Solution of elastic-plastic shallow shell problems by the boundary element method

The boundary integral equations for elasto-plastic problems of shallow shells are established by using the fundamental solutions of shallow shells derived previously. The strains and stress-resultants in the plastic region are used as unknown variables. The simultaneous nonlinear equations of these variables and unknown boundary values are established and solved by direct iteration method.     

Slow Motion of an Assemblage of Porous Spherical Shells Relative to a Fluid

The body-force-driven motion of a homogeneous distribution of spherically symmetric porous shells in an incompressible Newtonian fluid and the fluid flow through a bed of these shell particles are investigated analytically. The effect of the hydrodynamic interaction among the porous shell particles is taken into account by employing a cell-model representation. In the limit of small Reynolds number, the Stokes and Brinkman equations are solved for the flow field around a single particle in a unit cell, and the drag force acting on the particle by the fluid is obtained in closed forms. For a suspension of porous spherical shells, the mobility of the particles decreases or the hydrodynamic interaction among the particles increases monotonically with a decrease in the permeability of the porous shells. The effect of particle interactions on the creeping motion of porous spherical shells relative to a fluid can be quite significant in some situations. In the limiting cases, the analytical solution describing the drag force or mobility for a suspension of porous spherical shells reduces to those for suspensions of impermeable solid spheres and of porous spheres. The particle-interaction behavior for a suspension of porous spherical shells with a relatively low permeability may be approximated by that of permeable spheres when the porous shells are sufficiently thick.     

Imperfection sensitivity of an orthotropic spherical shell under external pressure

In the first part of this paper, rib-stiffened thin-walled spherical shells under external hydrostatic pressure are optimized using classical approximate methods and empirical knock-down-factors. In the second part of the paper, the influence of known imperfections is investigated.The thin-walled spherical shells under external pressure are very sensitive to geometrical imperfections. Hoff recognized that for entire isotropic spherical shells the more likely imperfection will be a local circular dent, which for such shells, can always be considered as an axisymmetric one. Hoff's idea has been further investigated by Koga–Hoff, Galletly et al. These results showed that for a given depth of an imperfection a critical size of the corresponding circular dent exists, giving the minimum for the actual load carrying capacity of the shell.This paper suggests to extend Hoff's theory to isogrid and waffle-grid stiffened spherical shells. The issue of these investigations is a set of knock-down-factors plotted versus imperfection amplitude related to the total thickness of the rib-stiffened (isogrid or waffle-grid) shell. These curves fit reasonably with those established for isotropic shells by Hoff et al. or by Koiter, and enable to estimate the jeopardy of measured actual dents.     

Vibration analysis of nonhomogeneous orthotropic cylindrical shells including combined effect of shear deformation and rotary inertia

This paper is the result of an investigation on the vibration of non-homogeneous orthotropic cylindrical shells, based on the shear deformation theory. Assume that the Young’s moduli, shear moduli and density of the orthotropic material are continuous functions of the coordinate in the thickness direction. The basic equations of non-homogeneous orthotropic cylindrical shells with the shear deformation and rotary inertia are derived in the framework of Donnell-type shell theory. The ends of a non-homogeneous orthotropic cylindrical shell are considered as simply supported. The basic equations are reduced to the sixth-order algebraic equation for the frequency using the Galerkin method. Solving this algebraic equation, the lowest values of non-dimensional frequency parameters for non-homogeneous orthotropic cylindrical shells with and without shear deformation and rotary inertia are obtained. Calculations, effects of shear stresses and rotary inertia, orthotropy, non-homogeneity and shell geometry parameters on the lowest values of non-dimensional frequency parameter are described. The results are verified by comparing the obtained values with those in the existing literature.     

Stress Analysis of Biconvex Laminated Orthotropic Shells that are Shallow to a Variable Degree

The stress–strain state of biconvex laminated orthotropic shells is analyzed against the degree of shallowness and the parameters of orthotropy. Numerical values of deflections and stresses are obtained by solving two-dimensional boundary-value problems using spline-functions and the discrete-orthogonalization method. The effect of the rise of shells on the displacement and stress fields is analyzed for different parameters of orthotropy     

Dynamic elastic and plastic buckling of complete spherical shells

A theoretical investigation is undertaken into the dynamic instability of complete spherical shells which are loaded impulsively and made from either linear elastic or elastic-plastic materials. It is shown that certain harmonics grow quickly and cause a shell to exhibit a wrinkled shape which is characterized by a critical mode number. The critical mode numbers are similar for spherical and cylindrical elastic shells having the same R/h ratios and material parameters, but may be larger or smaller in an elastic-plastic spherical shell depending on the values of the various parameters. Threshold velocities are also determined in order to obtain the smallest velocity that a shell can tolerate without excessive deformation. The threshold velocities for the elastic and elastic-plastic spherical shells are larger than those which have been published previously for cylindrical shells having the same R/h ratios and material parameters.     

