Finite element computation of torsional plastic waves in a thin-walled tube

Summary  A finite element technique is presented for the analysis of one-dimensional torsional plastic waves in a thin-walled tube. Three different nonlinear consitutive relations deduced from elementary mechanical models are used to describe the shear stress–strain characteristics of the tube material at high rates of strain. The resulting incremental equations of torsional motion for the tube are solved by applying a direct numerical integration technique in conjunction with the constitutive relations. The finite element solutions for torsional plastic waves in a long copper tube subjected to an imposed angular velocity at one end are given, and a comparison with available experimental results to assess the accuracy of the constitutive relations considered is conducted. It is demonstrated that the strain-rate dependent solutions show a better agreement with the experimental results than the strain-rate independent solutions. The limitations of the constitutive equations are discussed, and some modifications are suggested. Received 9 February 1999; accepted for publication 28 March 2000     

自由圆柱壳体在侧向非对称脉冲载荷下的塑性破坏

将壳体作为理想刚塑性材料，给出了两端自由金属圆柱薄壳体承受侧向非对称脉冲载荷下的变形和运动方程。针对矩形脉冲载荷，给出能量损耗分析。极高载情况下，２／３的外部输入能量转化为塑性功，其余的用于壳体的刚体运动。针对复杂结构的自由圆柱壳，能量法用于分析其破坏。理论预测与实验结果吻合较好。     

A sensing-plate method for measuring force and duration of impact in elastic-plastic impact of bodies

A new method for measuring an impulsive force generated at the impact end in collision and the duration of impact is developed. The measurement method is based on a simple structure, here called the special sensing plate, which produces the same effect as strain gages embedded in a solid. The sensing-plate method is confirmed by calibration tests to be effective for measuring not only the impulsive force generated at the impact end of a body but also the duration of the force. The measurement is almost entirely free from disturbance caused by interference from reflected waves. Plastic impact experiments are also performed for pure aluminum bars with several different lengths by impacting them on a sensing circular plate. Impact specimens are shot out from a high-pressure air gun. The time variation of stress at the impact end of the specimen bars colliding with the sensing plate and the duration of impact are measured at various impact velocities. The strain-rate dependent theory of plastic wave propagation is applied to obtain a theoretical prediction of those results. The theoretical predictions have shown to agree well with the observed results. Paper was presented at the 1988 SEM Spring Conference on Experimental Mechanics held in Portland, OR on June 5–10.     

粘性介质上的悬臂梁在冲击载荷作用下的刚塑性动力响应

本文考虑了一个放置在粘性介质上的刚-理想塑性悬臂梁在自由端受冲击载荷时的小变形动力响应。具体讨论了线性粘性介质时矩形脉冲,线性衰减脉冲及瞬时冲击等加载情况,并与无介质解进行了比较,讨论了介质对梁的运动变形模式、最终挠度、能量吸性的影响。     

Dynamic response of a rigid plastic simply supported imperfect beam subjected to a uniform intense dynamic loading

This paper proposes a theoretical analysis for the dynamic response of a rigid perfectly plastic simply supported beam with an imperfection in the midspan cross-section under uniform step, pulse, and impulsive loading when support is assumed to be free to move inward. The complete solutions for an entire dynamic response process are given and the relationship between the distribution of energy dissipated at plastic hinges and the parameter of imperfection is also discussed.     

