Nonlinear high-frequency flutter of a plate

In recent studies of the problem of linear stability of a plate in a supersonic gas flow a new (“high-frequency”) type of flutter, which cannot be obtained by means of the piston theory usually employed in these problems, was found to exist together with the classical (“low-frequency”) type. In the present study a new method of calculating the pressure acting on a high-frequency vibrating plate is proposed and, using this method, high-frequency flutter is investigated in the nonlinear formulation and the flutter vibration amplitudes are determined.     

On out-of-plane buckling of anisotropic elastic plate subjected to a simple shear

Out-of-plane buckling of anisotropic elastic plate subjected to a simple shear is investigated. From exact 3-D equilibrium conditions of anisotropic elastic body with a plane of elastic symmetry at critical configuration, the eqution for buckling direction (buckling wave direction) parameter is derived and the shape functions of possible buckling modes are obtained. The traction free boundary conditions which must hold on the upper and lower surfaces of plate lead to a linear eigenvalue problem whose nontrivial solutions are just the possible buckling modes for the plate. The buckling conditions for both flexural and barreling modes are presented. As a particular example of buckling of anisotropic elastic plate, the buckling of an orthotropic elastic plate, which is subjected to simple shear along a direction making an arbitrary angle of θ with respect to an elastic principal axis of materials, is analyzed. The buckling direction varies with θ and the critical amount of shear. The numerical results show that only the flexural mode can indeed exist. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 19772032).     

The existence of buckled states on a perforated thin plate

On the basis of the generalized yon Kàrmàn theory for perforated thin plates established in [1, 2], the existence of buckled states for perforated plates subjected to self-equilibrating inplane forces along each edge systematically is investigated. This work completely generalizes the results in [3, 4].     

基于小波微分求积法的薄板弯曲分析

利用小波微分求积法(WDQM)对任意荷载作用下的薄板弯曲问题进行了求解分析。数值算例表明,小波微分求积法与一般的DQ法相比具有很好的适用性,特别是薄板受集中荷载或不连续分布荷载作用时,由于小波基函数的紧支撑特性与其对突变信号良好的描述能力,WDQ法的精度明显优于一般的DQ法,具有良好的应用前景。     

Application of the differential quadrature method to free vibration of viscoelastic thin plate with linear thickness variation

The differential quadrature method has been applied to investigate vibrations of viscoelastic thin plate with variable thickness. Firstly, the governing equations are derived in terms of the thin-plate theory and the two-dimensional viscoelastic differential constitutive relation. Then, the convergence of the method is demonstrated based on the differential equation of uniform thickness elastic square plate, which is reduced from the differential equation of viscoelastic plate with varying thickness. Lastly, the effects of aspect ratio, thickness ratio and dimensionless delay time on the vibrations of the linear thickness viscoelastic plate with different boundary conditions have been studied.     

Asymmetric vibrations and stability of a rotating annular plate loaded by a torque

The paper investigates transverse vibration of a thin annular plate clamped at its inner edge to a rigid shaft, while its outer edge is clamped to a rigid cylinder. The shaft and the outer edge of the plate are loaded by torques of the same intensity, but of opposite directions. The whole structure rotates at a constant angular speed. The solution has been determined using Galerkin’s method. The obtained results illustrate the impact of the torque, angular speed and inner and outer radia ratio to transverse asymmetric vibration frequency of the plate. Stability of the plate has been examined and critical values of angular speed and torque leading to the loss of stability of the plate have been determined. Some mode shapes have been drawn and the influence of torque and angular speed on nodal lines has been shown.     

Mixed finite element and differential quadrature method for free and forced vibration and buckling analysis of rectangular plates

This paper presents a combined application of the finite element method (FEM) and the differential quadrature method (DQM) to vibration and buckling problems of rectangular plates. The proposed scheme combines the geometry flexibility of the FEM and the high accuracy and efficiency of the DQM. The accuracy of the present method is demonstrated by comparing the obtained results with those available in the literature. It is shown that highly accurate results can be obtained by using a small number of finite elements and DQM sample points. The proposed method is suitable for the problems considered due to its simplicity and potential for further development.     

