Timoshenko curved beam bending solutions in terms of Euler-Bernoulli solutions

Summary  This paper presents the exact relationships between the deflections and stress resultants of Timoshenko curved beams and that of the corresponding Euler-Bernoulli curved beams. The curved beams considered are of rectangular cross sections and constant radius of curvature. They may have any combinations of classical boundary conditions, and are subjected to any loading distribution that acts normal to the curved beam centreline. These relationships allow engineering designers to directly obtain the bending solutions of Timoshenko curved beams from the familiar Euler-Bernoulli solutions without having to perform the more complicated shear deformation analysis. Accepted for publication 26 July 1996     

Bending of annular sectorial Mindlin Plates using Kirchhoff results

This study is concerned with the elastic bending problem of a class of annular sectorial plates whose radial edges are simply supported. Exact bending relationships between the Mindlin plate results and the corresponding Kirchhoff plate solutions have been derived based on the concept of load equivalence. These bending relationships facilitate the deduction of thick (Mindlin) plate results from the corresponding classical thin (Kirchhoff) plate solutions, thus bypassing the need to solve the more complicated governing equations of thick plates. The correctness of the relationships is established by solving the bending problem of annular sectorial plates under a uniformly distributed load and comparing the results with existing thick plate solutions.     

经典理论与一阶理论之间简支梁特征值的解析关系

利用Euler-Bernoulli梁理论(EBT)和Timoshenko梁理论(一阶理论,TBT)之间,梁的特征值问题在数学上的相似性,研究了不同梁理论之间特征值的关系。将特征值问题的求解转化为一个代数方程的求解,并导出了不同梁理论之间梁的特征值之间的精确解析关系。因此,只要已知梁的经典结果(临界载荷和固有频率),便很容易从这些关系中获得一阶梁理论下的相应结果。这些解析结果清楚地显示了横向剪切变形对经典结果影响的本质特点。另外,从这些关系中获得的含有剪切变形影响的结果,可以用于检验一阶理论下梁特征值数值结果的有效性、收敛性以及精确性等问题。     

饱和多孔弹性Timoshenko梁的大挠度分析

基于微观不可压饱和多孔介质理论和弹性梁的大挠度变形假设,考虑梁剪切变形效应,在梁轴线不可伸长和孔隙流体仅沿轴向扩散的限定下,建立了饱和多孔弹性Timoshenko梁大挠度弯曲变形的非线性数学模型.在此基础上,利用Galerkin截断法,研究了两端可渗透简支饱和多孔Timoshenko梁在突加均布横向载荷作用下的拟静态弯曲,给出了饱和多孔 Timoshenko梁弯曲变形时固相挠度、弯矩和孔隙流体压力等效力偶等随时间的响应.比较了饱和多孔Timoshenko梁非线性大挠度和线性小挠度理论以及饱和多孔 Euler-Bernoulli梁非线性大挠度理论的结果,揭示了他们间的差异,指出当无量纲载荷参数q＞l0时,应采用饱和多孔Timoshenko梁或Euler-Bernoulli梁的大挠度数学模型进行分析,特别的,当梁长细比λ＜30时,应采用饱和多孔Timoshenko梁大挠度数学模型进行分析.     

铁木辛柯梁中的卸载弯曲波及二次断裂

半无限长梁承受恒定弯矩作用后, 如果自由端的初始弯矩突然释放, 将在梁中激发出一列卸载弯曲应力波. 采用铁木辛柯梁和瑞利梁来研究突然卸载所激发出的弯曲波的传播特征. 利用拉普拉斯变换方法进行分析, 首先推导出铁木辛柯梁和瑞利梁中的卸载弯曲波的像函数解析解, 采用数值反变换方法给出了时域上波传播的响应解, 并研究了梁中各点的横向位移、弯矩和剪力随时间的变化规律. 计算结果表明: 与简化的欧拉梁不同, 旋转惯性的引入使铁木辛柯梁和瑞利梁中的弯曲波传播具有强烈的局部化效应, 特别是梁中各点经历的弯矩变化, 和其距离自由端的位置相关, 不同时刻的弯矩峰值大小不同;瑞利梁中离自由端不同距离各点的峰值弯矩先增大后降低, 最后达到一个渐近值;铁木辛柯梁中各点的峰值弯矩总体上随着时间单调增大到同一个渐近值, 该渐近值与欧拉梁中的峰值弯矩值相同, 均为1.43.切应力效应的引入进一步降低了铁木辛柯梁中卸载弯曲波的波速, 同时也使得铁木辛柯梁中弯矩峰值的最大值小于瑞利梁中的最大值. 对于脆性细长梁的纯弯曲断裂, 铁木辛柯梁可以较好地预测二次断裂的发生位置, 相应的碎片尺寸约为7倍梁横截面厚度.      

