Une justification du modèle de coques de Naghdi

We consider a thin linearly elastic loaded shell allowing non-zero inextensional displacements. Under some assumptions on the loads, we prove that the tangential and normal parts of the stress tensor are small compared with the transverse pan, when the thickness of the shell goes to zero. Besides, the displacement vector and the transverse pan of the stress tensor are of the same order of magnitude with respect to the thickness when the material constituting the shell is Isotropic and homogeneous. The limit model, which is a flexural model, can also be obtained from Naghdi's model but not from Koiter's model. In some cases of anisotropic materials, the displacement vector is of a larger order of magnitude than the stress tensor, when the thickness goes to zero.     

Justification asymptotique des hypothèses de Kirchhoff-Love pour une coque encastrée linéairement élastique

The displacement vector of a linearly elastic shell can be computed by using the twodimensional Koiter's model, based on the a priori Kirchhoff-Love assumptions. These hypotheses imply that the displacement of any point of the shell is an affine function of the transverse variable x₃. The term independent of x₃ of this approximation is equal to the displacement vector of the two-dimensional Koiter's model. The term linear in x₃ depends on the rotation vector of the normal. After an appropriate scaling, we here estimate the difference between the three-dimensional displacement and the affine function in the case of shells clamped along their entire lateral face. Besides, in the case of shells with uniformly elliptic middle surface, taking into account the term depending of the rotation of the normal, allows to improve the asymptotic estimate between the three-dimensionnal displacement and Koiter's bidimensional displacement.     

The coupling system of Navier–Stokes equations and elastic Navier–Lame equations in a blood vessel

In this paper, the blood flow problem is considered in a blood vessel, and a coupling system of Navier–Stokes equations and linear elastic equations, Navier–Lame equations, in a cylinder with cylindrical elastic shell is given as the governing equations of the problem. We provide two finite element models to simulating the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations in the cylinder while the asymptotic expansion method is used to solving the linearly elastic shell equations. Specifically, in order to discrete the Navier–Stokes equations, the dimensional splitting strategy is constructed under the cylinder coordinate system. The spectral method is adopted along the rotation direction while the finite element method is used along the other directions. By using the above strategy, we get a series of two-dimensional-three-components (2D-3C) fluid problems. By introduce the S-coordinate system in E³ and employ the thickness of blood vessel wall as the expanding parameter, the asymptotic expansion method can be established to approximate the solution of the 3D elastic problem. The interface contact conditions can be treated exactly based on the knowledge of tensor analysis. Finally, numerical test shows that our method is reasonable.     

Modélisation des coques non linéairement élastiques faiblement courbée en coordonnées curvilignes

The method of asymptotic expansions with the thickness as the small parameter is applied to the general three-dimensional equations for the equilibrium of a nonlinearly elastic shell. The problem is written in a weak form in curvilinear coordinates with the displacement as unknown. We show that the leading term of the asymptotic expansion can be identified with the solution of two-dimensional nonlinear shallow shell equations in curvilinear coordinates. In addition, we give an existence theorem and a regularity result for the two-dimensional nonlinear problem.     

Asymptotic analysis for a dynamic piezoelectric shallow shell

The paper deals with the asymptotic formulation and justification of a mechanical model for a dynamic piezoelastic shallow shell in Cartesian coordinates. Starting from the three‐dimensional dynamic piezoelastic problem and by an asymptotic approach, the authors study the convergence of the displacement field and of the electric potential as the thickness of the shell goes to zero. In order to obtain a nontrivial limit problem by asymptotic analysis, we need different scalings on the mass density. The authors show that the transverse mechanical displacement field coupled with the in‐plane components solves an problem with new piezoelectric characteristics and also investigate the very popular case of cubic crystals and show that, for two‐dimensional shallow shells, the coupling piezoelectric effect disappears. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

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.     

Intrinsic formulation of the displacement-traction problem in linear shell theory

We recast the Dirichlet boundary conditions satisfied by the displacement field of the middle surface of a linearly elastic shell as boundary conditions satisfied by the corresponding linearized change of metric and of curvature tensor fields. This in turn allows us to give an intrinsic formulation of the linear shell model of W.T. Koiter with these two tensor fields as the sole unknowns.     

