Oscillation of flat layered shells with local elastic supports

The study of oscillation in thin-walled construction elements on elastic supports is of great practical interest. Various aspects of the problems of mechanics arising in this regard have been considered by many authors, especially in recent years. The authors of [4, 8, 13, 14, 17–19, 22] have presented voluminous graphical and tabular material for solid beams with elastic supports and for rectangular plates supported on rigid point supports along the edges and in the inner area; moreover, the authors of [22] present results relating to linear supports and circular plates, while in [5, 13, 18, and 22] the results reported have to do with the forms of the fundamental oscillation. In [5] the elastic bond is modelled by means of a Vinkperovskii foundation with a discontinuous bed coefficient. Cylindrical shells are examined in [1, 6], while in [21], for a spherical shell with elastic supports, an analytical solution is constructed. The authors of [23, 24] investigate the effect of an attached mass and a linear support for a circular and a rectangular plate, and a comparison with experimental data is made for a lower frequency. The close connection between the problems in question with those involving oscillation of shells with attached masses is reflected in [3, 7, 11, 16]. Analysis of the results obtained in the works mentioned above and in others shows that, unlike the case of beam systems, numerical results for plates and shells are significantly more difficult to obtain. Therefore, in the overwhelming majority of publications, thin plates and shells are examined, while to describe the process of their deformation classical models are used; here the supports, as a rule, are assumed to be absolutely rigid. The oscillation of anisotropic and, in particular, layered construction elements on elastic supports with further consideration of the bending rigidity of the latter clearly has not been studied sufficiently, which makes further research in this field timely. The present article examines layered, flat, orthotropic shells on a rectilinear layout, for which a solution of the static problem has been obtained previously [9, 10]. The basic assumptions of the computation method, developed for calculating the stress-deformed state (SDS) arising during driven oscillation of these objects far from the resonance points, as well as for determining the fundamental oscillation frequencies (FOF), are presented. Unlike traditional approaches, this method realizes the possibility of calculating, along with the normal reactions of elastic supports, reactive moments and tangential forces; in describing the movement of the system, the relations of the improved theory of shells are used [2].S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 55–60, February, 1994.     

Nonlinear vibration isolation of a viscoelastic beam

In this paper, the transmissibility of a viscoelastic beam supported by vertical springs is defined by proposing a new vertical elastic support boundary. By contrasting with the viscoelastic beam with rigid vertical supports and the rigid rod with vertical elastic support ends, the necessity of the transmissibility of an elastic structure with vertical elastic supports is proved. In order to approximately solve the steady-state responses of the nonlinear transverse vibration of the viscoelastic beam under periodic excitation, the harmonic balance method in conjunction with the pseudo arc-length method is adopted. The numerical results are calculated to confirm the approximate analytic results. The comparison between the rigid rod and the elastic beam shows that neglecting the bending vibration of the structures will underestimate the frequency range in which the elastic support produces an effective vibration isolation. On the other hand, the comparison between the rigid support and the spring support demonstrates that ignoring the elasticity of the support ends will create a false understanding of the force transmission of elastic structures. In general, this paper presents the necessity of studying the force transmission of elastic structures with elastic supports. Moreover, this paper will become the beginning of the study of the vibration isolation of the elastic structure.     

结构有限元分析中阶跃型弹性约束的一种有效处理方法

本文通过引入弹性约束刚度矩阵和结构位移约束列阵，提出了结构有限元分析中处理阶跃型弹性约束的一种有效方法。该法通过改变弹性约束系数及位移非约束量大小，可方便有效地处理结点常弹性约束，刚性约束，阶跃型弹性的约束及阶跃型刚性约束等问题。     

On a method for determining the fixing conditions for a rectangular plate from the natural frequencies

We prove the duality of solutions for the problem of determining the boundary conditions on two opposite sides of a rectangular plate from the frequency spectrum of its bending vibrations. A method for determining the boundary conditions on two opposite sides of a rectangular plate from nine natural frequencies is obtained. The results of numerical experiments justifying the theoretical conclusions of the paper are presented. Rectangular plates are widely used in various technical fields. They serve as printed circuit boards and header plates, bridging plates, aircraft and ship skin, and parts of various mechanical structures [1–4]. If the plate fixing cannot be inspected visually, then one can use the natural bending vibration frequencies to find faults in the plate fixing. For circular and annular plates, methods for testing the plate fixing were found in [5–7], where it was shown that the type of fixing of a circular or annular plate can be determined uniquely from the natural bending vibration frequencies. The following question arises: Is it possible to determine the type of fixing of a rectangular plate on two opposite sides of the plate from the natural bending vibration frequencies if the other two sides are simply supported? Since the opposite sides of the plate are equivalent to each other, a plate with “rigid restraint—free edge” fixing will sound exactly the same as a plate with “free edge—rigid restraint” fixing. Hence we cannot say that the type of fixing of a rectangular plate on two opposite sides can be uniquely determined from its natural bending vibration frequencies. But it turns out that we can speak of duality in the solution of this problem. Here we observe an analogy with the problem of determining the rigidity coefficients of springs for elastic fixing of a string [8]: the rigidity coefficients of the springs are determined by the natural frequencies uniquely up to permutations of the springs.     

