柔性多体系统动力学研究现状与展望

对柔性多体系统动力学的研究现状进行了概括和总结,主要从柔性体建模方法、刚柔耦合动力学、接触碰撞问题、多物理场耦合、微分代数方程求解技术、控制方法、设计优化及软件开发和实验研究等几个研究方向进行总结,并对未来的研究方向做了展望.     

接触碰撞动力学的多变量选取方法

在柔性多体的接触碰撞动力学问题中,多变量方法基于附加约束的接触模型,将柔性体的变形用不同变量来描述：接触局部区域的变形用有限元节点坐标描述,非接触局部区域的变形用模态坐标描述,兼顾了计算精度和效率. 将该方法推广到三维空间碰撞问题,对两柔性杆纵向碰撞过程进行动力学仿真,数值结果与实验结果吻合良好,验证了该方法的有效性. 针对柔性体各自区域的变量如何选取的问题,研究了节点取法、模态阶数以及材料参数对计算结果精度的影响,寻找到合理的多变量选取方法,保证精度的同时使自由度得到最大程度的缩减.     

平面柔性多体系统正碰撞动力学建模理论研究

针对目前柔性多体系统碰撞动力学建模方法存在的不足,对影响碰撞动力学仿真的主要因素如柔性体建模和碰撞初始条件进行分析,建立起基于变约束的柔性体碰撞动力学方程。首先,为了解决子结构法在处理碰撞界面搜索时面临的难题,引入多体系统柔性体有限元描述方法,推导出凸形柔性体接触点间法向位移约束的二阶导数形式。其次,从碰撞引起的接触界面速度不连续机理出发,结合连续介质力学间断面理论,给出碰撞瞬时由物体本身物理性质决定的接触位置处速度跳跃公式。最后对两弹性圆盘低速碰撞问题进行数值仿真。结果表明本文提出的改进方法符合力学基本原理,仿真结果满足收敛性要求。     

柔性多体碰撞问题的多变量方法

针对柔性多体系统碰撞问题的特点, 提出了柔性多体系统碰撞问题的多变量方法. 在未碰撞阶段和分离后的阶段, 多变量方法考虑了物体大范围运动与变形的耦合.在碰撞阶段, 考虑非碰撞区域的变形, 对非碰撞区域用浮动参考系方法求解, 对发生碰撞的局部区域用非线性有限元方法求解. 非碰撞区域采用浮动基位形坐标和柔性体相对浮动基的变形模态坐标描述, 大大减缩了变量的维数,提高了计算效率. 碰撞局部区域采用非线性有限元节点坐标描述, 可以得到碰撞局部区域高精度的应力、应变响应, 而且可以反映碰撞局部区域的大变形、塑性等非线性响应. 该方法既能体现碰撞对系统大范围运动和长期动力学仿真的影响, 又能精确反映出碰撞发生的微小时间段内物体碰撞局部区域的应力、应变响应, 表现出碰撞过程中物体接触区域的演化历程.介绍了两杆正碰撞与铅垂面内双摆撞击自由圆盘的算例, 设计了两柔性杆正碰撞实验,多变量方法的数值仿真结果与实验测量结果很好地吻合.      

作大范围回转运动柔性梁斜碰撞动力学研究

为正确估计由于碰撞引起的多柔体系统动力学特性的变化,针对作大范围回转运动的柔性梁与一固定斜面发生斜碰撞的情况,在考虑刚柔耦合效应的多柔体系统动力学建模理论的基础上,利用假设模态法建立起重力场作用下的柔性梁一致线性化动力法向碰撞过程中系统的动力行为。基于Ｈｅｒｔｚ接触理论和非线性阻尼项建立法向碰撞接触模型,基于线性切向接触刚度建立柔性梁切向碰撞接触模型,提出的数值算法保证了计算结果的合理性,给出的仿     

平面柔性多体碰撞阶段附加接触约束方法

含碰撞现象的柔性多体动力学涵盖碰撞前、碰撞中和碰撞后3个不同拓扑的过程, 针对这个特点, 采用附加接触约束方法可将上述3个过程的动力学方程形式统一. 引入碰撞检测机制, 实现拓扑模型的自动变化. 与传统的罚函数方法不同, 以物体间互不嵌入的思想建立附加接触约束, 计算碰撞期间的动力学过程. 通过对发生多次碰撞问题的仿真,从兼顾计算精度和计算效率的角度, 对提出的附加接触约束方法和LS-DYNA罚函数方法进行了对比, 改进了LS-DYNA罚函数方法存在的不足.      

