Stationary Shape of a Moving Heavy Flexible Thread

A model describing the shape of the stationary segment of a heavy flexible inextensible thread moving in a fixed vertical plane down to a given depth from a fixed position to a fixed position is considered. The parametric equations of the stationary curve are derived. The shape of the stationary segment and its properties are in a qualitative agreement with those observed in experiments.     

Determining the limiting solutions of nonstationary axisymmetric Hele-Shaw problems

Numerical solution of the Hele-Shaw problem reduces to solution of three boundary-value problems of determining analytic functions of a complex variable in each time step: conformal mapping of the range of the parametric variable to the physical plane, the Dirichlet problems for determining the electric-field strength, and the Riemann-Hilbert problem for calculating partial time derivatives of the coordinates of points of the interelectrode space (the images of the points on the boundary of the parametric plane are fixed). Unlike in the two-dimensional problem, the electric-field strength is determined using integral transformations of an analytic function. Approximation by spline function is performed, and more accurate and steady (than the well-known ones) general solution algorithms for the nonstationary axisymmetric problems are described. Results of a numerical study of the formation of stationary and self-similar configurations are presented. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 87–99, July–August, 2009.     

Blowup of solutions for the planar motions of rotating nonlinearly elastic rods

This paper treats the motion of flexible, extensible, shearable nonlinearly elastic rods, described by a geometrically exact theory, when they are confined to a plane rotating about a fixed axis at constant angular speed and when they are confined to a fixed plane with one end rotating at a constant angular speed about an axis perpendicular to the fixed plane. The paper gives restrictions on the constitutive equations and initial conditions that ensure that motions become unbounded at rapid rates as time becomes infinite. The analysis of these constitutive restrictions employs the theory of characteristics for single first-order semilinear partial differential equations.     

LARGE RANGE ANALYSIS FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS——ELEMENT MAPPING METHOD

This paper presents a new method for global analysis of nonlinear system. By means of transforming the nonlinear dynamic problems into point mapping forms which are single-valued and continuous, the state space can be regularly divided into a certain number of finitely small triangle elements on which the non-linear mapping can be approximately substituted by the linear mapping given by definition. Hence, the large range distributed problem of the mapping fixed points will be simplified as a process for solving a set of linear equations. Still further, the exact position of the fixed points can be found by the iterative technique. It is convenient to judge the stability of fixed points and the shrinkage zone in the state space by using the deformation matrix of linear mapping. In this paper, the attractive kernel for the stationary fixed points is defined, which makes great advantage for describing the attractive domains of the fixed points. The new method is more convenient and effective than the cell mapping methodl^[1]. And an example for two-dimensional mapping is given.     

LARGE RANGE ANALYSIS FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS——ELEMENT MAPPING METHOD

This paper presents a new method for global analysis of nonlinear system. By means of transforming the nonlinear dynamic problems into point mapping forms which are single-valued and continuous, the state space can be regularly divided into a certain number of finitely small triangle elements on which the non-linear mapping can be approximately substituted by the linear mapping given by definition. Hence, the large range distributed problem of the mapping fixed points will be simplified as a process for solving a set of linear equations. Still further, the exact position of the fixed points can be found by the iterative technique. It is convenient to judge the stability of fixed points and the shrinkage zone in the state space by using the deformation matrix of linear mapping. In this paper, the attractive kernel for the stationary fixed points is defined, which makes great advantage for describing the attractive domains of the fixed points. The new method is more convenient and effective than the cell     

A study of dynamic caustics around running interface crack tip

Based on the first invariant of stress singular field in the vicinity of running tip of an interface crack, mapping equations of the caustic curve on the reference plane and the initial curve on the specimen plane are developed. The dynamic caustics are analyzed for the crack propagating along the interface between two bonded dissimilar materials. The variation of the caustic configurations is shown with the velocity change of the running crack and the ratio change of the stress intensity factors. Two characteristic dimensions are proposed that are not only practically measurable from optical caustic contours but also suitable to represent the behavior of transient caustics. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Scientific Commission of Yunnan Province of China     

Complex variable function method for the scattering of plane waves by an arbitrary hole in a porous medium

Based on the complex variable function method, a new approach for solving the scattering of plane elastic waves by a hole with an arbitrary configuration embedded in an infinite poroelastic medium is developed in the paper. The poroelastic medium is described by Biot's theory. By introducing three potentials, the governing equations for Biot's theory are reduced to three Helmholtz equations for the three potentials. The series solutions of the Helmholtz equations are obtained by the wave function expansion method. Through the conformal mapping method, the arbitrary hole in the physical plane is mapped into a unit circle in the image plane. Integration of the boundary conditions along the unit circle in the image plane yields the algebraic equations for the coefficients of the series solutions. Numerical solution of the resulting algebraic equations yields the displacements, the stresses and the pore pressure for the porous medium. In order to demonstrate the proposed approach, some numerical results are given in the paper.     

