Unbonded contact between a circular plate and an elastic half-space

The paper concerns the unbonded contact between a thin circular plate of finite radius, governed by Kirchhof or Reissner theory, pressed by means of rotationally symmetric distributed load and its own weight against the surface of an elastic half-space. The contact is assumed frictionless and unbonded. A Hankel transform solution is used for the half-space and the plate deflection is found by inverting the plate equation. The coefficients in a power expansion are obtained by equating plate and half-space deflections at a number of points in the contact region. The variation of contact radius with plate radius, the radius of the uniformly applied load, and the relative stiffness of plate and foundation, is displayed in a series of figures.     

ADHESIVE CONTACT PROBLEM OF AXISYMMETRIC MINIATURE CIRCULAR PLATES WITH CENTRAL RIGID BUMP

Considering the adhesive effect and geometric nonlinearity, the adhesive contactbetween an elastic substrate and a clamped miniature circular plate with two different centralrigid bumps under the action of uniform transverse pressure and in-plane tensile force in theradial direction was analyzed. And an analytical solution is presented by using the perturbationmethod. The relation of surface adhesive energies with critical load to detach the contacted surfacesis obtained. In the numerical results, the effects of adhesive energy, in-plane tensile force, rigidbump size and contact radius on the critical load are discussed, and the relation of critical contactradius with the gap between the central rigid bump and the substrate for different adhesive energiesis investigated.     

Adhesion-induced instabilities in elastic and elastic-plastic contacts during single and repetitive normal loading

Adhesive interaction in spherical contacts was modeled with the Lennard-Jones (L-J) potential. Elastic adhesive contact was analyzed by the equivalent system of a rigid sphere with reduced radius of curvature and a half-space of effective elastic modulus. The critical gap at the instant of abrupt surface contact (jump-in) and separation (jump-out) was determined from the deformed surface profile of the elastic half-space and geometrical relationships. A finite element model of a rigid sphere and an elastic-plastic half-space was used to examine elastic-plastic adhesive contact. Surface adhesion was modeled by nonlinear springs with a force-displacement relationship governed by the L-J potential. The evolution of the interfacial force and the central gap distance as well as the occurrence of jump-in and jump-out instabilities were investigated in terms of the Tabor parameter, plasticity parameter, and dimensionless maximum normal displacement. The force-displacement response due to several approach-retraction cycles was interpreted in the context of elastic and plastic shakedown behaviors using dimensionless parameters.     

Linear Contact Between Plates and Unilateral Elastic Supports*

Abstract

The problem of frictionless linear contact between elastic line supports (beam or Winkler-type) and an elastic plate that is loaded laterally is considered. Contact is called linear if there is no initial gap or no initial pre-force on the potential contact surface. The shear deformation of the plate is taken into account. The contact problem is discretized at points on the potential contact surface. Numerical results are calculated with an optimization algorithm that is based on the force method. The effects of the thickness and Poisson's ratio of the plate and the elastic constants of the line supports are considered. Two loading cases are dealt with: a point load in the middle of the plate and a uniform load over the plate. The plate is rectangular, with side ratios 1 and 2.     

Static analysis of an infinite beam resting on a tensionless Pasternak foundation

This paper addresses the static response of an infinite beam supported on a unilateral (tensionless) two-parameter Pasternak foundation and subjected to complex transverse loads, including self weight. The transfer displacement function method (TDFM) is employed to determine the initially unknown lengths that remain in contact. In contrast to a Winkler Foundation System (WFS), the lift-off points in a PFS (Pasternak Foundation System) are not necessarily at zero displacement but may be determined sequentially through considering the compatibility conditions at the junctions of contact and non-contact segments. After the response of the whole system including the beam and foundation is expressed through the displacement constants of the initial segment, the contact problem is reduced to two nonlinear algebraic equations with two unknowns. The foundation reactions and the internal actions of the beam may also be determined from the displacement response of the system. Two simple cases are solved to illustrate the influence of the foundation stiffness factors and finally, a third example of a beam with several contact segments is presented to demonstrate the application of the TDFM.     

Effect of indenter tip radius on the load deflection behavior of thin plates

The effect of indenter radius on the load-deflection behavior of a clamped, thin isotropic and homogeneous plate is discussed. A depth-sensing nanoindenter was used to apply a transverse load to the plate center and measure the corresponding plate center deflections. The applied stress is assumed to be uniformly distributed over the contact area. This study shows that the central deflection of the plate is insensitive to small changes of indenter tip radius when the normalized indenter tip radius is smaller than about 0.10 (here, normalized indenter tip radius is defined as the ratio of the indenter tip radius to the plate radius). For these small normalized indenter tip radii, the indenter radius effect is the same in both the small (linear) deflection range and in the large (nonlinear) deflection range. Blunt indenter tips help to minimize material nonlinearity in the region of contact due to localized plastic deformation and/or microcracks, allowing geometrically nonlinear deflection data to be obtained in a less ambiguous manner.     

