空间曲梁单元的扭转修正系数研究

三维空间曲梁有限单元模型是模拟曲梁结构的有效数值方法,可以考虑曲梁的弯扭耦合特性,最为符合曲梁的几何和受力特征.由于有限元法采用梁理论的平截面假定,空间曲梁单元上的扭转剪应力分布与实际曲梁截面上的扭转剪应力不同,从而会导致扭转刚度和扭转变形的计算失真.本文基于剪切应变能等效原理,推导了不同长宽比的矩形截面空间曲梁单元的...     

Nonlinear transverse vibrations of a slightly curved beam carrying a concentrated mass

In this study, a slightly curved Euler Bernoulli beam carrying a concentrated mass was handled. The beam was resting on an elastic foundation and simply supported at both ends. Effects of the concentrated mass on nonlin- ear vibrations were investigated. Sinusoidal and parabolic type functions were used as curvature functions. Equations of motion have cubic nonlinearities because of elongations during vibrations. Damping and harmonic excitation terms were added to the equations of motion. Method of mul- tiple scales, a perturbation technique, was used for solving integro-differential equation analytically. Natural frequen- cies were calculated exactly for different mass ratios, mass locations, curvature functions, and linear elastic foundation coefficients. Amplitude-phase modulation equations were found by considering primary resonance case. Effects of nonlinear terms on natural frequencies were calculated. Frequency-amplitude and frequency-response graphs were plotted. Finally effects of concentrated mass and chosen curvature function on nonlinear vibrations were investigated.     

压电曲梁单元及其形状控制

航空航天等领域对结构形状要求非常严格,利用压电材料的逆压电效应控制结构变形是现代空间结构形状控制中一个很好的选择。本文基于一般曲梁单元,推导了空间压电曲梁单元的方程表达式,主体壳结构与压电单元之间利用约束方程连接。在此基础上进一步采用最小二乘法得到了压电控制单元上的最优电压,实现了压电曲梁单元的变形控制。数值算例表明了...     

空间曲线索的平衡方程及单索几何判定

空间曲线索平衡方程可在理想柔索假定的基础上进行推导,也可以由空间曲线梁平衡方程退化得到。本文给出后者的连续化分析过程并进行了初步的讨论,目的在于将空间曲线索的各种力学模型统一起来。采用理想柔索假定后单索只能是平面曲线,自然坐标系和整体直角坐标系下平面曲线索的平衡方程是等价的。同时,针对以往单索连续化分析中几何判定的不足,基于空间曲线的弧长独立参数概念,指出单根理想柔索本质上为静不定和动不定体系。     

曲线桥分析的精细传递矩阵法

将精细积分与传递矩阵法相结合,提出一种新的精细传递矩阵格式,应用于曲线桥的分析中。与传统的传递矩阵法相比,无需对微分方程组进行求解,只需迭代即可得到所需要的传递矩阵。根据边界条件,得到结构的内力及变形。算例表明,该方法正确有效。     

Experimental evidence of parasitic effects in the shear test on sandwich beams

The present work is an experimental investigation of the standard shear test ASTM C273 carried out on sandwich structures. The goal is to highlight and to quantify some parasitic effects that occur during this test. A suitable optical method providing whole-field measurements has been used to capture the displacement and strain fields during the test. Some parasitic effects have been detected: the steel plates bend during the test, the shear strain reaches zero near the free edges and compressive/tensile strains occur in this zone.     

Cell size effects for vibration analysis and design of sandwich beams

In this work, sandwich beams are studied to reveal the underlying size effects of the periodic core cells for the first time within the framework of free vibration analysis of such an advanced lightweight structure. The energy equivalence method is formulated as a theoretical approach that takes into account the cell size effect. It is compared with the asymptotic homogenization method and direct finite element method systematically to show their consistence and applicability. The accuracy of free vibration responses predicted by the detailed finite element model is used as the standard of comparison. It is shown that the cell size is an important parameter characterizing the cellular core rigidities that influence vibration responses. The homogenization model agrees exactly with the asymptotic solution of the analytical expression of the beam model only whenever the cell size tends to be infinitely small.     

