Creep buckling and post-buckling analysis of the laminated piezoelectric viscoelastic functionally graded plates

The creep buckling and post-buckling of the laminated piezoelectric viscoelastic functionally graded material (FGM) plates are studied in this research. Considering the transverse shear deformation and geometric nonlinearity, the Von Karman geometric relation of the laminated piezoelectric viscoelastic FGM plates with initial deflection is established. And then nonlinear creep governing equations of the laminated piezoelectric viscoelastic FGM plates subjected to an in-plane compressive load are derived on the basis of the elastic piezoelectric theory and Boltzmann superposition principle. Applying the finite difference method and the Newmark scheme, the whole problem is solved by the iterative method. In numerical examples, the effects of geometric nonlinearity, transverse shear deformation, the applied electric load, the volume fraction and the geometric parameters on the creep buckling and post-buckling of laminated piezoelectric viscoelastic FGM plates with initial deflection are investigated.     

Analysis of laminated glass beams for photovoltaic applications

Laminated glass beams and plates are widely used in glazing and photovoltaic applications. One feature of these structures is a relatively thin and compliant polymeric layer for embedding solar cells. Proper design of photovoltaic glass modules requires an analysis of transverse shear strain distribution in polymeric encapsulant. In this paper a three layered beam with glass skins and a polymeric core is applied as a model structure to evaluate the mechanical properties. Robust relationships between the maximum deflection, the transverse shear strain of the core layer and the applied force in a three-point-bending test of laminated glass beam samples are derived. The first order shear deformation beam theory and a layer-wise type beam theory are applied. An expression for the transverse shear stiffness of the laminated glass beam is presented. The results for the maximum deflection are compared with the results discussed in the literature. Furthermore, a three-dimensional finite element analysis is performed to verify the applied beam theories. Three-point-bending tests for laminated glass beams with core layers from different polymeric materials are performed. The experimental data for the maximum deflection are compared with the derived expressions.     

带剪切型压电激励器的板的高阶剪切变形理论

利用压电材料固有的正，逆压电效应可以对结构变形和振动进行控制。与外加电场与极化方向平行于板厚度的压电材料的拉伸作动机制相比，外加电场与极化方向垂直的压电材料的剪切作动机制可以在作动器内产生较小的应力，从而降低作动器边界产生分层破坏的危险。本文对于压电材料的剪切作动机制进行研究，应用三阶剪切变形理论建立带剪切型压电激励器的智能层合板模型。采用哈密顿原理导出带剪切型压电激励器的层合板的控制方程。采用空间法得到了各种边界条件组合条件下板的解析解。数值算例对一三层板采用高阶和一阶剪切变形理论进行计算，结果表明两种理论所得的变形曲线很相似。但对于厚度剪切型激励器而言，由于激励器是引起板的剪切变形，而高阶剪切变形理论比一阶剪切变形理论能更好地反映结构的剪切应变能，因此高阶剪切变形理论可以提供板变形的更为精确的解。因此，对于厚度剪切型激励器，剪切变形理论的选取对于板变形结果的好坏有重要的作用。     

复合材料层合板壳非线性力学的研究进展

复合材料层合板壳是由多种组分材料组合而成.与单一材料的板壳结构相比,它无明确的材料主方向,各层间材料间断和不连续,具有明显的几何非线性和材料非线性等新的特点.其失效模式也远比单一材料的情况复杂,具有如基体开裂、脱胶、分层、分层裂纹偏转、多分层以及分层传播等多种模式.各国学者基于不同的考虑,提出了多种方法研究复合材料层合板壳的失效.首先,在简要介绍了层合板壳线性力学基本理论的基础上,重点回顾了层合板壳结构非线性力学几种基本理论发展的过程,主要阐述了经典大挠度非线性理论、一阶剪切变形理论、高阶剪切变形理论、锯齿理论、广义分层理论的理论体系及基本公式,并对几种理论之间的联系和差异进行了总结;其次,介绍了当前层合结构非线性领域的研究进展,综述了典型复合材料板壳结构的失效机理及优化设计、复合材料板壳结构在复杂环境下的破坏机理、复合材料板壳结构的物理非线性、含脱层纤维增强复合材料板壳结构的破坏机理等各研究热点的最新研究成果;最后,对该领域未来的研究方向进行了展望.     

Kármán-type equations for a higher-order shear deformation plate theory and its use in the thermal postbuckling analysis

Kármán-type nonlinear large deflection equations are derived occnrding to the Reddy’s higher-order shear deformation plate theory and used in the thermal postbuckling analysis The effects of initial geometric imperfections of the plate areincluded in the present study which also includes th thermal effects.Simply supported,symmetric cross-ply laminated plates subjected to uniform or nomuniform parabolictemperature distribution are considered. The analysis uses a mixed GalerkinGolerkinperlurbation technique to determine thermal buckling louds and postbucklingequilibrium paths.The effects played by transverse shear deformation plate aspeclraio, total number of plies thermal load ratio and initial geometric imperfections arealso studied.     

