The theory of micropolar thin elastic shells

A boundary-value problem of the three-dimensional micropolar, asymmetric, moment theory of elasticity with free rotation is investigated in the case of a thin shell. It is assumed that the general stress-strain state (SSS) is comprised of an internal SSS and boundary layers. An asymptotic method of integrating a three-dimensional boundary-value problem of the micropolar theory of elasticity with free rotation is used for their approximate determination. Three different asymptotics are constructed for this problem, depending on the values of the dimensionless physical parameters. The initial approximation for the first asymptotics leads to the theory of micropolar shells with free rotation, the approximation for the second leads to the theory of micropolar shells with constrained rotation and the approximation for the third asymptotics leads to the so-called theory of micropolar shells “with a small shear stiffness”. Micropolar boundary layers are constructed. The problem of the matching of the internal problem and the boundary-layer solutions is investigated. The two-dimensional boundary conditions for the above-mentioned theories of micropolar shells are determined.     

Boundary-value problems of the asymmetric theory of elasticity for thin plates

Boundary-value problems of the three-dimensional asymmetric micropolar, moment theory of elasticity with free rotation are considered for thin plates. It is assumed that the total stress-strain state is the sum of the internal stress-strain state and the boundary layers, which are determined in an approximation using asymptotic analysis. Three different asymptotic forms are constructed for the three-dimensional boundary-value problem posed, depending on the values of dimensionless physical constants of the plate material. The initial approximation for the first asymptotic form leads to a theory of micropolar plates with free rotation, the initial approximation for the second asymptotic form leads to a theory of micropolar plates with constrained rotation, and the initial approximation for the third asymptotic form leads to a theory of micropolar plates with “small shear stiffness.” The corresponding micropolar boundary layers are constructed and studied. The regions of applicability of each of the theories of micropolar plates constructed are indicated.     

Mixed boundary-value problems of thermoelasticity for anisotropic-in-plan inhomogeneous toroidal shells

Problems of thermoelasticity for an anisotropic-in-plan inhomogeneous thin toroidal shell are solved by asymptotic integration of the equations of the three-dimensional problem of the theory of an anisotropic inhomogeneous solid for various boundary conditions. Recurrence formulae are derived for the components of the asymmetric stress tensor and the displacement vector. An example is given.     

Asymptotic analysis of three-dimensional dynamic equations of a thin plate : PMM vol. 38, n 6, 1974, pp. 1072–1078

Two-dimensional dynamic equations of thin plate vibrations are obtained from the three-dimensional dynamic equations of elasticity theory on the basis of an asymptotic method [1 – 3], Such an approach permits establishing the limits of applicability of the two-dimensional dynamic equations and the corresponding boundary and initial conditions, and indicating the means of obtaining refined results.The question of the construction of an inner state of stress of a thin plate under dynamic conditions is examined herein. The possibility of considering states of stress with distinct variability in time and in the coordinates and with a distinct relationship between the displacement intensities, is taken into account.     

Refined equations of elliptic boundary layer in shells of revolution under normal shock surface loading

This paper continues the studies on the construction of the first order approximation of equations for a boundary layer in the vicinity of a surface Rayleigh wave front in shells of revolution under normal shock surface loading. Since the first order asymptotic approximation is insufficient for determination of all components of the stress-deformed state, we obtain refined asymptotic equations for construction of solutions for all components of displacements and stresses with an asymptotic error of the order of the relative shell thickness.     

On one approach to studying free vibrations of cylindrical shells of variable thickness in the circumferential direction within a refined statement

We used the spline collocation method for finding the frequencies of free vibrations of circular closed cylindrical shells of variable thickness in the circumferential direction. The problem was formulated within the framework of Mindlin’s refined theory. We studied the influence of change in the shell thickness on the distribution of its natural frequencies. Our calculations were carried out for different geometrical parameters of the shell and different boundary conditions. The validity of results obtained was verified by increasing the number of collocation points in our calculations and by comparing them with the results of computations according to the three-dimensional theory.     

On the derivation of an asymptotically correct shear correction factor for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model

In the framework of thin linear elastic plates it is known that the solutions of both the three-dimensional problem and the Reissner-Mindlin plate model can be developed into asymptotic expansions. By comparing the particular asymptotic expansions with respect to the half-thickness ɛ of the plate in the case of periodic boundary conditions on the lateral side, the shear correction factor in the Reissner-Mindlin plate model can be determined in such a way that this model approximates the three-dimensional solution with one order of the plate thickness better than the classical Kirchhoff model. This fails for hard clamped lateral boundary conditions so that the Reissner-Mindlin model is in this case asymptotically as good as the Kirchhoff model.     