Asymptotic frequencies of various damped nonlocal beams and plates

A striking difference between the conventional local and nonlocal dynamical systems is that the later possess finite asymptotic frequencies. The asymptotic frequencies of four kinds of nonlocal viscoelastic damped structures are derived, including an Euler–Bernoulli beam with rotary inertia, a Timoshenko beam, a Kirchhoff plate with rotary inertia and a Mindlin plate. For these undamped and damped nonlocal beam and plate models, the analytical expressions for the asymptotic frequencies, also called the maximum or escape frequencies, are obtained. For the damped nonlocal beams or plates, the asymptotic critical damping factors are also obtained. These quantities are independent of the boundary conditions and hence simply supported boundary conditions are used. Taking a carbon nanotube as a numerical example and using the Euler–Bernoulli beam model, the natural frequencies of the carbon nanotubes with typical boundary conditions are computed and the asymptotic characteristics of natural frequencies are shown.     

Thick Lévy plates re-visited

This paper is concerned with the bending problem of Lévy plates which are simply supported on two opposite edges with any combination of simply supported, clamped or free conditions at the remaining two edges. This study attempts to solve thick Lévy plate problems in a novel way by establishing bending relationships that allow the prediction of Mindlin plate results using the corresponding Kirchhoff solutions. Based on the concept of load equivalence, these relationships obviate the need for complicated thick plate analyses that involve significant computation time and effort. Numerical plate solutions are then determined from these relationships and the validity of these results is verified using other known results and those generated using the abaqus software. It is through this study that the only analytical Mindlin plate solutions by Cooke and Levinson (Int. J. Mech. Sci. 25 (1983) 207) are found to contain errors. In this study, it is found that there are important distinctions between the Mindlin and Reissner plate theories. These differences will also be substantiated by numerical comparison.     

Theoretical analysis on elastic buckling of nanobeams based on stress-driven nonlocal integral model

Several studies indicate that Eringen’s nonlocal model may lead to some inconsistencies for both Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beams, such as cantilever beams subjected to an end point force and fixed-fixed beams subjected a uniform distributed load. In this paper, the elastic buckling behavior of nanobeams, including both EulerBernoulli and Timoshenko beams, is investigated on the basis of a stress-driven nonlocal integral model. The constitutive equations are the Fredholm-type integral equati...     

Configuration Design Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Systems with Elastic Material*

ABSTRACT

A continuum-based design sensitivity analysis (DSA) method is presented for configuration design of nonlinear structural systems using Mindlin plate and Tim-oshenko beam theories. Both displacement and critical load performance measures are considered. Configuration design variables are characterized by shape and orientation changes of structural components. The material derivative that is used to develop the continuum-based shape DSA method is extended to account for effects of configuration design variation. The piecewise linear design velocity field, i.e., C⁰-regular, is used to support configuration design changes for a broad class of built-up structures with beams and plates. To allow use of the C⁰-design velocity field, mathematical models of beam and plate bending must be second-order partial differential equations, so that only first-order derivatives appear in the integrand of the energy equation and, thus, in the integrand of the configuration design sensitivity expression. Since the Mindlin plate and Timoshenko beam theories use displacement and rotation to describe structural response, mathematical models of beam and plate bending are reduced to second-order partial differential equations. The isoparametric finite element formulations are used for numerical evaluation of continuum design sensitivity expressions.     

Instability analysis of vibrations of a uniformly moving mass in one and two-dimensional elastic systems

The stability of vertical vibrations of a mass moving uniformly over four different elastic systems has been considered: an Euler–Bernoulli beam, a Kirchhoff plate, a Timoshenko beam and a Mindlin plate that are resting on a linear elastic foundation. It is shown that this vibration can become unstable. Using the fundamental solution approach, the characteristic equation for the vertical vibration of the moving mass is obtained. Starting from the laws of the conservation of energy and momentum the variation of the mass kinetic energy is derived. With the help of this relation, the physical mechanism of instability is discussed.     

