used. In this approach, the displacement shape functions are constructed by using the moving least square approximation, and the discrete governing equations for elasto-plastic material are constructed with the direct collocation method. The boundary conditions are also imposed by collocation. The method established is a truly meshless one, as it does not need any mesh, either for the purpose of interpolation of the solution variables, or for the purpose of construction of the discrete equations. It is simply formulated and very efficient, and no post-processing procedure is required to compute the derivatives of the unknown variables, since the solution from this method based on the moving least square approximation is already smooth enough. Numerical examples are given to verify the accuracy of the meshless method proposed for elasto-rdasticity analysis.     

Stability of parametric vibrations of hybrid composite plates

In this paper, the dynamic stability of laminated hybrid composite plates subjected to periodic uniaxial stress and bending stress is studied. The governing equations of motion of Mathieu-type are established by using the Galerkin method with reduced eigenfunctions transforms. Based on Bolotin's method the regions of dynamic instability of laminated hybrid composite plates are determined by solving the eigenvalue problems. The effects of layer thickness ratio, layer number, core material and load parameter on the dynamic instability of laminated hybrid composite plates are investigated and discussed.     

正交铺设层合板的蠕变屈曲分析

研究了正交铺设层合板的蠕变失稳问题。为了更好地模拟实际情况，在单层板的本构关系中，材料各主方向模量的松也时间均取不同值，并在建立控制方程时考虑了横向剪切变形的影响，通过理论分析，得到了粘弹性层合板的瞬时弹性临界载荷和持久临界载荷，并在算例中首次利用时间增量方法得到了有初始度层合板在长期受地的蠕变变表，计算结果表明了持久临界载荷对于粘弹性层合板的具体含义，从而使粘弹性层合板的为屈曲问题有了较为完整的     

复合材料层合板的二次屈曲和二次分枝点分析

为了研究复合材料层合板的二次分叉特性 ,利用能量变分原理和非线性几何方程建立了具有弹性约束的复合材料层合板在面内载荷作用下的非线性稳定性控制方程组。控制方程组用广义傅立叶级数法进行求解 ,并得到载荷 -挠度曲线。基于分叉理论中的 Lerray-Schaulder定理 ,采用小挠动法 ,直接导出了复合材料层合板的二次失稳方程。研究结果表明 ,非对称层板也可能存在分叉 ,弹性转动支持系数和铺层等因素对二次分叉有很重要的影响。随着弹性系数的增大 ,二次失稳载荷值与初次失稳载荷值之比下降     

基于局部移动Kriging无网格方法的层合板自由振动分析

利用基于局部移动Kriging插值无网格法对层合板自由振动进行了数值分析，基于一阶剪切层合理论导出了层合板振动的控制方程和边界条件，进一步得到了自由振动的离散化特征方程。由于Kriging插值函数具有Kronecker delta函数性质，可以直接施加本质边界条件。通过本文给出的方法，对不同边界条件、不同跨厚比、不同材料参数和铺设角度的层合板的振动频率进行了计算，均得到满意结果。最后用该方法对层合板的铺设角度进行优化设计，得到了与已有文献完全一致的优化结果。数值结果充分表明了无网格Kriging方法分析层合板自由振动问题的有效性和高精确度。     

复合材料层合板自由振动分析的无网格自然邻接点Petrov-Galerkin法

基于一阶剪切变形理论,提出了复合材料层合板自由振动分析的无网格自然邻接点Petrov-Galerkin法。计算时在复合材料层合板中面上仅需要布置一系列的离散节点,并利用这些节点构建插值函数。在板中面上的局部多边形子域上,采用加权余量法建立复合材料层合板自由振动分析的离散化控制方程,并且这些子域可由Delaunay三角形方便创建。自然邻接点插值形函数具有Kronecker delta函数性质,因而无需经过特别处理就能准确地施加本质边界条件。对不同边界条件、不同跨厚比、不同材料参数和不同铺设角度的复合材料层合板,由本文提出的无网格自然邻接点Petrov-Galerkin法进行自由振动分析时均可得到满意的结果。数值算例结果表明,本文方法求解复合材料层合板的自由振动问题是行之有效的。     

高阶剪切变形理论下三边夹紧一边铰支复合材料层板的几何非线性分析

首先用虚位移原理推导出以位移形式表达的Reddy型高阶剪变形理论复合材料层板的非线性控制方程及相应的边界条件。选定的五个位移函数均满足三边夹紧一边铰支边界条件，用Galerkin方法把无量纲化之后的控制方程转化为一组非线性代数方程组，用线性化的方法和可调节参数的修正迭代法求解这组方程。最后求出了不同复合材料的挠度和弯矩值。     

复合材料正交加筋板在横向载荷下挠度计算的半解析法

本文采用一种新的半解析法，即独特利用Heaviside函数建立与加筋板等效的变刚度模型来开展复合材料双向正交加筋板在横向载荷下的弯曲挠度分析．此模型可以准确地描述筋条在板面上的分布，以及由于筋条的存在而导致的板面刚度不均匀分布．使用Galerkin加权残值法求解该模型的控制方程，得到不同边界条件和载荷情况下的级数解．对于双向正交加筋板，将此半解析法的结果与传统均匀化方法和使用商业有限元软件ABAQUS建立的有限元模型所得到的弯曲挠度结果比较，验证了此方法的准确性和优越性．不同于传统均匀化方法，本双向正交加筋板的弯曲挠度半解析法可精确、有效地获取加筋间的局部弯曲挠度，可以促进复合材料结构的设计分析与优化的研究进展．     

Theoretical and experimental studies on nonlinear oscillations of symmetric cross-ply composite laminated plates

The nonlinear oscillations and resonant responses of the symmetric cross-ply composite laminated plates are investigated theoretically and experimentally. The governing equations of motion for the composite laminated plate are derived by using the von Karman type equation, Reddy’s third-order shear deformation plate theory, and Galerkin method with the geometric nonlinearity. The four-dimensional averaged equation is obtained by using the method of multiple scales. The frequency-response functions are analyzed under the consideration of strongly coupled of two modes. The influences of the resonance case on the softening and hardening type of nonlinearity are analyzed with different parameters for the composite laminated plates. The numerical results indicate that there exist the hardening and softening types of the composite laminated plate in the specific resonant case. The variation of the response amplitudes is studied for the composite laminated plate under combined the transverse and in-plane excitations. A sweep frequency experiment is performed to obtain the hardening and softening nonlinearities of a composite laminated plate. The experimental results coincide with the numerical results qualitatively. The influences of the excitation amplitudes on the softening and hardening types of nonlinearity are also analyzed for the composite laminated plate. The amplitude spectrums of the test plate also demonstrate that the change of the nonlinear dynamic responses may be caused by the subharmonic resonance.     

Large deflection analysis of unsymmetrically laminated composite plates: analytical-numerical type approach

Large deflection analysis of laminated composite plates is considered. The Galerkin method along with Newton-Raphson method is applied to large deflection analysis of laminated composite plates with various edge conditions. The von Kármán plate theory is utilized and the governing differential equations are solved by choosing suitable polynomials as trial functions to approximate the plate displacement functions. The solutions are compared to that of Dynamic Relaxation and finite elements. A very close agreement has been observed with these approximating methods. In the solution process, analytical computation has been done wherever it is possible, and analytical-numerical type approach has been made for all problems.