Dynamic stability of rotating cylindrical shells subjected to periodic axial loads

In this paper, the dynamic stability of rotating cylindrical shells under static and periodic axial forces is investigated using a combination of the Ritz method and Bolotin’s first approximation. The kernel particle estimate is employed in hybridized form with harmonic functions, to approximate the 2-D transverse displacement field. A system of Mathieu–Hill equations is obtained through the application of the Ritz energy minimization procedure. The principal instability regions are then obtained via Bolotin’s first approximation. In this formulation, both the hoop tension and Coriolis effects due to the rotation are accounted for. Various boundary conditions are considered, and the present results represent the first instance in which, the effects of boundary conditions for this class of problems, have been reported in open literature. Effects of rotational speeds on the instability regions for different modes are also examined in detail.     

Nonlinear dynamic modeling and periodic vibration of a cantilever beam subjected to axial movement of basement

Dynamic modeling of a cantilever beam under an axial movement of its basement is presented. The dynamic equation of motion for the cantilever beam is established by using Kane's equation first and then simplified through the Rayleigh-Ritz method. Compared with the older modeling method, which linearizes the generalized inertia forces and the generalized active forces, the present modeling takes the coupled cubic nonlinearities of geometrical and inertial types into consideration. The method of multiple scales is used to directly solve the nonlinear differential equations and to derive the nonlinear modulation equation for the principal parametric resonance. The results show that the nonlinear inertia terms produce a softening effect and play a significant role in the planar response of the second mode and the higher ones. On the other hand, the nonlinear geometric terms produce a hardening effect and dominate the planar response of the first mode. The validity of the present modeling is clarified through the comparisons of its coefficients with those experimentally verified in previous studies. Project supported by the Fundamental Fund of National Defense of China (No. 10172005).     

Dynamic stability for a simply supported beam under periodic axial excitation

This paper studies the dynamic stability for a simply supported straight beam under periodic axial excitation by using the averaging method and the Routh-Hurwitz stability criteria. By considering the first two modes coupled, we discuss the effect of the stability-instability region and the amplitudes of vibration. Furthermore, by studying the principal parametric resonance i.e. subharmonic order $\text{1}\text{2}$, we investigate the effect of the amplitude of the main system by various kinds of non-linearities of the subsystem. Finally, by obtaining the transient results, we describe the beat phenomenon, and harmonic oscillation.     

On the stability of a deep beam subjected to nonconservative and dissipative forces

Summary For the case of a simply supported deep beam subjected to a transverse follower load applied at its center, the dependence of the critical flutter load upon the effects of internal and external damping and warping rigidity is considered. A Kelvin-Voigt solid is assumed, the external damping is assumed to be proportional to the velocity of the beam at a point, and, due to the nature of the nonconservative applied load, the flexural and torsional deformations of the beam are coupled. The resulting boundary value problem is nonself-adjoint in character, and the stability problem is solved in an approximate manner by means of an adjoint variational principle. Several graphs are presented to demonstrate the effect of the various damping and rigidity parameters on the value of the critical flutter load. The numerical results obtained here reveal that in the absence of external damping, the value of the critical flutter load becomes arbitrarily small as the internal damping parameter associated with flexure tends to zero.

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Sommario Per una trave alta, incernierata agli estremi e sollecitata da un carico rotante con la sezione cui sia applicato e distribuito simmetricamente rispetto alla mezzeria della trave, si considera la dipendenza del carico critico di flutter dagli effetti di smorzamento interno ed esterno e della rigidezza biflessionale. Si assnmono (i) un solido di tipo Kelvin-Voigt e (ii) uno smorzamento esterno che sia proporzionale alla velocità. Dovuta al genere del carico non conservativo, la deformazione consiste di spostamenti di flessione e torsione. Poichè il problema ai limiti che descrive il moto del sistema possiede coefficienti variabili e non è antoaggiunto, si risolve il problema di constatare il valore del carico critico per un procedimento approssimativo mediante un principio variazionale. Si mostrano grafici che rivelano gli effetti dei diversi parametri di smorzamento e rigidezza sul valore del carico critico. I risultati numerici ottenuti qui mostrano che nell'assenza di smorzamento esterno il valore del carico critico diviene arbitrariamente minnto qualora il parametro di smorzamento interim associate con flessione lenda a zero.

     

Out-of-plane responses of a circular curved Timoshenko beam due to a moving load

For the cases of using the finite curved beam elements and taking the effects of both the shear deformation and rotary inertias into consideration, the literature regarding either free or forced vibration analysis of the curved beams is rare. Thus, this paper tries to determine the dynamic responses of a circular curved Timoshenko beam due to a moving load using the curved beam elements. By taking account of the effect of shear deformation and that of rotary inertias due to bending and torsional vibrations, the stiffness matrix and the mass matrix of the curved beam element were obtained from the force–displacement relations and the kinetic energy equations, respectively. Since all the element property matrices for the curved beam element are derived based on the local polar coordinate system (rather than the local Cartesian one), their coefficients are invariant for any curved beam element with constant radius of curvature and subtended angle and one does not need to transform the property matrices of each curved beam element from the local coordinate system to the global one to achieve the overall property matrices for the entire curved beam structure before they are assembled. The availability of the presented approach has been verified by both the existing analytical solutions for the entire continuum curved beam and the numerical solutions for the entire discretized curved beam composed of the conventional straight beam elements based on either the consistent-mass model or the lumped-mass model. In addition to the typical circular curved beams, a hybrid curved beam composed of one curved-beam segment and two identical straight-beam segments subjected to a moving load was also studied. Influence on the dynamic responses of the curved beams of the slenderness ratio, moving-load speed, shear deformation and rotary inertias was investigated.     