只含两个独立变量的扁壳大挠度问题修正的海林格—赖斯内变分泛函

本文首先用海林格-赖斯内变分原理建立任意形状扁壳大挠度问题的泛函，然后用修正的变分原理导出适合于有限单元法的变分泛函表达式．泛函中只包含应力函数F和挠度W两个独立交量．其中也导出了在边界上用上述两个变量表示的中面位移的表达式．推导中考虑了边界的曲率，所以适用于任意形状的边界．     

Iterative methods for solving a poroelastic shell model of Naghdi's type

In this paper, we first formulate a linear quasi‐static poroelastic shell model of Naghdi's type. The model is given in three unknowns: displacement of the middle surface, infinitesimal rotation of the cross section of the shell, and the pressure π. The model has the structure of the quasi‐static Biot's system and can be seen as a system of the shell equation with pressure term as forcing and the parabolic type equation for the pressure with divergence of the filtration velocity as forcing term. On the basis of the ideas of the operator splitting methods, we formulate two sequences of approximate solutions, corresponding to ‘undrained split’ and ‘fixed stress split’ methods. We show that these sequences converge to the solution of the poroelastic shell model. Therefore, the iterations constitute two numerical methods for the model. Moreover, both methods are optimized in a certain sense producing schemes with smallest contraction coefficient and thus faster convergence rates. Also, these convergences imply existence of solutions for the model. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On equations of the state of stress in a plate of variable thickness

Method of asymptotic integration of three-dimensional equations of the theory of elasticity is used to construct the internal state of stress in a plate of variable thickness /1/. It is shown that it can generally be described by a system of differential equations of eighth order in the components of the displacement vector of the points of a plane projected inside the plate, with the equations of flexure and of plane state of stress not separated. In a particular case when the face surfaces are symmetrical with respect to this plane, the flexure and the plane state of stress are described by separate equations. The accuracy of the equations obtained is of the order of square of relative thickness of the plate away from the edge and other distortion lines of the stress state.

The boundary layer is not considered and conditions at the plate edge are not formulated.     

厚壳理论及其在圆柱壳中的应用

本文从Hellinger-Reissner广义变分原理出发,以位移和应力的假设为基础,建立了厚壳理论.文中把壳体的位移展开为其厚度方向的幂级数,对平行和垂直于中面的位移分别保留其级数的前四项和前三项.并假定壳体的法向挤压和横向剪切应力沿壳厚为三次曲线,使其满足上下壳面上的应力条件,利用变分原理推导出分析厚壳所需的物理方程,平衡方程和边界条件.文中对圆柱壳的情况作了实例计算,并作了光弹性实验,结果表明理论和实验符合良好.     

Un théorème d'existence pour une coque non linéairement élastique ≪ en flexion ≫

We establish an existence theorem for the two-dimensional equations of a nonlinearly elastic “flexural” shell, recently justified by V. Lods and B. Miara by the method of formal asymptotic expansions applied to the corresponding three-dimensional equations of nonlinear elasticity. To this end, we show that the associated energy has at least one minimizer over the corresponding set of admissible deformations. The strain energy is a quadratic expression in terms of the “exact” change of curvature tensor, between the deformed and undeformed middle surfaces; the set of admissible deformations is formed by the deformations of the undeformed middle surface that preserve its metric and satisfy boundary conditions of clamping or simple support.     

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.     

