Buckling of an annular plate under tensile point loading

In this paper, we address the stability of an elastic thin annular plate stretched by two point loads that are located on the outer boundary. A roller support is considered on the outer boundary while the inner edge of the plate is free. Muskhelishvili’s theory of complex potentials has been applied to obtain a solution of the plane problem in the form of a power series. The buckling problem has been solved using the Rayleigh–Ritz method, based on the energy criterion. The critical Euler force and the respective buckling mode have been computed. Dependence between the critical force and the relative orifice size has been illustrated. Analysis of the results has shown that a symmetric buckling mode takes place for a sufficiently large hole, with the greatest deflection observed around the hole along the force line. However, an antisymmetric buckling mode occurs for relatively small holes, with the greatest deflection being along a line that is orthogonal to the force line.     

Shear buckling modes of cylindrical sandwich shells under external pressure, tension-compression of bearing layers with unequal forces, and inhomogeneous across-the-thickness temperature

Equations are set up for describing, in a correct statement and with an accuracy sufficient in actual practice, the shear buckling modes (BMs) of cylindrical sandwich shells with a transversely soft core of arbitrary thickness. Based on them, solutions are obtained to a number of problems on the buckling instability according to shear modes under some force and thermal loadings. It is found that the BMs occur in the shell along the circumferential and axial directions if, in the precritical state, a normal compressive stress arises in the transverse direction. It is shown that this condition is fulfilled in the following cases: in axial tension of the shell with unequal forces applied to the end faces of bearing layers (the parameter of critical load is maximum if the tensile forces are equal); under external (internal) pressure; on cooling the outer and heating the inner layers. The results obtained are presented in the form of simple analytical formulas for determining the corresponding critical parameters of the force and thermal actions.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 37–48, January–February, 2005.     

Stability of transversely isotropic annular plates with low shear resistance

The stability differential equations of a cylindrically orthotropic circular plate are obtained on the assumption of an axisymmetric buckling mode with allowance for transverse shears. These equations are solved for the case of a transversely isotropic material when the inner and outer edges of the plate are identically loaded by uniformly distributed radial forces. The transcendental equations for the critical load parameter are constructed for various edge conditions. The dependence of this parameter on the boundary conditions and the relative thickness of the plate, Poisson's ratio, and the ratio of the Young's and shear moduli of the material are investigated. Certain conclusions are reached concerning the design of reinforced-plastic plates.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 872–880, September–October, 1969.     

气体钻井钻柱轴扭耦合动态屈曲数学建模与求解

针对钻柱轴扭耦合动态屈曲的基本问题构造哈密顿体系,在辛几何空间中将临界屈曲载荷和动态屈曲模态归结为辛本征值和本征解问题,从而形成一种辛几何算法.方法较好的解决了钻柱轴扭耦合动态屈曲的复杂边界条件问题.在解决气体钻井钻柱动态屈曲问题的研究中具有良好的应用前景.     

Stability of hydrostatic-pressured FGM thick rings with material nonlinearity

Buckling behaviors of elastoplastic ceramic/metallic functionally graded material (FGM) rings are investigated by using the first order shear deformation theory. The hydrostatic-pressured rings are assumed to be in both the plane-stress case and the plane-strain case, which lead respectively to a uniaxial and a biaxial elastoplastic stress states in prebuckling stage. A uniform strain hypothesis helps to deal with the elastoplastic stress states. By introducing in the graded material properties, the constitutive model of FGMs is formulated under the framework of J₂ deformation theory. By considering the kinetic relations of von-Kárman type and employing the principle of virtual displacement, the equilibrium equations and the buckling governing equations of FGM circular rings are formulated, and the analytical solution of the anisotropic rings is obtained. Finally, the elastoplastic buckling problem is numerically solved through a semi-analytical method, which is proposed to seek the real circumferential strain of FGM rings at the buckling point and determinate the elastoplastic buckling critical hydrostatic pressure. The effects of the inhomogeneous and geometrical parameters on the buckling critical load and the position of the elastoplastic interface are discussed. Results show that, in both the plane-stress and the plane-strain cases, the elastoplastic critical loads are generally lower than their elastic counterparts due to material flow, and the plane-strain critical load is generally larger than the plane-stress one. The elastoplastic critical load does not always decrease monotonously with the increase of the inhomogeneous parameters, which is quite different from their elastic counterparts.     

Effect of the stiffness of the elastic core on the buckling mode and the critical load for glass-reinforced plastic cylindrical shells in axial compression

The effect of the stiffness of the core, treated as a three-dimensional elastic body, on the buckling mode and the critical load is investigated for orthotropic cylindrical shells in axial compression. Parametric equations that permit the easy determination of the critical loads are obtained together with an expression for the stiffness parameter at which the buckling mode changes. The effect on the critical load of a central opening in the core is considered.Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 931–939, September–October, 1971.     