On dynamics and stability of continuous systems subjected to a distributed moving load

Summary The paper deals with an analysis of different models of continuous systems subjected to a load distributed over a given length and moving at a constant velocity.The general discussion concerns a beam resting on a viscoelastic semi-space. The motion of the body is described by polynomial differential operators. With body forces being disregarded, the motion of the beam lying on a viscoelastic foundation is discussed with either taking into account the effect of shear deflection and the inertia of rotation or with neglecting them. Consideration is also given to the cases of relative motion of two continuous systems and the stability of their interaction. The above cases represent the models of a number of mechanical systems applied in e.g. modern transportation facilities, technology of bonding of layer materials, etc.The analysis is substantially simplified because the equations of motion and the boundary conditions are written in a moving coordinate system related with the load and only stationary solutions are considered. With such an approach, the solutions depend only on the transformed space variable, while the velocity of the load appears as one of the parameters of the system. Interesting conclusions are drawn from the obtained solutions and numerical calculations.

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Zur Dynamik und Stabilität von kontinuierlichen Systemen unter verteilten bewegten Lasten

Übersicht Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt die Analyse von kontinuierlichen Systemen, die verteilten bewegten Lasten ausgesetzt sind. Es wird zunächst ein Balken auf viskoelastischem Halbraum behandelt. Die Bewegung des Körpers wird beschrieben durch Differentialoperatoren in Polynomform, wobei der Einfluß von Schubverformung und Drehträgheit diskutiert wird. Der Fall der Relativbewegung von zwei kontinuierlichen Systemen und ihre Stabilität wird ebenfalls diskutiert. Die untersuchten Fälle stellen Modelle zahlreicher mechanischer Systeme dar, wie zum Beispiel moderne Schnelltransportsysteme, Fügevorrichtungen von Schichtmaterialien, usw.Die Analyse der Probleme wird wesentlich dadurch vereinfacht, daß die Bewegungsgleichungen und Randbedingungen in einem mitbewegten Koordinatensystem formuliert werden und nur stationäre Lösungen betrachtet werden. Auf diese Weise hängen die Lösungen nur von der transformierten Ortsvariablen ab; die Geschwindigkeit der Belastung tritt als ein Parameter des Systems auf.Aufschlußreiche Schlußfolgerungen werden anhand der erhaltenen Lösungen und numerischen Berechnungen dargestellt.

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This paper was presented at the Second Symposium on Inelastic Solids and Structures, Bad Honnef, September 1981     

Nonlinear dynamics of a reduced multimodal Timoshenko beam subjected to thermal and mechanical loadings

Large amplitude vibrations of a Timoshenko beam under an influence of temperature are analysed in this paper. In the considered model the temperature increases instantly and the heat is uniformly distributed along the beams length and cross-section. The mathematical model, represented by partial differential equations takes into account thermal and mechanical loadings. Next, the problem is reduced by means of the Galerkin method, considering the first three natural vibration modes of a simply supported beam in the both ends. The influence of the temperature on amplitudes and localisation of the resonance zones and stability of the solutions is studied numerically and analytically by the multiple time scale method. The bifurcation points, existence of unstable lobes and transition from regular to chaotic oscillations are shown.     

On fracture behavior of brittle cantilever beam subjected to lateral impact load

The fracture patterns produced by concentrated impact loading on brittle beams and their dependence on the impact velocity and beam length has been determined. The experiment was performed using the transverse impact of a steel ball on the free end of cantilever beams made of plaster. The mechanism, location and time sequence of fracture were photographed by a camera connected to a stroboscope or with a high-speed framing camera. It was found experimentally that the concentrated impact loadings produce three characteristic fracture behaviors. Moreover, by using the dynamic photoelastic technique, the authors found it possible to explain theoretically the fracture behavior of this experiment by using the theory of flexural motion of a semi-infinite beam. Hence, applying an impact-fracture criterion to this theory, the fracture patterns of brittle beam can be estimated.     

Parametric instability of a rotating truncated conical shell subjected to periodic axial loads

Parametric instability of a rotating truncated conical shell subjected to periodic axial loads is studied in the paper. Through deriving accurate expressions of inertial force and initial hoop tension, a rotating conical shell model is presented based upon the Love's thin shell theory. Considering the periodic axial loads, equations of motion of the system with periodic stiffness coefficients are obtained utilizing the generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method. Hill's method is introduced for parametric instability analysis. Primary instability regions for various natural modes are computed. Effects of rotational speed, constant axial load, cone angle and other geometrical parameters on the location and width of various instability regions are examined.     