On discrete supports and continued support of structures

There have been several papers dealing with elastic discrete supports of structures. And we are interested in what relation there is between elastic discrete supports and continued support and what difference would result in for dynamic properties of structures under the two kinds of support. Through the present analysis, it is pointed out that natural frequencies reflect a certain proportion of kinetic and potential energies in total energy of a system, and the frequencies can be guaranteed to be invariable in transforming between elastic discrete and continued supports by means of a proper energy equivalence. And the theoretical formulation of beams and numerical results of shells of revolution are presented in this paper.     

Interaction of plane nonstationary waves with a thin elastic inclusion under smooth contact conditions

We solve the problem of determining the stress state near a thin elastic inclusion in the form of a strip of finite width in an unbounded elastic body (matrix) with plane nonstationary waves propagating through it and with the forces exerted by the ambient medium taken into account. We assume that the matrix is in the plane strain state, and the smooth contact conditions are realized on both sides of the inclusion. The method for solving this problem consists in using the integral Laplace transform with respect to time and in representing the stress and displacement images in terms of the discontinuous solution of Lamé equations in the case of plane strain. As a result, the initial problem is reduced to a system of singular integral equations for the transforms of the unknown stress and displacement jumps. To invert the Laplace transform, we use a numerical method based on replacing the Mellin integral by the Fourier series. As a result, we obtain approximate formulas for calculating the stress intensity factors (SIF) for the inclusion, which are used to study the SIF time-dependence and its influence on the values of the inclusion rigidity. We also studied the possibility of considering the inclusions of higher rigidity as absolutely rigid inclusions.     

两端弹性支承输流管道固有特性研究

输流管道广泛应用于航天航空、石油化工、海洋等重要的工程领域, 其振动特性尤其是系统固有特性一直是国内外学者研究的热点问题. 本文研究了两端弹性支承输流管道横向振动的固有特性, 尤其是在非对称弹性支承下的系统固有特性. 使用哈密顿原理得到了输流管道的控制方程及边界条件, 通过复模态法得到了静态管道的模态函数, 以其作为伽辽金法的势函数和权函数对线性派生系统控制方程进行截断处理. 分析了两端对称支承刚度、两端非对称支承刚度、管道长度以及流体质量比对系统固有频率的影响规律, 重点讨论了管道两端可能形成的非对称支承条件下固有频率的变化规律. 结果表明, 较大的对称支承刚度下管道的第一阶固有频率下降较快; 当管道两端支承刚度变化时, 管道的各阶固有频率在两端支承刚度相等时取得最值; 对于两端非对称支承的管道而言, 两端支承刚度越接近, 第一阶固有频率下降的越快, 而且相应的临界流速越小; 流体的流速越大, 其对两端非对称弹簧支承的管道固有频率的影响更为明显.      

Interaction of plane elastic nonstationary waves with an elastic inclusion under complete adhesion

We solve the problem on the interaction of plane elastic nonstationary waves with a thin elastic strip-shaped inclusion. The inclusion is contained in an unbounded body (matrix) which in under conditions of plane strain. It is assumed that the condition of perfect adhesion between the inclusion and the matrix is satisfied. Because of the small thickness of the inclusion we assume that the bending and shear displacements at any inclusion point coincide with the displacements of the corresponding points of its midplane. The displacements on the midplane itself are found from the corresponding equations of the theory of plates. The statement of the boundary conditions for these equations takes into account the forces and moments acting on the inclusion edges from the matrix. The solution method is based on representing the displacements in the space of Laplace transforms as a discontinuous solution of the Lame’ equations for the plane strain with subsequent determining the transforms of the unknown jumps from integral equations. The passage to the original functions is performed numerically by methods based on replacement of the Mellin integral by the Fourier series. As a result, we obtain approximate formulas for calculating the stress intensity factors for the inclusion. These formulas are used to study the time dependence of the stress intensity factors and the influence of the inclusion rigidity on their values. We also study the possibility of treating inclusions of high rigidity as absolutely rigid inclusions.     