A general nonlocal nonlinear model for buckling of nanobeams

This study presents a unified model for the nonlocal response of nanobeams in buckling and postbuckling states. The formulation is suitable for the classical Euler–Bernoulli, first-order Timoshenko, and higher-order shear deformation beam theories. The small-scale effect is modeled according to the nonlocal elasticity theory of Eringen. The equations of equilibrium are obtained using the principle of virtual work. The stress resultants are developed taking into account the nonlocal effect. Analytical solutions for the critical buckling load and the amplitude of the static nonlinear response in the postbuckling state are obtained. It is found out that as the nonlocal parameter increases, the critical buckling load reduces and the amplitude of buckling increases. Numerical results showing variation of the critical buckling load and the amplitude of buckling with the nonlocal parameter and the length-to-height ratio for simply supported and clamped–clamped nanobeams are presented.     

Stability analysis of graphene based laminated composite sheets under non-uniform inplane loading by nonlocal elasticity

Size dependent buckling of composite laminates made of isotropic graphene layers interlaid with bonding agents is considered. Nonlocal theory of elasticity is used in the buckling analysis to reflect the size scale effects on the critical buckling loads which is discussed in detail. The method is capable of predicting the relative buckling modes for non-uniform inplane loading applied through the thickness of the laminate. All modes of buckling in which the layers may displace together or opposite one another are investigated to study their scale dependent effects. Displacement or load controls are implemented through independent parameters as constraints to form special combination of buckling modes. Each graphene sheet is considered as a Kirchhoff plate model. The interlaid bonding agent is laterally treated as Winkler elastic foundation between graphene layers while neglecting their other load carrying capacities. Various numerical results are obtained reflecting the nonlocality effects. It is observed that in cases of higher load ratios and simpler buckling modes, the effect of nonlocality tends to drastically increase. The results of simpler examples studied are verified by another reference.     

Static collapse: A survey of methods and modes of behavior

The phenomenon of static collapse, henceforth called ‘buckling’, is first illustrated by the behavior of a fairly thick cylindrical shell, which under axial compression deforms at first axisymmetrically and later nonaxisymmetrically. Thus, static buckling encompasses two modes of behavior, nonlinear collapse at the maximum point in a load versus deflection curve and bifurcation buckling. Accurate prediction of critical loads corresponding to either mode in the plastic range of material behavior requires a simultaneous accounting for moderately large deflections and nonlinear, irreversible, path-dependent material. A survey is given of plastic buckling, which spans three areas: asymptotic analysis of postbifurcation behavior of perfect and imperfect simple structures, general nonlinear analysis of arbitrary structures, and nonlinear analysis for collapse at a maximum load and bifurcation buckling of shells of revolution. In the survey of general nonlinear structural analysis, some emphasis is given to strategies for solving the governing nonlinear equations incrementally. Numerous examples, generated primarily with the STAGS computer program, which was developed by Almroth and his colleagues, reveal many complex modes of buckling behavior.     

Textile Drape as Mechanical Phenomenon

The paper copes with the based on the continuum mechanics simulation of the textile drape. A textile surface is treated as linear elastic two‐dimensional Cosserat continuum with independent in plane and out of plane material properties. Bending stiffness and in plane shearing stiffness measured with the Kawabata Evaluation System for Fabrics (KES‐F) are used in the calculations. Other necessary material constants in the model, which are not measurable in a direct way with the KES‐F and which are introduced in the model, are assumed. To solve the equilibrium equations of the system the Finite Element Method (FEM) is used. An implementation of the arc‐length algorithm makes the tracing of the full equilibrium path (pre‐buckling, critical and post‐buckling behaviour) possible. The paper proves that the simulation of the textile drape with the methods of continuum mechanics can be done regarding measured material mechanical properties and carrying out a stability analysis. By now, the stability analysis has not been examined by the FE textile researchers. Therefore neither critical and post‐buckling phenomena nor the ambiguity of the textile behaviour have been described or explained sufficiently.     

Nonlocal effect on axially compressed buckling of triple-walled carbon nanotubes under temperature field

This paper studies the small scale effect on the buckling behaviors of triple-walled carbon nanotubes (TWCNTs) with the initial axial stress under the temperature field. The TWCNTs are modeled as three elastic shells coupled together through vdW interaction between different layers. Buckling governing equations of CNTs are firstly formulated on the basis of nonlocal elastic theory and the small scale effect on CNTs buckling results with the change of temperature are then achieved. The results show that the critical buckling load is dependent on the temperature, scale parameter and wavenumber. Some conclusions are drawn that small scale effect will arise gradually with the increases of wavenumber, and the temperature can influence the ratio between the nonlocal buckling load and the corresponding local load. Furthermore, with or without effects of nonlocal considered, the same results is obtained that the axial buckling load increases as the value of temperature increases at low and room temperature condition, while at high temperature condition the axial buckling load decreases as the value of temperature increases.     

On the integral equation method for buckling loads

An initial value method for the integral equation of the column is presented for determining the buckling load of columns. The differential equation of the column is reduced to a Fredholm integral equation. An initial value problem is derived for this integral equation, which is reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations with prescribed initial conditions in order to find the Fredholm resolvent. The singularities of the resolvent occur at the eigenvalues. Integration of the equations proceeds until the integrals become excessively large, indicating that a critical load has been reached. To check this method, numerical results are given for two examples, for which the critical load is well known. One is the Euler load of a simply supported beam, and the other case is the buckling load of a cantilever beam under its own weight. The advantage of this initial value method is that it can be applied easily to solve other nonlinear problems for which the critical loads are unknown. This approach will be illustrated in future papers.     

