耦合变形对大范围运动柔性梁动力学建模的影响

柔性梁在作大范围空间运动时,产生弯曲和扭转变形,这些变形的相互耦合形成了梁在纵向以及横向位移的二次耦合变量。本文考虑了变形产生的几何非线性效应对运动柔性梁的影响,在其三个方向的变形中均考虑了二次耦合变量,利用弹性旋转矩阵建立了准确的几何非线性变形方程,通过Lagrange方程导出系统的动力学方程。仿真结果表明,在大范围运动情况下,仅在纵向变形中计及了变形二次耦合量的一次动力学模型,与考虑了完全几何非线性变形的模型具有一定的差异。     

基于初应力法的作大范围运动柔性梁动力学建模理论研究

研究了初应力法的作大范围运动柔性梁的建模理论.根据连续介质理论,考虑应变-位移中的非线性项,用一致质量有限元法对柔性梁进行离散,基于Jourdain速度变分原理导出定轴转动下大范围运动为自由的柔性梁刚-柔耦合动力学方程.从其刚柔耦合动力学方程出发,考虑在大范围运动已知情况下的结构动力学方程.通过引入准静态概念,把其结构动力学方程转化为准静态方程.对纵向和横向变形节点坐标进行坐标分离,解出与纵向变形相关的准静态方程,得到准静态时的纵向应力表达式,从而获得附加刚度项.并对此非惯性系下作大范围运动柔性梁的结构动力学方程进行数值仿真,对零次近似模型、一次近似模型、初应力法动力学模型的仿真结果进行分析,揭示三种模型的动力学性质的差异.     

A HIGH-ORDER RIGID-FLEXIBLE COUPLING MODEL OF A ROTATING FLEXIBLE BEAM UNDER LARGE DEFORMATION

对在平面内做大范围转动的中心刚体-柔性梁系统的刚柔耦合建模理论进行了深入研究,建立了系统的高次耦合动力学模型. 该动力学模型考虑了柔性梁横向弯曲变形和纵向伸长变形,且在纵向位移中计及由于横向变形而引起的纵向缩短项,即非线性耦合变形项,并保留了与非线性耦合项相关的一些高阶项,最终得到了系统的高次刚柔耦合动力学方程. 由此得到的动力学方程不仅能适用于柔性梁的小变形问题,也同样适用于大变形问题,弥补了一次近似耦合模型在处理柔性梁大变形问题上的不足. 通过与绝对节点坐标法以及一次近似耦合模型的对比验证了高次耦合模型的正确性.     

柔性梁刚柔耦合碰撞动力学及变形传播研究

运用柔性多体系统刚柔耦合动力学理论,研究了作大范围回转运动柔性梁的碰撞动力学问题.考虑柔性梁的横向变形,以及横向变形引起的纵向缩短项即非线性耦合变形项.采用基于Hertz接触理论及非线性阻尼理论的非线性弹簧阻尼模型来求解碰撞过程中产生的碰撞力,运用第二类拉格朗日方程建立了系统的刚柔耦合碰撞动力学方程.编制仿真软件进行动力学仿真计算,得到了碰撞力和系统动力学响应,对比分析了不同动力学模型对系统动力学响应的影响.同时研究了碰撞导致的柔性梁横向变形传播的波动特性.     

中心刚体-变截面梁系统的动力学特性研究

对在平面内做大范围转动的中心刚体-变截面梁系统的动力学进行了研究.考虑柔性梁横向弯曲变形和纵向伸长变形, 且在纵向位移中计及由于横向变形而引起的纵向缩短项, 即非线性耦合变形项. 采用假设模态法描述变形, 运用第二类Lagrange方程推导得到系统刚柔耦合动力学方程. 在此基础上对做大范围旋转运动的中心刚体-楔形梁以及中心刚体-梯形梁模型的动力学进行了详细研究. 研究表明: 梁宽比、梁高比以及梯形梁变截面位置都对系统的动力学特性有很大影响.      

