ON EXACT SOLUTION OF KRMN’S EQUATIONS OF RIGID CLAMPED CIRCULAR PLATE AND SHALLOW SPHERICAL SHELL UNDER A CONCENTRATED LOAD

It is extremely difficult to obtain an exact solution of von Kármán’s equationsbecause the equations are nonlinear and coupled.So far many approximate methods havebeen used to solve the large deflection problems except that only a few exact solutions havebeen investigated but no strict proof on convergence is presented yet.In this paper,first ofall,we reduce the von Kármán’s equations to equivalent integral equations which arenonlinear,coupled and singular.Secondly the sequences of continuous function withgeneral form are constructed using iterative technique.Based on the sequences to beuniformly convergent,we obtain analytical formula of exact solutions to von Kármán’sequations related to large deflection problems of circular plate and shallow spherical shellwith clamped boundary subjected to a concentrated load at the centre.     

The Schrödinger equation in theory of plates and shells with orthorhombic anisotropy

This work is the continuation of the discussion of Refs. [1-5]. In this paper:[A] The Love-Kirchhoff equations of vibration problem with small deflection for orthorhombic misotropic thin shells or orthorhombic anisotropic thin plates on Winkler’s base are classified as several of the same solutions of Schrodmger equation, and we can obtain the general solutions for the two above-mentioned problems by the method in Refs. [1] and [3-5].[B] The. von Karman-Vlasov equations of large deflection problem for shallow shells with orthorhombic anisotropy (their special cases are the von Harmon equations of large deflection problem for thin plates with orthorhombic anisotropy) are classified as the solutions of AKNS equation or Dirac equation, and we can obtain the exact solutions for the two abovementioned problems by the inverse scattering method in Refs. [4-5].The general solution of small deflection problem or the exact solution of large deflection problem for the corrugated or rib-reinforced plates and shells as special cases is included in this paper.     

A WAVELET METHOD FOR BENDING OF CIRCULAR PLATE WITH LARGE DEFLECTION

A wavelet method for solving strongly nonlinear boundary value problems is described, which has been demonstrated early to have a convergence rate of order 4, almost independent of the nonlinear intensity of the equations. By using such a method, we study the bending problem of a circular plate with arbitrary large deflection. As the deflection increases,the bending behavior usually exhibits a so-called plate-to-membrane transition. Capturing such a transition has ever frustrated researchers for decades. However, without introducing any additional treatment, we show in this study that the proposed wavelet solutions can naturally cover the plate-membrane transition region as the plate deflection increases. In addition, the high accuracy and efficiency of the wavelet method in solving strongly nonlinear problems is numerically confirmed, and applicable scopes for the linear, the membrane and the von Karman plate theories are identified with respect to the large deformation bending of circular plates.     

THE SCHR(?)DINGER EQUATION IN THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS WITH ORTHORHOMBIC ANISOTROPY

This work is the continuation of the discussion of Refs.[1-5].In this paper:[A] The Love-Kirchhoff equations of vibration problem with small deflection fororthorhombic anisotropic thin shells or orthorhombic anisotropic thin plates on Winkler’sbase are classified as several of the same solutions of Schr?dinger equation.and we canobtain the general solutions for the two above-mentioned problems by the method in Refs.[1]and[3-5].[B]The von Kármán-Vlasov equations of large deflection problem for shallow shellswith orthorhombic anisotropy(their special cases are the von Kármán equations of largedeflection problem for thin plates with orthorhombic anisotropy)are classified as thesolutions of AKNS equation or Dirac equation,and we can obtain the exact solutions forthe two abovementioned problems by the inverse scattering method in Refs.[4-5].The general solution of small deflection problem or the exact solution of largedeflection problem for the corrugated or rib-reinforced plates and shells as special c     

POSTBUCKLING OF RECTANGULAR PLATES UNDER UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION COMBINED WITH LATERAL PRESSURE

Based on the nonlinear large deflection equations of von Karman plates,thee ateralpressure is first converted into an initial deflection by Galerkin method,the postbucklingbehavior of simply supported rectangular plates under uniaxial compression combined withlateral pressure is then studied applying perturbation method by taking deflection asperturbation parameter.Two types of in-plane boundary conditions and the effects of initial geometricimperfection are also considered.It is found that the theoretical results are in goodaccordance with experiments.     

NONLINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A LAMINATED HYBRID COMPOSITE PLATE SUBJECTED TO TIME-DEPENDENT EXTERNAL PULSES

Nonlinear dynamic responses of a laminated hybrid composite plate subjected to time-dependent pulses are investigated. Dynamic equations of the plate are derived by the use of the virtual work principle. The geometric nonlinearity effects are taken into account with the von Kármán large deflection theory of thin plates. Approximate solutions for a clamped plate are assumed for the space domain. The single term approximation functions are selected by considering the nonlinear static deformation of plate obtained using the finite element method. The Galerkin Method is used to obtain the nonlinear differential equations in the time domain and a MATLAB software code is written to solve nonlinear coupled equations by using the Newmark Method. The results of approximate-numerical analysis are obtained and compared with the finite element results. Transient loading conditions considered include blast, sine, rectangular, and triangular pulses. A parametric study is conducted considering the effects of peak pressure, aspect ratio, fiber orientation and thicknesses.     

A perturbation-variational solution of the large deflection of rectangular plates under uniform load

In this paper, von Karman’s set of nonlinear equation for large deflection of rectangular plates is at first converted into several sets of linear equations by taking central dimensionless deflection as perturbation parameter, and then, the sets of linear equations for plates with various ratio λ of length to width are solved with application of variational method. The analytical expressions for displacements and stresses as well as formulas for numerical calculation are worked out. The figures of maximum deflection-load end maximum stress with ratio H of length to width as a parameter are given in this paper. Through comparison, it is found that the results of this paper are quite in accord with experiments.     

THE PERTURBATION-ITERATIVE METHOD APPLIED TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE LARGE DEFLECTION OF THE ELASTIC CIRCULAR THIN PLATES

In this paper, we present a perturbation-iterative method for solving certain boundary value problems encountered in the nonlinear theory of elastic circular thin plates. At the same time, with this method, we strictly prove the convergence of the solutions for the large deflection equations of circular plates subjected to certain distributed loads.     

Nonlinear three-dimension analysis for axially symmetrical circular plates and multilayered plates

Analytic nonlinear three-dimension solutions are presented for axially symmetrical homogeneous isotropic circular plates and multilayered plates with rigidly clamped boundary conditions and under transverse load.The geometric nonlinearily from a moderately large deflection is considered.A developmental perturbation method is used to solve the complicated nonlinear three-dimension differential equations of equilibrium.The basic idea of this perturbation method is using the two-dimension solutions as a basic form of the corresponding three-dimension solutions,and then processing the perturbation procedure to obtain the three-dimension perturbation solutions.The nonlinear three-dimension results in analytic expressions and in numerical forms for ordinary plates and multilayered plates are presented.All of the plate stresses are shown in figures.The results show that this perturbation method used to analyse nonlinear three-dimension problems of plates is effective.     

Flow of micropolar fluid between two orthogonally moving porous disks

The unsteady,laminar,incompressible,and two-dimensional flow of a micropolar fluid between two orthogonally moving porous coaxial disks is considered.The extension of von Karman’s similarity transformations is used to reduce the governing partial differential equations(PDEs) to a set of non-linear coupled ordinary differential equations(ODEs) in the dimensionless form.The analytical solutions are obtained by employing the homotopy analysis method(HAM).The effects of various physical parameters such as the expansion ratio and the permeability Reynolds number on the velocity fields are discussed in detail.     