A Novel Fluid Structure Interaction Experiment to Investigate Deformation of Structural Elements Subjected to Impulsive Loading

This paper presents a novel experimental methodology for the study of dynamic deformation of structures under underwater impulsive loading. The experimental setup simulates fluid–structure interactions (FSI) encountered in various applications of interest. To generate impulsive loading similar to blast, a specially designed flyer plate impact experiment was designed and implemented. The design is based on scaling analysis to achieve a laboratory scale apparatus that can capture essential features in the deformation and failure of large scale naval structures. In the FSI setup, a water chamber made of a steel tube is incorporated into a gas gun apparatus. A scaled structure is fixed at one end of the steel tube and a water piston seals the other end. A flyer plate impacts the water piston and produces an exponentially decaying pressure history in lieu of explosive detonation. The pressure induced by the flyer plate propagates and imposes an impulse to the structure (panel specimen), which response elicits bubble formation and water cavitations. Calibration experiments and numerical simulations proved the experimental setup to be functional. A 304 stainless steel monolithic plate was tested and analyzed to assess its dynamic deformation behavior under impulsive loading. The experimental diagnostic included measurements of flyer impact velocity, pressure wave history in the water, and full deformation fields by means of shadow moiré and high speed photography.     

Transient torsional wave propagation in a transversely isotropic tube

Summary By use of the separation of variables method and the Laplace transformation, the two-dimensional transient torsional wave propagation problem in a transversely isotropic tube is studied when a torque is suddenly applied to its end surface. The results show that, for the discontinuous distribution of the impact shear stress, the region of the 2D stress distribution in a transversely isotropic tube becomes large with the increase of the anisotropy of the material. Received 13 June 1997; accepted for publication 17 June 1998     

部分浸入水中的柔性梁非线性自由振动

研究了浸入水中的柔性梁非线性自由振动,假设其底端具有线弹性扭转弹簧支撑,顶端附有不计体积的集中质量块.推导了梁的运动控制方程和边界条件,由于考虑了大挠度,法向运动和轴向运动是非线性耦合的,使用Morison方程给出了流体力的表达式,利用有限差分法和Runge-Kutta法数值分析了梁在真空中和在水中的自由振动,讨论了参数对振动模态、固有频率等的影响.     

Chaotic and asymmetrical beam response to impulsive load

Both symmetrical and asymmetrical final displacements are observed for elastic–plastic beams under symmetrical impulsive loading. A three-degree-of-freedom Shanley-type model is developed in this study, which is capable of revealing chaotic and asymmetrical responses of an elastic–plastic beam by introducing initial imperfections. To identify the asymmetrical displacement, the beam response is decomposed into three vibration modes. Corresponding modal participation factors are derived based on the displacement of the three-degree-of-freedom beam model. Phase plane trajectories, Poincaré maps and power spectral density diagrams are derived to illustrate both the symmetrical and asymmetrical chaotic vibrations. Numerical simulations using a general-purpose FE code LS-DYNA are carried out for an elastic–plastic beam subjected to impulsive load. The simulation results indicate that the elastic–plastic beam demonstrates chaotic and asymmetrical vibration when the applied impulsive load exceeds a critical value, which agrees with experimental observations.     

Torsional Swelling of a Hyperelastic Tube with Helically Wound Reinforcement

This paper examines the combination of radial deformation with torsion for a circular cylindrical tube composed of a transversely isotropic hyperelastic material subject to finite deformation swelling. The stored energy function involves separate matrix and fiber contributions such that the fiber contribution is minimized when the fiber direction is at a natural length. This natural length is not affected by the swelling. Hence swelling preferentially expands directions that are orthogonal to the fiber. The swelling itself is described via a swelling field that prescribes the local free volume at each location in the body. Such a treatment is a relatively simple generalization of the conventional incompressible theory. The direction of transverse isotropy associated with the fiber reinforcement is described by a helical winding about the tube axis. The swelling induced preferential expansion orthogonal to this direction induces the torsional aspect of the deformation. For a specific class of strain energy functions we find that the twist increases with swelling and approaches a limiting asymptotic value as the swelling becomes large. The fibers reorient such that fibers at the inner portion of the tube assume a more circumferential orientation whereas, at least for small and moderate swelling, the fibers in the outer portion of the tube assume a more axial orientation. For large swelling the fibers in the outer portion of the tube reorient beyond the axial orientation, and so are described by helices with orientation in the opposite sense to that in the reference configuration.      