Nonlinear bending behavior of orthotropic Mindlin plate resting on orthotropic Pasternak foundation using GDQM

Rectangular plates resting on elastic foundations are operational activities of large transportation aircraft on runways, footings, foundation of spillway dam, civil building in cold regions, and bridge structures. Hence, in the present work, nonlinear bending analysis of embedded rectangular plates is investigated based on orthotropic Mindlin plate theory. The elastic medium is simulated by orthotropic Pasternak foundation. Adopting the nonlinear strain–displacement relation, the governing equations are derived based on energy method and Hamilton’s principle. The generalized differential quadrature method is performed for the case when all four ends are clamped supported. The influences of the plate thickness, shear-locking, elastic medium constants, and applied force on the nonlinear bending of the rectangular plate are studied. Results indicate that increasing the plate thickness decreases the deflection of the plate. It is also observed that increasing the applied force increases the deflection of the plate. Furthermore, considering elastic medium decreases deflection of the plate, and the effect of the Pasternak-type is higher than the Winkler-type on the maximum deflection of the plate. Also, it is found that the present results have good agreement with previous researches.     

Indentation responses of piezoelectric films ideally bonded to an elastic substrate

The influences of elastic substrate on the indentation force, contact radius, electric potential and electric charge responses of piezoelectric film/substrate systems are investigated by the integral transform method. The film is assumed to be ideally bonded to the substrate and the contact interaction between the indenter and the film is assumed to be frictionless, with three kinds of axisymmetric insulating and conducting indenters (i.e., punch, cone and sphere) considered. Obtained results show that when the ratio of the contact radius to the film thickness is close to zero, the influences of the elastic substrate disappear and the indentation behaviors converge to the piezoelectric half space solutions while the indentation responses approach the corresponding ones of elastic half space as the ratio gets to infinity. The transition between the piezoelectric and the elastic half space indentation solutions for the film/substrate system is quantified in terms of the film thickness and the elasticity of the substrate. Finite element analysis on an insulating sphere indentation is conducted to verify the numerical calculations and good agreement is observed. The obtained results are believed to be useful for developing experimental techniques to extract the material properties of piezoelectric film/substrate systems.     

On the stress concentration around a hole in a half-plane subject to moving contact loads

We study the stress concentration due to a pore in an elastic half-plane, subject to moving contact loading, in the entire range of possible geometrical parameters (contact area/hole diameter, hole depth/hole diameter). Since the number of cases is very large to study with FEM even with modern machines, the use of a recent simple approximate formula due to Greenwood based on the stress field in the absence of the hole is first attempted, and compared with a full FEM analysis in sample cases. To further distillate the effects of the hole distance from the free surface and of the contact area size, the limiting cases are studied of: (i) concentrated load perpendicular to the surface and aligned with the hole centre; (ii) constant unit pressure on the top surface of the half-plane and (iii) hydrostatic load. A full investigation is then conduced for the case of Hertzian load on the surface, and it is seen that the tensile stress concentration is significantly reduced with respect to that of the concentrated load, when the contact area size is of the same order of the hole radius. Results obtained with the approximate Greenwood formula are generally accurate however only if the hole distance from the surface is greater than two times the hole radius.     

基于无网格法的弹性地基加肋斜板频率数值解

为了给实际地基工程中的经济效益提供技术指标参考,应用无网格法计算加肋斜板在地基上的自由振动行为,应用移动最小二乘近似MLS和一阶剪切变形原理描述加肋斜板的位移场,分别建立斜板与肋条的势能泛函,使用Winkler弹性地基模型处理加肋板与地基之间的接触势能。通过斜板与肋条的位移协调关系寻找斜板和肋条节点参数转换公式,确立加肋斜板的自由振动控制方程。本文运用了无网格法的优势,即使肋条位置改变也不需重置网格。与有限元解的对比验证了本文方法的有效性和精确性。     

双参数基础上弹性薄板的中值定理

本文提出了双参数基础上弹性薄板的中值定理并给出了证明。作为一种特殊情况,当地基特征参数 G_p 和 k 趋于零时,获得了 Winkler 基础上弹性薄板的中值定理和二维双调和函数的中值定理。     

The compliance contact model of cylindrical joints with clearances

This paper is concerned with the determination of the normal force-displacement (NFD) relation for the contact problem of cylindrical joints with clearance. A simple formulation for this contact problem is developed by modeling the pin as a rigid wedge and the elastic plate as a simple Winkler elastic foundation. The numerical results show that the normal displacement relation based on Hertz theory is only valid for the case of large clearance with a small normal load, and the NFD relation based on Persson theory is only effective in the case of very small clearance. The proposed approximate model in this paper gives better results than Hertz theory and Persson theory in a large range of clearances as seen from the comparison with the results of FEM. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of (10272002; 60334030). The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

Contact problem of rubber rings with large deformation

A contact problem with friction between a rubber ring with large deformation and a linear elastic thin plate is solved by means of the substructuring technique in this paper. A study of the influence of fractional contact, of the influence of plate thickness on rubber ring’ deformation is presented.     