A meshless method of a thin plate

A meshless approach to analysis of arbitrary Kirchhoff plates by the local boundary integral equation(LBIE) method is presented. The method combines the advantageous features of, all the three methods: the Galerkin finite element method (GFEM), the boundary element method (BEM) and the element-free Galerkin method (EFGM). It is a truly meshless method, which means that the discretization is independent of geometric subdivision into elements or cells, but is only based on a set of nodes (ordered or scattered) over a domain in question. It involves only boundary integration, however, over a local boundary centered at the node in question; It poses no difficulties in satisfying the essential boundary conditions while leading to banded and sparse system matrices using the moving least square (MLS) approximations. It is shown that high accuracy can be achieved for arbitrary geometries for clamped and simply-supported edge conditions. The method is found to be simple, efficient, and attractive. Project supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 19972019).     

Solution to transient Navier–Stokes equations by the coupling of differential quadrature time integration scheme with dual reciprocity boundary element method

The two‐dimensional time‐dependent Navier–Stokes equations in terms of the vorticity and the stream function are solved numerically by using the coupling of the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM) in space with the differential quadrature method (DQM) in time. In DRBEM application, the convective and the time derivative terms in the vorticity transport equation are considered as the nonhomogeneity in the equation and are approximated by radial basis functions. The solution to the Poisson equation, which links stream function and vorticity with an initial vorticity guess, produces velocity components in turn for the solution to vorticity transport equation. The DRBEM formulation of the vorticity transport equation results in an initial value problem represented by a system of first‐order ordinary differential equations in time. When the DQM discretizes this system in time direction, we obtain a system of linear algebraic equations, which gives the solution vector for vorticity at any required time level. The procedure outlined here is also applied to solve the problem of two‐dimensional natural convection in a cavity by utilizing an iteration among the stream function, the vorticity transport and the energy equations as well. The test problems include two‐dimensional flow in a cavity when a force is present, the lid‐driven cavity and the natural convection in a square cavity. The numerical results are visualized in terms of stream function, vorticity and temperature contours for several values of Reynolds (Re) and Rayleigh (Ra) numbers. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stress state of flexible plates with a hole that are subject to bending

This paper proposes and mathematically proves a method to regularize singular iterations used to solve geometrically nonlinear problems of bending of thin plates with a hole. It is established that the new approximations for deflections and stress functions satisfy the boundary conditions exactly and Karman’s equations asymptotically exactly. The regularization method and the approximations for solutions are based on new methods of summing functional series and sequences __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 100–116, January 2007.     

Static flexural analysis of elliptic Reissner–Mindlin plates on a Pasternak foundation by the triangular differential quadrature method

In this paper, static flexural analysis of elliptic Reissner–Mindlin plates resting on a Pasternak foundation is conducted using the triangular differential quadrature method (TDQM). A triangular serendipity transformation is proposed to map a curvilinear domain onto a unit isosceles right triangle. The applicability of the TDQM to problems on domains with curvilinear boundaries is improved significantly since no inner points are needed in the transformation. In the case of thin circular plates, the results of the present method are in excellent agreement with those of the available exact solution, demonstrating the effectiveness of the present method. Elliptic plates with various aspect ratios and thickness-to-width ratios under uniformly distributed load are studied.     

Solving the elastic bending problem for a plate with mixed boundary conditions

The bending problem for an arbitrarily outlined thin plane with mixed boundary conditions is solved. A technique based on the methods of potentials and balancing loads is proposed for constructing Green’s function for the Germain-Lagrange equation. This technique ensures high accuracy of approximate solutions, which is checked against Levi’s solution for rectangular plates __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 104–112, May 2006.     

Elastic–plastic contact force history and response characteristics of circular plate subjected to impact by a projectile

A new elastic–plastic impact–contact model is proposed in this paper. By adopting the principle of minimum acceleration for elastic–plastic continue at finite deformation, and with the aid of finite difference method, the proposed model is applied in the problem of dynamic response of a clamped thin circular plate subjected to a projectile impact centrally. The impact force history and response characteristics of the target plate is studied in detail. The theoretical predictions of the impact force and plate deflection are in good agreements with those of LDA experimental data. Linear expressions of the maximum impact force/transverse deflection versus impact velocity are given on the basis of the theoretical results. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10532020).     

