BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD FOR BUCKLING EIGENVALUE PROBLEM AND ITS CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS

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Pinpoint calculation of tooth deflection on spur gear by means of method of complex variables in plane elasticity

This paper ineorporated and developed the method originated by AIDA.TERACCHI. and NAGAMUYA. to which a high value is set presently at home andabroad, in which the stress and deflection of tooth on spurgears are calculated by means ofthe method of complex variables in plane elasticity. In this paper, their approximatesolution was developed to become exact solution. The accuracy of the mapping shape oftooth was increased. It was mentioned that the mapping function was expressed by fivefractional terms. with the mapping error being less than 1%m.A calculating principle wasproposed to find out the displacement of contact point in relation to central line of theadjacent gear tooth affecting the quality of mesh of gears directly.The computer programwas made, and according to the computed results.the figures were given so that thedisplacement of the contact point in the normal direction can be calculated conveniently forengineering calculation.     

Boundary element method for orthotropic thick plates

The fundamental solutions of the orthotropic thick plates taking into account the transverse shear deformation are derived by means of Hörmander's operator method and a plane-wave decomposition of the Dirac δ-function in this papey. The boundary integral equations of the thick plates have been formulated which are adapted to arbitrary boundary conditions and plane forms. The numerical calculation of the fundamental solutions is discussed in detail. Some numerical examples are analyzed with BEM.     

扁球壳的边界元几何非线性分析

本文从壳体位移的三个微分方程出发，采用付立叶积分变换的基本解，利用加权残值法推导了几何非线性边界积分方程。这种基本解的壳体边界元法类似于板的非线性边界元法，各种变量物理意义明确，能方便地处理各种复杂边界条件及有开口情况。文末算例说明本文方法的可行性、收敛性和精确性，并与二变量边界单元法或有限元结果相比较，吻合较好。     

Boundary mixed variational inequality in friction problem

IntroductionThestaticffichonProblemdiscussedinthespaperisakindofnonlinearunilateralboundalvaluePIDbleth.Itiswell-knownthatordinarylinearelliphcboundaryvalueProblemoftencormspondstOCertainlinearvariahonalequahon,theexistenceanduniquenessofitssolutioncanbeobtainedbyusingthein-MilgramtheoremorBabuskatheorem.HoweverthisunilateralboundalvallueProblemcormSPOndstoakindof"dxedvariahonalinequality['J.Sinceitcontainsthenonlinearindifferentialfunchonal,theusuallinearizationmethodsareuseless.Thereby…     

Boundary element method solution of MHD flow in a rectangular duct

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of an incompressible, viscous, electrically conducting fluid in a rectangular duct with an external magnetic field applied transverse to the flow has been investigated. The walls parallel to the applied magnetic field are conducting while the other two walls which are perpendicular to the field are insulators. The boundary element method (BEM) with constant elements has been used to cast the problem into the form of an integral equation over the boundary and to obtain a system of algebraic equations for the boundary unknown values only. The solution of this integral equation presents no problem as encountered in the solution of the singular integral equations for interior methods. Computations have been carried out for several values of the Hartmann number (1 ? M ? 10). It is found that as M increases, boundary layers are formed close to the insulated boundaries for both the velocity and the induced magnetic field and in the central part their behaviours are uniform. Selected graphs are given showing the behaviours of the velocity and the induced magnetic field.     

Two-level stabilized finite element method for Stokes eigenvalue problem

A two-level stabilized finite element method for the Stokes eigenvalue problem based on the local Gauss integration is considered.This method involves solving a Stokes eigenvalue problem on a coarse mesh with mesh size H and a Stokes problem on a fine mesh with mesh size h = O(H 2),which can still maintain the asymptotically optimal accuracy.It provides an approximate solution with the convergence rate of the same order as the usual stabilized finite element solution,which involves solving a Stokes eigenvalue problem on a fine mesh with mesh size h.Hence,the two-level stabilized finite element method can save a large amount of computational time.Moreover,numerical tests confirm the theoretical results of the present method.     

