Suggested new element reference frame for dynamic analysis of marine cables

Nonlinear Dynamics - The dynamics of marine cables are efficiently expressed using the lumped-mass model, which divides the cable into finite elements, on each of which a reference frame is fixed...     

Stress analysis of functionally graded shells using a 7-parameter shell element

In this paper, finite element stress analysis of functionally graded structures using a high-order spectral/hp shell finite element is presented. The shell element is based on a seven-parameter first-order shear deformation theory in which the seventh parameter, in addition to the usual six degrees of freedom, is the thickness stretch. The continuum shell element is utilized for the numerical simulations of the fully geometrically nonlinear response of functionally graded elastic shell structures. Several nontrivial shell problems are considered to report deflections and stresses, the latter being the main focus of the current paper. It is found that the stresses computed in the current study agree only in some cases with those of ANSYS and/or ABAQUS and thus requires additional study to determine the cause of the disagreement.     

Geometrically non-linear analysis of laminated composite structures using a 4-node co-rotational shell element with enhanced strains

To demonstrate the solutions of linear and geometrically non-linear analysis of laminated composite plates and shells, the co-rotational non-linear formulation of the shell element is presented. The combinations of an enhanced assumed strain (EAS) in the membrane strains and assumed natural strains (ANS) in the shear strains improve the behavior of 4-node shell element. To secure computational efficiency in the incremental non-linear analysis, the present element uses the form of the resultant forces pre-integrated through the thickness. The transverse shear stiffness of the laminates is defined by an equilibrium approach instead of the shear correction factor. Numerical examples of this study show very good agreement with the references.     

Free-form shell analysis by a mixed-hybrid finite element approach

Summary A novel finite element scheme is proposed for the linear elasto-static analysis of free-form thinwalled shells. On the basis of a modified version of the variational theorem due to Hellinger and Reissner, a doubly curved triangular element is developed with six degrees-of-freedom (three translations plus three rotations) per nodal point. For each element, separate trial functions are introduced in order to approximate the displacements and the stress resultants. It is shown that by properly choosing these interpolants, an element is obtained which (i) is capable of exactly representing the rigid body and constant strain modes; (ii) does not possess any spurious kinematic modes; (iii) fulfils C ¹ interelement continuity and (iv) satisfies exactly the interior domain static equilibrium conditions. Two representative examples have been solved in order to illustrate the advantages of the proposed scheme over existing ones.

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Berechnung dünnwandiger elastischer Schalen mit Hilfe eines gemischt-hybriden Finite-Element-Verfahrens

Übersicht Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der numerischen Berechnung des linearen Trag- und Deformationsverhaltens dünnwandiger Schalentragwerke beliebiger Geometrie. Auf der Grundlage eines modifizierten Funktionals vom Typ Hellinger/Reissner wird ein doppeltgekrümmtes Dreieckselement mit insgesamt achtzehn Freiheitsgraden entwickelt. Im Vergleich mit existierenden Elementen zeichnet sich das hier vorgeschlagene dadurch aus, daß es (i) keine fiktiven Kinematikzustände (spurious modes) besitzt; (ii) in der Lage ist, Starrkörperzustände sowie Zustände konstanter Verzerrungen exakt darzustellen; (iii) einen C ¹-stetigen Verschiebungsverlauf an den Zwischenelementrändern garantiert, und (iv) die a-priori-Erfüllung der Gleichgewichtsbedingungen im Elementinneren gewährleistet. Eine Vielzahl von ausgesuchten Testbeispielen sind mit Hilfe des hier vorgestellten Elementeverfahrens gerechnet worden, um sein Konvergenzverhalten sowie seine Zuverlässigeit zu überprüfen. Einige charakteristische Resultate werden im Schlußteil der Arbeit präsentiert.

     

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.     

Fluid–structure interaction modelling of nonlinear aeroelastic structures using the finite element corotational theory

The application of the finite element corotational theory to model geometric nonlinear structures within a fluid–structure interaction procedure is proposed. A dynamic corotational approximately-energy-conserving algorithm is used to solve the nonlinear structural response and it is shown that this algorithm's application with a four-node flat finite element is more stable than the nonlinear implicit Newmark method. This structural dynamic algorithm is coupled with the unsteady vortex-ring method using a staggered technique. These procedures were used to obtain aeroelastic results of a nonlinear plate-type wing subjected to low speed airflow. It is shown that stable and accurate numerical solutions are obtained using the proposed fluid–structure interaction algorithm. Furthermore, it is illustrated that geometric nonlinearities lead to limit cycle oscillations.     

High-order triangular finite element for shell analysis

A curved-shell finite element of triangular shape is described which is based on conventional shell theory expressed in terms of surface coordinates and displacements Each of the three surface displacement components is independently represented by a two-dimensional polynomial of constrained-quintic order giving the element a total of 54 degrees of freedom. Two particular geometric forms of the element are considered, viz. doubly-curved shallow and circular cylindrical. The high level of accuracy which can be achieved using few elements is demonstrated in a range of problems where comparison is made with previous finite element solutions.     