Large deflection problem of a clamped elliptical plate subjected to uniform pressure

In this paper, the perturbation solution of large deflection problem of clamped elliptical plate subjected to uniform pressure is given on the basis of the perturbation solution of large deflection problem of similar clamped circular plate (1948), (1954). The analytical solution of this problem was obtained in 1957. However, due to social difficulties, these results have never been published. Nash and Cooley (1959) published a brief note of similar nature, in which only the case λ=a/b=2 is given. In this paper, the analytical solution is given in detail up to the 2nd approximation. The numerical solutions are given for various Poisson ratios v=0.25, 0.30, 0.35 and for various eccentricities λ=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, which can be used in the calculation of engineering designs.     

亚音速气流作用下薄板结构混沌运动的时滞反馈控制

研究了亚音速气流下非线性二维薄板结构在横向周期载荷作用下的混沌运动及控制问题.基于von Karman板理论和分离变量法,建立了亚音速下薄板结构的运动控制方程.对于未控系统,采用Melnikov方法判断其混沌运动阈值,并用Runge-Kutta法进行数值验证.对处于混沌运动状态的系统,采用时滞反馈控制方法对混沌运动进行控制.结果表明,Melnikov方法可以有效地预测系统的混沌运动行为,时滞反馈控制方法可以有效地将系统的混沌运动转化为周期运动.     

Flexural vibrations and vibrational heating of a ring plate with thin piezoceramic pads under single-frequency electromechanical loading

The paper deals with the coupled problem of flexural vibrations and dissipative heating of a viscoelastic ring plate with piezoceramic actuators under monoharmonic electromechanical loading. The temperature dependence of the complex characteristics of passive and piezoactive materials is taken into account. The coupled nonlinear problem of thermoviscoelasticity is solved by an iterative method. At each iteration, orthogonal discretization is used to integrate the equations of elasticity and an explicit finite-difference scheme is used to solve the heat-conduction equation with a nonlinear heat source. The effect of the dissipative heating temperature, boundary conditions, and the thickness and area of the actuator on the active damping of the forced vibrations of the plate under uniform transverse harmonic pressure is examined __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 99–108, February 2008.     

Reflection and transmission of regular water waves by a thin,floating plate

Measurements of the wave fields reflected and transmitted by a thin floating plastic plate are reported for regular incident waves over a range of incident periods (producing wavelengths comparable to the plate length) and steepnesses (ranging from mild to storm-like). Two different plastics are tested, with different densities and mechanical properties, and three different configurations are tested. The configurations include freely floating plates, loosely moored plates (to restrict drift), and plates with edge barriers (to restrict waves overwashing the plates). The wave fields reflected and transmitted by plates without barriers are shown to become irregular, as the incident waves become steeper, particularly for the denser plastic and the moored plate. Further, the proportion of energy transmitted by the plates without barriers is shown to decrease as the incident wave becomes steeper, and this is related to wave energy dissipation.     

Scattering of water waves by inclined thin plate submerged in finite-depth water

Summary  The problem of water wave scattering by an inclined thin plate submerged in water of uniform finite depth is investigated here under the assumption of irrotational motion and linear theory. A hypersingular integral equation formulation of the problem is obtained by an appropriate use of Green's integral theorem followed by utilization of the boundary condition on the plate. This hypersingular integral equation involves the discontinuity in the potential function across the plate, which is approximated by a finite series involving Chebyshev polynomials. The coefficients of this finite series are obtained numerically by collocation method. The quantities of physical interest, namely the reflection and transmission coefficients, force and moment acting on the plate per unit width, are then obtained numerically for different values of various parameters, and are depicted graphically against the wavenumber. Effects of finite-depth water, angle of inclination of the plate with the vertical over the deep water and vertical plate results for these quantities are shown. It is observed that the deep-water results effectively hold good if the depth of the mid-point of the submerged plate below the free surface is of the order of one-tenth of the depth of the bottom. Received 30 November 2000; accepted for publication 26 June 2001     

Nonlinear analysis of a thin circular functionally graded plate and large deflection effects on the forces and moments

The dynamic von Karman equations are used for nonlinear analysis of a thin circular plate made of a functionally graded material. The thickness of the plate is constant and the properties of the functionally graded material depend on temperature and vary throughout the thickness. It is assumed that the plate oscillates with large amplitudes. The forces and moments in the plate are determined in solving the equations for harmonic vibrations. Relevant results are obtained in the case of stead-state free vibrations. These results indicate that the volume fraction has a strong effect on the forces, moments, and material properties Published in Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 134–144, June 2008. An erratum to this article can be found at