Three-dimensional stability of a rectangular plate under uniaxial tension

The paper studies the three-dimensional stability of an isotropic, linear elastic, rectangular plate under a uniform tensile load applied to its sides. The concept of free strains is used to reduce the three-dimensional problem to a two-dimensional one. It is solved using the three-dimensional linearized theory of stability. An approximate solution of the buckling problem is obtained by the finite-difference method. Numerical results are presented __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 116–123, July 2006.     

Stability of thin plates with cracks under biaxial tension

Conclusions A method has been developed for analyzing the stability of thin plates with cracks under biaxial tension which is based on measuring the local buckling of the plate in the crack region with pneumatic instruments and describing the results in the system of plate coordinates.It has been demonstrated that the critical stress corresponding to local loss of stability depends strongly on the magnitude of the force acting along the crack. Values of the bending factor have been determined experimentally for plates of the grade AMg6M aluminum alloy. Unlike in the case of no load along the crack, in the case of biaxial loading the value of this bending factor does depend on the geometrical parameters of the plate.An empirical expression has been derived for the bending factor which, for this particular material, yields values close to experimental ones.Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 18, No. 10, pp. 80–85, October, 1982.     

The initiation of necking in rectangular elastic/plastic specimens under uniaxial and biaxial tension

Necking in a rectangular parallelepiped of incompressible elastic/plastic material under uniaxia tension is studied as a bifurcation problem. Approximate upper-bound bifurcation stresses are found which show that bifurcation can occur immediately after the load on the specimen reaches a maximum if the length of the specimen is sufficiently great compared to the width and thickness. A simple formula applicable to sufficiently thin specimens is obtained for the approximate bifurcation stress. Sufficient conditions for uniqueness are found for elastic/plastic solids subjected to a general homogeneous stress-field. The particular case of the rectangular specimen under equal biaxial tension is investigated further, and the magnitude of the bifurcation stress is found to be very sensitive to the particular boundary conditions imposed.     

Kink Surfaces in a Directionally Reinforced neo-Hookean Material under Plane Deformation: II. Kink Band Stability and Maximally Dissipative Band Broadening

Stationary kinks (elastostatic shocks) are examined in the context of a base neo-Hookean response augmented with unidirectional reinforcing that is characterized by a single additional constitutive parameter for the additional fiber reinforcing stiffness. Previous work has shown that such a transversely isotropic material can support stationary kinks in plane deformation if the reinforcing is sufficiently great. If the deformation on one side of the kink involves a load axis aligned with the fiber axis, then the more general plane deformation on the other side of the kink is characterized in terms of a one-parameter family of (kink orientation, kink strength)-pairs. Here, the ellipticity status of the two correlated deformation states is shown to span all four possible ellipticity/nonellipticity permutations. If both deformation states are elliptic, then a suitable intermediate deformation is shown to be nonelliptic. Maximally dissipative quasi-static kink motion is examined and interpreted in terms of kink band broadening in on-axis loading. Such maximally dissipative kinks nucleate only in compression as weak kinks, with subsequent motion converting nonelliptic deformation to elliptic deformation. The associated fiber rotation involves three periods: an initial period of slow rotation, a secondary period of rapid rotation, and a final period of essentially constant orienation.     

High-frequency flutter of a rectangular plate

In our recent study of strip plate flutter, two flutter types, low-and high-frequency, were revealed. The first arises due to interaction of the oscillation modes and has been investigated in detail in numerous studies using an approximate piston theory. The high-frequency flutter, detected for the first time, is a consequence of the presence of negative aerodynamic damping and cannot be obtained using the piston theory. In the present study, the high-frequency flutter of a rectangular plate is investigated.     

Finite elastic deformations of an infinite plate perforated by two circular holes under biaxial tension

Summary Based on the theory of finite deformations and by the use of a given reference frame in undeformed body, stresses of an incompressible isotropic infinite plate with two circular holes subjected to biaxial tension at infinity are investigated. The material is assumed to be in the state of finite plane strain. The method of successive approximation is used in connection with the complex variable method of plane elasticity. Numerical results due to the second-order approximation theory are given for stresses, and compared with those predicted by classical theory of elasticity.

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Übersicht Es werden die Spannungen in einer unendlich ausgedehnten Platte mit zwei kreisförmigen Löchern nach der Theorie endlicher Verformungen und unter Verwendung eines im unverformten Körper festgelegten Bezugsgerüstes untersucht. Die Platte besteht aus inkompressiblem isotropen Material und wird einer im Unendlichen zweiachsialen Verzerrung ausgesetzt. Der Verzerrungszustand wird als eben angenommen. Bei den Untersuchungen werden die komplexen Methoden der ebenen Elastizitätstheorie in Verbindung mit schrittweisen Näherungen angewendet. Aufgrund einer Annäherung zweiter Ordnung werden die Spannungen numerisch ausgerechnet und mit den Werten verglichen, die von der klassischen Elastizitätstheorie vorausgesagt werden.