Discussion paper: Has renaming the high fidelity generalized method of cells been justified?

The high fidelity generalized method of cells (HFGMC) has been originally developed by Aboudi, 2001, Aboudi et al., 2001 as a micromechanical method for periodic multi-phase composite media. A computational implementation of the HFGMC equations has been proposed by Bansal and Pindera (2004) to enhance numerical efficiency, still with direct reference to the HFGMC formulation. Later, the same computational implementation is recast as a new method called “finite volume direct averaging micromechanics” (FVDAM), starting by Bansal and Pindera (2006). The current discussion paper has two aims. The first is to show that the FVDAM is not a new method and that it has the same assumptions and identical governing equations as those originally derived by the HFGMC. The only difference is in the solution procedure where intermediate dependent variables, in the form of average displacements at the interfaces, are used instead of directly solving for the unknown micro-variables; the coefficients of the displacement polynomials. Thus, renaming the HFGMC micromodel to FVDAM has not been justified. In fact, (Haj-Ali and Aboudi, 2009) have shown that the same reduction of variables can be achieved by a simple static condensation carried out at the global system of equations instead of introducing intermediate variables. The second aim of this paper is to address misrepresentations in a recent discussion paper by the FVDAM authors claiming, in part, that the HFGMC method using parametric geometry of the subcells should follow their formulation (termed parametric FVDAM). We show that the latter is limited to an incomplete quadratic expansion of the displacement and an approximation in the form of a priori constant Jacobian of the parametric mapping. However, the HFGMC with arbitrary cell geometry, (Haj-Ali and Aboudi, 2010), has been formulated in a direct and general manner, i.e. retaining the full quadratic expansion of the displacement together with the complete Jacobian. Thus, the parametric FVDAM is a special case of the parametric HFGMC, i.e. when the Jacobian is sampled and evaluated only at one point, namely the origin of the parametric coordinate system. The intended new contribution of Haj-Ali and Aboudi (2010) to refined micromechanics and progressive damage has been completely ignored by the FVDAM-discussion paper. Therefore, in order to maintain scientific clarity, it is strongly advocated to preserve the original name of the HFGMC method, regardless of the different computational implementations used for solving the governing equations for both orthogonal and parametric geometries of the subcells.     

面内剪切非线性对复合材料层合板参数共振的影响

利用ＶｏｎＫａｒｍａｎ薄板大挠度理论和Ｈａｈｎ－Ｔｓａｉ本构方程研究了四边简支、一对边受压缩动载荷的（０／９０）。对称铺设正交各向异性矩形层合板的参数振动问题。     

轴向变速运动正交各向异性板的动态稳定性

研究面内载荷作用下轴向变速运动正交各向异性薄板的横向振动及其稳定性。利用Galerkin法与平均法,在激励频率为2倍固有频率或为两阶固有频率之和附近时得到自治的常微分方程组;在参数激励频率和激励振幅平面上,分析由共振引发的失稳区域。数值算例验证了面内载荷、轴向速度、加速度参数对失稳区域的影响。     

Numerical simulations of flow-field interactions between moving and stationary objects in idealized street canyon settings

Numerical simulations of an ideal model of street canyons with moving objects in the horizontal plane were conducted. The simulations were based on the unsteady two-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, discretized on an overlapping grid with a numerical scheme that is second-order accurate in both space and time. The computational domain consists of a rectangular background with eight fixed objects arranged in two parallel columns representing the street canyon. Four identical objects were put in each column equidistantly. One or two identical objects were moving along the symmetry line of the computational domain. The objects were either circular or rectangular with rounded corners in shape. The numerical method was first validated by comparing with existing experimental and simulation data. A parametric study was carried out to investigate the influence of the characteristic parameters (such as canyon width, velocity of the moving objects, and separation distance between them) on the wake of the moving objects.     

Existence and stability of solutions to inverse variational inequality problems

In this paper, two new existence theorems of solutions to inverse variational and quasi-variational inequality problems are proved using the Fan-Knaster-KuratowskiMazurkiewicz(KKM) theorem and the Kakutani-Fan-Glicksberg fixed point theorem.Upper semicontinuity and lower semicontinuity of the solution mapping and the approximate solution mapping to the parametric inverse variational inequality problem are also discussed under some suitable conditions. An application to a road pricing problem is given.     

