An analytic method of studying the nonlinearly elastic equilibrium of a rectangular plate of variable thickness under bending

We propose an approximate analytic method of solving three-dimensional boundary-value problems of the physically nonlinear theory of elasticity for thick rectangular plates of variable thickness subject to a transverse load. The method is used to seek a solution of this problem in the form of double power series in small dimensionless parameters. In arbitrary approximation the original problem is reduced to a sequence of linear inhomogeneous boundary-value problems for plates of constant thickness. Bibliography: 6 titles. Translated fromTeoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mekhanika, No. 28, 1998, pp. 36–40     

Application of the Haar wavelet-based discretization technique to problems of orthotropic plates and shells

The Haar wavelet discretization technique for solving the elastic bending problems of orthotropic plates and shells is proposed. Free transverse vibrations of orthotropic rectangular plates with a variable thickness in one direction are considered as a model problem. In the case of constant plate thickness, the numerical results are validated by comparing them with an exact solution. The results obtained are found to be in good agreement with those available in the literature.     

Free vibration analysis of piezoelectric coupled annular plates with variable thickness

This paper presents the free vibration analysis of piezoelectric coupled annular plates with variable thickness on the basis of the Mindlin plate theory. No work has yet been done on piezoelectric laminated plates while the thickness is variable. Two piezoelectric layers are embedded on the upper and lower surfaces of the host plate. The host plate thickness is linearly increased in the radial direction while the piezoelectric layers thicknesses remain constant along the radial direction. Different combinations of three types of boundary conditions i.e. clamped, simply supported, and free end conditions are considered at the inner and outer edges of plate. The Maxwell static electricity equation in piezoelectric layers is satisfied using a quadratic distribution of electric potential along the thickness. The natural frequencies are obtained utilizing a Rayleigh–Ritz energy approach and are validated by comparing with those obtained by finite element analysis. A good compliance is observed between numerical solution and finite element analysis. Convergence study is performed in order to verify the numerical stability of the present method. The effects of different geometrical parameters such as the thickness of piezoelectric layers and the angle of host plate on the natural frequencies of the assembly are investigated.     

Analytic method for solving a class of three-dimensional thermoelasticity problems for layered transversely isotropic plates with variable thicknesses

This paper examines three-dimensional boundary value problems in the theory of heat conduction and thermoelasticity for layered transversely isotropic rectangular plates with variable thicknesses acted on by a nonuniform temperature field. It is assumed that known temperature and heat flux at the surfaces of the plate or temperature of the surrounding medium allow a representation of the solution in terms of double trigonometric series. An approximate analytic method has been developed for solving this class of problems which makes it possible to reduce the initial boundary value problem for a plate of variable thickness to a recurrence sequence of the corresponding problems for plates with constant thicknesses. Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mekhanika, No. 30, pp. 26–36, 1999.     

Elasticoplastic bending of rectangular plates reinforced with fibers of constant cross section

The problem on the elastoplastic transverse bending of Kirchhoff plates of variable thickness reinforced with fibers of constant cross section is formulated and its qualitative analysis is performed. An analytical solution to the problem is constructed in the case of cylindrical bending, and, by using the Bubnov-Galerkin method, an approximate solution for a rectangular plate is obtained. Based on calculations of plates reinforced with boron fibers and steel wire, it is shown that the load-carrying capacity of the structural member in elastoplastic bending is several times (or even by an order of magnitude) higher than in purely elastic one.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 17–36, January–February, 2005.     

An analytical solution for bending of transversely isotropic thick rectangular plates with variable thickness

In this study, the bending solution of simply supported transversely isotropic thick rectangular plates with thickness variations is provided using displacement potential functions. To achieve this purpose, governing partial differential equations in terms of displacements are obtained as the quadratic and fourth order. Then, the governing equations are solved using the separation of variables method satisfying exact boundary conditions. The advantage of the purposed method is that there is no limitation on the thickness of the plate or the way the plate thickness is being varied. No simplifying assumption in the analysis process leads to the applicability and reliability of the present method to plates with any arbitrarily chosen thickness. In order to confirm the accuracy of the proposed solution, the obtained results are compared with existing published analytical works for thin variable thickness and thick constant thickness plate. Also, due to the lack of analytical research on thick plates with variable thickness, the obtained results are verified using the finite element method which shows excellent agreement. The results show that the maximum displacement of the plates with variable thickness is moved from the center toward the thinner plate edge. In addition, results exhibit the profound effects of both thickness and aspect ratio on stress distribution along the thickness of the plate. Results also show that varying thickness has not a profound impact on bending and twisting moments in transversely isotropic plates. Five different materials consist of four transversely isotropic and one isotropic, as a special case, are considered in this paper, which it is shown that the material properties have a more considerable impact on higher thickness plate.     