Nonlinear analysis and buckling of elastically supported circular shallow arches

Arches are often supported elastically by other structural members. This paper investigates the in-plane nonlinear elastic behaviour and stability of elastically supported shallow circular arches that are subjected to a radial load uniformly distributed around the arch axis. Analytical solutions for the nonlinear behaviour and for the nonlinear buckling load are obtained for shallow arches with equal or unequal elastic supports. It is found that the flexibility of the elastic supports and the shallowness of the arch play important roles in the nonlinear structural response of the arch. The limiting shallownesses that distinguish between the buckling modes are obtained and the relationship of the limiting shallowness with the flexibility of the elastic supports is established, and the critical flexibility of the elastic radial supports is derived. An arch with equal elastic radial supports whose flexibility is larger than the critical value becomes an elastically supported beam curved in elevation, while an arch with one rigid and one elastic radial support whose flexibility is larger than the critical value still behaves as an arch when its shallowness is higher than a limiting shallowness. Comparisons with finite element results demonstrate that the analytical solutions and the values of the critical flexibility of the elastic supports and the limiting shallowness of the arch are valid.     

Generalized Timoshenko–Reissner model for a multilayer plate

A multilayer plate with isotropic (or transversally isotropic) layers strongly differing in rigidity is considered. This plate is reduced to an equivalent homogeneous transversally isotropic Timoshenko–Reissner plate whose deflections and free transverse vibration frequencies are close to those of the multilayer plate. By comparison with the exact solution of test three-dimensional problems of elasticity, the error of the proposed method is estimated both for the static problem and for free vibrations. This comparison can readily be carried out for the hinged edges of the plate, and explicit approximate formulas are obtained for the vibration frequencies. The scope of the proposed model turned out to be rather wide (the Young moduli of soft and rigid layers can differ by a factor of 1000). In the case of boundary conditions other than hinged support, a closed-form solution cannot be constructed in general. For rigidly fixed edges, the asymptotic method proposed by V. V. Bolotin is generalized to the case of a Timoshenko–Reissner plate.     

Exact boundary controllability of a hybrid system of elasticity

A hybrid control system is presented: an elastic beam, governed by a partial differential equation, linked to a rigid body which is governed by an ordinary differential equation and to which control forces and torques are applied. The entire system, elastic beam plus rigid body, is proved to be exactly controllable by smooth open-loop controllers applied to the rigid body only, and in arbitrarily short durations. This system is modeled as a two-dimensional space-structure.This research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS 84-13129, and Markus also received support from SERC.     

Vibrations of shallow shells that are circular in plan and have local supports

The paper deals with vibrations of doubly curved shallow shells that are circular in plan and are reinforced by local rod-type supporting elements or cylindrical shells. The coefficients of the frequency equation are found by using numerical-analytical methods to solve boundary-value problems for fixed values of frequency. The natural frequencies and modes of vibration of a system composed of a shell and elastic supports are determined in the course of solving the problem. It is shown that it is possible to also account for reactive moments and shearing forces, in addition to the normal reactions of an elastic support. The potential of the approach which is developed is illustrated by the solution of specific problems. Special Design Office of the S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 69–75, March, 1999.     

Acoustic scattering from baffled membranes that are backed by elastic cavities

An elastic membrane backed by a fluid-filled cavity in an elastic body is set into an infinite plane baffle. A time harmonic wave propagating in the acoustic fluid in the upper half-space is incident on the plane. It is assumed that the densities of this fluid and the fluid inside the cavity are small compared with the densities of the membrane and of the elastic walls of the cavity, thus defining a small parameter . Asymptotic expansions of the solution of this scattering problem as →0, that are uniform in the wave number k of the incident wave, are obtained using the method of matched asymptotic expansions. When the frequency of the incident wave is bounded away from the resonant frequencies of the membrane, the cavity fluid, and the elastic body, the resultant wave is a small perturbation (the “outer expansion”) of the specularly reflected wave from a completely rigid plane. However, when the incident wave frequency is near a resonant frequency (the “inner expansion”) then the scattered wave results from the interaction of the acoustic fluid with the membrane, the membrane with the cavity fluid, and finally the cavity fluid with the elastic body, and the resulting scattered field may be “large”. The cavity backed membrane (CBM) was previously analyzed for a rigid cavity wall. In this paper, we study the effects of the elastic cavity walls on modifying the response of the CBM. For incident frequencies near the membrane resonant frequencies, the elasticity of the cavity gives only a higher order (in ) correction to the scattered field. However, near a cavity fluid resonant frequency, and, of course, near an elastic body resonant frequency the elasticity contributes to the scattered field. The method is applied to the two dimensional problem of an infinite strip membrane backed by an infinitely long rectangular cavity. The cavity is formed by two infinitely long rectangular elastic solids. We speculate on the possible significance of the results with respect to viscoelastic membranes and viscoelastic instead of elastic cavity walls for surface sound absorbers.     