边界元法分析狭长体结构

针对边界元法分析狭长结构时遇到的几乎奇异积分难以计算的困难，将几乎奇异积分划分为两种类型，分别通过分部积分交换把引起积分几乎奇异的参量移至积分号之外，从而建立了一个新的正则化算法，解决了边界积分方程中几乎奇异积分的计算难题。文中用边界元法计算了弹性力学平面问题的狭长结构，算例证明了本法的有效性。     

A boundary element method for a non-linear free surface problem

In this paper a numerical method to compute the wave resistance of a body submerged in a free stream of finite and infinite depth is presented. Non-linear effects on the free surface are taken into account by an iterative procedure; the solution is in the form of a single-layer potential. For the 2D problem, results are shown for both the cases of finite and infinite depth of the fluid domain, with special emphasis on the supercritical flow in which the consistency of the scheme is pointed out. The method is also extended to the 3D case of a spheroid submerged in deep water. All the results presented are compared with experimental data and analytical solutions available in the literature.     

Boundary element method for solving dynamical response of viscoelastic thin plate (I)

I.lntroducti0nThedynamicresponseofviscoelasticstructuresisoneofimportantresearchdirectionsinsolidmechanics.BecauseofthecompIexityoftheconstitutiverelations0fviscoeIasticmaterials,theproblemofsolvingthedynamicresponseisverydifflcult.Therearesomeavailablenu…     

用边界元方法分析复合材料中的裂纹问题

利用层状材料的广义Klevin基本解，建立了计算三维层状材料中的裂纹边界元方法。采用边界元方法中的多区域方法和能反映均匀介质中裂纹尖端应力场和位移场特征的面力奇异单元。裂纹的应力强度因子由裂纹面上的位移经插值计算得到。算例分析表明，本文建议的方法可以获得较高的计算精度。     

An exact element method for plane problem

In this paper, based on the step reduction method^[1] and exact analytic method^[2] anew method-exact element method for constructing finite element, is presented. Since the new method doesn ’t need the variational principle, it can be applied to solve non-positive and positive definite partial differential equations with arbitrary variable coefficient. By this method, a quadrilateral noncompatible element with 8 degrees of freedom is derived for the solution of plane problem. Since Jacobi ’s transformation is not applied, the present element may degenerate into a triangle element. It is convenient to use the element in engineering. In this paper, the convergence is proved. Numerical examples are given at the endof this paper, which indicate satisfactory results of stress and displacements can be obtained and have higher numerical precision in nodes.     

Base force element method of complementary energy principle for large rotation problems

Using the concept of the base forces, a new finite element method （base force element method, BFEM） based on the complementary energy principle is presented for accurate modeling of structures with large displacements and large rotations. First, the complementary energy of an element is described by taking the base forces as state variables, and is then separated into deformation and rotation parts for the case of large deformation. Second, the control equations of the BFEM based on the complementary energy principle are derived using the Lagrange multiplier method. Nonlinear procedure of the BFEM is then developed. Finally, several examples are analyzed to illustrate the reliability and accuracy of the BFEM.     

Electro-mechanical coupling analysis of MEMS structures by boundary element method

In this paper, we present the applications of Boundary Element Method (BEM) to simulate the electro-mechanical coupling responses of Micro-Electro-Mechanical systems (MEMS). The algorithm is programmed in our research group based on BEM modeling for electrostatics and elastostatics. Good agreement is shown while the simulation results of the pull-in voltages are compared with the theoretical/experimental ones for some examples. The project supported by the 973 Program (G199033108) and the national Natural Science Foundation of China (10125211)     

Boundary element analysis for elastic and elastoplastic problems of 2D orthotropic media with stress concentration