Dirichlet-Neumann conditions and the orthogonality of three-dimensional guided waves in layered solids

Orthogonality relations for homogeneous waves in layered plates are obtained, and they are generalized to the case of a contact with fluid layers. For layers of infinite thickness, it is shown that the homogeneous waves of the discrete spectrum are orthogonal to each other and to the waves of the continuous spectrum. For finite-size sources, exact formulas are derived for the coefficients multiplying the modes. Based on the orthogonality relations, a nonlocal radiation principle is proposed such that the infinite domain in the numerical solution of diffraction problems for layered plates can be replaced by a virtual cylinder.     

在复合载荷作用下变厚度圆薄板大挠度问题

本文用变厚度板壳大挠度理论的修正迭代法[1],对周边固定,在复合载荷下的变厚度圆薄板进行了求解,从而得到了精确度较高的二次近似解析解.将本文的结果退化到特殊情况就可以得到和文[1、2]完全一致的结果.本文还绘出特征曲线进行比较,其结果是理想的.     

3D free vibration analysis of laminated cylindrical shell integrated piezoelectric layers using the differential quadrature method

This paper addresses the free vibration problem of multilayered shells with embedded piezoelectric layers. Based on the three-dimensional theory of elasticity, an approach combining the state space method and the differential quadrature method (DQM) is used. The shell has arbitrary end boundary conditions. For the simply supported boundary conditions closed-form solution is given by making the use of Fourier series expansion. Applying the differential quadrature method to the state space formulations along the axial direction, new state equations about state variables at discrete points are obtained for the other cases such as clamped or free end conditions. Natural frequencies of the hybrid laminated shell are presented by solving the eigenfrequency equation which can be obtained by using edges boundary condition in this state equation. Accuracy and convergence of the present approach is verified by comparing the natural frequencies with the results obtained in the literatures. Finally, the effect of edges conditions, mid-radius to thickness ratio, length to mid-radius ratio and the piezoelectric thickness on vibration behaviour of shell are investigated.     

Problem of optimal control by the natural frequency of oscillations of an orthotropic shell of revolution and its finite-dimensional approximation

The questions of optimization in problems of oscillations in orthotropic shells of revolution of variable thickness are studied for the case when the thickness and radius of curvature of the shell generatrix are used as the controls. Restrictions are imposed on the principal oscillation eigenfrequency, thickness, internal volume and other parameters. It is shown that a solution of the problem exists and, that the problem can be approximated by a sequence of the finite-dimensional problems. Certain questions of the optimal control in the problem concerning the oscillations of plates of variable thickness with the thickness serving as the control, were studied in /1–4/.     

Shear and Flexural Buckling Modes of a Spherical Sandwich Shell in a Centrosymmetric Temperature Field Inhomogeneous across the Thickness

Problems on buckling modes (BMs) are considered for a spherical sandwich shell with thin isotropic external layers and a transversely soft core of arbitrary thickness in a centrosymmetric temperature field inhomogeneous across the shell thickness. For their statement, the two-dimensional equations of the theory of moderate bending of thin Kirchhoff–Love shells are used for the external layers, with regard for their interaction with the core; for the core, maximum simplified geometrically nonlinear equations of thermoelasticity theory, in which a minimum number of nonlinear summands is retained to correctly describe its pure shear BM, are utilized. An exact analytical solution to the problem on initial centrosymmetric deformation of the shell is found, assuming that the temperature increments in the external layers are constant across their thickness. It is shown that the three-dimensional equations for the core, linearized in the neighborhood of the solution, can be integrated along the radial coordinate and reduced to two two-dimensional differential equations, which supplement the six equations that describe the neutral equilibrium of the external layers. It is established that the system of eight differential equations of stability, upon introduction of new unknowns in the form of scalar and vortical potentials, splits into two uncoupled sets of equations. The first of them has two kinds of solutions, by which the pure shear BM is described at an identical value of the parameter of critical temperature. The second system describes a mixed flexural BM, whose realization, at definite combinations of determining parameters of the shell and over wide ranges of their variation, is possible for critical parameters of temperature by orders of magnitude exceeding the similar parameter of shear BM.     

Optimal control of a variational inequality with applications to structural analysis. II. Local optimization of the stress in a beam. III. Optimal design of an elastic plate

Optimal design with respect to the variable thickness of an elastic beam with unilateral supports under the criterion of minimal value of the maximal stress is presented in Part I. A dual formulation of the state problem (in terms of bending moments) is used and the convergence of some approximations proved.In Part III the variable thickness of an elastic or elasto-plastic plate unilaterally supported on a part of its edge is optimized. For elastic plates with parallel edges a primal finite element model is applied and a convergence result obtained.     

均布载荷下正交异性变厚度圆薄板大挠度问题

本文导出了正交各向异性变厚度圆薄板大挠度问题的基本方程,用修正迭代法求解了正交各向异性变厚度圆薄板在均布载荷下的大挠度问题.作为特例,令ε=0,则由本文结果得到的表达式与J.Nowinski用摄动法得到的正交各向异性等厚度圆薄板大挠度问题的解完全一致.     