无网格法在点弹性支承矩形薄板横向振动中的应用

基于薄板理论和弹性动力学Hamilton原理的推广,采用无网格伽辽金法,建立了具有有限多个点弹性支承的弹性矩形薄板横向振动的无量纲量运动微分方程,给出了其特征方程。通过求解特征方程,得出了四边简支板的无量纲固有频率随点弹性支承的刚性系数和支承位置的变化曲线,分析了点弹性支承的刚性系数和支承位置对矩形薄板横向振动特性的影响。数值计算结果表明,无网格法求解点弹性支承板横向振动问题是切实可行的。     

Timoshenko inclusions in elastic bodies crossing an external boundary at zero angle

The paper concerns an analysis of equilibrium problems for 2D elastic bodies with a thin Timoshenko inclusion crossing an external boundary at zero angle. The inclusion is assumed to be delaminated, thus forming a crack between the inclusion and the body. We consider elastic inclusions as well as rigid inclusions. To prevent a mutual penetration between the crack faces, inequality type boundary conditions are imposed at the crack faces.Theorems of existence and uniqueness are established. Passages to limits are investigated as a rigidity parameter of the elastic inclusion going to infinity.     

弹性支承条件下车-桥体系的振动分析

本文研究弹性支承条件下车-桥体系的动力分析方法。给出了弹性支承桥梁和车体的振动方程并通过对具有弹性支座简支梁主振动的分析，得出了梁主振型的解析公式。分析计算了上海高架轨道交通典型区段具有弹性支座高架梁的主振型，并利用龙格-库塔法分析计算了车-桥体系在列车通过时的桥梁和车体的振动。计算结果表明，在上海高架轨道交通实际计算参数条件下，考虑支座弹性后桥梁和车体的振动与刚性支承梁的情况相比变化不明显。本文还计算分析了不同橡胶减震支座的刚度及考虑减震支座后系统阻尼比增大等因素对高架梁振动反应的影响，得出一些有益的结论。     

线弹性幂强化材料平面杆系弹塑性分析的数值解

各杆任意铰接在一个刚体上的平面杆系是一种比较复杂的杆系结构,某些其它类型的平面杆系常常可以看作是它的特例。本文将材料的本构关系描述为线性幂强化形式,推导出了该类平面杆系结构弹塑性分析的普遍表达式,编制了通用程序,使这一类问题有了一个通用的解题方法。     

Stability of a pipeline section with an elastic support

We systematically study the stability of a pipeline section filled with a moving nonviscous fluid. The computational scheme of the pipeline is a rod one of whose ends is rigidly fixed and the other is elastically supported. For the problem parameters we take the fluid relative mass, the fluid flow rate, and the rigidity of the elastic support. We study the dynamic buckling frequencies and modes for various critical values of the parameters and the behavior of characteristic exponents on the complex plane. We also analyze the influence of the elastic support on the position of the stability region boundaries and on the type of buckling in the transition to a critical state.     

Analysis of the stress-strain state of an anisotropic plate with an elliptic hole and thin elastic inclusions

We solve the problem of determining the stress-strain state of an anisotropic plate with an elliptic hole and a system of thin rectilinear elastic inclusions. We assume that there is a perfect mechanical contact between the inclusions and the plate. We deal with a more precise junction model with the flexural rigidity of inclusions taken into account. (The tangential and normal stresses, as well as the derivatives of the displacements, experience a jump across the line of contact.) The solution of the problem is constructed in the form of complex potentials automatically satisfying the boundary conditions on the contour of the elliptic hole and at infinity. The problem is reduced to a system of singular integral equations, which is solved numerically. We study the influence of the rigidity and geometry parameters of the elastic inclusions on the stress distribution and value on the contour of the hole in the plate. We also compare the numerical results obtained here with the known data.     

Effect of the physical nonlinearity of a material on the stress state of a medium with an elastic spherical inclusion under uniform loading

We have used the perturbation method as the basis for obtaining an approximate solution of the three-dimensional problem for a physically nonlinear elastic medium with an elastic inclusion under uniform tension— compression. From this solution, we can obtain as a special case a solution for an elastic medium with a stress-free cavity and for an elastic medium with a rigid inclusion. We have plotted the normal and tangential stresses as a function of the radius and the ratio of shear moduli for the inclusion and the medium. We have investigated their behavior under different loading conditions. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 46–51, November, 1998.