Nonlinear flutter of a two-dimension thin plate subjected to aerodynamic heating by differential quadrature method

The problem of nonlinear aerothermoelasticity of a two-dimension thin plate in supersonic airflow is examined. The strain-displacement relation of the von Karman＇s large deflection theory is employed to describe the geometric non-linearity and the aerodynamic piston theory is employed to account for the effects of the aerodynamic force. A new method, the differential quadrature method （DQM）, is used to obtain the discrete form of the motion equations. Then the Runge-Kutta numerical method is applied to solve the nonlinear equations and the nonlinear response of the plate is obtained numerically. The results indicate that due to the aerodynamic heating, the plate stability is degenerated, and in a specific region of system parameters the chaos motion occurs, and the route to chaos motion is via doubling-period bifurcations.     

Thermoelastically coupled axisymmetric nonlinear vibration of shallow spherical and conical shells

The problem of axisymmetric nonlinear vibration for shallow thin spherical and conical shells when temperature and strain fields are coupled is studied. Based on the large deflection theories of yon Ktirrntin and the theory of thermoelusticity, the whole governing equations and their simplified type are derived. The time-spatial variables are separated by Galerkin ‘ s technique, thus reducing the governing equations to a system of time-dependent nonlinear ordinary differential equation. By means of regular perturbation method and multiple-scales method, the first-order approximate analytical solution for characteristic relation of frequency vs amplitude parameters along with the decay rate of amplitude are obtained, and the effects of different geometric parameters and coupling factors us well us boundary conditions on thermoelustically coupled nonlinear vibration behaviors are discussed.     

The solution of rectangular plates with large deflection by spline functions

In this paper, Von Karman ’s set of nonlinear equations for rectangular plates with large deflection is divided into several sets of linear equations by perturbation method, the dimensionless center deflection being taken as a perturbation parameter. These sets of linear equations are solved by the spline finite-point (SFP) method and by the spline finite element (SFE) method. The solutions for rectangular plates having any length-to-width ratios under a uniformly distributed load and with various boundary conditions are presented, and the analytical formulas for displacements and deflections are given in the paper. The computer programs are worked out by ourselves. Comparison of the results with those in other papers indicates that the results of this paper are satisfactorily better.     

A PERTURBATION-VARIATIONAL SOLUTION OF THE LARGE DEFLECTION OF RECTANGULAR PLATES UNDER UNIFORM LOAD

In this paper,von Kármàn’s set of nonlinear equation for large deflection ofrectangular plates is at first converted into several sets of linear equations by taking centraldimensionless deflection as perturbation parameter,and then,the sets of linear equationsfor plates with various ratios of length to width are solved with application of variationalmethod.The analytical expressions for displacements and stresses as well as formulas fornumerical calculation are worked out.The figures of maximum deflection-load andmaximum stress with ratio λ of length to width as a parameter are given in this paper.Through comparison,it is found that the results of this paper are quite in accord withexperiments.     

THE SCHRDINGER EQUATION OF THIN SHELL THEORIES

This work is the continuation of the discussions of[50]and[51].In this paper:(A)The Love-Kirchhoff equation of small deflection problem for elastic thin shellwith constant curvature are classified as the same several solutions of Schr(?)dingerequation,and we show clearly that its form in axisymmetric problem;(B)For example for the small deflection problem,we extract the general solution ofthe vibration problem of thin spherical shell with equal thickness by the force in centralsurface and axisymmetric external field,that this is distinct from ref.[50]in variable.Today the variable is a space-place,and is not time;(C)The von Kármán-Vlasov equation of large deflection problem for shallow shellare classified as the solutions of AKNS equations and in it the one-dimensional problem isclassified as the solution of simple Schr(?)dinger equation for eigenvalues problem,and wetransform the large deflection of shallow shell from nonlinear problem into soluble linearproblem.     