Application of a Special Yield Stress Strain Rate Law to Structural Impulse Problems

ABSTRACT

This paper presents approximate solutions to the dynamic response of three impulsively loaded structures: a wire with an impulsively loaded end mass, an impulsively loaded circular ring, and a cantilever beam with a tip mass subjected to an impulsive load at its tip. The material is assumed to be rigid, perfectly plastic with strain rate sensitivity. A proposed power law form of yield stress strain rate relationship is used to simplify the theoretical development. Numerical solutions are presented for mild steel and are compared with previously published results. Elastic effects and wave propogations are ignored.     

Predicting buckling loads from vibration data

There are analytical methods for predicting the buckling loads of columns with the boundaries ideally fixed, i.e., simply supported or built-in, or partially fixed. Vibration-test results may furnish a practical method of measuring the fixity. In this investigation a beam, that may or may not be loaded as a column, is assumed to have a torsional spring at each end such that a zero torsional stiffness corresponds to a simply supported end and an infinite torsional stiffness corresponds to a built-in end. From a Rayleigh-Ritz analysis, the buckling load and the fundamental frequency of the beam are each computed as a function of the torsional stiffness. This procedure leads to a one-to-one nondimensional relationship between the buckling load and the natural frequency. From these calculations, it is seen that regardless of the degree of clamping of one end relative to the other end, all that is needed to predict the buckling load within a 15-percent range is a knowledge of the theoretical buckling load of the simply supported column; the theoretical fundamental frequency of the simply supported beam; and the experimental fundamental frequency. Experimental results are presented to support the theory.     

Finite elastic deformations of transversely isotropic circular cylindrical tubes

We consider the finite radially symmetric deformation of a circular cylindrical tube of a homogeneous transversely isotropic elastic material subject to axial stretch, radial deformation and torsion, supported by axial load, internal pressure and end moment. Two different directions of transverse isotropy are considered: the radial direction and an arbitrary direction in planes normal locally to the radial direction, the only directions for which the considered deformation is admissible in general. In the absence of body forces, formulas are obtained for the internal pressure, and the resultant axial load and torsional moment on the ends of the tube in respect of a general strain-energy function. For a specific material model of transversely isotropic elasticity, and material and geometrical parameters, numerical results are used to illustrate the dependence of the pressure, (reduced) axial load and moment on the radial stretch and a measure of the torsional deformation for a fixed value of the axial stretch.     

The impact torsional buckling for the rigid plastic cylindrical shell

By using the energy criterion in[3],the impact torsional buckling for the rigid plastic cylindrical shell is studied.The linear dynamic torsional buckling equations for the rigid plastic shell is drived,and the critical impact velocity is given.     

含缺陷半无限长梁在阶跃载荷作用下的塑性动力特性及失效分析

分析了在任意位置含一缺陷的半无限长梁在自由端受阶跃载荷作用下的刚塑性动力响应,重点讨论了结构响应模式和缺陷处的能量耗散,给出了不同载荷大小和缺陷参数组合下的完全解,所得结果对确定管道结构的动态失效准则有参考价值.     

自由梁受集中质量两点撞击的刚塑性动力响应

对矩形截面自由梁在两端同时受到完全相同的集中质量横向撞击问题进行了理论上的研究 ,通过采用刚塑性的材料模型得到了其动力响应完全解。结合数值方法给出了梁的瞬态变形 ,并讨论了输入能量、质量比等参数对梁的最终变形、能量耗散的影响。针对典型算例将完全解的结果与MSC/Dytran的计算结果进行了比较 ,两者具有合理的近似 ,但理论预测的结果略高估计了梁的最终变形。     