层合板六参量几何非线性高阶剪切理论

提出了层合板六参量的高阶剪切变形理论的位移场假定,以考虑在大变形条件下层合板法向变形和厚度的变化。同时对ｖｏｎ Ｋａｒｍａｎ应变位移简化假设进行补充修改,考虑某些有限变形条件下被忽略小量的影响,建立了对应于该文六参量模型和更加适凳大变形分析的层合板几何非线性关系,平衡方程和边界条件。利用该文模型分析了橡胶复合材料简支板的大变形弯曲行为,并对比Ｒｅｄｄｙ五参量几何非线性简单高阶剪切变形层合理论解和弹     

Six-variable geometrical nonlinear laminated theory for large deformation

A six-variable geometrical nonlinear shear deformation laminated theory is presented by which normal stress and strain distribution can be calculated. By considering some affective factors that were neglected under the finite deformation condition, an improved von Karman geometrical nonlinear deformation-strain relation is used for large deformation analysis. After analyzing the bending problem of laminated plates, and comparing it with 3-D elasticity solutions and J. N. Reddy five-variable simple higher-order shear deformation laminated theory, we can conclude that a satisfactory calculation precision has been achieved, which shows that it is especially suitable for the calculation in the condition of large deformation and the laminated thick plate analysis.     

Stochastic nonlinear bending response of laminated composite plates with system randomness under lateral pressure and thermal loading

In this paper, the effect of sensitivity of randomness in system parameters on the nonlinear transverse central deflection response of laminated composite plates subjected to transverse uniform lateral pressure and thermal loading is examined. System parameters such as the lamina material properties, expansion of thermal coefficients, lamina plate thickness and lateral load are modelled as basic random variables. A higher order shear deformation theory in the von-Karman sense is used to model the system behavior of the laminated plate. A direct iterative-based C ⁰ nonlinear finite element method in conjunction with the first-order perturbation technique developed by the authors is extended for thermal problem to obtain the second-order response statistics, i.e., mean and variance of the nonlinear transverse deflection of the plate. Typical numerical results of composite plates with temperature independent and dependent material properties subjected to uniform temperature and combination of uniform and transverse temperature are obtained for various combinations of geometric parameters, uniform lateral pressures, staking sequences and boundary conditions. The results have been compared with those available in the literature and an independent Monte Carlo simulation.     

Nonlinear bending analysis of ring-stiffened circular and annular general angle-ply laminated plates with various boundary conditions

In this study, elastic large deflection analysis of axisymmetric ring-stiffened circular and annular general angle-ply laminated plates subjected to transverse uniform load is studied. Based on first order shear deformation theory (FSDT) and large deflection von-Karman relations, the governing equations are derived. The dynamic relaxation (DR) method in conjunction with the central finite difference discretization technique is used to solve the nonlinear equilibrium equations. A detailed parametric study is carried out to investigate the influences of plate thicknesses, stiffener width, stiffener depth, fiber orientation, stacking sequence and different types of boundary conditions. Also, some linear and nonlinear analysis is provided to consider the effect of nonlinearity on the results.     

Effects of transverse shear on the nonlinear bending of rectangular plates laminated of bimodular composite materials

This paper investigates the application of Dynamic-Relaxation (DR) method to the problems of nonlinear bending of rectangular plates laminated of bimodular composite materials. The classical lamination theory and a shear deformation theory of layered composite plates, taking account of large rotations (in the von Karman sense) are employed separately to analyze the subject. It has been found here that the estimation of the fictitious densities which control the convergence and numerical stability of nonlinear DR solution considering transverse shear effect still needs to be further investigated. In this paper, a procedure to calculate fictitious densities has been presented; hence the numerical stability of this topic has been ensured. In this paper the main steps of solving the nonlinear bending of bimodular composite laminates by means of DR method are outlined. The numerical results are given for simply supported, two-layer cross-ply rectangular plates made of mildly bimodular material (Boron-Epoxy (B-E)) and highly bimodular materials (Aramid-Rubber (A-R) and Polyester-Rubber (P-R)) under sinusoidally distributed and uniformly distributed transverse loads. The results obtained have been compared with linear results and those obtained for laminates fabricated from conventional composite materials, the elastic moduli of which are identical with the tensile moduli of the bimodular materials. In addition, the effect of transverse shear deformation on the nondimensionalized center deflection has been studied.The main contents of this paper were presented at the International Symposium of Composite Materials and Structures (June 1986, Beijing).The authors thank Prof. Zhou Li for his guidance.