Nonaxisymmetric vibrations of radially polarized hollow cylinders made of functionally gradient piezoelectric materials

The nonaxisymmetric problem of natural vibrations of radially polarized hollow cylinders made of functionally gradient piezoelectric materials is solved. The properties of the material change continuously along a radial coordinate according to an exponential law. The lateral surfaces of the cylinder are free of external tractions and short circuited by electrodes. After separation of variables and representation of the components of the displacement vector in the form of standing circumferential waves, the initially three-dimensional problem is reduced to a two-dimensional partial differential equation problem. By using the method of spline-collocations with respect to a longitudinal coordinate, this two-dimensional problem is reduced to a boundary-value problem for the eigenvalues expressed in terms of ordinary differential equations. This problem is solved by the stable discrete-orthogonalization technique in combination with a step-by-step search method with respect to the radial coordinate. Results were obtained numerically and subsequently analyzed in this paper.     

Free vibrations of axially polarized piezoceramic hollow cylinders of finite length

The problem of the free axisymmetric vibrations of longitudinally polarized piezoceramic hollow cylinders is solved by a numerical analytic method. The spline-collocation method with respect to the longitudinal coordinate is used to reduce the original problem of electroelasticity to an eigenvalue boundary-value problem for ordinary differential equations with respect to the radial coordinate. This problem is solved by the stable discrete-orthogonalization and incremental search methods. Numerical results are presented and the natural frequencies of the cylinders are analyzed for a wide range of their geometric characteristics     

Free nonaxisymmetric vibrations of radially polarized hollow piezoceramic cylinders of finite length

The three-dimensional problem of free nonaxisymmetric vibrations of hollow piezoceramic cylinders with axial polarization is considered. An efficient numerical analytic method to solve boundary-value problems is proposed. The original three-dimensional problem of electroelasticity is reduced to a two-dimensional problem by representing the displacement components as standing circumferential waves. Spline collocation with respect to the axial coordinate is used to reduce this two-dimensional problem to an eigenvalue boundary-value problem with respect to the radial coordinate. This problem is solved by the stable discrete-orthogonalization and incremental-search methods. Numerical results are presented and the natural frequencies of the cylinders are analyzed in a wide range of their geometric characteristics     

Determination of the Inhomogeneous Preliminary Stress–Strain State in a Piezoelectric Disk

The problem of steady radial vibrations of a thin electroelastic hollow disk in the presence of a preliminary inhomogeneous plane stress–strain state is solved. Vibrations are induced by applying a potential difference across the electrodes placed on the end surfaces of the disk. Equations of the vibrations and boundary conditions are formulated. The preliminary stress state corresponding to the solution of the Lam´e problem was investigated. The direct problem of determining the displacement function is solved numerically by the shooting method. The inverse problem of determining a pre-stress parameter from the change in the natural frequency of the disk is formulated and solved. The accuracy of determining the prestressed state for initial data specified with an error is analyzed.     

Using spline-approximation to solve problems of axisymmetric free vibration of thick-walled orthotropic cylinders

The three-dimensional theory of elasticity is used to study the free vibrations of an anisotropic hollow cylinder with different boundary conditions at the ends. The relevant problem is solved by a numerical-and-analytic method. Spline approximation and collocation is used to reduce the partial differential equations of elasticity to a boundary-value problem for a system of ordinary differential equations of high order for the radial coordinate, which is solved using the stable discrete-orthogonalization and incremental-search methods. The calculated results for an orthotropic inhomogeneous cylinder with boundary conditions of several types are presented Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 74–85, October 2008.     

ON THE FREE VIBRATION OF A SUBMERGED FGM HOLLOW SPHERE

The free vibration of a functionally graded material hollow sphere submerged in a compressible fluid medium is exactly analyzed. The sphere is assumed to be spherically isotropic with material constants being inhomogeneous along the radial direction. By employing a separation technique as well as the spherical harmonics expansion method, the governing equations are simplified to an uncoupled second-order ordinary differential equation, and a coupled system of two such equations. Solutions to these equations are given when the elastic constants and the mass density are power functions of the radial coordinate. Numerical examples are finally given to show the effect of the material gradient on the natural frequencies. The project is supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(No. 19872060).     

