Free vibration analyses of axially loaded laminated composite beams based on higher-order shear deformation theory

The dynamic stiffness matrix method is introduced to solve exactly the free vibration and buckling problems of axially loaded laminated composite beams with arbitrary lay-ups. The Poisson effect, axial force, extensional deformation, shear deformation and rotary inertia are included in the mathematical formulation. The exact dynamic stiffness matrix is derived from the analytical solutions of the governing differential equations of the composite beams based on third-order shear deformation beam theory. The application of the present method is illustrated by two numerical examples, in which the effects of axial force and boundary condition on the natural frequencies, mode shapes and buckling loads are examined. Comparison of the current results to the existing solutions in the literature demonstrates the accuracy and effectiveness of the present method.     

Nonlinear low-velocity impact on damped and matrix-cracked hybrid laminated beams containing carbon nanotube reinforced composite layers

This paper investigates the low-velocity impact response of a shear deformable laminated beam which contains both carbon nanotube reinforced composite (CNTRC) layers and carbon fiber reinforced composite (CFRC) layers. The effect of matrix cracks is considered, and a refined self-consistent model is selected to describe the degraded stiffness caused by the damage. The beam including damping effects rests on a two-parameter elastic foundation in thermal environments. Based on a higher-order shear deformation theory and von Kármán nonlinear strain–displacement relationships, the motion equations of the beam and impactor are established and solved by means of a two-step perturbation approach. The material properties of both CFRC layers and CNTRC layers are assumed to be temperature-dependent. To assess engineering application of this hybrid structure, two conditions for outer CNTRC layers and outer CFRC layers are compared. Besides, the effects of the crack density, volume fraction of carbon nanotube, temperature variation, the foundation stiffness and damping on the nonlinear low-velocity impact behavior of hybrid laminated beams are also discussed in detail.

     

Free vibration analysis of third-order shear deformable composite beams using dynamic stiffness method

The dynamic stiffness method is introduced to investigate the free vibration of laminated composite beams based on a third-order shear deformation theory which accounts for parabolic distribution of the transverse shear strain through the thickness of the beam. The exact dynamic stiffness matrix is found directly from the analytical solutions of the basic governing differential equations of motion. The Poisson effect, shear deformation, rotary inertia, in-plane deformation are considered in the analysis. Application of the derived dynamic stiffness matrix to several particular laminated beams is discussed. The influences of Poisson effect, material anisotropy, slenderness and end condition on the natural frequencies of the beams are investigated. The numerical results are compared with the existing solutions in literature whenever possible to demonstrate and validate the present method.     

考虑面内破坏过程的含分层损伤复合材料加筋层合板的动力响应

基于复合材料层合板一阶剪切理论，推导了复合材料层合板单元的刚度阵和质量阵列式；同时采用了Adams应交能法与Rayleigh阻尼模型相结合的方法，构造了相应的阻尼阵列式；为了防止在低阶模态中分层处出现的上、下子板不合理的嵌入现象，建立了含分层损伤复合材料加筋层合板动力分析的分层分析模型和虚拟界面联接模型。在上述模型和理论基础上，采用了Tsai提出的刚度退化准则和动力响应分析的精细积分法，对含分层损伤复合材料加筋层合板结构进行了动力响应和破坏分析。通过算例，分别讨论了外载频率、分层位置，以及破坏过程的刚度退化对含损伤复合材料加筋层合板动力响应特征的影响，得到了一些具有理论和工程价值的结论。     

Nonlinear vibration of functionally graded graphene-reinforced composite laminated beams resting on elastic foundations in thermal environments

Modeling and nonlinear vibration analysis of graphene-reinforced composite (GRC) laminated beams resting on elastic foundations in thermal environments are presented. The graphene reinforcements are assumed to be aligned and are distributed either uniformly or functionally graded of piece-wise type along the thickness of the beam. The motion equations of the beams are based on a higher-order shear deformation beam theory and von Kármán strain displacement relationships. The beam–foundation interaction and thermal effects are also included. The temperature-dependent material properties of GRCs are estimated through a micromechanical model. A two-step perturbation approach is employed to determine the nonlinear-to-linear frequency ratios of GRC laminated beams. Detailed parametric studies are carried out to investigate the effects of material property gradient, temperature variation, stacking sequence as well as the foundation stiffness on the linear and nonlinear vibration characteristics of the GRC laminated beams.     

Vibration analysis of a stepped laminated composite Timoshenko beam

The goal of this study is to investigate the vibration characteristics of a stepped laminated composite Timoshenko beam. Based on the first order shear deformation theory, flexural rigidity and transverse shearing rigidity of a laminated beam are determined. In order to account for the effect of shear deformation and rotary inertia of the stepped beam, Timoshenko beam theory is then used to deduce the frequency function. Graphs of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a T300/970 laminated stepped beam are given, in order to illustrate the influence of step location parameter exerts on the dynamic behavior of the beam.     