Das Eulersche Knickproblem unter Berücksichtigung der Querkräfte

Summary The effect of shear forces and other stress components on the buckling load of a prismatic bar of arbitrary slenderness, hinged at both ends, is considered for the cases of narrow rectangular (plane stress or strain) and elliptic cross sections (three-dimensional problem). The problem is solved, using the asymptotic method, and the buckling loads are obtained as series with increasingly minor corrections.The results are then compared with the approximative ones of Euler, Engesser, Biezeno and Haringx.     

Balayage Properties Related to Rational Interpolation

Ambroladze and Wallin have posed several problems, about balayage of measures, which arose from work on approximation by polynomial and rational interpolation in the complex plane. These problems concern the possible coincidence of measures swept onto a Jordan curve from the inner and outer domains. This paper describes when the desired balayage properties hold.     

Thermal effects on buckling of shear deformable nanocolumns with von Kármán nonlinearity based on nonlocal stress theory

Thermal buckling of nanocolumns considering nonlocal effect and shear deformation is investigated based on the nonlocal elasticity theory and the Timoshenko beam theory. By expressing the nonlocal stress as nonlinear strain gradients and based on the variational principle and von Kármán nonlinearity, new higher-order differential governing equations with corresponding higher-order nonlocal boundary conditions both in transverse and axial directions for instability of nanocolumns are derived. New analytical solutions for some practical examples on instability of nanocolumns are presented and analyzed in detail. The paper concluded that the critical buckling load is significantly increased in the presence of nonlocal stress and the results confirm that nanocolumn stiffness is enhanced by nanoscale size effect and reduced by shear deformation. The critical temperature change is increased with larger diameter to length ratio and higher nonlocal nanoscale. It is also concluded that at low and room temperatures the buckling load of nanocolumns increases with increasing temperature change, while at high temperature the buckling load decreases with increasing temperature change.     

A factorization method for products of holomorphic matrix functions

A class of matrix functions defined on a contour which bounds a finitely connected domain in the complex plane is considered. It is assumed that each matrix function in this class can be explicitly represented as a product of two matrix functions holomorphic in the outer and the inner part of the contour, respectively. The problem of factoring matrix functions in the class under consideration is studied. A constructive method reducing the factorization problem to finitely many explicitly written systems of linear algebraic equations is proposed. In particular, explicit formulas for partial indices are obtained.     

Comparison of classical Winter's bracing requirements of compressed truss chord with stability analysis of 3D truss-model

Most code requirements concerning bracing are based on principles developed by Winter. The present research is devoted to study a lateral buckling of truss with linear elastic side supports. The classical Winter's model of truss chord in the case of out of the truss plane buckling is compared with nonlinear analysis of 3D truss model. Full bracing condition, that permits the truss chord to support load level corresponding to an unbraced length equal to the distance between braces is calculated. Then an approximate buckling load with less than full bracing is developed and the model is modified to account for unequal normal force distribution in compressed chord. The coefficient of buckling length related to side support distance in function of bracing stiffness is also calculated. The results are compared to design code requirements. It is shown that buckling length of truss chord with side supports considered as elastic elements is larger than assumed in design codes. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

球壳的环向剪切屈曲

通过球壳微元初始屈曲的微分几何分析,推导出一组新的精确的屈曲分支方程,并且应用Galerkin变分法研究铰支球壳承受环向剪切力时的整体稳定性,构造了接近分支点变形状态的屈曲模式,首次求得了从扁球壳到半球壳大范围内的扭转屈曲临界特征值,临界荷载强度和临界应力.     

Surface buckling of a layered medium

The surface buckling of a layer-reinforced medium with the layers arranged at right angles to the surface is investigated on the basis of Bolotin's theory of layered media. The critical load is determined and the buckling mode studied. By means of a simplified approach simple expressions are obtained for the critical loads corresponding to surface buckling.Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 4, pp. 648–654, July–August, 1973.     

Buckling analysis of a ring under the action of internal pressure in a cylindrical shell

Buckling analysis of a thin cylindrical shell stiffened by rings with T-shaped cross section under the action of uniform internal pressure in the shell is performed. An annular plate stiffened over the outer edge by a circular beam is used as the ring model. The classical ring model, which is a beam with a T-shaped cross section, is inappropriate in this problem, since in the case of the loss of stability, buckling deformations are localized on the ring surface. The beam model does not allow one to find the critical pressure that corresponds to such a loss of stability. In the first approximation, the problem of the loss of stability of the annular plate connected with the shell is reduced to solving the boundary value problem for finding eigenvalues of the annular plate bending equation. Approximate formulas for determining critical pressure are obtained under the assumption that the plate width is much smaller than its inner radius. The results found using the Rayleigh method and the shooting method differ slightly from each other. It has been demonstrated that the critical pressure for rings with rectangular cross section is higher than that for rings with a T-shaped cross section.