A phenomenological method of calculating the residual stresses and plastic deformations in a hollow surface-hardened cylindrical sample

A phenomenological method is proposed for calculating the residual stress and plastic deformation fields in a hollow surface-hardened cylindrical sample. Versions of the hardening are considered that lead to isotropy and anisotropy in the plastic deformations in the surface layer. A hardening anisotropy parameter is introduced that relates the axial and circumferential components of the residual plastic deformation tensor. The experimentally determined axial and/or circumferential components of the residual plastic stress tensor are used as the initial information. The tensor fields of the residual stresses and deformations are constructed assuming the hypothesis of surface hardening anisotropy and the absence of secondary plastic compression deformations and that the tangential components of the residual stress tensor and the plastic incompressibility of the material are small. A technique is developed for identifying the parameters of the proposed method. The adequacy is checked using experimental data for test pieces of type 45 and 12X18H10T steels hardened by hydro-shot blasting treatment and of type 45 steel hardened by treatment with a roller. Good agreement is observed between the calculated and experimental results. It is noted that the anisotropic hardening procedure leads to a substantial difference between the circumferential and axial components of the residual stresses in the hardened layer, unlike the case of isotropic hardening where they are practically identical.     

Free-edge effects in a cylindrical sandwich panel with a flexible core and laminated composite face sheets

In the present study, the static response of cylindrical sandwich panels with a flexible core is investigated. The face sheets are considered as composite laminates with a cross-ply lay-up and the core as a flexible elastic medium. The flexibility of the low-strength core leads to high stress concentrations in terms of peeling stresses between the face sheets and the core at edges of the sandwich panel. To take into account the compressibility of the core and to determine the free-edge stresses of sandwich structures accurately, the Reddy layerwise theory (LWT) is used in this paper. The paper outlines the mathematical formulation, along with a numerical study, of a cylindrical sandwich panel with two simply supported and two free edges under a transverse load. The formulation includes the derivation of field equations along with boundary conditions. A Levy-type solution procedure is performed to determine the distributions of stresses and strains. In the numerical study, first a comparison is made with results from the commercial finite-element software ANSYS to verify the LWT results. Finally, a parametric study is conducted, and the effect caused by varying different parameters, such as the radii of curvature and the core to face sheet thickness ratio, on the results are investigated. The results obtained demonstrate a good agreement between LWT and FEM solutions and show increasing interlaminar stresses in the free edge of the sandwich panel     

A Discrete Element Approach for Wave Propagation in Thin Rods

Wave propagation and evoked side effects, such as material failure, are important parts of analysis of dynamically exposed structures like buildings or machinery. One of the numerical analysis tools for wave propagation is the well-known Finite Element Method (FEM) with its impressive performance but also with the drawback of not being able to model easily material failure, discontinuities and contacts. In contrast, the Discrete Element Method (DEM) is capable to describe these effects on a meso-scale more easily. The here selected concept is based on a DEM particle which is considered as deformable, and can establish and remove lasting bonds with other particles. The simulation example used is a thin rod that has been an extensive numerical and experimental research subject since the last century. A longitudinal wave is excited within the thin rod by simulating an impact on one end of the rod in a free-free configuration. It is found, that the simulation data, the velocity profile and the resulting displacement at the end of the rod, are in good agreement with experimental obtained data. (© 2013 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Chaos synchronization of resistively coupled Duffing systems: Numerical and experimental investigations

This paper studies chaos synchronization dynamics of two resistively coupled Duffing systems, through numerical and experimental investigations. Various bifurcation structures are derived and it is found that chaos appear suddenly, through period doubling cascades. The experimental study of these systems is carried out with appropriate software electronic circuit, proposed using the BSIMV3.3 parameters for the investigation of the dynamical behavior. The appropriate coupled coefficient for chaos synchronization is found using numerical and experimental simulations. The reliability of the analytical formulas is approved by the good agreement with the results obtained by both numerical and experiment simulations.     

Chaotic synchronization with experimental application to secure communications

In this paper, we analyze the synchronization of two chaotic electronic devices that are described by a jerk equation and apply it to chaos masking of communications. Both the theoretical and experimental investigations are carried out and we find good agreement between the results from both types of investigations.     

Sachs法的应用及推广

本文提出测量平面应力状态厚壁圆筒残余应力时Sachs公式的简化,特别提出了测量和计算具有轴向残余应力有限长厚壁圆筒残余应力的方法.这些结果可用于研究火炮自紧身管内的残余应力.     