剪切流作用下层合梁非线性振动特性研究

针对剪切流中层合梁的大变形非线性振动问题, 采用高阶剪切变形锯齿理论和冯·卡门应变描述层合梁的变形模式和几何非线性效应, 构建了大变形层合梁非线性振动有限元数值模型; 采用基于任意拉格朗日?欧拉方法的有限体积法求解不可压缩黏性流体纳维-斯托克斯方程, 结合层合梁和流体的耦合界面条件建立了剪切流作用下层合梁流固耦合非线性动力学数值模型, 采用分区并行强耦合方法对层合梁的流致非线性振动响应进行了迭代计算. 研究了不同速度分布的剪切流作用下单层梁和多层复合材料梁的振动响应特性, 并验证了本文数值建模方法的有效性. 结果表明: 剪切流作用下单层梁的振动特性与均匀流作用下的情况不同, 梁的运动轨迹受剪切流影响向下偏斜, 随着速度分布系数增加, 尾部流场中的涡结构发生改变; 刚度比对剪切流作用下层合梁的振动特性有显著影响, 随着刚度比的增加, 层合梁振动的振幅增大, 主导频率下降, 运动轨迹由‘8’字形逐渐变得不对称; 发现了不同厚度比和铺层角度情况下, 层合梁存在定点稳定模式、周期极限环振动模式和非周期振动模式三种不同的振动模式, 改变层合梁铺层角度可实现层合梁周期极限环振动模式向非周期振动模式转变.      

钢-混凝土组合箱梁梁段有限元法研究

组合梁界面滑移将减小组合梁刚度,增大变形,影响构件性能;剪应力沿截面横向分布不均匀,造成其弯曲正应力的横向分布呈曲线形状,即剪力滞效应;同时组合梁往往重载,具有较小的跨高比,剪切变形不可忽略.根据虚功原理,建立了同时考虑滑移效应、剪力滞及剪切变形效应的组合梁单元刚度矩阵及等效节点力向量,并在此基础上编制了组合梁梁段有限元程序.利用本文程序对现有组合梁试件的混凝土顶板应力、钢梁底板应力、跨中挠度和梁端滑移进行了计算,并将本文计算结果与解析法计算结果及试验结果进行了比较.结果表明,本文计算结果与解析法计算结果及试验结果吻合良好;同时,本文计算结果具有较好的稳定性,验证了本文计算方法的正确性.本文所建立的梁单元刚度矩阵同时考虑了剪切变形、剪力滞及滑移效应的影响,符合工程实际,为有限梁段法分析组合箱梁提供了理论基础.     

复合材料层合梁的屈曲

本文在铁摩辛柯梁理论基础上,利用迭合刚度方法及Hamilton原理建立了层合梁屈曲问题控制方程,并用此控制方程求解了在具体边界条件下层合梁的屈曲问题,得出了无论在什么边界条件下层合梁的最小屈曲载荷不会大于等效剪切刚度系数C的结论.     

Shear deformable finite beam elements for composite box beams

The shear deformable thin-walled composite beams with closed cross-sections have been developed for coupled flexural, torsional, and buckling analyses. A theoretical model applicable to the thin-walled laminated composite box beams is presented by taking into account all the structural couplings coming from the material anisotropy and the shear deformation effects. The current composite beam includes the transverse shear and the restrained warping induced shear deformation by using the first-order shear deformation beam theory. Seven governing equations are derived for the coupled axial-flexural-torsional-shearing buckling based on the principle of minimum total potential energy. Based on the present analytical model, three different types of finite composite beam elements, namely, linear, quadratic and cubic elements are developed to analyze the flexural, torsional, and buckling problems. In order to demonstrate the accuracy and superiority of the beam theory and the finite beam elements developed by this study,numerical solutions are presented and compared with the results obtained by other researchers and the detailed threedimensional analysis results using the shell elements of ABAQUS. Especially, the influences of the modulus ratio and the simplified assumptions in stress–strain relations on the deflection, twisting angle, and critical buckling loads of composite box beams are investigated.     

压电层合梁静动力学分析的高精度梁单元

给出了一个对复合材料压电层合梁进行数值分析的高精度压电层合梁单元。基于Shi三阶剪切变形板理论的位移场和Layer-wise理论的电势场,用力-电耦合的变分原理及Hamilton原理推导了压电层合梁单元列式。采用拟协调元方法推导了一个可显式给出单元刚度矩阵的两节点压电层合梁单元,并应用于压电层合梁的力-电耦合弯曲和自由振动分析。计算结果表明,该梁单元给出的梁挠度和固有频率与解析解吻合良好,并优于其它梁单元的计算结果,说明了本文所给压电层合梁单元的可靠性和准确性。研究结果可为力-电耦合作用下压电层合梁的力学分析提供一个简单、精确且高效的压电层合梁单元。     

复合材料叠层梁和金属梁的固有振动特性

对根据三种梁理论得到的金属梁和复合材料叠层梁的固有振动特性进行了对比性的研究对常用的三种梁理论在弹性碰撞分析中的应用进行了分析和比较     

A numerical model for static and free vibration analysis of elastic composite beams with end shear restraint

The end shear restraint, which is an un-classical type of end support, has a significant effect on the behavior of elastic composite beams. The principal aim of this paper is to present a numerical model for studying the effect of end shear restraint on static and free vibration behavior of elastic composite beams with various end conditions. The elastic composite beam, considered in this study, is composed of an upper concrete slab and a lower steel beam, connected at the interface by shear transmitting studs. This type of beam is widely used in constructions especially for highway bridges. The three types of end conditions considered in this study are simple, fixed and free supports. The numerical model is based on the combination of transfer matrix and analog beam methods. The field transfer matrices for the element of the elastic composite beam are derived. The present model is applied to the beam systems with and without end shear restraint and the static response and natural frequencies are calculated. the effect of shear stiffness between the upper slab and lower beam is also demonstrated.     