柔性体的刚-柔耦合动力学分析

对柔性梁的刚－柔耦合动力学特性进行分析，从连续介质力学理论出发，在纵向变形位移中计及了耦合变形量，用Jourdain速度变分原理导出了柔性梁的刚－柔耦合动力学方程，定量地研究了非惯性系下柔性梁的动力学性质，比较了在不同转速下零次近似模型和耦合模型的振动频率的差异。为了确定零次近似模型的适用范围，引入与转速和基点加速度有关的相关系数，提出了零次近似模型的适用判据为相关系数小于0．1。在此基础上，进一步研究在大范围运动是自由的情况下柔性梁的大范围运动和变形运动的耦合机理，计算了带平动刚体的柔性梁的大范围运动规律，揭示零次近似模型和耦合模型的刚－柔耦合动力学性质的根本差异。     

考虑曲率纵向变形效应的大变形柔性梁刚柔耦合动力学建模与仿真

对在平面内做大范围转动的中心刚体柔性梁系统的动力学进行了研究,建立了考虑大变形效应的系统刚柔耦合动力学模型,并进行了动力学仿真.该动力学模型不但考虑了柔性梁横向弯曲变形和纵向变形(包含轴向拉伸变形和横向弯曲变形而引起的纵向缩短项),还考虑了纵向变形对曲率的影响,称为曲率纵向变形效应.在以往的研究中,柔性梁的横向弯曲变形能往往直接使用柔性梁横向弯曲变形来表达,并没有考虑纵向变形的影响.为了考虑柔性梁纵向变形对横向弯曲变形能的影响,在浮动坐标系下使用柔性梁参数方程形式的精确曲率公式来计算柔性梁的弯曲变形能.在此基础上建立了基于浮动坐标系的考虑曲率纵向变形效应的刚耦合动力学模型.论文给出了数值仿真算例,验证了本文所建的动力学模型既能适用于柔性梁的小变形问题,又能适用于大变形问题,且较现有高次刚柔耦合动力学模型更加适用于大变形问题的处理.论文还通过与能处理柔性梁大变形问题的绝对节点坐标法的比较,验证了模型的正确性.      

中心刚体-柔性梁系统的耦合变形影响

本文对作大范围运动的中心刚体-柔性梁系统的耦合变形的影响进行研究.给出一种新的描述柔性梁耦合变形的有限元插值方法,该方法采用笛卡尔变形坐标对横向变形和纵向变形之间的耦合项进行描述,该耦合变形项只与本单元的节点变形坐标相关.分别讨论了耦合变形项对惯性力与弹性力的贡献,分析了它们对刚-柔耦合动力学行为的影响.通过研究指出当采用笛卡尔变形坐标描述时,如果在计算弹性力的时候考虑了耦合变形影响,无论在计算惯性力时是否考虑耦合变形影响,都可以得到稳定收敛的结果.反之,如果在计算弹性力时忽略了耦合变形影响,无论在计算惯性力时是否考虑耦合变形影响,当大范围运动的速度较高时,将会得到错误的发散的结果.因此,通过忽略耦合变形对质量分布的影响,只保留耦合变形对弹性力的影响,可实现对动力学方程的简化.     

作大范围空间运动柔性梁的刚-柔耦合动力学

研究带中心刚体的作大范围空间运动梁的刚-柔耦合动力学问题．从精确的应变-位移关系式出发，在动力学变分方程中，考虑了横截面转动的惯性力偶和与扭转变形有关的弹性力的虚功率，用速度变分原理建立了考虑几何非线性的空间梁的刚-柔耦合动力学方程，用有限元法进行离散．通过对空间梁系统的数值仿真研究扭转变形和截面转动惯量对系统动力学性态的影响．     