Improvement of a free piston driver for a high-enthalpy shock tunnel

In order to improve the operation of a high-enthalpy free piston shock tunnel its tuned operation was studied analytically and experimentally. First, the piston motion in the free piston driver tube was analytically solved by proposing a simple piston/gasdynamic model, and the tuned operation condition was formulated as an eigenvalue with which the piston has sufficiently high speed at the moment of diaphragm rupture, so as to maintain a constant driver gas pressure, and reduces its speed to come to rest when very closely approaching the end of the driver tube. Second, the result of this analysis was validated by its comparison with experiments which were conducted in the medium-sized free piston shock tunnel HEK installed at the NAL Kakuda Research Center. By observing the detail of piston landing at the end of the driver tube the present tuned operation was found to be successfully achieved with the operating condition given here. Its advantages in improving the pressure recovery factor and in enhancing the stagnation enthalpy were successfully demonstrated. Received 8 June 1997 / Accepted 1 October 1997     

One and two-parameter bifurcations to divergence and flutter in the three-dimensional motions of a fluid conveying viscoelastic tube with D4-symmetry

The loss of stability of the trivial downhanging equilibrium position of a slender circular tube conveying incompressible fluid flow is studied. The tube is clamped at its upper end and free at its lower end. Inbetween the three-dimensional transversal motion is constrained by an elastic support which is considered to beD ₄-symmetric, that is, has the symmetry of the square (Figure 1). Kirchhoff's rod theory and the Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic law are used to derive the tube equations under the assumption of large displacement but small strain.The stability analysis is performed making use of the methods of equivariant bifurcation theory, that is, making use of the symmetry properties of the original system in deriving the amplitude equations of the critical modes. All cases of loss of stability which are possible for generic one-parameter bifurcations and the coincident case of a zero root and a purely imaginary pair of roots are investigated.Dedicated to Professor P. R. Sethna on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday     

Characterizing Torsional Properties of Microwires Using an Automated Torsion Balance

In order to characterize the torsional behavior of microwires, an automated torsion tester is established based on the principle of torsion balance. The main challenges in developing a torsion tester at small scales are addressed. An in-situ torsional vibration method for precisely calibrating the torque meter is developed. The torsion tester permits the measurement of torque to nN m, as a function of surface shear strain to a sensitivity of sub-microstrain. Using this technique, we performed (monotonic and/or cyclic) torsion tests on polycrystalline copper and gold wires. It is found that (i) a size effect appears in both the initial yielding and the plastic flow of torsional response; (ii) a reverse plasticity occurs upon unloading in cyclic torsion response; and (iii) the Hall-Petch effect and the strain gradient effect are synergistic. We also performed cyclic torsion tests on human hairs and spider silk which are natural protein fibers with a different morphological structure to metallic wires. It is shown that the single hair exhibits torsional recovery, and that the spider silk displays torsionally superelastic behavior whereby it is able to withstand great shear strain.     

Harmonic vibrations and waves in a cylindrical helically anisotropic shell

A Kirchhoff-Love type applied theory is used to study the specific characteristics of harmonic waves and vibrations of a helically anisotropic shell. Special attention is paid to axisymmetric and bending vibrations. In both cases, the dispersion equations are constructed and a qualitative and numerical analysis of their roots and the corresponding elementary solutions is performed. It is shown that the skew anisotropy in the axisymmetric case generates a relation between the longitudinal and torsional vibrations which is mathematically described by the amplitude coefficients of homogeneous waves. In the case of a shell with rigidly fixed end surfaces, the dependence of the first two natural frequencies on the shell length and the helical line slope α, i.e., the geometric parameter of helical anisotropy, is studied. A boundary value problem in which longitudinal vibrations are generated on one of the end surfaces and the other end is free of forces and moments is considered to analyze the degree of transformation of longitudinal vibrations into longitudinally torsional vibrations. In the case of bending vibrations, two problems for a half-infinite shell are studied as well. In the first problem, the waves are excited kinematically by generating harmonic vibrations of the shell end surface in the plane of the axial cross-section, and it is shown that the axis generally moves in some closed trajectories far from the end surface. In the second problem, the reflection of a homogeneous wave incident on the shell end is examined. It is shown that the “boundary resonance” phenomenon can arise in some cases.