Nonlinear study of the dynamic behavior of a string-beam coupled system under combined excitations

In this paper,the nonlinear dynamic behavior of a string-beam coupled system subjected to external,parametric and tuned excitations is presented.The governing equations of motion are obtained for the nonlinear transverse vibrations of the string-beam coupled system which are described by a set of ordinary differential equations with two degrees of freedom.The case of 1:1 internal resonance between the modes of the beam and string,and the primary and combined resonance for the beam is considered.The method of multiple scales is utilized to analyze the nonlinear responses of the string-beam coupled system and obtain approximate solutions up to and including the second-order approximations.All resonance cases are extracted and investigated.Stability of the system is studied using frequency response equations and the phase-plane method.Numerical solutions are carried out and the results are presented graphically and discussed.The effects of the different parameters on both response and stability of the system are investigated.The reported results are compared to the available published work.     

FURTHER STUDY OF THE RELATION OF VON KF8B6RMN EQUATION FOR ELASTIC LARGE DEFLECTION PROBLEM AND SCHRDINGER EQUATION FOR QUANTUM EIGENVALUES PROBLEM

This work is the continuation and improvement of the discussion of Ref.[1]. We alsoimprove the discussion of Refs.[2-3] on the elastic large deflection problem by results ofthis paper.We again simplify the von Kármán equation for elastic large deflection problem,and finally turn it into the nonlinear Schr(?)dinger equation in this paper.Secondly,weexpand the AKNS equation to still more symmetrical degree under many dimensionalconditions in this paper.Owing to connection between the nonlinear Schr(?)dinger equationand the integrability condition for the AKNS equation or the Dirac equation,we can obtainthe exact solution for elastic large deflection problem by inverse scattering method.In otherwords,the elastic large deflection problem wholly becomes a quantum eigenvalues problem.The large deflection problem with orthorhombic anisotropy is also deduced in thispaper.     

THE RELATION OF VON KRMN EQUATION FOR ELASTIC LARGE DEFLECTION PROBLEM AND SCHRDINGER EQUATION FOR QUANTUM EIGENALUES PROBLEM

In this paper the solutions of von Karman for elastic large deflection problem areclassified as the several solutions of Schr(?)dinger equation for quantum eigenvaluesproblem,and we present the transfrom for elastic large deflection problem from non-linearequation into linear equation.Thus,we create favourable conditions of the adoption ofconverse scattering methnd and B(?)cklund transformation.We also discuss the largedeflection problem of long and narrow plate.We can study the non-linear transition of elastic thin plate by furnished method fromthis paper.     

METHOD OF GREEN＇S FUNCTION OF CORRUGATED SHELLS

By using the fundamental equations of axisymmetric shallow shells of revolution, the nonlinear bending of a shallow corrugated shell with taper under arbitrary load has been investigated. The nonlinear boundary value problem of the corrugated shell was reduced to the nonlinear integral equations by using the method of Green＇s function. To solve the integral equations, expansion method was used to obtain Green＇s function. Then the integral equations were reduced to the form with degenerate core by expanding Green＇s function as series of characteristic function. Therefore, the integral equations become nonlinear algebraic equations. Newton＇ s iterative method was utilized to solve the nonlinear algebraic equations. To guarantee the convergence of the iterative method, deflection at center was taken as control parameter. Corresponding loads were obtained by increasing deflection one by one. As a numerical example,elastic characteristic of shallow corrugated shells with spherical taper was studied.Calculation results show that characteristic of corrugated shells changes remarkably. The snapping instability which is analogous to shallow spherical shells occurs with increasing load if the taper is relatively large. The solution is close to the experimental results.     

THE APPLICATION OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD TO SOLVING BIOT’S CONSOLIDATION EQUATION

Biot’s theory of consolidation of saturated soil regards the con-solidation process as a coupling problem between stress of elas-tic body and flow of fluid existing in pores.It can moreprecisely reflect the mechanism of consolidation than Terzhi-gi’s theory.In this article,we obtain the general Biot’sfinite element equations of consolidation with classical varia-tional principles.The equations have clear physical meaningand have been applied to analysing the consolidation of Bajia-zui earth dam.The computational results are in accord withengineering practice.