旋转中心刚体-FGM梁刚柔热耦合动力学特性研究

对旋转中心刚体-功能梯度材料(functionally graded material,FGM)梁刚柔热耦合动力学特性进行研究.FGM梁为物理性能参数沿厚度方向呈幂律分布的欧拉伯努利梁.考虑柔性梁的横向弯曲变形和轴向拉伸变形, 并计入横向弯曲变形引起的纵向缩短,即非线性耦合变形量.考虑变截面空心梁在外部高温、内冷通道冷却情况下的热力耦合对系统动力学特性的影响,求解得到FGM梁沿厚度方向分布的温度场, 进而在本构关系中计入热应变.采用假设模态法对柔性梁变形场进行离散,运用第二类拉格朗日方程推导得到系统的刚柔热耦合动力学方程,并编制动力学仿真软件, 然后通过仿真算例对系统的动力学问题进行研究.结果表明:不同截面梁动力学响应差异较大, 因此需对实际系统合理建模;大范围运动已知时, 考虑热冲击载荷的FGM梁将有效抑制横向弯曲变形,而大范围运动恒定时随热冲击的叠加会出现高频振荡; 大范围运动未知时,外力矩和热冲击载荷相互作用产生热力耦合效应, 导致系统呈现高频振荡,同时与中心刚体大范围旋转运动产生刚柔热耦合效应.      

Dynamic modeling of a revolute-prismatic flexible robot arm fabricated from advanced composite materials

A dynamic model for a two degree-of-freedom planar robot arm is derived in this study. The links of the arm, connected to prismatic and revolute joints, are considered to be flexible. They are assumed to be fabricated from either aluminum or laminated composite materials. The model is derived based on the Timoshenko beam theory in order to account for the rotary inertia and shear deformation. These effects are significant in modeling flexible links connected to prismatic joints. The deflections of the links are approximated by using a shear-deformable beam finite element. Hamilton's principle is implemented to derive the equations describing the combined rigid and flexible motions of the arm. The resulting equations are coupled and highly nonlinear. In view of the large number of equations involved and their geometric nonlinearity (topological and quadratic), the solution of the equations of motion is obtained numerically by using a stiff integrator.The digital simulation studies examine the interaction between the flexible and the rigid body motions of the robot arm, investigate the improvement in the accuracy of the model by considering the flexibility of all rather than some of the links of the arm, assess the significance of the rotary inertia and shear deformation, and illustrate the advantages of using advanced composites in the structural design of robotic manipulators.     

A quaternion-based formulation of Euler–Bernoulli beam without singularity

This paper proposes a singularity-free beam element with Euler–Bernoulli assumption, i.e., the cross section remains rigid and perpendicular to the tangent of the centerline during deformation. Each node of this two-nodal beam element has eight nodal coordinates, including three global positions and one normal strain to describe the rigid translation and flexible deformation of the centerline, respectively, four Euler parameters or quaternion to represent the attitude of cross section. Adopting quaternion instead of Eulerian angles as nodal variables avoids the traditionally encountered singularity problem. The rigid cross section assumption is automatically satisfied. To guarantee the perpendicularity of cross section to the deformed neutral axes, the position and orientation coordinates are coupled interpolated by a special method developed here. The proposed beam element allows arbitrary spatial rigid motion, and large bending, extension, and torsion deformation. The resulting governing equations include normalization constraint equations for each quaternion of the beam nodes, and can be directly solved by the available differential algebraic equation (DAE) solvers. Finally, several numerical examples are presented to verify the large deformation, natural frequencies and dynamic behavior of the proposed beam element.     

A nonlinear finite-element approach for kineto-static analysis of multibody systems

