Static computation of a laminated nonuniform inclined shell in a temperature field

The finite difference method is used to obtain a solution of a nonlinear static problem for a laminated inclined rectangular shell in a plane acted on by a force load and a temperature field. The approximating system of nonlinear equations is obtained using an approximation of the equation of variations or systems of differential equations.Translated fromMatematicheskie Metody i Fiziko-Mekhanicheskie Polya, Issue 27, 1988, pp. 86–89.     

Polarized Hessian covariant: Contribution to pattern formation in the Föppl–von Kármán shell equations

We analyze the structure of the Föppl–von Kármán shell equations of linear elastic shell theory using surface geometry and classical invariant theory. This equation describes the buckling of a thin shell subjected to a compressive load. In particular, we analyze the role of polarized Hessian covariant, also known as second transvectant, in linear elastic shell theory and its connection to minimal surfaces. We show how the terms of the Föppl–von Kármán equations related to in-plane stretching can be linearized using the hodograph transform and relate this result to the integrability of the classical membrane equations. Finally, we study the effect of the nonlinear second transvectant term in the Föppl–von Kármán equations on the buckling configurations of cylinders.     

均布载荷作用下波纹扁壳的非线性振动

应用轴对称旋转扁壳的非线性大挠度动力学方程,研究了波纹扁壳在均布载荷作用下的非线性受迫振动问题．采用格林函数方法,将扁壳的非线性偏微分方程组化为非线性积分微分方程组．再使用展开法求出格林函数,即将格林函数展开为特征函数的级数形式,积分微分方程就成为具有退化核的形式,从而容易得到关于时间的非线性常微分方程组．针对单模态振形,得到了谐和激励作用下的幅频响应．作为算例,研究了正弦波纹扁球壳的非线性受迫振动现象．该文的解答可供波纹壳的设计参考．     

Stability of elastoplastic flat arches

The stability of flat arches with pinned and fixed ends under a uniformly distributed load is investigated on the assumption that the material obeys a linear hardening law and the geometric relations are nonlinear. The equations obtained are solved for a sinusoidal arch with a rectangular cross section using the Bubnov-Galerikn method and the method of elastic solutions. Equations are obtained for the load and deflection at which transition from the purely elastic to the elastoplastic state occurs.Tartu State University. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 887–896, September–October, 1968.     

State of stress of flexible plastic shells with an opening

The state of stress of flat flexible shells with an opening is investigated with allowance for the viscoelastic properties of the material. The equilibrium equations and boundary conditions are written in finite-difference form. A nonlinear system of algebraic equations is solved by successive approximations. A method of accelerating the convergence of slowly converging iteration processes is proposed. The effect of the viscoelastic properties of the shell material on its state of stress is investigated with reference to the example of a polymethyl methacrylate shell. The variations of the ring moment and ring forces at the free edge of the shell are plotted for various moments of time, load values, and flatness parameters. It is shown that as soon as the viscosity factor begins to take effect, the state of stress and strain of the shell changes sharply; the concentration of forces and moments increases in the flexible viscoelastic (as compared with the elastic) shell.Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1071–1075, November–December, 1973.     

Numerical analysis of stresses and strains in flexible cylindrical shells with variable rigidity in two directions

The paper analyzes the stress-strain state in a cylindrical shell with variable rigidity in two directions. The shell is analyzed in a geometrically nonlinear framework under different loads and boundary conditions. The proposed approach reduces the nonlinear system of partial differential equations to a sequence of linear systems of ordinary differential equations. The latter are solved by discrete orthogonalization.Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 57, pp. 62–67, 1985.     

Stability of a transversely isotropic cylindrical shell in axial compression

The problem of the stability of a transversely isotropic cylindrical shell subjected to axial compression is considered with the aid of three-dimensional linearized equations for small subcritical strains. Transcendental equations are obtained for the critical loads corresponding to axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric deformation. It is shown that in the case of the axisymmetric buckling mode the Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis is asymptotically exact irrespective of the properties of the material. The dependence of the critical load on the properties of the shell material is investigated numerically. Graphs of the variation of the critical load with relative shear modulus are presented.Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1064–1068, November–December, 1969.     

Stability of shear-compliant cylindrical shells connected with an elastic foundation in a geometrically nonlinear formulation

The effect of transverse shear strains on the stability "in the large" of a cylindrical transversal-isotropic shell with an elastic filler under the effect of axial compression is investigated. The length of the cylindrical shell is assumed to be greater than the diameter. The approximate solution is obtained by the Bubnov-Galerkin method. Such a problem for an isotropic shell was considered earlier in [2, 4] on the basis of the equations of the classical Kirchhoff-Love theory.L'vov Physicomechanical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Ternopol Branch, L'vov Polytechnic Institute. Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 113–117, January–February, 1972.     

The effect of a reinforcing ring on the stress-strain state of flexible cylindrical shells

We investigate the effect of a reinforcing ring on the stress-strain state of a cylindrical shell in the geometrically nonlinear problem with a nonaxisymmetric load on the edge. The nonlinear boundary-value problem is reduced to a sequence of linear problems by the quasilinearization method. The linear problems are solved by the discrete orthogonalization method. The results obtained using linear and nonlinear theory are compared.Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 55, pp. 92–96, 1985.     