Parametric study of an elliptical fuselage made of a sandwich composite structure

We size the shell thickness of a pressurised elliptical fuselage and analyse the weight gains or savings compared to a circular fuselage. Three fuselage construction cases are analysed: a monolithic construction, a symmetric sandwich with two facesheets of equal thicknesses separated by a lightweight core, and an unsymmetric sandwich with two facesheets of different thicknesses. We develop a proper dimensionless analysis comparing the proposed elliptical fuselage with a circular one for two different scenarios: equivalent cross-section areas and enclosing a similar rectangular box. We apply a semi-analytical thin shell theory to compute the loading due to pressurisation around the circumference of the fuselage cross-section. We select the facesheet thicknesses above and below the sandwich core at every location to minimise weight. The goal is to compute the structural weight gain or penalty that is incurred by replacing a circular fuselage with an elliptical one to resist internal pressurisation in function of the scenario, eccentricity, fuselage diameter, and sandwich core thickness. We find that an elliptical cross-section incurs a significant penalty in terms of necessary facesheet thickness even with an optimised unsymmetric sandwich construction. This penalty can be minimised by keeping the eccentricity low, the loading intensity low and the core thick.     

Analytical modeling of sandwich beam for piezoelectric bender elements

Piezoelectric bender elements are widely used as electromechanical sensors and actuators.An analytical sandwich beam model for piezoelectric bender elements was developed based on the first-order shear deformation theory(FSDT),which assumes a single rotation angle for the whole cross-section and a quadratic distribution function for coupled electric potential in piezoelectric layers,and corrects the effect of transverse shear strain on the electric displacement integration.Free vibration analysis of simply- supported bender elements was carried out and the numerical results showed that,solu- tions of the present model for various thickness-to-length ratios are compared well with the exact two-dimensional solutions,which presents an efficient and accurate model for analyzing dynamic electromechanical responses of bender elements.     

非保守功能梯度弹性组合曲梁的精确模型及其数值解

基于直法线假设,采用可伸长梁的几何非线性理论,建立了功能梯度材料弹性组合曲梁受切线均布随从力作用下的静态大变形数学模型。该模型不仅计及了轴线伸长,同时也精确地考虑了梁的初始曲率对变形的影响以及轴向变形与弯曲变形之间的耦合效应。用打靶法数值求解了由金属和陶瓷两相材料所构成的一种FGM组合曲梁在沿轴线均布切向随动载荷作用下的非线性平面弯曲问题,给出了不同梯度指标下FGM弹性曲梁随载荷参数大范围变化的平衡路径,并与金属和陶瓷两种单相材料曲梁的相应特性进行了比较。     

Exact solution for warping of spatial curved beams in natural coordinates

The purpose of the paper is to present an exact analytical solution of a spatial curved beam under multiple loads based on the existing theory. The transverse shear deformation and torsion-related warping effects are taken into account. By using this solution, a plane curved beam subjected to uniform vertical loads and torsions is analyzed. Accuracy and efficiency of present theory are demonstrated by comparing its numerical results with Heins＇ solution. Furthermore, the effects of the transverse shear deformation and torsion-related warping on deformation of the beam are discussed.     

Natural vibration of a sandwich beam on an elastic foundation

The natural vibration of an elastic sandwich beam on an elastic foundation is studied. Bernoulli’s hypotheses are used to describe the kinematics of the face layers. The core layer is assumed to be stiff and compressible. The foundation reaction is described by Winkler’s model. The system of equilibrium equations is derived, and its exact solution for displacements is found. Numerical results are presented for a sandwich beam on an elastic foundation of low, medium, or high stiffness __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 57–63, May 2006.     

