FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF CANTILEVER PLATES WITH STEP DISCONTINUITIES IN PROPERTIES BY THE METHOD OF SUPERPOSITION

Utilizing the superposition method, an analytical type solution is obtained for the free vibration eigenvalues and mode shapes of a cantilever plate with step discontinuities in plate properties. Property discontinuity lines run parallel to the clamped edge of the plate. Verification tests are performed for limiting cases by comparing computed eigenvalues with known eigenvalues for plates with uniform properties. Very good agreement is also obtained when computed results are compared with those obtained experimentally utilizing a test plate with discontinuities in thickness. Computed eigenvalues and mode shapes are presented for the benefit of other researchers. Besides the general interest, the problem has an application in the modelling of certain multi-story buildings during seismic studies.     

Analytical modeling of squeeze film damping for rectangular elastic plates using Green's functions

An analytical method for the solution of squeeze film damping based on Green's function to the nonlinear Reynolds equation considering an elastic plate is presented. This allows calculating the stiffness and damping forces rapidly for various boundary conditions. The elastic plate velocity is applied to the nonlinear Reynolds equation as a forcing term. The nonlinear Reynolds equation is divided into multiple linear nonhomogeneous Helmholtz equations, which then can be solvable using the presented approach. Approximate mode shapes of a rectangular elastic plate are used, enabling the calculation of the damping ratio and frequency shift for the linear case, as well as the complex resistant pressure, for both linear and nonlinear cases.     

Effects of mass layer imperfect bonding on the electrical impedance of a quartz crystal microbalance

We study electrically forced vibrations of a crystal plate of AT-cut quartz carrying a thin mass layer operating as a quartz crystal microbalance for mass sensing. The mass layer is imperfectly bonded to the crystal plate with their interface described by the so-called interface-slip model which allows a discontinuity of the tangential interface displacement. Mindlin’s equations for piezoelectric plates are used. An analytical solution is obtained. The electrical impedance is calculated. The effects of an elastic interface and a viscoelastic interface are examined.     

An iterative substructuring approach to the calculation of eigensolution and eigensensitivity

The eigensolutions and associated eigensensitivities of an analytical model are usually calculated at the global structure level, which is time-consuming or even prohibitive for large-scale structures. Several substructuring approaches have been proposed that divide the global structure into some manageable substructures and assemble parts of the eigensolutions and eigensensitivities of the substructures to recover those of the global structure. However, these approaches are not usually accurate, as only the lowest eigensolutions and eigensensitivities are retained and the higher modes are excluded. In this paper, a new iterative substructuring method is proposed to accurately obtain the eigensolutions and eigensensitivities of structures. With this new approach, the contribution of the higher modes to the reduced eigenequation is retained as a residual flexibility matrix in an iterated form, which allows the eigenvalues and eigenvalue derivatives to be obtained from the previous results. The eigenvectors and their derivative matrices can be calculated from a reduced eigenequation directly without iteration. Upon convergence, the iterative scheme reproduces the eigensolutions and eigensensitivities of the original structure exactly. The computational efficiency and numerical accuracy of the proposed method are verified by the applications to a cantilever plate structure and an actual super-tall structure.     

Study on plate silencer with general boundary conditions

A plate silencer consists of an expansion chamber with two side-branch rigid cavities covered by plates. Previous studies showed that, in a duct, the introduction of simply supported or clamped plates into an air conveying system could achieve broadband quieting from low to medium frequencies. In this study, analytical formulation is extended to the plate silencer with general boundary conditions. A set of static beam functions, which are a combination of sine series and third-order polynomial, is employed as the trial functions of the plate vibration velocity. Green?s function and Kirchhoff–Helmholtz integral are used to solve the sound radiation in the duct and the cavity, and then the vibration velocity of the plate is obtained. Having obtained the vibration velocity, the pressure perturbations induced by the plate oscillation and the transmission loss are found. Optimization is carried out in order to obtain the widest stopband. The transmission loss calculated by the analytical method agrees closely with the result of the finite element method simulation. Further studies with regard to the plate under several different classical boundary conditions based on the validated model show that a clamped-free plate silencer has the worst stopband. Attempts to release the boundary restriction of the plate are also made to study its effect on sound reflection. Results show that a softer end for a clamped–clamped plate silencer helps increase the optimal bandwidth, while the same treatment for simply supported plate silencer will result in performance degradation.     

Eigenvalue density of linear stochastic dynamical systems: A random matrix approach

Eigenvalue problems play an important role in the dynamic analysis of engineering systems modeled using the theory of linear structural mechanics. When uncertainties are considered, the eigenvalue problem becomes a random eigenvalue problem. In this paper the density of the eigenvalues of a discretized continuous system with uncertainty is discussed by considering the model where the system matrices are the Wishart random matrices. An analytical expression involving the Stieltjes transform is derived for the density of the eigenvalues when the dimension of the corresponding random matrix becomes asymptotically large. The mean matrices and the dispersion parameters associated with the mass and stiffness matrices are necessary to obtain the density of the eigenvalues in the frameworks of the proposed approach. The applicability of a simple eigenvalue density function, known as the Marenko–Pastur (MP) density, is investigated. The analytical results are demonstrated by numerical examples involving a plate and the tail boom of a helicopter with uncertain properties. The new results are validated using an experiment on a vibrating plate with randomly attached spring–mass oscillators where 100 nominally identical samples are physically created and individually tested within a laboratory framework.     

