Stokes flow past an assemblage of axisymmetric porous spherical shell-in-cell models: effect of stress jump condition

The quasisteady axisymmetrical flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past an assemblage of porous concentric spherical shell-in-cell model is studied. Boundary conditions on the cell surface that correspond to the Happel, Kuwabara, Kvashnin and Cunningham/Mehta-Morse models are considered. At the fluid-porous interfaces, the stress jump boundary condition for the tangential stresses along with continuity of normal stress and velocity components are employed. The Brinkman’s equation in the porous region and the Stokes equation for clear fluid are used. The hydrodynamic drag force acting on the porous shell by the external fluid in each of the four boundary conditions on the cell surface is evaluated. It is found that the normalized mobility of the particles (the hydrodynamic interaction among the porous shell particles) depends not only on the permeability of the porous shells and volume fraction of the porous shell particles, but also on the stress jump coefficient. As a limiting case, the drag force or mobility for a suspension of porous spherical shells reduces to those for suspensions of impermeable solid spheres and of porous spheres with jump.     

一种应对主基准速度误差跳变的局部基准速度输出平滑处理方法

对于采用主基准速度信息进行传递对准或持续校准的局部基准惯导而言,主基准速度误差跳变不仅影响局部基准的对准或校准结果,而且易使局部基准的输出修正速度误差也产生相应跳变,进而影响利用该局部基准速度进行传递对准的子惯导的对准过程。为应对该问题,提出了一种工程适用的局部基准速度输出平滑处理方法,该方法在Kalman滤波的基础上,利用残差χ2检测基准速度误差跳变时刻,对滤波得到的速度误差状态量进行平滑处理并用其修正局部基准惯导速度,从而得到无速度误差跳变的局部基准输出速度。通过主基准速度误差跳变三种不同情况的仿真,验证了该方法能够有效的控制局部基准输出速度误差的变化率在(0.4 m/s)/(15 min)范围内,满足子惯导对准要求,具有较强的工程适用性。     

Nonobvious features of dynamics of circular cylindrical shells

In the framework of the nonlinear theory of flexible shallow shells, we study free bending vibrations of a thin-walled circular cylindrical shell hinged at the end faces. The finite-dimensional shell model assumes that the excitation of large-amplitude bending vibrations inevitably results in the appearance of radial vibrations of the shell. The modal equations are obtained by the Bubnov-Galerkin method. The periodic solutions are found by the Krylov-Bogolyubov method. We show that if the tangential boundary conditions are satisfied “in the mean,” then, for a shell of finite length, significant errors arise in determining its nonlinear dynamic characteristics. We prove that small initial irregularities split the bending frequency spectrum, the basic frequency being smaller than in the case of an ideal shell.     

电活性聚合物圆柱壳静态与动态电压下的响应及稳定性

摘要：在电活性聚合物圆柱壳内外表面施加电压,圆柱壳会变薄并且伸长,因此相同的电压会在圆柱壳内产生更大的电场。这个正反馈可能使圆柱壳厚度不断变薄,最终导致其失稳破坏。本文研究了电活性聚合物圆柱壳在静态和周期电压作用下的响应及稳定性问题。采用neo-Hookean材料模型得到描述圆柱壳表面运动的非线性常微分方程。给出了圆柱壳在不同厚度和边界条件下外加电压随圆柱壳变形的变化曲线,结果表明存在一个临界电压,当外加电压大于这一临界值时,圆柱壳将被破坏。同时,也讨论了厚度和边界条件对临界电压的影响。圆柱壳在正弦周期电压作用下,其运动随时间的变化是周期性的或拟周期性的非线性振动。给出了圆柱壳振动固有频率的计算结果,采用打靶法得到圆柱壳振动的周期解,并且用数值法研究了周期解的稳定性。采用数值仿真得到圆柱壳振动振幅随外加动态电压激励频率的变化曲线,结果表明圆柱壳会发生多频共振,共振时圆柱壳振幅发生跳跃,导致圆柱壳失稳破坏。最后给出共振点临近点的振动曲线和相图,并对其振动特性进行讨论。     