On the free vibrations of a piezoceramic hollow sphere

The aim of the paper is to analyze the free vibrations of a piezoceramic hollow sphere with radial polarization. Using the cnoidal method and a genetic algorithm solves the equations of a radially inhomogeneous spherically isotropic piezoelastic medium. The Reddy and the cosine laws represent the functionally graded property of material. It is seen that for a piezoceramic hollow sphere, the piezoelectric effect consists in increasing the values for the natural frequencies in the specified classes of vibrations.     

Free axisymmetric vibrations of solid cylinders: numerical problem solving

The problem of free vibrations of a solid cylinder with different boundary conditions is solved using the three-dimensional theory of elasticity and a numerical analytic approach. The spline-approximation and collocation methods are used to reduce the partial differential equations of elasticity to systems of ordinary differential equations of high order with respect to the radial coordinate. These equations are solved by stable numerical discrete orthogonalization and incremental search. Calculated results are presented for transversely isotropic and inhomogeneous materials of the cylinder and for several types of boundary conditions at its ends     

Free vibration analysis of an elliptical plate with eccentric elliptical cut-outs

The elaborated collocation multipole method is employed to obtain a semi-analytical solution, involving proper products of angular and radial Mathieu functions, for the free flexural vibrations of a fully clamped thin elastic plate of elliptical planform containing multiple elliptical cutouts of arbitrary size, location, and orientation. The problem boundary conditions are satisfied by uniformly collocating points on the boundaries, and exactly calculating the normal derivative of plate displacement at the collocation points through use of appropriate directional derivative in each coordinate system. The multipole expansion is truncated to yield a coupled algebraic linear system of equations that is then solved for the nontrivial eigensolutions. Extensive numerical simulations present the first three calculated natural frequencies and the associated deformed mode shapes of an elliptical plate with elliptical/circular cutouts, for a wide range of plate/cutout aspect ratios, and cutout location/orientation parameters. The accuracy of solutions is checked through appropriate convergence studies, and the validity of results is established with the aid of a commercial finite element package as well as by comparison with the data available in the existing literature.     

Finite deformation of an ideal rigid-plastic membrane

We consider finite deformation of a membrane which is a cylinder in the initial state under a pressure uniformly distributed over the inner surface. The problem is solved using the model of deformation of an incompressible rigid-plastic material with full plasticity. Exact analytical relations are obtained for the pressure and kinematic characteristics as functions of the rotation angle of the normal on the contour of the shell. Elongations and displacements are found as functions of the radial coordinate. The time of reaching the maximum value of the external pressure is determined. It is shown that the change in the membrane thickness along the radial coordinate is constant.     

Vibrations of a solid sphere or shell of Functionally Graded Materials

We have solved the equation of equilibrium for torsional vibrations of a sphere in which the density and rigidity are functions of the radial distance and co-latitude. Making use of the particular forms of heterogeneity the exact frequency equations are derived. The work is motivated by the recent research activity on functionally graded materials (FGM), i.e. materials with spatially varying properties tailored to satisfy particular engineering applications.     

Thermal stresses in an elastic sphere containing conical cuts

An axisymmetric thermoelastic problem for a sphere with conical cuts in the poles under the action of a quasi-stationary temperature field depending on the meridional angle and on the sphere radius is solved by a method based on the Castigliano variational principle. Orthonormalized systems of polynomials are used as the coordinate functions. Results of numerical calculations of the stress state of a spherical solid are presented.     

Temperature field of a three-layer sphere

This paper presents a solution of the problem of unsteady heat transfer in a three-layer hollow sphere in a central-symmetric formulation with various time-dependent boundary conditions on the inner and outer surfaces. In each layer of the sphere there is heat release of known intensity which depends on the radial coordinate and time. The solution is obtained by a finite integral transform on the radial coordinate. A numerical solution is presented for one version of the boundary conditions. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 78–84, January–February, 2009.     