Natural vibrations and stability of shells of revolution interacting with an internal fluid flow

A finite-element algorithm is proposed to investigate the dynamic behavior of elastic shells of revolution containing a quiescent or a flowing inviscid fluid in the framework of linear theory. The fluid behavior is described using the perturbed velocity potential. The shell behavior is treated in the framework of the classical shell theory and variational principle of virtual displacements incorporating a linearized Bernoulli equation for calculation of hydrodynamic pressure acting on the shell. The problem reduces to evaluation and analysis of the eigenvalues in the connected system of equations obtained by coupling the equations for velocity perturbations with the equations for shell displacements. For cylindrical shells, the results of numerical simulations are compared with recently published experimental, analytical and numerical data. The paper also reports the results of studying the dynamic behavior of shells under various boundary conditions for the perturbed velocity potential. The investigation made for conical shells has shown that under certain conditions an increase in the cone angle can change a divergent type of instability to a flutter type.     

Finite element prediction of wave motion in structural waveguides

A method is presented by which the wavenumbers for a one-dimensional waveguide can be predicted from a finite element (FE) model. The method involves postprocessing a conventional, but low order, FE model, the mass and stiffness matrices of which are typically found using a conventional FE package. This is in contrast to the most popular previous waveguide/FE approach, sometimes termed the spectral finite element approach, which requires new spectral element matrices to be developed. In the approach described here, a section of the waveguide is modeled using conventional FE software and the dynamic stiffness matrix formed. A periodicity condition is applied, the wavenumbers following from the eigensolution of the resulting transfer matrix. The method is described, estimation of wavenumbers, energy, and group velocity discussed, and numerical examples presented. These concern wave propagation in a beam and a simply supported plate strip, for which analytical solutions exist, and the more complex case of a viscoelastic laminate, which involves postprocessing an ANSYS FE model. The method is seen to yield accurate results for the wavenumbers and group velocities of both propagating and evanescent waves.     

Ultrarelativistic electron optics in a weak magnetic field

Within an unprecedented analytical formulation, we find an approximate relationship for the ultrarelativistic velocity of electrons in the presence of a weak, time-independent and uniform magnetic field acting perpendicularly to the trajectory of the electrons. We also determine the corresponding velocity quantum operator whose eigenvalues are also determined as well as their corresponding Landau states. In addition, the corresponding synchrotron radiation losses are calculated.     

The R-function method for the free vibration analysis of thin orthotropic plates of arbitrary shape

Free flexural vibrations of homogeneous, thin, orthotropic plates of an arbitrary shape with mixed boundary conditions are studied using the R-function method. The proposed method is based on the use of the R-function theory and variational methods. In contrast to the widely used methods of the network type (finite differences, finite element, and boundary element methods), in the R-function method all the geometric information given in the boundary value problem statement is represented in an analytical form. This allows one to seek a solution in a form of some formulas called a solution structure. These solution structures contain some indefinite functional components that can be determined by using any variational method. A method of constructing the solution structures satisfying the required mixed boundary conditions for eigenvalue plate bending problems is described. Numerical examples for the vibration analysis of orthotropic plates of complex geometry with mixed boundary conditions for illustrating the aforementioned R-function method and comparison against the other methods are made to demonstrate its merits.     

Acoustooptic method for measuring sound velocity in solids

An acoustooptic interferometric method for measuring sound velocity in solids is described. This method allows one to measure sound velocity in arbitrary materials by using a composite buffer-sample resonant system. Materials which are non-transparent to the laser radiation or such which are acoustooptically inactive are also subject of this investigation.     

Moving pressure running over a plate coupled with a liquid: The analytical stationary response in the one-dimensional case

This paper presents an analytical study of the stationary response of a long plate in contact with a liquid and subjected to a plane pressure front propagating along the plate at a constant velocity. The plate is assumed to be long enough to disregard reflections from the boundaries in the analysis of the stationary response. The velocity of the pressure front, by virtue of its magnitude relative to the characteristic velocities of the system, determines the nature of the response: vibrating, decaying or both. The solution is found by applying the integral Fourier transforms which enable to formulate a synthesis of results, both for subsonic and supersonic cases. The possible occurrence of critical velocities of loading is discussed.     

Use of lagrange multipliers with polynomial series for dynamic analysis of constrained plates part I: Polynomial series

A theory for prediction of the dynamic response of a constrained plate is presented here. The boundaries of the plate may be partially fixed, its dynamic loading is due to elastically mounted vibrating machines and its constraints include beam-like stiffeners. The theory yields the eigenvalues and modal shapes of the plate and stiffeners which comprise the system. The solution, given in Part I, is based on Galerkin's method combined with use of special polynomial series presented by Kantorovich and Krylov. These eigenvalues are used in Part II [1] for response analysis of the complete system and the eigenvalues of the complete system will be obtained by the application of Lagrange equations and multipliers. The various coefficients used in the process are presented in the Appendices to the work. Comparisons with published results show good agreement.     