边界条件对甲烷预混气爆轰特性的影响

通过实验研究及数字化处理研究了边界条件对CH₄预混气体爆轰特性的影响。在内径为63.5、50.8 mm圆柱形管道及长方体管道进行爆轰实验,得到胞格结构和爆轰速度曲线。烟膜数字化处理量化了预混气体的爆轰不稳定性,并计算出胞格尺寸。3种管道内测得的平均爆轰速度与CJ速度接近,边界条件的影响不明显。分析爆轰速度曲线发现,极限压力受到边界条件的影响,?50.8和?63.5 mm管道内预混气的极限压力分别为5和4.05 kPa,即随着管径增大,爆轰极限压力降低。数字化处理所得不同管道内烟膜轨迹的不规则程度无明显差别,因此可以认为不稳定性是预混气固有的性质。在相同爆轰初始压力下,管径增大,胞格数量变多,表明爆轰传播时爆轰螺旋头数增多以维持传播。     

跳车冲击力作用下车桥耦合动力学数值分析

考虑到传统的Hertz弹簧模型进行车桥耦合动力学分析存在诸多问题,本文基于简单的车桥耦合模型,导出了车桥耦合与非耦合动力学方程。考虑轨道周期和随机不平顺情况,车辆在不平顺轨道曲线上运行时,当离心力大于车辆自重时,自动确定车辆的起跳时间和起跳高度。起跳后的车辆在重力作用下,将重新回到梁上,同时对梁有一冲击作用力。文章假设了此冲击力的作用规律,并由有限元模拟确定冲击力系数。通过自编程序,对单轴行车简支梁进行了数值计算。数值分析结果表明,考虑跳车冲击力的动力模型能够更加精准地反应车桥耦合振动特征,且本模型首次给出了跳车高度。考虑轨道具有相同幅值的周期不平顺和随机不平顺时,轨道随机不平顺将导致桥梁,尤其是车辆的响应更大,舒适性更差或结构更危险,在车桥耦合动力学分析中应重点关注。     

Bifurcations and chaos in a periodic time-varying temperature-excited bimetallic shallow shell of revolution

The chaotic vibrations of a bimetallic shallow shell of revolution under time-varying temperature excitation are investigated in the present study. The governing equations are established in forms similar to those of classical single-layered shell theory by re-determination of reference surface. The nonlinear differential equation in time-mode is derived by variational method following an assumed spatial-mode. The Melnikov function is established theoretically to estimate regions of the chaos, and the Poincaré map, phase portrait, Lyapunov exponent, and Lyapunov dimension are used to determine if a chaotic motion really appears. Further investigations are developed by means of detailed numerical simulation, and both the bifurcation diagrams and corresponding maximum Lyapunov exponent are illustrated. The influence of static and time-dependent temperature parameters, height parameter of the shell, and damping parameter on the dynamic characteristics is examined. Interesting phenomena such as the onset of chaos, transient chaotic motion, chaos with interior crisis and period window, period-doubling scenario and reversed period-doubling bifurcation leading to chaos, jump phenomena, and chaos suddenly converting to period orbit have been observed from these figures.     

Axi-symmetric wave propagation in a cylinder coated with a piezoelectric layer

This paper presents the wave propagation in a cylinder coated with a thin piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric coupling effects are fully modeled in the mechanics model for this piezoelectric coupled cylindrical shell with bending resistance. The decoupled torsional wave velocity and the dispersion curves for the two- mode shell model are obtained theoretically. The cut-off frequency and phase velocities at limit wave number are also derived. The numerical simulations are conducted to present the results of wave propagation in this cylindrical shell and as well as to compare the results by the current bending theory and the membrane shell theory. From the comparisons, the results display obvious deference of wave propagations in terms of dispersion characteristics by different shell theories when thicker piezoelectric layer are used and when higher wave number is considered. The results of this paper can serve as a reference for future study on wave propagation in coupled structures as well as in the design of smart structures incorporating piezoelectric materials.     

