Vibrations of a Floating Elastic Plate Due to Periodic Displacements of a Bottom Segment

The problem of the behavior of a floating elastic thin plate under periodic vibrations of a bottom segment is solved using a numerical procedure based on the Wiener-Hopf technique. The effects of the vibration frequency, the position of the vibrating bottom segment, and the fluid depth on the vibration frequencies of the fluid and plate are studied numerically.__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 166–179, September–October, 2005.     

Action of a Periodic Load on an Elastic Floating Plate

The problem of the behavior of an elastic floating plate in the form of a strip under the action of a periodic surface load is solved using the Wiener-Hopf technique. The shortwave approximation is found in explicit form. The effect of the frequency and nature of the acting load on the vibration amplitudes of the fluid and the plate is investigated numerically. It is found that for certain loads no waves propagate in the fluid and the vibrations of the plate are localized in the neighborhood of the acting load. Conditions under which local vibration can be realized are found.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, 2005, pp. 132–146.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Tkacheva.     

Plane Problem of Surface Wave Diffraction on a Floating Elastic Plate

The problem of the behavior of a floating elastic strip-shaped plate in waves is considered. A new numerical method for solving this problem based on the Wiener-Hopf technique is proposed. The solution of the boundary value problem is reduced to an infinite system of linear algebraic equations which satisfies the reduction conditions. The calculation results are compared both with experiment and with the calculations of other authors. In the case of short incident waves the system of equations obtained can be essentially simplified. Three short-wave approximations are proposed, namely, the single-mode, four-mode and uniform approximations, which ensure good agreement with calculations based on the complete model. Simple explicit formulas are obtained for the single-mode and uniform approximations.     

Vibration reduction of floating elastic plates in surface waves

Based on dynamical theories of water waves and dynamics of Mindlin thick plates,the investigation of the wave-induced responses and the vibration reduction of an elastic floating plate are presented using the Wiener-Hopf technique.Without regard to the case of elastic connector,the calculated results obtained by the present method are in good agreement with those from the literature and the experiment.It can be shown that the present method is valid.Relations between the spring stiffness to be used to connect the sea bottom and the floating plate and the parameters of wave-induced responses of floating plates are investigated using the present method.Therefore, these results can be used as theoretical bases for the design stage of super floating platform systems.     

基于厚板理论分析深水域中弹性浮板的水波响应

基于线性水波理论和Mindlin厚板动力学理论,采用Wiener-Hopf 方法,研究了不同水深水面上弹性浮板在不同入射波数水波作用下的动力学响应问题。首先推导了无限深水域中弹性浮板水波响应的解析解,并将本文分析计算结果与采用其他方法(经典薄板理论)得到的计算结果进行了对比和分析;其次,采用本文方法研究了大型浮板在三种入射波数的水波作用下动弯矩幅值的分布情况;最后,根据其他文献的方法计算了不同水深(有限水深)情况下浮板的动响应,并与本文的计算结果进行了对比分析。     

弹性矩形板问题的Hamilton正则方程

为了采用辛算法求出弹性矩形板问题的解析解，中直接从弹性矩形板的控制方程出发推导了弹性矩形板，其中包括弹性矩形薄板和厚板问题以及弹性地基上矩形薄板和厚板问题的Hamilton正则方程，为利用辛几何方法求出任意边界条件下这类问题的理论解奠定了基础．     

Nonstationary deformation of an elastic plate with a notch under the action of a shock wave

The behavior of a thin elastic plate with a rectilinear notch under the action a weak shock wave in air is studied experimentally. A technique is developed for this purpose. The effect of the notch on the strain state of the plate is analyzed __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 99–104, November 2007.     

Rayleigh lamb waves in micropolar isotropic elastic plate

The propagation of waves in a homogeneous isotropic micropolar elastic cylindrical plate subjected to stress free conditions is investigated. The secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric wave mode propagation are derived. At short wave limit, the secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric waves in a stress free circular plate reduces to Rayleigh surface wave frequency equation. Thin plate results are also obtained. The amplitudes of displacements and microrotation components are obtained and depicted graphically. Some special cases are also deduced from the present investigations. The secular equations for symmetric and skew symmetric modes are also presented graphically.     

Two-dimensional problem of periodic loading of an elastic plate floating on the surface of an infinitely deep fluid

The action of external periodic pressure on an elastic plate floating on the surface of a fluid assumed to be ideal and incompressible is examined by the method of normal modes in the linear formulation. The behavior of the matrix of coefficients of the hydrodynamic load on the plate is considered in detail for different frequencies. The behavior of the plate under localized periodic loading is compared for the cases of a heavy fluid with a finite or infinite depth and for a weightless infinite-depth fluid. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 61–72, May–June, 2005.     

Wave scattering by a floating porous elastic plate of arbitrary shape: A semi-analytical study

In this paper, a semi-analytical model based on linear potential flow theory and an eigenfunction expansion method is developed to study wave scattering by a porous elastic plate with arbitrary shape floating in water of finite depth. The water domain is divided into the interior and exterior regions, corresponding to the domain beneath the plate and the rest extending towards infinite distance horizontally, respectively. The unknown coefficients in the potential expressions are determined by satisfying the continuity conditions for pressure and velocity at the interface of the two regions, together with the conditions for the motion/force at the edge of the plate, where the Fourier series expansion method is employed to deal with the terms associated with the radius function. A plate with three shapes – circular, cosine and elliptical – and three edge conditions are considered. We find that the largest deflection of the plate with a simply supported edge and a clamped edge is more sensitive to the change in porosity when the porosity is small. The power dissipated by an elliptical plate with its major axis perpendicular to the incident wave direction is the largest among the case studies for the majority of the porosity values tested.     