Geometric nonlinear dynamic analysis of curved beams using curved beam element

Instead of using the previous straight beam element to approximate the curved beam,in this paper,a curvilinear coordinate is employed to describe the deformations,and a new curved beam element is proposed to model the curved beam.Based on exact nonlinear strain-displacement relation,virtual work principle is used to derive dynamic equations for a rotating curved beam,with the effects of axial extensibility,shear deformation and rotary inertia taken into account.The constant matrices are solved numerically utilizing the Gauss quadrature integration method.Newmark and Newton-Raphson iteration methods are adopted to solve the differential equations of the rigid-flexible coupling system.The present results are compared with those obtained by commercial programs to validate the present finite method.In order to further illustrate the convergence and efficiency characteristics of the present modeling and computation formulation,comparison of the results of the present formulation with those of the ADAMS software are made.Furthermore,the present results obtained from linear formulation are compared with those from nonlinear formulation,and the special dynamic characteristics of the curved beam are concluded by comparison with those of the straight beam.     

基于宏观三角形分区平板壳单元的非线性有限元分析

针对剪切闭锁效应,本文研究了一种基于假设自然应变方法的宏观三角形分区平板壳单元。利用通用有限元软件ABAQUS所提供的用户自定义单元(UEL)和用户自定义材料(UMAT)子程序,本文将宏观三角形分区平板壳单元和基于损伤能释放率的混凝土弹塑性损伤本构模型成功嵌入了ABAQUS的主分析模块。经典试验McNeice双向混凝土板的数值模拟结果表明:宏观三角形分区平板壳单元对于描述板壳结构的非线性损伤行为是行之有效的。     

应用平板壳单元DKQl6分析板壳结构的几何非线性

应用新近开发的四边形十六自由度离Kirchhoff平板壳单元DKQl6，分析了板壳结构的几何非线性问题，采用Total Lagrange格式，在小应交、中等转动的假定下，建立了该单元几何刚度阵和大位移矩阵．非线性方程采用位移引导或弧长引导的牛顿-拉夫森增量迭代法求解．讨论了网格和加载步效对收敛性的影响，通过对典型算例的计算以及与其它单元的比较，说明了DKQl6单元在板壳结构几何非线性分析中也有良好的精度．     

Nonlinear vibration analysis of a hard-coating cylindrical shell with elastic constraints by finite element method

Nonlinear Dynamics - A robust nonlinear observer for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems is introduced. The generalized sector constraint is employed to deal with many commonly encountered...     

Finite element method combined with dynamic photoelastic analysis to determine dynamic stress-intensity factors

The present paper is addressed to the finite element method combined with dynamic photoelastic analysis of propagating cracks, that is, on the basis of [1] by Chien Wei-zang, finite elements which incorporate the propagating crack-tip singularity intrinsic to two-dimensional elasticity are employed. The relation between crack opening length and time step obtained from dynamic photoelastic analysis is used as a definite condition for solving the dynamic equations and simulating the crack propagations as well. As an example, the impact response of dynamic-bending-test specimen is investigated and the dynamic stressintensity factor obtained from the mentioned finite element analysis and dynamic photoelasticity is in reasonable agreement with each other.Finally, my special thanks go to Prof. Chien Wei-zang for his kind guidance and I would like to express my thanks to Mr. Pang Jin-xiang for conducting the successful experiment.     

开口复合材料柱壳屈曲与补救有限元分析

用有限元法对含有轴向裂纹的开口加强复合材料柱壳结构进行了补救研究;分析其压缩屈曲强度与模态情况,得到了裂纹长度与屈曲强度的关系,并与无裂纹的结构进行了对比.结果表明:裂纹长度在200mm以下时,对整个结构承载能力影响很小;当裂纹长度继续增大时,屈曲区域从开口上方转移到裂纹附近,屈曲强度开始急剧下降.为了加强裂纹所在区域结构的承剪能力,进行适当的修补后,可使屈曲模态与无裂纹柱壳相同,且屈曲强度稍有增加,从而证明了所提出补救方法的有效性.     

弹塑性板壳结构非线性有限元分析

本文根据塑性流动理论的基本公式，由隐式积分导出了与路径无关的变量更新算法和一致切线模量。采用单元广义应力应变直接离散塑性流动定律，构造了杂交应力单元一致切线刚度矩阵的显式表达式，编制了结构有限元程序ＳＡＦＥ，数值算例表明：本文的计算方法和计算程序是正确可靠的，可用于弹塑性板壳结构的非线性分析，计算结果屈曲临界载荷和极限承载能力。     

On vibration of hemispherical shell by using finite element method

This paper establishes the finite element equation for the spherical shell.The resonantfrequencies of the above shell under different boundary conditions are also discussed andcalculated.     

Geometrically non-linear analysis of arbitrary elastic supported plates and shells using an element-based Lagrangian shell element

In the present paper, the ELF (element-based Lagrangian formulation) 9-node ANS (assumed natural strain) shell element was combined with the spring element for geometrically non-linear analysis of plates and shells sustained by arbitrary elastic edge supports that are subjected to variation in loading.This particular spring element serves as tool for modeling an arbitrary elastic edge support with 6 DOF (degrees of freedom). The elastic edge support was modeled by combining different spring models. The ANS method was used to overcome shear and membrane locking problems inherent in some thin plate and shell problems. In the formulation of the ELF characteristic arrays, the expression of element strains was adopted in the framework of the element natural coordinates. The non-linear analysis results of idealized edge supports were validated against the reference solutions available in the literature. As a result of the numerical test, the combination of the ELF 9-node shell element and spring element shows an exceptional performance for non-linear analysis of plates and shells under elastic edge supports.