Vibration analysis of truncated conical shells subjected to flowing fluid

A method to predict the dynamic behaviour of anisotropic truncated conical shells conveying fluid is presented in this paper. It is a combination of finite element method and classical shell theory. The displacement functions are derived from exact solutions of Sanders’ shell equilibrium equations of conical shells. The velocity potential, Bernoulli’s equation and impermeability condition have been applied to the shell–fluid interface to obtain an explicit expression for fluid pressure which yields three forces (inertial, centrifugal, Coriolis) of the moving fluid. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper reports the first comparison made between two works which deal with conical shells subjected to internal flowing fluid effects. The results obtained by this method for conical shells with various boundary condition and geometries, in vacuum, fully-filled and when subjected to flowing fluid were compared with those of other experimental and numerical investigations and good agreement was obtained.     

Free-Edge Stresses around Holes in Laminates by the Boundary Finite-Element Method

In the present paper the boundary finite-element method is presented as a highly efficient technique for the numerical investigation of the free-edge stresses around a circular hole in laminates. In this method, as in the boundary element method, only the boundary needs to be discretized, whereas the element formulation in essence is finite-element based. The surface discretization provides a high numerical efficiency and requires less computation time compared to finite-element analyses. Numerical results for the concentration of interlaminar stresses at holes in composite laminates show a very good agreement with comparative finite-element calculations.     

Vibration characteristics of single-walled carbon nanotubes based on an anisotropic elastic shell model including chirality effect

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) exhibit remarkable chirality-dependent mechanical phenomena. In present paper, an anisotropic elastic shell model is developed to study the vibration characteristics of chiral SWCNTs. Analytical solution is presented by using the Flügge shell theory and complex method. The suggested model is justified by a good agreement between the present results and some experimental and numerical available data in literature. Furthermore, the model is used to elucidate the effect of tube chirality on the frequencies of SWCNTs. Finally, the influences of the externally applied mid-face axial force and torque on longitudinal, radial and torsional frequencies of SWCNTs are investigated.     

玻壳成型过程诱导残余应力的数值预测

建立了玻壳压制成型固化过程中残余应力预测的数值模拟模型,采用平行平板间玻璃熔体的固化问题来描述成型过程中残余应力形成的机理,并假定材料为热流变简单粘弹性材料．基于板壳理论,将产品视为平板单元的组合,并采用有限元法来求解,这种方法可以象全三维计算一样一层层地计算残余应力,非常适合复杂形状的薄压制成型产品．最后通过实验比较验证了所提出的模型和方法．     

Numerical-experimental investigation of resonance characteristics of a sounding board

The paper presents results of numerical and experimental investigations into the vibrations of thin-walled structures, considering such their features as the complexity of geometry, the laminated structure of walls, the anisotropy of materials, the presence of stiffeners, and the initial stresses. The object of the study is the sounding board of an acoustic guitar, the main structural material of which is a three-layer birch veneer. Based on the finite-element method, a corresponding calculation model is created, and the steady-state regimes of forced vibrations of the sounding board are investigated. A good correspondence between calculation results and experimental data is found to exist. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 399–410, May–June, 2007.     

自然弯扭梁广义翘曲坐标的求解

提出了自然弯扭梁受复杂载荷作用时静力分析的一种理论方法,重点在于对控制方程的求解,其中考虑了与扭转有关的翘曲变形和横向剪切变形的影响．在特殊的情况下,可以比较容易地得到这些方程的解答,包括各种内力、应力、应变和位移的计算．算例给出了平面曲梁受水平和垂直分布载荷作用时广义翘曲坐标的求解方法．计算结果表明,求得的应力和位移的理论值和三维有限元结果非常接近．此外,该理论不限于具有双对称横截面的自然弯扭梁,同样可推广至具有一般横截面形状的情况．     

The construction of plane elastomechanics and Mindlin plate elements of B-spline wavelet on the interval

Based on two-dimensional tensor product B-spline wavelet on the interval (BSWI), a class of C0 type plate elements is constructed to solve plane elastomechanics and moderately thick plate problems. Instead of traditional polynomial interpolation, the scaling functions of two-dimensional tensor product BSWI are employed to form the shape functions and construct BSWI elements. Unlike the process of direct wavelets adding in the previous work, the elemental displacement field represented by the coefficients of wavelets expansions is transformed into edges and internal modes via the constructed transformation matrix in this paper. The method combines the versatility of the conventional finite element method (FEM) with the accuracy of B-spline functions approximation and various basis functions for structural analysis. Some numerical examples are studied to demonstrate the proposed method and the numerical results presented are in good agreement with the closed-form or traditional FEM solutions.     