Reflection and transmission of regular water waves by a thin,floating plate

Measurements of the wave fields reflected and transmitted by a thin floating plastic plate are reported for regular incident waves over a range of incident periods (producing wavelengths comparable to the plate length) and steepnesses (ranging from mild to storm-like). Two different plastics are tested, with different densities and mechanical properties, and three different configurations are tested. The configurations include freely floating plates, loosely moored plates (to restrict drift), and plates with edge barriers (to restrict waves overwashing the plates). The wave fields reflected and transmitted by plates without barriers are shown to become irregular, as the incident waves become steeper, particularly for the denser plastic and the moored plate. Further, the proportion of energy transmitted by the plates without barriers is shown to decrease as the incident wave becomes steeper, and this is related to wave energy dissipation.     

Second-order hydroelastic analysis of a floating plate in multidirectional irregular waves

Based on an analysis of second-order hydrodynamic forces induced by coupling of first-order wave potentials, second-order hydroelastic equations are established and solved in the frequency domain. The responses of a very large floating structure in multidirectional irregular waves are studied. The characteristics of the difference and sum frequency coordinates are discussed in detail; peaks can be found at the difference and sum frequencies close to the wet resonant frequencies of each mode. We present and analyze the maximum vertical displacement of different points as well as the time history of the vertical displacements of selected points. The differences of the combined (the summation of the linear and non-linear responses) and linear displacements of the selected points are calculated. Our results demonstrate that non-linear fluid forces influence the total responses of the referenced floating structure.     

Thermoelastic bending of a sandwich ring plate on an elastic foundation

The thermomechanical bending of an elastic sandwich ring plate with light core on an elastic foundation is considered. To describe the kinematics of the plate that is asymmetric across the thickness, broken-normal hypotheses are accepted. The foundation reaction is described by Winkler's model. A system of equilibrium equations is derived and solved for displacements. Numerical results for a sandwich ring plate in a temperature field are presented Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 94–103, September 2008.     

无网格法在点弹性支承矩形薄板横向振动中的应用

基于薄板理论和弹性动力学Hamilton原理的推广,采用无网格伽辽金法,建立了具有有限多个点弹性支承的弹性矩形薄板横向振动的无量纲量运动微分方程,给出了其特征方程。通过求解特征方程,得出了四边简支板的无量纲固有频率随点弹性支承的刚性系数和支承位置的变化曲线,分析了点弹性支承的刚性系数和支承位置对矩形薄板横向振动特性的影响。数值计算结果表明,无网格法求解点弹性支承板横向振动问题是切实可行的。     

水中冲击波与弹性薄板耦合作用的研究

对水中冲击波与弹性薄板的流固耦合作用进行了研究,建立了实验装置。利用全息干涉法定量测量了水中动态流场,并测出受水中冲击波作用的弹性薄板在不同时刻的变形,得出相应的全息干涉条纹图。同时利用有限元法对水中冲击波与弹性薄板的流固耦合问题进行了数值计算。研究结果表明,用实验方法能够较好地模拟水中冲击波与弹性结构的耦合作用,用有限元法计算水中冲击波传播问题是可行的。     

Natural vibrations of a cantilever thin elastic orthotropic cylindrical shell

The natural vibrations of a cantilever thin elastic orthotropic circular cylindrical shell are studied. Dispersion equations for the determination of possible natural frequencies of cantilever closed shells and open shells with Navier hinged boundary conditions at the longitudinal edges are derived from the classical dynamic theory of orthotropic cylindrical shells. It is proved that there are asymptotic relationships between these problems and the problems for a cantilever orthotropic strip plate and for a cantilever rectangular plate and the eigenvalue problem for a semi-infinite closed orthotropic cylindrical shell with free end and for the same but open shell with Navier hinged boundary conditions at the longitudinal edges. A procedure to identify types of vibrations is presented. Orthotropic cylindrical shells with different radii and lengths are used as an example to find approximate values of the dimensionless natural frequency and damping factor for vibration modes __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 68–91, May 2008.     

头部与大挠度弹性板的撞击响应特性分析

在行人与汽车碰撞的研究中，头部-汽车发动机罩撞击损伤是重要的内容．把此问题简化为柔性球体与大挠度弹性板的大变形撞击响应问题，采用有限元方法分析了头部与汽车发动机罩撞击的动态响应特性，得出了相关因素对撞击响应的影响特点，并提出了具有行人保护作用的发动机罩的设计原则．为非线性动态响应力学问题的研究提供参考．     

On out-of-plane buckling of anisotropic elastic plate subjected to a simple shear

Out-of-plane buckling of anisotropic elastic plate subjected to a simple shear is investigated. From exact 3-D equilibrium conditions of anisotropic elastic body with a plane of elastic symmetry at critical configuration, the eqution for buckling direction (buckling wave direction) parameter is derived and the shape functions of possible buckling modes are obtained. The traction free boundary conditions which must hold on the upper and lower surfaces of plate lead to a linear eigenvalue problem whose nontrivial solutions are just the possible buckling modes for the plate. The buckling conditions for both flexural and barreling modes are presented. As a particular example of buckling of anisotropic elastic plate, the buckling of an orthotropic elastic plate, which is subjected to simple shear along a direction making an arbitrary angle of θ with respect to an elastic principal axis of materials, is analyzed. The buckling direction varies with θ and the critical amount of shear. The numerical results show that only the flexural mode can indeed exist. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 19772032).     

Flexural vibrations of a nonlinear elastic plate

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