In-plane bending of a beam resting on a rigid rough foundation

Summary The bending of a finite-length beam that lies on a rigid, rough, flat foundation and interacts with it in accordance to the dry friction law is considered. Loading by bending moments applied at the ends of the beam is studied in detail. The problem is found to be a self-similar one. For small moments, the central part of the beam remains undeflected, and the problem reduces to the solution of an infinite system of algebraic equations. Large moments deflect the entire length of the beam, and the problem partly loses its self-similarity. In this case, the problem reduces to the solution of a successively decreasing number of ordinary differential equations along with some algebraical equations. The solution for the latter case provides initial conditions for the former one. This permits to obtain a solution for any value of the moment. Received 5 November 1996; accepted for publication 27 January 1997     

An efficient coupled layerwise theory for static analysis of piezoelectric sandwich beams

Summary An efficient one-dimensional model is developed for the statics of piezoelectric sandwich beams. Third-order zigzag approximation is used for axial displacement, and the potential is approximated as piecewise linear. The displacement field is expressed in terms of three primary displacement variables and the electric potential variables by satisfying the conditions of zero transverse shear stress at the top and bottom and its continuity at layer interfaces. The deflection field accounts for the piezoelectric transverse normal strain. The governing equations are derived using a variational principle. The present results agree very well with the exact solution for thin and thick highly inhomogeneous simply supported hybrid sandwich beams. The developed theory can accurately model open and closed circuit boundary conditions. The first author is grateful to DST, Government of India, for financial support for this work.     

Exact analytical solutions for the local and global buckling of sandwich beam-columns under various loadings

Sandwich structures are widely used in many industrial applications, due to the attractive combination of a lightweight and strong mechanical properties. This compromise is realized thanks to the presence of different parts in the composite material, namely the skins and possibly core reinforcements or thin-walled core structure which are both thin/slender and stiff relative to the other parts, namely the homogeneous core material, if any. The buckling phenomenon thus becomes mainly responsible for the final collapse of such sandwiches. In this paper, classical sandwich beam-columns (with homogeneous core materials) are considered and elastic buckling analyses are performed in order to derive the critical values and the associated bifurcation modes under various loadings (compression and pure bending). The two faces are represented by Euler–Bernoulli beams, whereas the core material is considered as a 2D continuous solid. A set of partial differential equations is first obtained from a general bifurcation analysis, using the above assumptions. Original closed-form analytical solutions of the critical loading and mode of a sandwich beam-column are then derived for various loading conditions. Finally, the proposed analytical formulae are validated using 2D linearized buckling finite element computations, and parametric analyses are performed.     

一维周期性梁结构等效性能计算方法讨论

具有轴向周期微结构的复合梁结构,通常在宏观上简化为一维欧拉-伯努利梁。由于缺乏基于严格数学理论、同时考虑降维及均匀化的等效性能计算方法,已有研究或采用基于平截面假定的弯曲能量近似方法,或采用基于三维周期性介质等效性质的方法。本文首先介绍了基于一维周期性梁的渐近均匀化理论求解新方法,并在此基础上与上述两种方法进行比较。结果表明,基于平截面假定的近似方法忽视了这类梁结构内的三维应力状态,过高地估计了梁的等效性质。     

Solutions of the integral equations for shearing stresses in two-material curved beams

In the same way as shearing stresses for curved beams made of one material, the problem of evaluating the shearing stresses of composite curved beams is also reduced to one of solving the integral equations. Solving directly two integral equations can derive the formulae of shearing stresses, which satisfy not only the equilibrium equations but also the static boundary conditions on the boundary surfaces of the beams. The present analysis will be used to investigate the shearing stresses of a cantilevered curved beam made of two materials, which is loaded by a concentrated force at its free end. The comparison between the numerical results of shearing stresses obtained using the equations developed in this paper and a three-dimensional finite element analysis shows excellent agreement.     

A reduction model for eigensolutions of damped viscoelastic sandwich structures

The aim of this paper is to develop a reduction method to determine the modal characteristics of viscoelastic sandwich structures. The method is based on the high order Newton algorithm and reduction techniques. Numerical tests have been performed in the case of sandwich beams and cylindrical shells. The comparison of the results obtained by the reduction method with those given by direct simulation shows both a good agreement and a significant reduction in computational cost.     

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.     

Large deflections of a beam subject to three-point bending

In this paper, a solution for the equilibrium configuration of an elastic beam subject to three-point bending is given in terms of Jacobi elliptical functions. General equations are derived, and the domain of the solution is established. Several examples that illustrate a use of the solution are discussed. The obtained numerical results are compared with the results of other authors. An approximation formula by which the beam load is given as a polynomial function of beam deflection is also derived. The range of applicability of the approximation is illustrated by numerical examples.