Numerical simulations of 3D open cell structures – influence of structural irregularities on elasto-plasticity and deformation localization

The mechanical properties of open cell structures made from an elastic–plastic bulk material are investigated by Finite Element simulations. The influence of structural irregularities on elasto-plasticity and deformation localization of open cell structures is analyzed. Six regular three-dimensional generic structures with a relative density of 12.5% are modeled by a unit cell approach for predicting the entire tensors of elasticity. From these six structures the two structures with the lowest and the highest elastic anisotropy are selected for further studies, introducing various degrees of structural irregularities. The effect of these irregularities on the linear and nonlinear behavior as well as the influence on the deformation localization is studied employing finite sample models. Results are presented by means of the direction dependent Young’s moduli, deformation plots, overall stress–strain curves, and histograms of the energy distribution.     

Stability of shells in creep

We consider a thin homogeneous shell subjected to an arbitrary load causing loss of stability. We assume that the shell has some initial irregularities in its middle surface which can be described in terms of certain initial displacements. When the load is applied, these initial irregularities begin to develop due to creep and cause a redistribution of stresses over both the thickness and the entire area of the shell. This process of stress redistribution may be so considerable that at a certain moment the equilibrium state of the shell may become unstable in Euler's sense, i.e., at a certain moment several modes of equilibrium may be possible, transition to any one of these being instantaneous. We shall call this moment the critical moment of loss of stability of the shell.The deviation of the subcritical stress and strain state of an actual shell from the basic state corresponding to a perfectly smooth shell can be described by a system of equations in the stress and deflection functions, assuming that the quantities characterizing these deviations satisfy linearlized creep relations analogous to the relations for viscoelastic bodies. This system of equations must be combined with a system of stability equations which takes into account the stresses and strains defined by the system of equations of the subcritical state.     

功能梯度截顶圆锥壳的热弹性弯曲精确解

研究了功能梯度材料截顶圆锥壳在横向机械载荷与非均匀热载荷同时作用下的变形问题. 基于经典线性壳体理论推导出了以横向剪力和中面转角为基本未知量的功能梯度薄圆锥壳轴对称变形的混合型控制方程. 假设功能梯度圆锥壳的材料性质为沿厚度方向按照幂函数连续变化的形式. 然后采用解析方法求解,得到了问题的精确解. 分别就两端简支和两端固支边界条件,给出了圆锥壳的变形随其载荷、材料参数等变化的特征关系曲线,重点分析和讨论了载荷参数与材料梯度变化参数对变形的影响.      

Buckling analysis of a laminated cylindrical shellunder torsion subjected to mixed boundary conditions

A new efficient method is developed in this paper for buckling analysis of a cross-plylaminated cylindrical shell under torsion subjected to mixed boundary conditions. The transverseshear is taken into account by a first-order theory with a shear correction factor of 5/6. The mixedboundary conditions include conditions in forces as well as conditions in displacements, and theseforces and displacements are selected as basic unknowns. The other displacements and forces areexpressed in terms of the basic unknowns by taking inverse of a matrix composed of operators.The equations of buckled equilibrium in terms of the basic unknowns are solved with doubletrigonometric series which satisfy the mixed boundary conditions. Comparison of the obtainednumerical results with those given in the literature based on completely clamped boundaryconditions checks with the fact that the mixed boundary conditions yield appreciably lowerbuckling load and less circumferential wave number than the completely clamped boundaryconditions. The curves in the figures show how the difference in buckling loads between the twokinds of boundary conditions varies when the length and thickness of the shell vary.     

STRESS CONCENTRATIONS IN CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WITH LARGE OPENINGS

Based on Donnell's shallow shell equation, a new method is given in this paper to ana-lyze theoretical solutions of stress concentrations about cylindrical shells with large openings. With themethod of complex variable function, a series of conformal mapping functions are obtained from dif-ferent cutouts' boundary curves in the developed plane of a cylindrical shell to the unit circle. And,the general expressions for the equations of a cylindrical shell, including the solutions of stress concen-trations meeting the boundary conditions of the large openings' edges, are given in the mapping plane.Furthermore, by applying the orthogonal function expansion technique, the problem can be summa-rized into the solution of infinite algebraic equation series. Finally, numerical results are obtained forstress concentration factors at the cutout's edge with various opening's ratios and different loadingconditions. This new method, at the same time, gives a possibility to the research of cylindrical shellswith large non-circular openings or with nozzles.     