The influence of loading eccentricity on the buckling of axially compressed imperfect composite cylinders

The buckling of imperfect composite cylinders under concentric and eccentric compression is investigated experimentally and numerically, with particular attention given to the imperfection sensitivity of the shells. A series of glass-fiber-reinforced plastic cylinders have been tested under different load eccentricities to validate the corresponding nonlinear numerical analyses performed in this study. A good agreement between the experimental and numerical results was achieved through use of the ABAQUS/Explicit finite-element code and the introduction of initial imperfections. Both the experimental and the numerical results show that the knockdown factor increases as the loading eccentricity grows.     

Reasons for the lowering of the lifetime of polymers under cyclic loading

A model is proposed which explains the lowering of the lifetime of polymers on transition from static to cyclic loading by the interaction of local stresses from an external load with residual stresses which arose after preceding loading cycles. The results predicted on the basis of the model have been checked experimentally on polymethyl methacrylate, and a good agreement has been shown.M. I. Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 279–283, March–April, 1976.     

Modelado numérico del proceso de soldadura FSW incorporando una técnica de estimación de parámetros

Numerical models of heat transfer and fluid flow used in the simulation of the friction-stir welding (FSW) process have contributed to the understanding of the process. However, there are some input model parameters that cannot be easily determined from fundamental principles or the welding conditions. As a result, the model predictions are not always in agreement with experimental results. In this work, the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) method is used in order to perform a non-linear estimation of the unknown parameters present in the heat transfer and fluid flow models, by adjusting the temperatures results obtained with the models to temperature experimental measurements. These models are implemented in a general-purpose software that uses a numerical formulation developed from the finite element method (FEM). The unknown parameters are: the friction coefficient and the amount of adhesion of material to the surface of the tool, the heat transfer coefficient on the bottom surface and the amount of viscous dissipation converted into heat. The obtained results show an improvement in the numerical model predictions from the incorporation of parameter estimation techniques.     

Numerical and experimental study of mitigation of welding distortion

Welding stresses and deformations are closely related phenomena. During the heating and cooling cycles thermal strains may occur in the weld and adjacent area. The strains produced during the heating stage of welding are always accompanied by plastic deformation of the metal. The stresses resulting from these strains combine and react to produce internal forces that cause a variety of welding distortions. Welding deformation needs to be minimized and also the designer should know before hand the extent of deformation so that it can be accounted for in the design as well as in the construction stages.In this paper, heat sinking as a method of distortion mitigation has been studied. Heat sinking has been affected by circulating water through channel clamped at the bottom surface of the plates undergoing welding. The pseudolinear equivalent constant rigidity concept has been used in this investigation for thermo-mechanical analysis of plates undergoing welding with simultaneous heat sinking. The initial nonlinear problem with varying modulus dependent on temperature is transformed into a pseudolinear equivalent system of constant rigidity that is solved by linear analysis.The numerical results compared very well with those of the experimental ones. The proposed concept is found to be computationally more efficient and simpler to model compared to FEM for solving similar thermo-elasto-plastic nonlinear problems. The procedure presented in this work and the results thus obtained, holds a great promise for determining the heat sinking parameters for effectively controlling welding distortion.     

A pseudo active kinematic constraint for a biological living soft tissue: An effect of the collagen network

Recent studies in mammalian hearts show that left ventricular wall thickening is an important mechanism for systolic ejection, and that during contraction the cardiac muscle develops significant stresses in the muscular cross-fiber direction. We suggested that the collagen network surrounding the muscular fibers could account for these mechanical behaviors. To test this hypothesis we develop a model for large deformation response of active, incompressible, nonlinear elastic and transversely isotropic living soft tissue (such as cardiac or arteries tissues) in which we include a coupling effect between the connective tissue and the muscular fibers. Then, a three-dimensional finite element formulation including this internal pseudo-active kinematic constraint is derived. Analytical and finite element solutions are in a very good agreement. The numerical results show this wall thickening effect with an order of magnitude compatible with the experimental observations.     

The ultra weak variational formulation for the modified mild-slope equation

This paper is devoted to evaluate a new alternative numerical method to capture accurately the diffraction-refraction process of waves in coastal areas. The modified mild-slope equation (MMSE) has been used to predict the water wave transformation when waves approach the shoreline. We perform numerical simulations in order to illustrate the efficiency of the ultra weak variational formulation (UWVF) method in comparison with the finite elements method (FEM). The UWVF method uses plane wave solutions on each element and has been shown to reduce the computational complexity at high wave numbers. We also present an alternative method to seek the angle of attack of the wave front on the domain boundary and show that the UWVF method reproduces effectively the numerical experimental data. We compare the FEM and the UWVF method for the MMSE and show that the UWVF method solves some of the difficulties that arise when the FEM is applied.