Enhanced damping of a cantilever beam by axial parametric excitation

A uniform cantilever beam under the effect of a time-periodic axial force is investigated. The beam structure is discretized by a finite-element approach. The linearised equations of motion describing the planar bending vibrations of the beam structure lead to a system with time-periodic stiffness coefficients. The stability of the system is investigated by a numerical method based on Floquet’s theorem and an analytical approach resulting from a first-order perturbation. It is demonstrated that the parametrically excited beam structure exhibits enhanced damping properties, when excited near a specific parametric combination resonance frequency. A certain level of the forcing amplitude has to be exceeded to achieve the damping effect. Upon exceeding this value, the additional artificial damping provided to the beam is significant and works best for suppression of vibrations of the first vibrational mode of the cantilever beam.     

Dynamic response to a moving load of a Timoshenko beam resting on a nonlinear viscoelastic foundation

The present paper investigates the dynamic response of finite Timoshenko beams resting on a sixparameter foundation subjected to a moving load. It is for the first time that the Galerkin method and its convergence are studied for the response of a Timoshenko beam supported by a nonlinear foundation. The nonlinear Pasternak foundation is assumed to be cubic. Therefore, the efects of the shear deformable beams and the shear deformation of foundations are considered at the same time. The Galerkin method is utilized for discretizing the nonlinear partial differential governing equations of the forced vibration. The dynamic responses of Timoshenko beams are determined via the fourth-order Runge–Kutta method. Moreover, the efects of diferent truncation terms on the dynamic responses of a Timoshenko beam resting on a complex foundation are discussed. The numerical investigations shows that the dynamic response of Timoshenko beams supported by elastic foundations needs super high-order modes. Furthermore, the system parameters are compared to determine the dependence of the convergences of the Galerkin method.     

Inverse problem of elastica of a variable-arc-length beam subjected to a concentrated load

An inverse problem of elastica of a variable-arc-length beam subjected to a concentrated load is investigated. The beam is fixed at one end, and can slide freely over a hinge support at the other end. The inverse problem is to determine the value of the load when the deflection of the action point of the load is given. Based on the elasitca equations and the elliptic integrals, a set of nonlinear equations for the inverse problem are derived, and an analytical solution by means of iterations and Quasi-Newton method is presented. From the results, the relationship between the loads and deflections of the loading point is obtained. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10272011) The English text was polished by Keren Wang     

Deflection of a partially supported elastic beam subjected to non uniform load

Summary The bending of a partially supported, nonhomogeneous elastic beam is studied by means of variational inequalities. Properties of the contact set are obtained along with the continuous dependence of the displacement on the load. Eventually, for a wide class of external forces we give an explicit formula for the contact set and prove further properties for the solution.

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Sommario E' qui studiata mediante disequazioni variazionali la flessione di una trave elastica non omogenea in parte appoggiata. Vengono ottenute proprietà dell'insieme di contatto e della soluzione (spostamento dalla configurazione di riferimento), quali ad esempio la dipendenza continua dal carico e, per un'ampia classe di forze esterne, una formula esplicita per la zona di contatto e la concavità della configurazione di equilibrio.

     

On dynamic optimization of Timoshenko beam

The present paper discusses the minimum weight design problem for Timoshenko and Euler beams subjected to multi-frequency constraints. Taking the simply-supported symmetric beam as an example,we reveal the abnormal characteristics of optimal Timoshenko beams,i.e.,the frequency corresponding to the first symmetric vibration mode could be higher than the frequency of antisymmetric vibration mode if a very thin and high strip is suitably formed at the middle of the beam,and,optimal Timoshenko beams subjected to two different sets of frequency.constraints could have the same minimum weight. The above abnormal characteristics demonstrate the need for including maximum cross sectional area constraint in the problem formulation in order to have a well-posed problem.     

Dynamic response of an infinite Timoshenko beam on a nonlinear viscoelastic foundation to a moving load

The present paper investigates the dynamic response of infinite Timoshenko beams supported by nonlinear viscoelastic foundations subjected to a moving concentrated force. Nonlinear foundation is assumed to be cubic. The nonlinear governing equations of motion are developed by considering the effects of the shear deformable beams and the shear modulus of foundations at the same time. The differential equations are, respectively, solved using the Adomian decomposition method and a perturbation method in conjunction with complex Fourier transformation. An approximate closed form solution is derived in an integral form based on the presented Green function and the theorem of residues, which is used for the calculation of the integral. The dynamic response distribution along the length of the beam is obtained from the closed form solution. The derivation process demonstrates that two methods for the dynamic response of infinite beams on nonlinear foundations with a moving force give the consistent result. The numerical results investigate the influences of the shear deformable beam and the shear modulus of foundations on dynamic responses. Moreover, the influences on the dynamic response are numerically studied for nonlinearity, viscoelasticity and other system parameters.     

Parametric resonance and jump analysis of a beam subjected to periodic mass transition

Nonlinear Dynamics - In this paper, the dynamic stability of a simply supported beam excited by the transition of circulating masses is investigated by preserving nonlinear terms in the analysis....     

Parametric instability of a rod reinforcing a beam when subjected to a stepped load

Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 118–123, January, 1989.