自由圆柱壳体在侧向非对称脉冲载荷下的塑性破坏

将壳体作为理想刚塑性材料，给出了两端自由金属圆柱薄壳体承受侧向非对称脉冲载荷下的变形和运动方程。针对矩形脉冲载荷，给出能量损耗分析。极高载情况下，２／３的外部输入能量转化为塑性功，其余的用于壳体的刚体运动。针对复杂结构的自由圆柱壳，能量法用于分析其破坏。理论预测与实验结果吻合较好。     

Stressed state of a composite cylindrical shell with an elliptical hole

The results of investigations of the stress-strained state (SSS) of isotropic cylindrical shells with an elliptical hole are represented in monograph [4]. The modified method of expansion in terms of minor parameter [3] is suggested for calculation of orthotropic shells. The method does not consider, however, lateral shear strains introducing a significant contribution in SSS of composite shells. The procedure for solving problems of SSS calculation near curvilinear holes in shells of arbitrary shape with variable geometrical and physical characteristics is suggested in [1] on the basis of variational-difference method (VDM). Here the relations of the linear theory of anisotropic inhomogeneous shells and the hypothesis of a straight line are taken as the initial ones for all the packet of laminated composite shell as a whole. In the present work we present the numerical results obtained according to the procedure given in [1] for an orthotropic cylindrical shell with an elliptical hole loaded by the axial force and complaint for the lateral shear.S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 29, No. 11, pp. 57–62, November, 1993.     

Penetration of an elastic circular cylindrical shell into an incompressible liquid

The plane unsteady problem of impact of a thin elastic cylindrical shell on the surface of an ideal incompressible liquid is considered. The initial stage of interaction between the body and the liquid when the stresses in the shell attain peak values is studied. The problem is treated in a linearized formulation and is solved numerically by the normal modes method within the framework of the Wagner approach. The numerical results agree with experimental data for various types of circular cylindrical shells made from mild steel. Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 186–197, November–December, 1999.     

Experimental Investigation of the Stress Concentration in Axially Compressed Thick Cylindrical Shells with Rectangular Holes

The stress concentration in cylindrical shells of various thicknesses is studied experimentally. The shells are made of epoxy resin, have a hole, and are subjected to axial compression. The shell thickness and the opening angle are shown to affect the stresses near the corners of the hole. The experimental and theoretical values of the stress concentration factor are compared for a thin shell     

Local boundary integral equations for orthotropic shallow shells

A meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) formulation is presented for bending problems of shear deformable shallow shells with orthotropic material properties. Shear deformation of shells described by the Reissner theory is considered. Analyses of shells under static and dynamic loads are given here. For transient elastodynamic case the Laplace-transform is used to eliminate the time dependence of the field variables. A weak formulation with a unit test function transforms the set of governing equations into local integral equations on local subdomains in the plane domain of the shell. Nodal points are randomly spread in that domain and each node is surrounded by a circular subdomain to which local integral equations are applied. The meshless approximation based on the moving least-squares (MLS) method is employed for the implementation. Unknown Laplace-transformed quantities are computed from the local boundary integral equations. The time-dependent values are obtained by the Stehfest’s inversion technique.     

Stability of axially compressed cylindrical shells made of reinforced materials with specific fiber orientation within each layer

A technique for stability analysis of anisotropic cylindrical shells is developed. It permits us to examine the cases of reinforcement where the elastic axes of layers do not coincide with the coordinate axes of the shell. The solution is obtained using the mixed equations of the Donnell-Mushtari-Vlasov theory of shells. The deflection and force functions are approximated by trigonometric series. Single-layer and multilayer cylindrical shells with fiber orientation of two types are analyzed for stability. It is revealed that when layers are few, failure to incorporate the direction of fibers in layers into the design model results in highly inaccurate values of critical loads __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 80–88, March 2006.     