基于等效黏性弹簧的黏弹性Timoshenko裂纹梁弯曲解析解

考虑裂纹的缝隙和黏性效应,将梁中横向裂纹等效为黏弹性扭转弹簧,利用广义Delta函数,给出了Laplace变换域内裂纹梁的等效抗弯刚度,得到了具有任意开闭裂纹数目且满足标准线性固体黏弹性本构的Timoshenko梁在时间域内的弯曲变形显式解析通解．在此基础上,通过两个数值算例,分析了时间、梁跨高比和裂纹深度等参数对黏弹性Timoshenko开裂纹梁弯曲变形的影响．结果表明：裂纹黏性对Timoshenko裂纹梁的弯曲具有显著的影响．相比于裂纹的弹性扭转弹簧模型,考虑裂纹黏性效应的黏弹性Timoshenko裂纹梁在裂纹处挠度尖点和转角跳跃现象十分明显．另外,由于横向剪切引起的附加变形,Timoshenko裂纹梁的稳态挠度与Euler-Bernoulli梁挠度的差值为常数,其大小与裂纹模型、梁跨高比或裂纹深度无关,这些结果对梁裂纹无损检测具有指导意义．     

应变梯度Mindlin板边值问题的讨论

实验和分子动力学计算结果表明,当材料/结构的特征尺寸降为微纳米量级时,他们将表现出明显的尺度效应,因此能否建立精确表征其力学行为的连续介质力学模型具有重要的理论和现实意义.尽管现有文献对非经典Mindlin板的力学行为进行了大量研究,但该模型的变分自洽的边值问题是近年来未攻克的科学问题之一.基于简化的应变梯度理论给出了各向同性Mindlin板应变能的表达式,通过变分原理和张量分析,得到了Mindlin板变分自洽的边值问题及其对应角点条件的位移微分表达式.本文Mindlin板模型的边值问题可退化为相应的Timoshenko梁和Kirchhoff板模型的边值问题,验证了本文结果的有效性.研究结果发现,该Mindlin板模型的控制方程是一个解耦后横向振动具有12阶的偏微分方程,因此需要每个板边提供6个边界条件.角点条件由双应力(double stress)产生,并与经典的剪力、弯矩和扭矩沿截面的法向梯度有关.本文首次澄清了应变梯度Mindlin板存在角点条件这一事实,所得的变分结果有望为其有限元法和伽辽金法等数值方法提供理论依据.     

A Bending-Gradient model for thick plates,Part II: Closed-form solutions for cylindrical bending of laminates

In the first part (Lebée and Sab, 2010a) of this two-part paper we have presented a new plate theory for out-of-plane loaded thick plates where the static unknowns are those of the Kirchhoff–Love theory (3 in-plane stresses and 3 bending moments), to which six components are added representing the gradient of the bending moment. The new theory, called Bending-Gradient plate theory is an extension to arbitrarily layered plates of the Reissner–Mindlin plate theory which appears as a special case when the plate is homogeneous. Moreover, we demonstrated that, in the general case, the Bending-Gradient model cannot be reduced to a Reissner–Mindlin model. In this paper, the Bending-Gradient theory is applied to laminated plates and its predictions are compared to those of Reissner–Mindlin theory and to full 3D (Pagano, 1969) exact solutions. The main conclusion is that the Bending-Gradient gives good predictions of deflection, shear stress distributions and in-plane displacement distributions in any material configuration. Moreover, under some symmetry conditions, the Bending-Gradient model coincides with the second-order approximation of the exact solution as the slenderness ratio L/h goes to infinity.     

不可压饱和多孔Timoshenko梁动力响应的数学模型

基于饱和多孔介质理论,假定孔隙流体仅沿梁的轴向运动,本文建立了横观各向同性饱和多孔弹性Timoshenko梁动力响应的一维数学模型,通过不同的简化,该模型可分别退化为饱和多孔梁的Euler-Bernoulli模型、Rayleigh模型和Shear模型等。研究了两端可渗透Timoshenko简支梁自由振动的固有频率、衰减率和阶梯载荷作用下的动力响应特征,给出了梁弯曲时挠度、弯矩以及孔隙流体压力等效力偶等随时间的响应曲线,并与饱和多孔Euler-Bernoulli简支梁响应进行了比较,考察了固相与流相相互作用系数、梁长细比等的影响。可见,固相骨架与孔隙流体的相互作用具有粘性效应,随着作用系数的增加,梁挠度振动幅值衰减加快,并最终趋于静态响应,Euler-Bernoulli梁的挠度幅值和振动周期小于Timoshenko梁的挠度幅值和周期,而Euler-Bernoulli梁的弯矩极限值等于Timoshenko梁的弯矩极限值。     

Application of Lie transformation group methods to classical linear theories of rods and plates

In the present paper, a class of partial differential equations governing various rod and plate theories of Bernoulli–Euler and Poisson–Kirchhoff type is studied by Lie transformation group methods. A system of equations determining the generators of the admitted point Lie groups (symmetries) is derived and the general statement of the associated group-classification problem is given. A simple relation is deduced allowing to recognize easily the variational symmetries among the “ordinary” symmetries of a self-adjoint equation of the class examined. Explicit formulae for the conserved currents of the corresponding (via Bessel-Hagen’s extension of Noether’s theorem) conservation laws are suggested. Solutions of group-classification problems are given for subclasses of equations of the foregoing type governing stability and vibration of rods, fluid conveying pipes and plates resting on variable elastic foundations. The obtained group-classification results are used to derive conservation laws and group-invariant solutions readily applicable in rod dynamics and plate statics and dynamics. New generalized symmetries and conservation laws for the theories of Timoshenko beams, Reissner–Mindlin plates and three-dimensional elastostatics are presented.     