Flutter instability of damped plates under combined conservative and nonconservative loads

The combined flutter and divergence instability of plates of arbitrary geometry subjected to any type of boundary conditions under interior and edge conservative and nonconservative loads are solved in presence of external and internal damping. In contrast to previous investigations, the membrane stress resultants are not in general uniform, since they result from plane stress problem under the given body forces (conservative and nonconservative) and the prescribed inplane boundary conditions. The differential equations of the problem are derived using Hamilton’s principle. The resulted initial boundary value problem is solved using the analog equation method (AEM), which is a BEM-based domain meshless method. The combined action of conservative and nonconservative forces is also investigated. Several plates have been studied and useful conclusions on the effect of boundary conditions and damping on flutter load have been drawn. The obtained numerical results demonstrate the accuracy of the developed method and its capability to solve realistic engineering problems.     

复合材料层合加肋板中的瞬态波传播

研究复合材料加肋层合板结构受冲击载荷作用下的瞬态波传播.加肋层合板模型被处理成层合板的弯曲运动与层合梁的扭转与弯曲运动的耦合连续模型.通过Laplace变换,并采用回传射线矩阵法(MRRM),基于一阶剪切变形层合板理论,确定复合材料加肋层合板结构中传播的各条射线群.采用FFT变换,计算各种冲击载荷作用下加肋层合板结构的短时瞬态响应,并分析讨论脉冲类型对加肋层合板结构短时瞬态响应的影响.     

Corotational nonlinear analyses of laminated shell structures using a 4-node quadrilateral flat shell element with drilling stiffness

A new 4-node quadrilateral flat shell element is developed for geometrically nonlinear analyses of thin and moderately thick laminated shell structures. The fiat shell element is constructed by combining a quadrilateral area co- ordinate method （QAC） based membrane element AGQ6- II, and a Timoshenko beam function （TBF） method based shear deformable plate bending element ARS-Q12. In order to model folded plates and connect with beam elements, the drilling stiffness is added to the element stiffness matrix based on the mixed variational principle. The transverse shear rigidity matrix, based on the first-order shear deformation theory （FSDT）, for the laminated composite plate is evaluated using the transverse equilibrium conditions, while the shear correction factors are not needed. The conventional TBF methods are also modified to efficiently calculate the element stiffness for laminate. The new shell element is extended to large deflection and post-buckling analyses of isotropic and laminated composite shells based on the element independent corotational formulation. Numerical re- sults show that the present shell element has an excellent numerical performance for the test examples, and is applicable to stiffened plates.     

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.     

Stability of Thin-Walled Open Beams Under Nonconservative Loads

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A finite element formulation for free-vibration analysis of straight prismatic beams of general thin-walled open cross-section, under conservative and nonconservative loads, is presented. The formulation is used to calculate the flutter load for a number of beam problems and is verified by comparison with pre-existing numerical solutions.     

Axial-flexural coupled vibration and buckling of composite beams using sinusoidal shear deformation theory

A finite element model based on sinusoidal shear deformation theory is developed to study vibration and buckling analysis of composite beams with arbitrary lay-ups. This theory satisfies the zero traction boundary conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of beam without using shear correction factors. Besides, it has strong similarity with Euler–Bernoulli beam theory in some aspects such as governing equations, boundary conditions, and stress resultant expressions. By using Hamilton’s principle, governing equations of motion are derived. A displacement-based one-dimensional finite element model is developed to solve the problem. Numerical results for cross-ply and angle-ply composite beams are obtained as special cases and are compared with other solutions available in the literature. A variety of parametric studies are conducted to demonstrate the effect of fiber orientation and modulus ratio on the natural frequencies, critical buckling loads, and load-frequency curves as well as corresponding mode shapes of composite beams.     

High-order layerwise mechanics and finite element for the damped dynamic characteristics of sandwich composite beams

A high-order discrete-layer theory and a finite element are presented for predicting the damping of laminated composite sandwich beams. The new layerwise laminate theory involves quadratic and cubic terms for approximation of the in-plane displacement in each discrete layer, while interlaminar shear stress continuity is imposed through the thickness. Integrated damping mechanics are formulated and both laminate and structural stiffness, mass and damping matrices are formed. A finite element method and a beam element are further developed for predicting the free vibration response, including modal frequencies, modal loss factors and through-thickness mode shapes. Numerical results and evaluations of the present model are shown. Modal frequencies and damping of sandwich composite beams are measured and correlated with predicted values. Finally, parametric studies illustrate the effect of core thickness and face lamination on modal damping and frequency values.