Stress Analysis of Rotating Inhomogeneous Transversely Isotropic Hollow Spheres

An approach is proposed to the stress–strain analysis of hollow, arbitrarily inhomogeneous, transversely isotropic, either closed or open spheres that rotate about the axis of symmetry with a constant angular velocity. The stress problem for a rotating single-layer sphere and a segment of a sphere is solved as an example. The distribution of radial stresses and displacements along the radius of the sphere is analyzed depending on thickness variation at arbitrary points of the sphere     

A STUDY OF THE CATASTROPHE AND THE CAVITATION FOR A SPHERICAL CAVITY IN HOOKE’S MATERIAL WITH 1/2 POISSON’S RATIO

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Conditions for Strong Ellipticity of Anisotropic Elastic Materials

We consider the problem of finding the transversely isotropic elasticity tensor closest to a given elasticity tensor with respect to the Frobenius norm. A similar problem was considered by other authors and solved analytically assuming a fixed orientation of the natural coordinate system of the transversely isotropic tensor. In this paper we formulate a method for finding the optimal orientation of the coordinate system—the one that produces the shortest distance. The optimization problem reduces to finding the absolute maximum of a homogeneous eighth-degree polynomial on a two-dimensional sphere. This formulation allows us a convenient visualization of local extrema, and enables us to find the closest transversely isotropic tensor numerically.      

Effect of Irradiation on the Stability and Natural Vibrations of Containment Shells

An approximate approach is proposed to solve the problem on the natural vibrations and stability of an NPP reactor containment. Radiation alters the mechanical properties of such shells and causes volumetric expansion of their material. The problems are solved within the framework of the Timoshenko kinematic hypotheses by reducing shells inhomogeneous throughout the thickness to homogeneous shells with reduced tension–compression, shear, and flexural rigidities     

Vibration analysis of axisymmetric functionally graded viscothermoelastic spheres简

The present study focuses on the analysis of free vibrations of axisymmetric functionally graded hollow spheres. The material is assumed to be graded in radial di- rection with a simple power law. Matrix Frrbenious method of extended power series is employed to derive the analytical solutions for displacement, temperature, and stresses. The dispersion relations for the existence of various types of pos- sible modes of vibrations in the considered hollow sphere are derived in a compact form. In order to explore the character- istics of vibrations, the secular equations are further solved by using fixed point iteration numerical technique with the help of MATLAB software. The numerical results have been presented graphically for polymethyl methecrylate materials in respect of natural frequencies, frequency shift, inverse quality factor, displacement, temperature change, and radial stress.     

The stress state of anisotropic conic shells with thickness varying in two directions

The problem on the stress state of thin layered conic shells consisting of rigidly joint layers is considered. The material of the layers has one plane of elastic symmetry. The thickness of each layer in the meridional direction varies linearly in such a manner that it is proportional to the distance from the axis of rotation to the coordinate surface and varies arbitrarily in the circumferential direction. The desired functions are represented by the product of a power function of the radial coordinate and the unknown function of the central angle in the cross section. This makes it possible to separate out the radial coordinate and to derive the resolving system of ordinary differential equations, which is solved numerically. An example of the solution of a specific problem is given. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 81–88, May, 2000.     

Asymmetric vibrations of an elastic sphere

Historically, the vector Navier equation governing the dynamic response of an elastic, homogeneous, isotropic sphere has been solved using the Helmholtz decomposition of the displacement vector. Further, many of the problems in the literature have been restricted to ones involving axisymmetric geometry. In this presentation, the time-dependent Navier equation is solved using a set of vector spherical harmonics which, previously, has been used primarily in quantum mechanics studies but which seems particularly useful in solving asymmetric problems with nonconservative body forces. Expressions for the displacements, strains, and stresses and a discussion of the vibrations of an elastic sphere are given.Part of the material presented here was developed while the author was on a Developmental Leave at the University of Texas at Austin.