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The author wishes to express his hearty thanks to Osamu Tamate, Professor of Tohoku University, for directing the work.     

Stability of a rectangular plate beyond the elastic limit

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 5, pp. 105–110, September–October, 1990.     

Some effects of the biaxial tension of an elastic plate with a crack

Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, No. 6, pp. 142–147, November–December, 1991.     

Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of a Modified Geometrically Nonlinear Orthotropic Jeffcott Model with Internal Damping

In this paper, a modified Jeffcott model is proposed and studied in order to shed light into the dynamics of a complex system, the Short Electrodynamic Tether (SET), which is similar to an unbalanced rotor. Due to the internal damping, a geometrically linear SET model appears to be unstable as predicted by the linear rotordynamics theory. Some studies in the field of rotordynamics suggest that this instability caused by internal damping do not appear if geometric nonlinearities are taken into account in the system equations of motion. Stability and bifurcation analysis have been carried out on the modified Jeffcott model, which accounts for geometric nonlinearities, orthotropy in the shaft's cross section, and a viscous damping-based internal damping model. The stability results analytically obtained have been compared with a nonlinear multibody model by means of time simulations and good agreement has been found.     

Stability of a viscoelastic plate in fluid flow

The stability of an infinite viscoelastic plate on an elastic foundation in a viscous incompressible flow is studied. The Navier-Stokes system is linearized for an exponential velocity profile. The problem is reduced by a Fourier-Laplace transform to a system of ordinary differential equations, whose solution is found in the form of convergent series. The roots of the dispersion relation that characterize the stability of the system are found numerically. The effect of the viscosities of the fluid and the plate on the stability of the waves propagating upstream and downstream is studied. The results are compared with available data on the stability of a viscoelastic plate in an ideal fluid flow. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 66–74, July–August, 2006.     

The effect of transverse pressure on the stability of a plate

The stability problem of a centrally compressed infinite plate is solved with allowance for the transverse normal deformation caused by uniform load for various boundary conditions at the edges. The linearized nonlinear equations of elastic deformation of thin plates taking into account transverse shear and transverse normal deformation are used. The obtained critical loads are compared with existing solutions.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 170–178, March–April, 2005.     

The growth of the void in a hyperelastic rectangular plate under a uniaxial extension

In the present paper, the finite deformation and stress analysis for a hyperelastic rectangular plate with a center void under a uniaxial extension is studied. In order to consider the effect of the existence of the void on the deformation and stress of the plate, the problem is reduced to the deformation and stress analysis for a hyperelastic annular plate and its approximate solution is obtained from the minimum potential energy principle. The growth of the cavitation is also numerically computed and analysed.Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China     

Model of bending of a hydrostatically compressed shell near its stability threshold

A simplified model of bending dynamics of a hydrostatically compressed thin shell near the threshold of stability of its form is constructed within the framework of the nonlinear theory of elasticity. Conditions of existence and explicit expressions for spatially localized perturbations and patterns composed of dents on the shell surface, which are “precursors” of subsequent changes in the shell form, are found. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 124–134, November–December, 2007.     

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).     

Non-shakedown collapse of a doubly-reinforced rectangular plate under cyclic loads

A typical doubly-reinforced concrete rectangular plate is subjected to quasi-static (and more general quasiperiodic dynamic) transverse loads. The amount of reinforcements can be different in the upper and lower layers, in the central and rear parts of the plate, and in different directions, as usually designed in practice. An upper bound kinematic approach, which involves construction of potential collapse kinematic fields with plastic hinge lines, is developed to evaluate the non-shakedown loads corresponding to the respective collapse modes. The relations between the non-shakedown load parameters (frequency, amplitude limits) and the reinforcement parameters are derived for practical use. The kinematic assumptions with plastic hinge lines reduce the set of admissible kinematic fields for our upper bound approach, however the procedure appears relatively simple, visual, and can be developed to investigate the behaviour of other plates in various loading and reinforcement schemes, like the respective approach of plastic limit analysis, which was restricted to static loading.     

Elastic-plastic fracture of an orthotropic plate with a crack under biaxial loading

Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 93–99, August, 1990.     

Elastoplastic fracture of an isotropic plate with a crack under biaxial loading

Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 25, No. 7, pp. 86–91, July, 1989.