Both the orthotropy and the stress concentration are common issues in modern structural engineering. This paper introduces the boundary element method (BEM) into the elastic and elastoplastic analyses for 2D orthotropic media with stress concentration. The discretized boundary element formulations are established, and the stress formulae as well as the fundamental solutions are derived in matrix notations. The numerical procedures are proposed to analyze both elastic and elastoplastic problems of 2D orthotropic media with stress concentration. To obtain more precise stress values with fewer elements, the quadratic isoparametric element formulation is adopted in the boundary discretization and numerical procedures. Numerical examples show that there are significant stress concentrations and different elastoplastic behaviors in some orthotropic media, and some of the computational results are compared with other solutions. Good agreements are also observed, which demonstrates the efficiency and reliability of the present BEM in the stress concentration analysis for orthotropic media. The project supported by the Basic Research Foundation of Tsinghua University, the National Foundation for Excellent Doctoral Thesis (200025) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19902007). The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

Boundary element method to solve torsion problem of cracked cylinder

Separating the discontinuous solution by use of the single crack solution, together with the regular solution of harmonic function, the torsion problem of a cracked cylinder is reduced to solving a set of mixed-type integral equations and its numerical technique is then proposed by combining the numerical method of singular integral equation with the boundary element method. Several numerical examples are calculated which will be useful to engineering practice. The method proposed is characterized by its fine accuracy and convenience for using, which can be extended to the cases of multiple crack.The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

A hybrid/mixed model finite element analysis for eigenvalue problem of moderately thick plates

The buckling and free vibration problems of moderately thick plate are considered in this paper by using the hybrid/mixed finite element model. A modified Reissner principle which only requires C⁰ continuity is derived. No lockling phenomenon is observed. Linear interpolation is used for all independent unknown function. Finally a displacement generalized eigenvalue equation is obtained, in which the stiffness matrix is symmetric and positively definite. The calculated results show that the method proposed is simple, reliable and satisfactory.     

The complex variable boundary element method for solving sandwich plate problems

The objective of this paper is to develop a new complex variable boundary element method for sandwich plates of Reissner's type and Hoff's type. The general solution of Helmhotz equation in complex field is given. Based on the Vekua's complex integral representation of the analytic function, the new boundary integral equations are formulated. The density function in the integral equation is determined directly by boundary element method. Some standard examples are presented, and the results of numerical solutions are accurate everywhere in the plate. The approach presented is only applicable for bounded simply connected regions. The project is supported by the National Science Foundation of China.     

Boundary element method for model analysis of 2-D composite structure

The boundary element method is used for the modal analysis of free vibration of 2-D composite structures in this paper. Since the particular solution method is used to treat the terms of body forces (inertial forces) in the equation of motion, only static fundamental solutions are needed in solving the problem. For an isotropic cantilever beam, the numerical results obtained by using the BEM presented in this paper are in good agreement, with, those of using FEM or other BEM, but this BEM can also be used to analyze problems for anisotropic materials. For simply supported composite laminated beams, the comparisons of the numerical reslts obtained by this method with the analytical results obtained by 1-D laminated beam theory indicate that if the ratio of length/thickness is greater than 20, the results of the two methods are in good agreement, but if the ratio of length/thickness is less than 20, big errors will occur for 1-D laminated beam theory.     

Boundary element method for thermoelastic analysis of three-dimensional transversely isotropic solids

Thermal effects are well known to manifest themselves as additional volume integral terms in the direct formulation of the boundary integral equation (BIE) for linear elastic solids when using the boundary element method (BEM). This domain integral has been successfully transformed in an exact manner to surface ones only in isotropy and in 2D anisotropy, thereby restoring the BEM as a truly boundary solution technique. The difficulties with extending it to 3D general anisotropic solids lie in the mathematical complexity of the Green’s function and its derivatives for such materials. These quantities are required items in the BEM formulation. In this paper, the exact, analytical transformation of the volume integral associated with thermal effects to surface ones is achieved for a transversely isotropic material using a similar approach which the authors have previously employed for the same task in BEM for 2D general anisotropy. A numerical scheme, however, needs to be employed to evaluate some of the new terms introduced in the surface integrals that arise from this process here. The mathematical soundness of the formulation is demonstrated by a few examples; the numerical results obtained are checked by alternative means, including those obtained from the commercial FEM code, ANSYS.