任意厚度具有自由边叠层板的精确解析解

自由边问题一直是三维弹性力学中的难题,通常很难满足自由边上一个正应力和两个剪应力都等于0．基于三维弹性力学基本方程和状态空间方法,引入自由边界位移函数并考虑全部弹性常数,建立了正交异性具有自由边单层和叠层板的状态方程．对状态方程中的变量以级数形式展开,通过边界条件的满足精确求解任意厚度具有自由边叠层板的位移和应力,此解满足层间应力和位移的连续条件．算例计算表明,采用引入的位移函数形式,简化了计算过程并且采用较少的级数项可以获得收敛解．与有限元方法计算结果进行了对比,可以得到较高精度的数值结果．其解可以作为其它数值方法和半解析方法的参考解．     

The limit state of a layer compressed by rough plates

The possibility of presenting the solution of the problem of the compression of a three-dimensional layer by two rough plates, if use is made of Prandtl's assumption of a linear variation of the shear stresses over the thickness (not depending on the coordinates along the plates), is analysed. The case of an anisotropic material with a yield point obeying Hill's condition is also considered.     

Analysis of the hypotheses used when constructing the theory of beams and plates

The solution of the two-dimensional problem of the theory of elasticity for a strip and the three-dimensional one for a plate are formulated by simple iterations and using asymptotic estimates with respect to a small parameter. These problems arc solved in the literature by reducing the two-dimensional and three-dimensional problems to one-dimensional and two-dimensional ones, respectively, using the semi-inverse Saint-Venant's method [1, 21. It is assumed that the solution obtained by the semi-inverse method has an error of the order of the relative size of the small domain of the applied self-balanced load. The treatment of the hypotheses, introduced in the semi-inverse method, as a selection of the respective initial approximation of the method of simple iterations enables the solution process to be formalized and provides an estimate of the error. The classical theory of beams and plates is supplemented by a solution of the boundary-layer type. The procedure is illustrated by solving the problem of a strip with an applied concentrated load. An additional solution for a rectangular plate, together with the solution of a biharmonic equation, enables three boundary conditions to be satisfied on each free end surface.     

Solution of Dynamic Deformation Problems for Prestressed Laminated Plates Based on the Three-Dimensional Theory of Elasticity

A three-dimensional analytical solution describing forced harmonic vibrations of prestressed laminated plates is found for the case of a hinged support. The solution is based on the analytical separation of variables. It is assumed that the prestressed state is homogeneous, subcritical, linear, and momentless and that the vibration amplitudes are small. A solution based on a model with a polynomial approximation of the required displacement functions across the plate thickness is also considered. These functions are found on the front surfaces of the structure. This allows us to solve the problem both in the continuous and discrete structural approaches. In the continuous structural approach, the order of the resolving system of equations is independent of the number of layers. In the discrete structural approach, for rigid contact of layers with similar boundary conditions at the plate end face, an algorithm can be introduced which reduces significantly the number of operations required for realization of the model proposed. In the numerical examples presented, both rigid and sliding contacts of layers and various prestressed conditions are considered. Both approaches give results that agree well.     

Bimodal optimal design of vibrating plates using theory and methods of nondifferentiable optimization

This paper is concerned with an optimal design problem of vibrating plates. The optimization problem consists in maximizing the smallest eigenvalue of the elliptic eigenvalue problem describing the free plate vibration. The thickness of the plate is the variable subject to optimization. The volume of the plate is constant and the thickness of the plate is bounded.In this paper, we consider the case where the smallest eigenvalue is multiple. This implies that the optimization problem is nondifferentiable. A necessary optimality condition is formulated. The finite-element method is employed as an approximation method. A nonsmooth optimization method is used to solve this optimization problem. Numerical examples are provided.This work was supported by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Education Ministry of Japan. Lemarechal's implementation of his method was used for numerical computations.on leave from Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.     

基于厚板拉伸振动精确化方程求解动应力集中问题

过去,对拉伸平板考虑应力集中的工程设计多借鉴弹性力学平面问题分析求解结果,例如弹性力学Kirsch问题的解或弹性动力学平面问题的解．基于厚板拉伸振动精确化方程,对含圆孔平板中弹性波散射与动应力集中问题进行了研究．研究结果表明:1) 两种模型得到的开孔附近的应力是不同的;2) 当入射波波数变大或者说入射波频率变高时,动应力集中系数最大值趋于单位1．含孔平板拉伸振动的动应力集中系数最大值达到3.30,以及基于弹性动力学平面问题模型得到的结果为2.77．对数值计算结果做了分析讨论, 可以看到,当孔径厚度比是a/h=0.10,基于平板拉伸振动精确化方程得到的动应力集中系数可以达到最大值,超出基于弹性动力学平面问题所得到结果的19%．分析方法和数值计算结果可望能在工程平板结构的动力学分析和强度设计中得到应用．     

变厚度圆薄板在均布载荷下大挠度问题

本文首先给出变厚度圆薄板大挠度方程,用小参数方法和修正迭代法联合求解此问题,得到三次近似解;给出特征曲线同线性理论进行了比较.