Methods that treat rigid/flexible multibody systems undergoing large motion as well as deformations are often accompanied with inefficiencies and instabilities in the numerical solution due to the large number of state variables, differences in the magnitudes of the rigid and flexible body coordinates, and the time dependencies of the mass and stiffness matrices. The kineto-static methodology of this paper treats a multibody mechanical system to consist of two collections of bulky (rigid) bodies and relatively flexible ones. A mixed boundary condition nonlinear finite element problem is then formulated at each time step whose known quantities are the displacements of the nodes at the boundary of rigid and flexible bodies and its unknowns are the deformed shape of the entire structure and the loads (forces and moments) at the boundary. Partitioning techniques are used to solve the systems of equations for the unknowns, and the numerical solution of the rigid multibody system governing equations of motion is carried out. The methodology is very much suitable in modelling and predicting the impact responses of multibody system since both nonlinear and large gross motion as well as deformations are encountered. Therefore, it has been adopted for the studies of the dynamic responses of ground vehicle or aircraft occupants in different crash scenarios. The kineto-static methodology is used to determine the large motion of the rigid segments of the occupant such as the limbs and the small deformations of the flexible bodies such as the spinal column. One of the most dangerous modes of injury is the amount of compressive load that the spine experiences. Based on the developed method, a mathematical model of the occupant with a nonlinear finite element model of the lumbar spine is developed for a Hybrid II (Part 572) anthropomorphic test dummy. The lumbar spine model is then incorporated into a gross motion occupant model. The analytical results are correlated with the experimental results from the impact sled test of the dummy/seat/restraint system. With this extended occupant model containing the lumbar spine, the gross motion of occupant segments, including displacements, velocities and accelerations as well as spinal axial loads, bending moments, shear forces, internal forces, nodal forces, and deformation time histories are evaluated. This detailed information helps in assessing the level of spinal injury, determining mechanisms of spinal injury, and designing better occupant safety devices.     

Modeling and analysis of sliding joints with clearances in flexible multibody systems

The modeling of the sliding joint with clearance between a flexible beam and a rigid hole is investigated in this paper. The flexible beam is discretized using the three-dimensional curved Euler–Bernoulli beam element of the Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation, while the motion of the rigid hole is described by the Cartesian coordinates. Moreover, the cross sections of both the flexible beam and the rigid hole are assumed to be circular. The existing joints with clearances are mainly rigid joints with small clearances, and the contact detection algorithm adopted can solve only one pair of potential contact points within one section. In order to model the contact problem in the sliding joint with clearance, a new contact detection method based on the intersection of the rigid hole’s cross section and the flexible beam is proposed, which yields a two-dimensional contact detection problem. Based on the common-normal concept, the ellipse–circle contact detection problem within the hole’s cross section can be solved. The potential contact point on the hole’s cross section will be determined, and the closest point projection on the beam’s neutral axis can be defined further. The proposed contact detection method can deal with the sliding joint with large clearance and the multiple-point contact problem within one section. In addition, the penalty method is adopted to model the frictionless contact between the flexible beam and the rigid hole. Finally, two numerical examples about sliding joints with clearances, one with an initially curved beam under gravity and the other with a straight beam under zero gravity, are presented to demonstrate the influence of the clearance of sliding joint on the dynamic performance of flexible multibody systems.     

Dynamic analysis on generalized linear elastic body subjected to large scale rigid rotations

The dynamic analysis of a generalized linear elastic body undergoing large rigid rotations is investigated. The generalized linear elastic body is described in kine- matics through translational and rotational deformations, and a modified constitutive relation for the rotational deformation is proposed between the couple stress and the curvature tensor. Thus, the balance equations of momentum and moment are used for the motion equations of the body. The floating frame of reference formulation is applied to the elastic body that conducts rotations about a fixed axis. The motion-deformation coupled model is developed in which three types of inertia forces along with their incre- ments are elucidated. The finite element governing equations for the dynamic analysis of the elastic body under large rotations are subsequently formulated with the aid of the constrained variational principle. A penalty parameter is introduced, and the rotational angles at element nodes are treated as independent variables to meet the requirement of C1 continuity. The elastic body is discretized through the isoparametric element with 8 nodes and 48 degrees-of-freedom. As an example with an application of the motion- deformation coupled model, the dynamic analysis on a rotating cantilever with two spatial layouts relative to the rotational axis is numerically implemented. Dynamic frequencies of the rotating cantilever are presented at prescribed constant spin velocities. The maximal rigid rotational velocity is extended for ensuring the applicability of the linear model. A complete set of dynamical response of the rotating cantilever in the case of spin-up maneuver is examined, it is shown that, under the ultimate rigid rotational velocities less than the maximal rigid rotational velocity, the stress strength may exceed the material strength tolerance even though the displacement and rotational angle responses are both convergent. The influence of the cantilever layouts on their responses and the multiple displacement trajectories observed in the floating frame is simultaneously investigated. The motion-deformation coupled model is surely expected to be applicable for a broad range of practical applications.     