Application of nonclassical models of shell theory to study mechanical parameters of multilayer nanotubes

Stress-strain state of multilayer anisotropic cylindrical shells under a local pressure is studied. Such a problem may model the bending of an asbestos nanotube under the action of a research probe. In earlier works, these authors showed that the application of classical shell theories yields results far from experimental data. More accurate results are obtained by taking into account additional factors, such as the change of the transverse displacement magnitude (according to the Timoshenko-Reissner theory) or the layered structure of asbestos and cylindrical anisotropy (according to the Rodinova-Titaev-Chernykh theory). In the present paper, yet another shell theory, the Palii-Spiro theory, is applied to solve the problem; this theory was developed for shall of average thickness and is based on the following assumptions: (a) the rectilinear fibers of the shell perpendicular to its middle surface before deformation remain rectilinear after deformation; (b) the cosine of the angle between the shell of such fibers and the middle surface of the deformed shell equals the averaged angle of the transverse displacement. Deformation field are studied with the use of nonclassical (the Rodinova-Titaev-Chernykh and Palii-Spiro) shell theories; a comparison with results obtained for three-dimensional models with the use of the Ansys 11 package is performed.     

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.     

Nonlinear dynamic response for functionally graded shallow spherical shell under low velocity impact in thermal environment

Based on Giannakopoulos’s 2-D functionally graded material (FGM) contact model, a modified contact model is put forward to deal with impact problem of the functionally graded shallow spherical shell in thermal environment. The FGM shallow spherical shell, having temperature dependent material property, is subjected to a temperature field uniform over the shell surface but varying along the thickness direction due to steady-state heat conduction. The displacement field and geometrical relations of the FGM shallow spherical shell are established on the basis of Timoshenko–Midlin theory. And the nonlinear motion equations of the FGM shallow spherical shell under low velocity impact in thermal environment are founded in terms of displacement variable functions. Using the orthogonal collocation point method and the Newmark method to discretize the unknown variable functions in space and in time domain, the whole problem is solved by the iterative method. In numerical examples, the contact force and nonlinear dynamic response of the FGM shallow spherical shell under low velocity impact are investigated and effects of temperature field, material and geometrical parameters on contact force and dynamic response of the FGM shallow spherical shell are discussed.     

Application of the method of partitioning the state of stress to the analysis of thermoelastic shells : PMM vol. 40, n 6, 1976, pp. 1085–1092

By using an asymptotic approach [1], the method of partitioning the state of stress is extended to thermoelastic shells. It is examined in detail in [2] forun-heated shells subjected to the effect of external forces, and consists of representing the total state of stress of the shell as the sum of those simpler states of stress for each of which the simplest methods for their construction can be given.Partitioning of the state of stress was performed in [3] for shells with a constant temperature over the thickness. It was noted in [4] in an analysis of a circular cylindrical shell by bending theory that integrals extended over the whole middle surface, which describe the fundamental state of stress, and integrals which damp out with distance from the edges and represent edge effects are contained in the general solution. In a number of papers, [5] for example, partitioning is performed on the basis of graphic physical representations for simple examples of analyzing circular cylindrical shells.A general approach to the analysis of rigid thermoelastic shells by the partitioning method is described below.     

一种有效的分析弹塑性问题的边界元法

本文提出了一组有效的边界元公式.该公式通过利用一个新的变量,使核函数仅具有lnr(r为源点和场点的距离)的较低阶奇异性,从而,在积分点的传统位移和应力公式的奇异性得到降低,且原公式中影响应力计算精度的边界层效应得到消除.同时,也避免了难于计算的参数C.将该方法应用到弹塑性分析中,数值分析结果表明该公式具有明显的优势.     

Complete elastic–plastic stress asymptotic solutions near general plane V-notch tips

An efficient method is developed to determine the multiple term eigen-solutions of the elastic–plastic stress fields at the plane V-notch tip in power-law hardening materials. By introducing the asymptotic expansions of stress and displacement fields around the V-notch tip into the fundamental equations of elastic–plastic theory, the governing ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with the stress and displacement eigen-functions are established. Then the interpolating matrix method is employed to solve the resulting nonlinear and linear ODEs. Consequently, the first four and even more terms of the stress exponents and the associated eigen-solutions are obtained. The present method has the advantages of greater versatility and high accuracy, which is capable of dealing with the V-notches with arbitrary opening angle under plane strain and plane stress. In the present analysis, both the elastic and the plastic deformations are considered, thus the complete elastic and plastic stress asymptotic solutions are evaluated. Numerical examples are shown to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the present method.