波纹壳的格林函数方法

应用轴对称旋转扁壳的基本方程,研究了在任意载荷作用下具有型面锥度的浅波纹壳的非线性弯曲问题·　采用格林函数方法,将扁壳的非线性微分方程组化为非线性积分方程组·　再使用展开法求出格林函数,即将格林函数展成特征函数的级数形式,积分方程就成为具有退化核的形式,从而容易得到非线性代数方程组·　应用牛顿法求解非线性代数方程组时,为了保证迭代的收敛性,选取位移作为控制参数,逐步增加位移,求得相应的载荷·　在算例中,研究了具有球面度的浅波纹壳的弹性特征·　结果表明,由于型面锥度的引入,特征曲线发生显著变化,随着荷载的增加,将出现类似扁球壳的总体失稳现象·　本文的解答符合实验结果·     

Variant of the geometrically nonlinear theory of anisotropic shells with allowance for transverse shear

A very simple variant of the geometrically nonlinear theory of anisotropic shells with allowance for the high compliance of the material in transverse shear is proposed. From this theory there follow, as a special case, the equations for an isotropic shell; these differ from the relations of [2] with respect to terms of the order of the ratio of the thickness of the shell to the radii of curvature small as compared with unity. The equations obtained are used to solve the problem of the stability of orthotropic shells of revolution relative to the starting axisymmetric state of stress.Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 863–871, September–October, 1969.     

A simplified approach to estimating the stress state of flexible cylindrical shells under nonaxisymmetric load

An approach is proposed to approximate numerical analysis of the stress state of a geometrically nonlinear cylindrical shell under an unsymmetric load. An approximate technique is also proposed to reduce the solution of a two-dimensional nonlinear problem of a cylindrical shell with unsymmetric parameters to the solution of axisymmetric problems. A numerical example is considered. Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 58, pp. 61–66, 1986.     

Deformation of viscoelastic thick-walled shells in the post-critical stage

The progressive buckling of a viscoelastic cyclindrical shell with initial imperfections in axial compression is investigated in the geometrically nonlinear formulation. As distinct from previous research, shell deformation curves in the post-critical stage (after snap-through) are obtained for various load levels. The results obtained are in agreement with the experimental data. The experiments show that in the case of thick glass-reinforced plastic shells in the post-critical stage of deformation the material fails by debonding.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 96–99, January–February, 1976.     

Effect of a local load on an orthotropic glass-reinforced plastic shell

The deformation of a layered orthotropic cylindrical shell under a local normal load is investigated on the basis of equations that do not depend on the hypothesis of straight normals. The solutions of the analogous classical problems were analyzed in [3]; a solution based on equations that take transverse shear strains approximately into account was proposed in [4]. The high degree of variability of the state of stress created by local loads indicates that it is quite important to take transverse shear strains rigorously into account in problems of this class. An attempt is made to estimate the error introduced by the hypothesis of straight normals and to calculate the load leading to debonding of the shell.S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 95–101, January–February, 1970.     

双层网格开顶扁球壳的非线性稳定性分析

根据基于等效夹层壳思想的双层网格圆底扁球壳在极坐标下的平衡方程、相容方程,采用修正迭代法,对外边缘滑动固定、内边缘悬空和外边缘夹紧固定、内边缘悬空两种边界条件下,双层网格开顶圆底扁球壳的非线性稳定性进行了分析,得出了非线性载荷 位移关系及临界荷载的解析表达式,并讨论和分析了网壳几何参数对临界屈曲载荷的影响.     

Concerning the critical load for an orthotropic cylindrical shell with a viscoelastic core

The problem of determining the critical load for a cylindrical shell with a viscoelastic core is considered. An expression for the critical load under quasistationary loading is obtained on the basis of a generalization of the Winkler hypothesis.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1049–1053, November–December, 1973.     

The interaction of a system of longitudinal cuts in a closed cylindrical shell taking account of plastic strain

The problem of the limiting equilibrium of a closed cylindrical shell with evenly spaced longitudinal cuts, stated in the context of the analogy with the _k-model of Leonov-Panasyuk-Dagdeil, is reduced to a system of singular integral equations. An algorithm is constructed for the numerical solution of this system. For a shell under internal pressure we study the influence of the number of cuts, the magnitude of the applied load, and the length of a cut on the opening of its ends. Two figures. Bibliography: 4 titles.Translated fromMatematicheskie Metody i Fiziko-Mekhanicheskie Polya, Issue 30, 1989, pp. 50–55.     

Identification of the mechanical characteristics of composite materials from experimental data of shells of revolution

A method is developed for determining the mechanical characteristics of the layer of a shell of revolution made by winding along the geodesic lines. The functions describing the nonlinear elastic behavior of the material are found by analyzing the data obtained from experiments. The equations for unknown parameters and conditions of their solvability in a particular case are obtained.Kazan State Architecture and Civil Engineering Academy, Tatarstan, Russian. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 771–776, November–December, 1998.     

Application of the Averaging Method to the Investigation of Nonlinear Wave Processes in Elastic Systems with Circular Symmetry

We apply asymptotic methods of nonlinear mechanics (the Bogolyubov–Mitropol'skii averaging method) to the construction of approximate solutions of a system of nonlinear equations describing wave processes in elastic systems with circular symmetry. As an example, we study the dynamics of interaction of two flexural waves that propagate in a cylindrical shell under the conditions of free oscillations and periodic excitation.     

Nonlinear parametric vibrations of cylindrical shells made from composite materials

The dynamic properties of a hinged shell made from a composite material and subjected to combined loads are investigated by means of an orthotropic model. The problem is solved by means of the geometrically nonlinear dynamic equations of the theory of sloping shells, set up on the basis of the Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis. Various cases of loading are considered, i.e., the combined action of a longitudinal pulsating load and an external static pressure and also of a pulsating external pressure and a static axial compression. The wave processes at the middle surface are not taken into account. The system of resolvents is obtained by consecutive application of the variation and averaging methods. The results of the calculations are presented graphically and are analyzed in detail.Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 531–539, May–June, 1973.