The vibrations of a thin elastic orthotropic circular cylindrical shell with free and hinged edges

The problem of the existence of natural oscillations of a thin elastic orthotropic circular closed cylindrical shell with free and hinge-mounted ends and of an open cylindrical shell with free and hinge-mounted edges, when the two boundary generatrices are hinge-mounted is investigated. Dispersion equations and asymptotic formulae for finding the natural frequencies of possible vibration modes are obtained using the system of equations corresponding to the classical theory of orthotropic cylindrical shells. A mechanism is proposed by means of which the vibrations can be separated into possible types. Approximate values of the dimensionless characteristic of the natural frequency and the attenuation characteristic of the corresponding vibration modes are obtained using the examples of closed and open orthotropic cylindrical shells of different lengths.     

圆形三向网架非线性动力稳定性分析

用拟板法将网架简化为平板,给出表层应变与中面位移的非线性关系．根据薄板的非线性动力学理论,建立了在直角坐标系中三向网架的非线性动力学方程,又将此方程转化为极坐标系轴对称非线性动力学方程．在周边固定条件下,引入异于等厚度板的无量纲量,对基本方程无量纲化．利用Galerkin法得到一个三次非线性振动方程,在无外激励情况下,讨论了稳定性与分岔问题．在外激励情况下,用Melnikov方法研究了圆形三向网架可能发生的混沌运动．通过数字仿真绘出了发生混沌的相平面图．     

Thermal vibration analysis of functionally graded shallow spherical caps by introducing a decoupling analytical approach

Due to many applications of spherical shells on a circular planform such as the nose of the plane and spacecraft and caps of pressurized cylindrical tanks, in this article, free vibration analysis of a thin functionally graded shallow spherical cap under a thermal load is considered. A decoupling technique is employed to analytically solve the equations of motion. Introducing some new auxiliary and potential functions as well as using the separation method of variables, the governing equations of the vibrated functionally graded shallow spherical cap were exactly solved. The superiority of the relations is validated by some comparative studies for various types of boundary conditions. Also, thermal buckling phenomenon is considered. Using new different material models, efficiency of the functionally graded materials is investigated when the shell is subjected to a temperature gradient. The effects of various parameters such as radius of curvature, material grading index and thermal gradient are discussed.     

Axisymmetric buckling of laminated thick annular spherical cap

Axisymmetric buckling analysis is presented for moderately thick laminated shallow annular spherical cap under transverse load. Buckling under central ring load and uniformly distributed transverse load, applied statically or as a step function load is considered. The central circular opening is either free or plugged by a rigid central mass or reinforced by a rigid ring. Annular spherical caps have been analysed for clamped and simple supports with movable and immovable inplane edge conditions. The governing equations of the Marguerre-type, first order shear deformation shallow shell theory (FSDT), formulated in terms of transverse deflection w, the rotation ψ of the normal to the midsurface and the stress function Φ, are solved by the orthogonal point collocation method. Typical numerical results for static and dynamic buckling loads for FSDT are compared with the classical lamination theory and the dependence of the effect of the shear deformation on the thickness parameter for various boundary conditions is investigated.     

The method of I. N. Vekua for nonshallow cylindrical shells

The refined theory of shells is constructed by reducing three-dimensional problems of the theory of elasticity to two-dimensional problems. I. Vekua obtained the equations of shallow shells. This means that the interior geometry of the shell does not vary in thickness. This method for nonshallow shells in the case of geometrical and physical nonlinear theory was generalized by T. Meunargia. Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 51, Differential Equations and Their Applications, 2008.     

An Asymptotic Dynamic Theory for Cylindrical Shells

By expanding the displacement and stress components together with the axial length scale in terms of a small thin shell parameter, three asymptotic shell theories are obtained which incorporate thickness effects in a systematic way. The expansions are made in the equations of linear three-dimensional elasticity. These theories are used to examine the problem of longitudinal wave propagation in a shell of infinite length.     