Stability of cylindrical shells subjected to combined axial compression and internal pressure under creep conditions

The critical strain of a cylindrical shell subjected to combined axial compression and internal pressure is computed under creep conditions. A method is proposed to determine values of the initial deflections by means of elastic shell test data for a creep analysis of shells. Data of an experimental investigation of the creep stability of shells are presented, which are compared with the results of the computation.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 5, pp. 109–116, September–October, 1974.     

弹性圆柱壳在轴向冲击载荷和温度耦合作用下的屈曲

通过引入哈密顿体系,将临界载荷和临界温度及它们所对应的屈曲模态归结为辛体系下的广义本征值和本征解问题。根据辛本征解的正交性和完备性,给出了全部的且独立存在的屈曲模态。数值结果表明,在轴向冲击载荷和温度耦合作用下,弹性圆柱壳的屈曲呈现出复杂的模式,温度直接影响冲击临界载荷的大小。随着温度的增加,冲击临界荷载降低,最后,文中给出各种条件下的屈曲模态。     

Bornes quasi-inferieures et bornes superieures de la pression de ruine des coques de revolution par la methode des elements finis et par la programmation non-lineaire

This work is concerned with rigid-plastic limit analysis of shells of revolution subject to rotationally symmetric loadings. These shells, of arbitrary shape, are discretized into a series of finite elements, each being a conical shell. The von Mises condition, valid for sandwich shells, is used to compare the results obtained with existing values. After assembling the finite elements, the limit analysis program is reduced to a simple application of the non-linear programming technique where both the sequential unconstrained minimization technique (SUMT) and feasible conjugate direction (FCD) are utilized respectively for statically admissible and kinematically admissible approaches. Therefore, upper bounds and lower bounds of the collapse loads are found for some sample problems : conical, spherical, ellipsoidal, torispherical shells etc. These numerical results are illustrated and compared with existing ones described in the literature.     

Creep buckling of axially compressed circular cylindrical shells of a zirconium alloy: Experiment and computer simulation

Experiments were performed to study the deformation and buckling of axially compressed circular cylindrical shells of Zr2.5Nb zirconium alloy under creep conditions. Computer simulation using the MSC.Marc 2012 software was conducted by step-by-step integration of the equations of quasistatic deformation of thin shells using Norton’s law of steady creep. The results of the experiment and computer simulation show that the buckling modes are a combination of axisymmetric bulges located near one end or both ends of the shell and axisymmetric buckling modes with the formation of three or four waves in the circumferential direction. A comparison is made of the time dependences of the axial strain of the shells obtained in the experiment and by computer simulation. It is shown that for large axial compressive stresses, these dependences are in satisfactory agreement. For lower values of these stresses, the difference between the theoretical and experimental dependences is greater.     

The R-function method used to solve nonlinear bending problems for orthotropic shallow shells on an elastic foundation

The paper proposes a method to solve geometrically nonlinear bending problems for thin orthotropic shallow shells and plates interacting with a Winkler–Pasternak foundation under transverse loading. This method is based on Ritz’s variational method and the R-function method. The developed algorithm and software are used to solve a number of test problems and to study complex-shaped shells. The effect of the shape of shells, the boundary conditions, the stiffness of the foundation, and the load distribution on the behavior of isotropic and orthotropic shells undergoing geometrically nonlinear bending is studied     

Spline-approximation solution of problems of the statics of orthotropic shallow shells with variable parameters

An approach to the solution of problems of the statics of shallow orthotropic shells is proposed. It is based on reducing a two-dimensional boundary value problem to a one-dimensional one using the spline-collocation method and solution of the problem by the stable numerical method of discrete orthogonalization. Solutions are presented for problems on the stress state of orthotropic shells of double curvature for several values of the elastic constants of the material. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 60–66, July, 2000.     

Stress Analysis of Laminated Shells of Revolution with an Imperfect Interlayer Contact

An approach is proposed to solve problems on the contact interaction of layers in structurally inhomogeneous shells of revolution with allowance for both the normal and tangential stresses in the contact zones. A system of algebraic equations is constructed by using a method for solution of static problems for arbitrary shells of revolution. From this system, the contact zones and contact stresses are determined by the iteration method. The restricted behavior of the adhesion layer in cleavage and shear is taken into account. As an example, the stress state of a two-layer cylindrical shell under a concentrated load is determined