Optimization of a Frequency Diplexer Based on the Talbot Effect in Oversized Rectangular Waveguides

Calculations of a rectangular waveguide frequency diplexer for high power applications based on the Talbot effect are presented. For the calculation, a method based on analytical approximations, which is valid in highly oversized waveguides, as well as a more accurate mode analysis method are described. The latter allows the integration into an optimization code, which reduces mode conversion losses while maintaining practicable geometrical dimensions.     

Perturbation technique for unsteady MHD mixed convection periodic flow, heat and mass transfer in micropolar fluid with chemical reaction in the presence of thermal radiation

An analytical study is presented for the problem of unsteady hydromagnetic heat and mass transfer for a micropolar fluid bounded by semi-infinite vertical permeable plate in the presence of first-order chemical reaction, thermal radiation and heat absorption. A uniform magnetic field acts perpendicularly to the porous surface which absorbs the micropolar fluid with a time-dependent suction velocity. The basic partial differential equations are reduced to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations which are solved analytically using perturbation technique. Numerical calculations for the analytical expressions are carried out and the results are shown graphically. The effects of the various dimensionless parameters related to the problem on the velocity, angular velocity, temperature and concentration fields are discussed in detail.     

Eigenvalues for the extremely underdamped Brownian motion in an inclined periodic potential

The eigenvalues for the Brownian motion in a periodic potential with an additive constant force are investigated in the low friction limit. First the Fokker-Planck equation for the distribution function in velocity and position space is transformed to energy and position coordinates. By a proper averaging process over the position coordinate a differential equation for the distribution function depending on the energy only is obtained. Next the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are calculated from this equation by a Runge-Kutta method. Finally the problem is formulated in terms of an integral equation from which the lowest non-zero eigenvalue is obtained analytically in the bistability region in the zero temperature limit.     

Fast time-evolution method for dynamical systems

A fast time-evolution method is developed for systems for which the dynamical behavior can be reduced to the eigenvector/eigenvalue problem. The method does not use the eigenvectors/eigenvalues themselves and is based on a polynominal expansion of the formal operator solution in the eigenfrequency domain. It is complementary to the standard time-integration approaches and allows one to calculate or simulate the state of a system at arbitrary times. The time evolution of, e.g., classical harmonic atomic systems and quantum systems described by linear Hamiltonians can be treated by this method.     

Free vibration analysis of corner-supported rectangular plates with symmetrically distributed edge beams

Analytical type solutions are obtained for the free vibration frequencies and mode shapes of thin corner-supported rectangular plates with symmetrically distributed reinforcing beams, or strips, attached to the plate edges. The method of superposition is employed. Equations governing reactions at plate-beam interfaces are developed in dimensionless form. The approach is comprehensive in that both lateral and rotational stiffness, and inertia, of the beam are incorporated into the analysis. For illustrative purposes computed eigenvalues and mode shapes are presented for two plate-beam systems of realistic geometries. It is shown that the method is easily extended to cover the case where the edge beams do not have a symmetrical distribution. This appears to be the first comprehensive analytical study of this problem of industrial interest.     

受与速度平方成正比的力的变频率谐振子

受与速度平方成正比的力的变频率谐振子(THOFQV)可以用一个适当的Lagrangian量来描述，可以求出THOFQV的普遍解.再利用不变量算子求解该系统的Schrdinger方程，得到本征函数和本征值. 关键词： 谐振子 不变量 本征函数 本征值     

On the generation of solitons and breathers in the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation

We consider the evolution of an initial disturbance described by the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation with a positive coefficient of the cubic nonlinear term, so that it can support solitons. Our primary aim is to determine the circumstances which can lead to the formation of solitons and/or breathers. We use the associated scattering problem and determine the discrete spectrum, where real eigenvalues describe solitons and complex eigenvalues describe breathers. For analytical convenience we consider various piecewise-constant initial conditions. We show how complex eigenvalues may be generated by bifurcation from either the real axis, or the imaginary axis; in the former case the bifurcation occurs as the unfolding of a double real eigenvalue. A bifurcation from the real axis describes the transition of a soliton pair with opposite polarities into a breather, while the bifurcation from the imaginary axis describes the generation of a breather from the continuous spectrum. Within the class of initial conditions we consider, a disturbance of one polarity, either positive or negative, will only generate solitons, and the number of solitons depends on the total mass. On the other hand, an initial disturbance with both polarities and very small mass will favor the generation of breathers, and the number of breathers then depends on the total energy. Direct numerical simulations of the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation confirms the analytical results, and show in detail the formation of solitons, breathers, and quasistationary coupled soliton pairs. Being based on spectral theory, our analytical results apply to the entire hierarchy of evolution equations connected with the same eigenvalue problem. (c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.