A node-based smoothed point interpolation method for dynamic analysis of rotating flexible beams

We proposed a mesh-free method, the called node-based smoothed point interpolation method (NS-PIM), for dynamic analysis of rotating beams. A gradient smoothing technique is used, and the requirements on the consistence of the displacement functions are further weakened. In static problems, the beams with three types of boundary conditions are analyzed, and the results are compared with the exact solution, which shows the effectiveness of this method and can provide an upper bound solution for the deflection. This means that the NS-PIM makes the system soften. The NS-PIM is then further extended for solving a rigid-flexible coupled system dynamics problem, considering a rotating flexible cantilever beam. In this case, the rotating flexible cantilever beam considers not only the transverse deformations, but also the longitudinal deformations. The rigid-flexible coupled dynamic equations of the system are derived via employing Lagrange’s equations of the second type. Simulation results of the NS-PIM are compared with those obtained using finite element method (FEM) and assumed mode method. It is found that compared with FEM, the NS-PIM has anti-ill solving ability under the same calculation conditions.     

Soft-impact dynamics of deformable bodies

Systems constituted by impacting beams and rods of non-negligible mass are often encountered in many applications of engineering practice. The impact between two rigid bodies is an intrinsically indeterminate problem due to the arbitrariness of the velocities after the instantaneous impact and implicates an infinite value of the contact force. The arbitrariness of after-impact velocities is solved by releasing the impenetrability condition as an internal constraint of the bodies and by allowing for elastic deformations at contact during an impact of finite duration. In this paper, the latter goal is achieved by interposing a concentrate spring between a beam and a rod at their contact point, simulating the deformability of impacting bodies at the interaction zones. A reliable and convenient method for determining impact forces is also presented. An example of engineering interest is carried out: a flexible beam that impacts on an axially deformable strut. The solution of motion under a harmonic excitation of the beam built-in base is found in terms of transverse and axial displacements of the beam and rod, respectively, by superimposition of a finite number of modal contributions. Numerical investigations are performed in order to examine the influence of the rigidity of the contact spring and of the ratio between the first natural frequencies of the beam and the rod, respectively, on the system response, namely impact velocity, maximum displacement, spring stretching and contact force. Impact velocity diagrams, nonlinear resonance curves and phase portraits are presented to determine regions of periodic motion with impacts and the appearance of chaotic solutions, and parameter ranges where the functionality of the non-structural element is at risk.     

Development of a two-dimensional model of a compliant non-pneumatic tire

An analytical model for a compliant non-pneumatic tire on frictionless, rigid ground is presented. The tire model consists of a thin flexible annular band and spokes that connect the band to a rigid hub. The annular band is modeled using curved beam theory that takes into account deformations due to bending, shearing and circumferential extension. The effect of the spokes, which are distributed continuously in the model and act as linear springs, is accounted for only in tension, which introduces a nonlinear response. The quasi-static, two-dimensional analysis focuses on how the contact patch, vertical tire stiffness and rolling resistance are affected by the stiffness properties of the band and the spokes. A Fourier series representation of the shear strain in the annular band and the complex modulus of the material were used to predict rolling resistance due to steady state rolling. From the analysis point of view, when the wheel is loaded at its hub, the following three distinct regions develop: (1) a support region where the hub hangs by the spokes from the upper part of the flexible band, (2) a free surface region where the spokes buckle and have no effect, and (3) a contact region where the flexible band is supported by the ground without the effect of the spokes. The angular bounds of these three regions are determined by the spoke angle and the contact angle, which are respectively the angle at which the spokes start to engage in tension and the angle that defines the edge of contact. Closed-form expressions of contact stress, stress-resultants and displacements at the centroids of the cross-sections of the flexible band are expressed in terms of these angles, which must be determined numerically. A thorough parametric analysis of quantities of interest for the tire is presented, which can be used to help support the optimal and rational design of compliant non-pneumatic tires. The model was validated by comparison with two computational models using the commercial finite element software ABAQUS and by experimental rolling resistance data.