Higher-order shear beam theories and enriched continuum

The buckling of higher-order shear beam-columns is studied in the light of enriched continuum. We show the equivalence between the enriched kinematics of usual higher-order shear beam theories with the nonlocal and gradient nature of the associated constitutive law. These equivalences are useful for a hierarchical classification of usual beam theories comprising Euler-Bernoulli beam theory, Timoshenko and third-order shear beam theories. A consistent variationnally presentation is derived for all generic theories, leading to meaningful buckling solutions. It is shown that Timoshenko or some other higher-order shear theories can be considered as nonlocal or gradient Euler-Bernoulli theories. The buckling problem of a third-order shear beam-column is analytically studied and treated in the framework of gradient elasticity Timoshenko theory. Some different gradient elasticity Timoshenko models are presented at the end of the paper with available buckling solutions for repetitive structures and microstructured beams.     

Generalized solutions of beams with jump discontinuities on elastic foundations

Summary  The bending solutions of the Euler–Bernoulli and the Timoshenko beams with material and geometric discontinuities are developed in the space of generalized functions. Unlike the classical solutions of discontinuous beams, which are expressed in terms of multiple expressions that are valid in different regions of the beam, the generalized solutions are expressed in terms of a single expression on the entire domain. It is shown that the boundary-value problems describing the bending of beams with jump discontinuities on discontinuous elastic foundations have more compact forms in the space of generalized functions than they do in the space of classical functions. Also, fewer continuity conditions need to be satisfied if the problem is formulated in the space of generalized functions. It is demonstrated that using the theory of distributions (i.e. generalized functions) makes finding analytical solutions for this class of problems more efficient compared to the traditional methods, and, in some cases, the theory of distributions can lead to interesting qualitative results. Examples are presented to show the efficiency of using the theory of generalized functions. Received 6 June 2000; accepted for publication 24 October 2000     

A comparative analysis of Mindlin and Kirchhoff bending solutions for nonlinearly tapered annular plate with free edges

In this study, we consider the problem of nonlinearly tapered annular plate with a free edge. The supported edge may be simply supported, clamped or elastically restrained against rotation. Exact expressions of deflection, moment-resultants, and stresses are presented for nonuniform thickness. We compare the results of the Kirchhoff plate theory and the Mindlin plate theory. It is shown that the Kirchhoff plate theory and the Mindlin plate theory provide approximately the same results for the positive values of the thickness factor, but the difference between the deflections diverges as the thickness increases at the inner edge. We also propose that the Kirchhoff plate theory may be used in the region of −0.4 ≤ α < 1 and the Mindlin plate theory must be used for α < −0.4.     

Dynamic stiffness method for free vibration of an axially moving beam with generalized boundary conditions

Axially moving beams are often discussed with several classic boundary conditions, such as simply-supported ends, fixed ends, and free ends. Here, axially moving beams with generalized boundary conditions are discussed for the first time. The beam is supported by torsional springs and vertical springs at both ends. By modifying the stiffness of the springs, generalized boundaries can replace those classical boundaries.Dynamic stiffness matrices are, respectively, established for axially moving Timoshenko beams and Euler-Bernoulli(EB) beams with generalized boundaries. In order to verify the applicability of the EB model, the natural frequencies of the axially moving Timoshenko beam and EB beam are compared. Furthermore, the effects of constrained spring stiffness on the vibration frequencies of the axially moving beam are studied. Interestingly, it can be found that the critical speed of the axially moving beam does not change with the vertical spring stiffness. In addition, both the moving speed and elastic boundaries make the Timoshenko beam theory more needed. The validity of the dynamic stiffness method is demonstrated by using numerical simulation.     

Effect of transverse shears on complex nonlinear vibrations of elastic beams

Models of geometrically nonlinear Euler-Bernoulli, Timoshenko, and Sheremet’ev-Pelekh beams under alternating transverse loading were constructed using the variational principle and the hypothesis method. The obtained differential equation systems were analyzed based on nonlinear dynamics and the qualitative theory of differential equations with using the finite difference method with the approximation O(h²) and the Bubnov-Galerkin finite element method. It is shown that for a relative thickness λ ⩽ 50, accounting for the rotation and bending of the beam normal leads to a significant change in the beam vibration modes.