Dynamical investigation of railway vehicles on a curved track

The main objective of this article is an examination of railway vehicle dynamics during motion along a curved track. Two main aspects are presented in the paper. First, two different methods used while investigating multi-rigid body systems such as railway vehicles are discussed, i.e. the quasi-statical (or kineto-statical) and dynamical approaches. Second, two practical problems dealing with vehicle motion along a curved track are investigated. The problems under consideration refer to vibrations as well as stability, examined via finding obtained with the author's software as a result of numerical simulation. The work has both a practical and a cognitive character. The aim of the investigations is firstly to indicate the limitations of quasi-statical (and kineto-statical) methods and secondly to study the problems which cannot be treated by these methods. Two specific problems of the type investigated using a dynamical approach are the influence of track geometrical irregularities on the evaluation of vehicle ride properties and limit cycle occurrence during vehicle curve negotiation. Due to the renewed interest in the rapid passenger railway, the investigations take into consideration curves of large radii introduced along railway routes for increased velocities. Furthermore, it is shown under which conditions the obtained results may have an important practical application. This concerns the influence of vehicle suspension parameters as well as conditions of motion (speed, superelevation, curve radius, transition curve existence) on limit cycle occurrence. The limited value of conclusions dealing with vehicle ride properties obtained while using quasi-statical (kineto-statical) methods is proved through quantitative analysis. The problem of the influence of geometrical irregularities on wheel-rail pair wear is also pointed out.     

Forced vibrations of a boxed shell of square cross-section

We construct the solution of the problem on the steady-state vibrations of a finite boxed shell of square cross-section with symmetry conditions at the shell ends. We present the dispersion curves, find the natural frequencies, and study the stress distribution in the shell. We obtain a simple formula for the approximate analysis of the shell in the case of low-frequency vibrations on the basis of the expansion of the solution in two small parameters and on the Lagrange interpolation formula.     

Repeated buckling and its influence on the geometrical imperfections of stiffened cylindrical shells under combined loading

The present experimental study aims at providing better inputs for improvement of the buckling load predictions of stiffened cylindrical shells subjected to combined loading. The work focuses on two main factors which considerably affect the combined buckling load of stiffened shells, namely geometric imperfections and boundary conditions. Six shells with nominal simple supports were tested under various combinations of axial compression and external pressure. The vibration correlation technique is employed to define the real boundary conditions. The geometric imperfections of the integrally stiffened shells are measured in the present experiments in situ and are used as inputs to a multimode analysis which yields the corresponding “knockdown” factor for various combinations of loading. Thus, when employing the repeated buckling procedure for obtaining interaction curves, each point on the curve is adjusted (using the multimode analysis) for the measured “new” surface of the shell and this results in more realistic interaction curves. The geometrical imperfections of the preloaded shells can also serve as an input to the International Imperfection Data Bank for future studies on the correlation between the manufacturing method of the shell and their geometric imperfections.     

Nonlinear natural frequency of shallow conical shells with variable thickness

IntroductionTheplatesandtheshellswithvariablethicknessarewidelyusedinengineering .Theproblemaboutstaticshasbeenstudiedbymanyscholars;therearemanyRefs .[1 -4 ]inthisfield .Papersaboutnonlineardynamicsaremuchless[5 ,6 ].Inthispaper,selectingthemaximumamplitudeinthecenterofshallowconicalshellswithvariablethicknessasperturbationparameter,thenonlinearnaturalfrequencyofshallowconicalshellswithvariablethicknessisobtainedbymethodgiveninRef.[7] .Thenonlinearnaturalfrequencyisnotonlyconnectedwiththeva…