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.     

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简述了多刚体系统接触及碰撞动力学的研究方法，详细回顾了考虑库仑摩擦的多刚 体系统的能量不协调、Painlev\'{e}疑难及碰撞恢复系数等该领域中难点问题的研 究进展，探讨了解决该难点问题的研究思路，指出了未来该领域的研究方向.     

多柔体系统动力学建模与优化研究进展

多柔体系统是由柔性部件和运动副组成的力学系统,在航空、航天、车辆、机械与兵器等众多工程领域具有广泛的应用前景,其典型的代表包括柔性机械臂、直升机旋翼、卫星的可展开天线、太阳帆航天器等.近年来,随着工程技术的发展,多柔体系统动力学问题日益突出,尤其是含变长度柔性部件的多柔体系统,不仅涉及其动力学建模与计算,还涉及其动力学优化设计.事实上,部件柔性对多柔体系统的动力学行为影响很大,直接影响到优化结果,因此需要发展基于多柔体系统动力学的优化设计方法.本文首先阐述了多柔体系统动力学优化的研究背景及意义,简要回顾了多柔体系统动力学建模的3类方法:浮动坐标方法、几何精确方法和绝对节点坐标方法,并介绍了含变长度柔性部件的多柔体系统动力学建模方法.系统概述了多柔体系统动力学响应优化、动力学特性优化和动力学灵敏度分析3个方面的研究进展,并从尺寸优化、形状优化和拓扑优化3个方面综述了多柔体系统部件优化的研究进展.本文最后提出了在多柔体系统动力学优化研究中值得关注的若干问题.     

多柔体系统动力学建模与优化研究进展

多柔体系统是由柔性部件和运动副组成的力学系统,在航空、航天、车辆、机械与兵器等众多工程领域具有广泛的应用前景, 其典型的代表包括柔性机械臂、直升机旋翼、卫星的可展开天线、太阳帆航天器等. 近年来,随着工程技术的发展,多柔体系统动力学问题日益突出,尤其是含变长度柔性部件的多柔体系统,不仅涉及其动力学 建模与计算,还涉及其动力学优化设计. 事实上,部件柔性对多柔体系统的动力学行为影响很大,直接影响到优化结果,因此需要发展基于多柔体系统动力学的优化设计方法. 本文首先阐述了多柔体系统动力学优化的研究背景及意义,简要回顾了多柔体系统动力学建模的3类方法:浮动坐标方法、几何 精确方法和绝对节点坐标方法,并介绍了含变长度柔性部件的多柔体系统动力学建模方法. 系统概述了多柔体系统动力学响应优化、动力学特性优化和动力学灵敏度分析3个方面的研究进展,并从尺寸优化、形状优化和 拓扑优化 3 个方面综述了多柔体系统部件优化的研究进展. 本文最后提出了在多柔体系统动力学优化研究中值得关注的若干问题.      

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.     

Modeling intermittent contact for flexible multibody systems

This paper consists of two parts. The first part presents a complementarity based recursive scheme to model intermittent contact for flexible multibody systems. A recursive divide-and-conquer framework is used to explicitly impose the bilateral constraints in the entire system. The presented approach is an extension of the hybrid scheme for rigid multibody systems to allow for small deformations in form of local mode shapes. The normal contact and frictional complementarity conditions are formulated at position and velocity level, respectively, for each body in the system. The recursive scheme preserves the essential characteristics of the contact model and formulates a minimal size linear complementarity problem at logarithmic cost for parallel implementation. For a certain class of contact problems in flexible multibody systems, the complementarity based time-stepping scheme requires prohibitively small time-steps to retain accuracy. Modeling intermittent contact for this class of contact problems motivated the development of an iterative scheme. The second part of the paper describes this iterative scheme to model unilateral constraints for a multibody system with relatively fewer contacts. The iterative scheme does not require a traditional complementarity formulation and allows the use of any higher order integration methods. A comparison is then made between the traditional complementarity formulation and the presented iterative scheme via numerical examples.     