变截面二维功能梯度微梁的振动和屈曲特性北大核心CSCD

基于修正的偶应力理论和Timoshenko梁理论,应用变分原理建立了变截面二维功能梯度微梁的自由振动和屈曲力学模型.模型中包含金属组分和陶瓷组分的材料内禀特征尺度参数,可以预测微梁力学行为的尺度效应.采用Ritz法给出了任意边界条件下微梁振动频率和临界屈曲载荷的数值解.数值算例表明:微梁厚度减小时,无量纲一阶频率和无量纲临界屈曲载荷增大,尺度效应增强.锥度比对微梁一阶频率的影响与边界条件密切相关,同时,对应厚度和对应宽度锥度比的影响也有明显差异.变截面微尺度梁无量纲一阶频率随着陶瓷和金属的材料内禀特征尺度参数比的增加而增大,且不同边界条件时增大程度不同.厚度方向和轴向功能梯度指数对微梁的一阶频率和屈曲载荷也有显著的影响.     

Asymptotic solutions of coupled dynamic problems of thermoelasticity for thin bodies of anisotropic inhomogeneous-in-plan materials

Two-dimensional recurrence resolvents for an inhomogeneous thin body (plates of variable thickness and shells) are derived by an asymptotic method based on the three-dimensional equations of the coupled dynamic problem of the thermoelasticity of an anisotropic body, which are solved in the case of anisotropy, having, at each point, one plane of symmetry perpendicular to the transverse axis. Recurrence formulae are derived in a general formulation for determining the components of the stress tensor, the strain vector and the function of the change in the temperature field, when different boundary conditions of dynamic problems of the theory of coupled thermoelasticity and thermal conductivity are given on the end surfaces of a thin body. An algorithm for determining the analytical and numerical (necessary) solutions of these boundary-value problems with an arbitrarily specified accuracy is developed.     

On the investigation of free vibrations of nonthin cylindrical shells of variable thickness by the spline-collocation method

For determining the dynamic characteristics of free vibrations of circular unclosed cylindrical shells of variable thickness in two coordinate directions, we have used the spline-collocation method together with the method of discrete orthogonalization. The problem has been solved within the framework of the refined Timoshenko–Mindlin theory. We have also investigated the influence of different laws of change in the shell thickness on the character of its natural vibrations. Our calculations have been carried out for different geometrical and elastic parameters of the shell under study and different boundary conditions.     

On Trapped Modes of Rotating Fluids in Spherical Shells

The question of existence of axisymmetric, equatorially trapped modes in rotating spherical shells (Stern, 1963; Stewartson and Rickard, 1969) is approached by means of a numerical simulation. The existence of one trapped mode is confirmed, and the dependence of its frequency on the thickness of the shell is investigated. The ray theoretical approach of Bretherton (1964) is also reconsidered, and it is found that in a shell of given thickness there are only a limited number of closed ray patterns which are confined to the vicinity of the equator. A continuous band of frequencies is associated with each one of these rays. It is found that the frequencies derived by the numerical simulation for thin shells agree with the maximum frequency in the first of these bands. It is conjectured that this fact may be associated with the viscous boundary conditions driving the forced oscillations inside the shell.     

Surface waves supported by thin-film/substrate interactions

A systematic approximation to the linear equations for small-amplitudesurface waves in an elastic half space, interacting with a residuallystressed thin film of different material bonded to its planeboundary, is developed in powers of the film thickness, assumingthe latter to be small compared to the wavelength of the disturbance.The theory is illustrated by calculating asymptotic expansionsof the wave speeds for Love and Rayleigh waves valid to secondorder in the dimensionless film thickness for a transverselyisotropic film bonded to an isotropic substrate.     

在任意不定常温度场和任意法向动载荷联合作用下中心开孔圆底扁球壳的动力问题

本文得出了在任意不定常温度场和任意法向动载荷联合作用下中心开孔圆底扁球壳的动力问题的解析解.我们假设温度沿壳体厚度直线分布.在第一部分.我们研究了常用边界条件下的中心开孔圆底扁球壳的自由振动.作为例子,我们计算了一边缘夹紧的扁球壳的自然基频(m=0),所得结果与E.Reissner[1]的结果作了比较.频率方程的解法是钱伟长[2]提出来的.这将在附录3中介绍.在第二部分,我们研究了在任意谐温度场和任意谐法向动载荷联合作用下的中心开孔圆底扁球壳的强迫振动.在第三部分,我们研究了在任意不定常温度场和任意法向动载荷联合作用下的具有初始条件的上述壳体的强迫振动.在附录1和2中,我们讨论了如何用应力函数来表示位移边界条件和m=1情形的边界条件.