The axisymmetric double contact problem for a frictionless elastic layer

The general axisymmetric double contact problem for an elastic layer pressed against a half space by an elastic stamp is considered. The problem is solved under the assumptions that the three materials have different elastic properties, the contact along the interfaces is frictionless and only compressive normal tractions can be transmitted across the interfaces, and, in the case of the elastic stamp, the local radius of curvature of the stamp is large compared to the stamp-layer contact radius. The problem is reduced to a system of singular integral equations in which the contact pressures are the unknown functions. The solution is obtained and extensive numerical results are given for three stamp geometries, namely, rigid and elastic spherical stamps, and a flat-ended rigid cylindrical stamp. The results show that in the case of a flat-ended rigid cylindrical stamp the radius b of the contact area between the layer and the subspace is independent of the magnitude P of the total transmitted load and in all other cases b will depend on P.     

Dynamic interaction between elastic thick circular plate and transversely isotropic saturated soil ground

IntroductionThe vibration of the plate on the porous saturated building foundation is a complicateddynamic contact problem.Its consideration is very important in both earthquake and geo-technical engineering.Lots of research works have been done in recent…     

A non-classical Kirchhoff plate model incorporating microstructure,surface energy and foundation effects

A new non-classical Kirchhoff plate model is developed using a modified couple stress theory, a surface elasticity theory and a two-parameter elastic foundation model. A variational formulation based on Hamilton’s principle is employed, which leads to the simultaneous determination of the equations of motion and the complete boundary conditions and provides a unified treatment of the microstructure, surface energy and foundation effects. The new plate model contains a material length scale parameter to account for the microstructure effect, three surface elastic constants to describe the surface energy effect, and two foundation moduli to represent the foundation effect. The current non-classical plate model reduces to its classical elasticity-based counterpart when the microstructure, surface energy and foundation effects are all suppressed. In addition, the newly developed plate model includes the models considering the microstructure dependence or the surface energy effect or the foundation influence alone as special cases and recovers the Bernoulli–Euler beam model incorporating the microstructure, surface energy and foundation effects. To illustrate the new model, the static bending and free vibration problems of a simply supported rectangular plate are analytically solved by directly applying the general formulas derived. For the static bending problem, the numerical results reveal that the deflection of the simply supported plate with or without the elastic foundation predicted by the current model is smaller than that predicted by the classical model. Also, it is observed that the difference in the deflection predicted by the new and classical plate models is very large when the plate thickness is sufficiently small, but it is diminishing with the increase of the plate thickness. For the free vibration problem, it is found that the natural frequency predicted by the new plate model with or without the elastic foundation is higher than that predicted by the classical plate model, and the difference is significant for very thin plates. These predicted trends of the size effect at the micron scale agree with those observed experimentally. In addition, it is shown both analytically and numerically that the presence of the elastic foundation reduces the plate deflection and increases the plate natural frequency, as expected.     

弹性地基上多孔功能梯度材料矩形板的自由振动与临界屈曲载荷分析

多孔功能梯度材料(FGM)构件的特性与孔隙率和孔隙分布形式有密切关系。本文基于经典板理论,考虑不同孔隙分布形式时修正的混合率模型,研究Winkler弹性地基上四边受压多孔FGM矩形板的自由振动与临界屈曲载荷特性。首先利用Hamilton原理和物理中面的定义推导Winkler弹性地基上四边受压多孔FGM矩形板自由振动的控制微分方程并进行无量纲化,然后应用微分变换法(DTM)对无量纲控制微分方程和边界条件进行变换,得到计算无量纲固有频率和临界屈曲载荷的代数特征方程。将问题退化为孔隙率为零时的FGM矩形板并与已有文献进行对比以验证其有效性。最后计算并分析了梯度指数、孔隙率、地基刚度系数、长宽比、四边受压载荷及边界条件对多孔FGM矩形板无量纲固有频率的影响以及各参数对无量纲临界屈曲载荷的影响。     

Contact problem for a ring plate on an elastic half-space. Variational approach

A contact problem of an axisymmetrically loaded flexible ring plate lying frictionlessly on an elastic half-space is considered. The plate subsidences are represented as a power series with unknown coefficients, which are determined by the Rayleigh-Ritz method using the minimum condition for the total strain energy of the plate and the elastic foundation. The method of orthogonal polynomials is used implicitly. Belarussian State Polytechnical Academy, Minsk 220027. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 193–198, January–February, 1999.     

On simplified solutions of contact problems for elastic foundations

In the paper, a method of averaging displacements in a circular area lying in a linearly elastic transversally isotropic foundation is developed for the four modes of motion: vertical, horizontal, rocking and torsional. The corresponding formulae are constructed in a general form which does not depend on the kind of Green functions. For vertical and horizontal modes, uniform load distribution are applied and the simple integral mean is considered, whereas for rotational modes the load proportional to the distance from an axis of rotation is used, and angles of rotation for individual points are averaged with weight of the distance squared. Along with the case of equal radii of circles of loading and averaging, the case of different radii is studied, which allows one to consider contact problems for embedded axisymmetric foundations having the radius varying with depth. As examples the following contact problems are studied: static stiffness for a cone embedded in a homogeneous isotropic half-space in vertical motion, and dynamic stiffness for a disk on a layer resting on a homogeneous half-space for four modes of motion. Comparisons with the corresponding exact solutions are carried out.