Mindlin??s Problem for a Halfspace Indented by a Flexible Plate

The paper deals with a contact problem for an isotropic elastic halfspace indented by a flexible circular plate and simultaneously subjected to a Mindlin-type axial force. The approach adopted is to solve the contact problem for the flexible circular plate and the elastic halfspace; this serves as the auxiliary solution to examine, via the Maxwell-Betti reciprocal theorem, the influence of the internal Mindlin force. The contact between the flexible plate and the elastic halfspace is solved using a variational approach. The net displacement of the flexible circular plate and the internal Mindlin force can be evaluated in analytical form. The result has applications to the in situ evaluation of the deformability characteristics of geologic media.     

Simulation of planar flexible multibody systems with clearance and lubricated revolute joints

Modeling of clearance joints plays an important role in the analysis and design of multibody mechanical systems. Based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF), a new computational methodology for modeling and analysis of planar flexible multibody systems with clearance and lubricated revolute joints is presented. A planar absolute nodal coordinate formulation based on the locking-free shear deformable beam element is implemented to discretize the flexible bodies. A continuous contact-impact model is used to evaluate the contact force, in which energy dissipation in the form of hysteresis damping is considered. A force transition model from hydrodynamic lubrication forces to dry contact forces is introduced to ensure continuity in the joint reaction force. A comprehensive study with different lubrication force models has also been carried out. The generalized-α method is used to solve the equations of motion and several efficient methods are incorporated in the proposed model. Finally, the methodology is validated by two numerical examples.     

Contact-impact formulation for multi-body systems using component mode synthesis

The efficiency and accuracy are two most concerned issues in the modeling and simulation of multi-body systems involving contact and impact. This paper proposed a formulation based on the component mode synthesis method for planar contact problems of flexible multi-body systems. A flexible body is divided into two parts： a contact zone and an un-contact zone. For the un-contact zone, by using the fixed-interface substructure method as reference, a few low-order modal coordinates are used to replace the nodal coordinates of the nodes, and meanwhile, the nodal coordinates of the local impact region are kept unchanged, therefore the total degrees of freedom （DOFs） are greatly cut down and the computational cost of the simulation is significantly reduced. By using additional constraint method, the impact constraint equations and kinematic constraint equations are derived, and the Lagrange equations of the first kind of flexible multi-body system are obtained. The impact of an elastic beam with a fixed half disk is simulated to verify the efficiency and accuracy of this method.     

Utilizing nonlinear phenomena to locate grazing in the constrained motion of a cantilever beam

Grazing behavior in soft impact dynamics of a harmonically based excited flexible cantilever beam is investigated. Numerical and experimental methods are employed to study the dynamic behavior of macro- and micro-scale cantilever beam–impactor systems. For off-resonance excitation at two and a half times the fundamental frequency, the response of the oscillating cantilever experiences period doubling as the separation distance or clearance between the beam axis and the contact surface is decreased. The nonlinear phenomenon is studied by using phase portraits, Poincaré sections, and spectral analysis. Motivated by atomic force microscopy, this general dynamic behavior is studied as a means to locating the separation distance corresponding to grazing where the contact force is minimized.     

Sliding contact conditions using the master–slave approach with application on geometrically non-linear beams

Frictionless sliding conditions between two bodies are usually defined using either the method of Lagrangian multipliers or by prescribing an artificial (penalty) stiffness which resists the penetration at the contact point. Both of these methods impose the condition that the contact force should be normal to the contact surface, with the Lagrangian multiplier or the penalty parameter serving as a measure of this force. In this work, an alternative approach is undertaken: the frictionless sliding condition is defined through a relationship between nodal parameters of the virtual displacements of a discretised principle of virtual work. This method, which does not involve additional force parameters or degrees of freedom, is known as the master–slave or the minimum-set method and is particularly convenient for displacement-based finite-element implementation. The method is analysed in detail in context of bilateral sliding constraints characteristic of prismatic and cylindrical joints in flexible beam assemblies undergoing large overall motion. Two numerical examples are presented and assessed against the results in the literature.