不规则区域平面问题的条形传递函数方法

对条形传递函数方法进行了改进,提出了映射条形传递函数方法,用于处理非正规形状区域的平面问题。在本文方法中,一个非正规区域被映射成为若干矩形子区域的组合,在这些矩形子区域内划分条形单元,进而建立起位移离散模型。利用变分关系对模型处理,可以得到问题的动态控制方程。应用改进后得到的数值传递函数求解,就可以得到系统的动力、静力响应。文后应用上述方法建立了应用模型并给出了数值算法,结果表明本方法继承了原方法精度高、处理规范、便于求解动态问题等,并成功地应用到了非规则区域的平面问题中。     

The Subharmonic Bifurcation of a Viscoelastic Circular Cylindrical Shell

In this paper the nonlinear dynamic behavior of a viscoelastic circular cylindrical shell under a harmonic excitation applied at both ends is studied. The modified Flugge partial differential equations of motion are reduced to a system of finite degrees of freedom using the Galerkin method. The equations are solved by the Liapunov–Schmidt reduction procedure. In order to study 1/2 and 1/4 subharmonic parametric resonance of the shell, the transition sets in parameter plane and bifurcation diagrams are plotted for a number of situations. Results indicate that, for certain static loads, the shell may display jumps due to the presence of dynamic periodic load with small amplitude. Additionally, different physical situations are identified in which periodic oscillating phenomena can be observed, and where 1/4 subharmonic parametric resonance is simpler than the 1/2-one.     

Chaos control and synchronization of the Φ<Superscript>6</Superscript>-Van der Pol system driven by external and parametric excitations

The dynamical behavior of the Φ⁶-Van der Pol system subjected to both external and parametric excitation is investigated. The effect of parametric excitation amplitude on the routes to chaos is studied by numerical analysis. It is found that the probability of chaos happening increases along with the parametric excitation amplitude increases while the external excitation amplitude fixed. Based on the invariance principle of differential equations, the system is lead to desirable periodic orbit or chaotic state (synchronization) with different control techniques. Numerical simulations are provided to validate the proposed method.     

Elxed Point Theorem of Composition g-Contraction Mapping and its Applications

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Stability in a case of motion of a paraboloid over a plane

We solve a nonlinear orbital stability problem for a periodic motion of a homogeneous paraboloid of revolution over an immovable horizontal plane in a homogeneous gravity field. The plane is assumed to be absolutely smooth, and the body–plane collisions are assumed to be absolutely elastic. In the unperturbed motion, the symmetry axis of the body is vertical, and the body itself is in translational motion with periodic collisions with the plane.The Poincare´ section surfacemethod is used to reduce the problemto studying the stability of a fixed point of an area-preserving mapping of the plane into itself. The stability and instability conditions are obtained for all admissible values of the problem parameters.     

On the dynamics of rings rotating with variable spin speed

This work investigates nonlinear dynamic response of circular rings rotating with spin speed which involves small fluctuations from a constant average value. First, Hamilton's principle is applied and the equations of motion are expressed in terms of a single time coordinate, representing the amplitude of an in-plane bending mode. For nonresonant excitation or for slowly rotating rings, a complete analysis is presented by employing phase plane methodologies. For rapidly rotating rings, periodic spin speed variations give rise to terms leading to parametric excitation. In this case, the vibrations that occur under principal parametric resonance are analyzed by applying the method of multiple scales. The resulting modulation equations possess combinations of trivial and nontrivial constant steady state solutions. The existence and stability properties of these motions are first analyzed in detail. Also, analysis of the undamped slow-flow equations provides a global picture for the possible motions of the ring. In all cases, the analytical predictions are verified and complemented by numerical results. In addition to periodic response, these results reveal the existence of unbounded as well as transient chaotic response of the rotating ring.     

Stochastic stability of parametrically excited random systems

Multidegree-of-freedom dynamic systems subjected to parametric excitation are analyzed for stochastic stability. The variation of excitation intensity with time is described by the sum of a harmonic function and a stationary random process. The stability boundaries are determined by the stochastic averaging method. The effect of random parametric excitation on the stability of trivial solutions of systems of differential equations for the moments of phase variables is studied. It is assumed that the frequency of harmonic component falls within the region of combination resonances. Stability conditions for the first and second moments are obtained. It turns out that additional parametric excitation may have a stabilizing or destabilizing effect, depending on the values of certain parameters of random excitation. As an example, the stability of a beam in plane bending is analyzed.Published in Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 135–144, October 2004.     

Satellite rotation stability at a Mercurian type resonance

We consider the satellite plane motion about the center of mass in a central Newtonian gravitational field in an elliptic orbit. This motion is described by a second-order differential equation known as the Beletskii equation. In the framework of the plane problem (under the assumption that the body vibrates in the unperturbed orbit plane), there exists a family of periodic solutions of the Beletskii equation near the 3: 2 resonance between the orbital revolution and axial rotation periods. A nonlinear stability analysis of these periodic solutions is carried out both in the presence of third- and fourth-order resonances and in their absence as well as on the boundaries of the stability regions in the first approximation. The problem is solved numerically. For fixed parameter values (the eccentricity of the center-of-mass orbit and the inertial parameter), the construction of a symplectic mapping of the equilibrium into itself is used to calculate the coefficients of the mapping generating function, which are further used to conclude whether the equilibrium is stable or not.