虚功的等价性及其在固体力学中的应用

本文根据变分学原理提出一组与固体力学中基本微分方程、边界条件(等式或不等式)等价的虚功表达式(等式或不等式),并由此建立放松连续性条件的方程,导出了放松应力边界连续性条件的Saint—Venant原理的表达式、放松位移边界连续性条件下悬臂梁位移的新解答、放松所有约束条件的广义变分原理以及求解摩擦接触问题的变分不等式。     

相空间中非保守系统的Herglotz广义变分原理及其Noether定理

与经典变分原理相比,基于由微分方程定义的作用量的Herglotz广义变分原理给出了非保守动力学系统的一个变分描述,它不仅能够描述所有采用经典变分原理能够描述的动力学过程,而且能够应用于经典变分原理不能适用的非保守或耗散系统.将Herglotz广义变分原理拓展到相空间,研究相空间中非保守力学系统的Herglotz广义变分原理与Noether定理及其逆定理.首先,提出相空间中Herglotz广义变分原理,给出相空间中非保守系统的变分描述,导出相应的Hamilton正则方程;其次,基于非等时变分与等时变分之间的关系,导出相空间中Hamilton-Herglotz作用量变分的两个基本公式;再次,给出Noether对称变换的定义和判据,提出并证明相空间中非保守系统基于Herglotz变分问题的Noether定理及其逆定理,揭示了相空间中力学系统的Noether对称性与守恒量之间的内在联系.在经典条件下,Herglotz广义变分原理退化为经典变分原理,与之相应的相空间中的Noether定理退化为经典Hamilton系统的Noether定理.文末以著名的Emden方程和平方阻尼振子为例说明上述方法和结果的有效性.     

一类带单侧约束力学问题的变分方法

力学中许多问题如弹塑性问题，弹塑性接触问题、塑性耦合问题，渗流问题等，其约束条件或者边界形态是无法预知的，只能用一组不等式表示，属于非线性问题，经典的变人原理在求解此类问题时只能采取繁琐的迭代过程。     

一类Signorini问题的边界变分不等式

本文讨论了一类简化的Signorini问题。首先将原问题和一个边值问题建立联系，其次将原问题的解分解为不带不等边界条件的变分方程的解和一个变分不等式的解。然后利用边值问题的边界积分方程将变分不等式等价地化解为边界变分不等式。这样原求区域上的第一类椭圆变分不等式问题化解为求一个区域上的变分方程和一个边界变分不等式。最后说明了边界变分不等式解的存在唯一性。文末计算了柱面和半无限刚性基础的摩擦接触问题。结论表明文中方法具有较好的精度。     

动力学普遍方程的普遍性——分析力学札记之三十一

理论力学中动力学普遍方程,在分析力学中称为d’Alembert–Lagrange原理。动力学普遍方程之普遍在于,由它不仅可导出动力学普遍定理,可导出完整约束系统和非完整约束系统的运动微分方程,还可导出积分变分原理。     

物理变分原理及其在电磁介质中的应用

和数学变分原理的意义不同,物理变分原理是物理界的客观规律,是基本规律.热力学定律是能量守恒定律,指任一自然过程的能量总是守恒的;但同时又是物理变分原理,指从一种状态变化到另一无限接近的状态,在所有可能的稳定过程中,真实过程的能量取极小值,因而又是动量定律.特别是对于存在迁移变分的过程和偏离平衡态不大的不可逆过程,物理变分原理特别有效,可以用来推求连续介质的控制方程,且尚未完全研究透彻.本文对这一原理及其在电磁介质中的某些应用进行了一些研究.     

分析力学初值问题的一种变分原理形式

明确了分析力学初值问题的控制方程,按照广义力和广义位移之间的对应关系,将 各控制方程卷乘上相应的虚量,代数相加,进而在 原空间中建立了分析力学初值问题的一种变分原理形式,即建立了分析力学初值问题的卷积 型变分原理和卷积型广义变分原理. 推导了分析力学初值问题卷积型变分原理和卷积型广义 变分原理的驻值条件. 在建立分析力学初值问题的一种变分原理形式的同时, 将变积方法推广为卷变积方法.     

输入受限LQ控制的参变量变分原理和算法

在最优控制理论中根据模拟理论思想发展了塑性力学和接触力学中的参变量变分原理, 并建立了控制输入受限的线性二次(linear quadratic, LQ)最优控制问题的求解新方程---耦合的Hamilton正则方程与线性互补方程. 通过将连续时间离散成一系列等间距时间区段, 在离散时域内采用参数二次规划方法给出数值求解输入受限的LQ最优控制问题的新算法. 数值仿真验证了该算法在求解控制输入受限的LQ最优控制问题中的有效性, 并且该算法具有较快的收敛性, 在大步长下具有较高的计算精度.      

摩擦约束广义变分不等原理的临界变分现象及分析

对于具有摩擦约束的弹塑性接触问题,由于边界接触面上的摩擦力由不等式表示,导致得到包含摩擦约束的广义变分原理为广义变分不等原理.广义变分不等原理通过将摩擦力纳入问题的能量泛涵,可避免考虑摩擦力变化的具体过程,便于数值方法如有限元等在弹性接触问题上的应用.但是,通过对广义变分不等原理的研究,发现在弹性力学广义变分不等原理中,势能型和余能型广义变分不等原理,均存在临界变分现象,即变分时拉格朗日乘子为零,变分失败;或者得到的能量泛函变分后得不到问题的欧拉方程.在对弹性力学广义变分不等原理临界变分现象进行分析后,提出了避免发生临界变分现象的方法.实际应用证明了方法的有效性.通过避免临界变分现象的发生,可以保证拉格朗日乘子方法的有效使用.     

一种化学-力学耦合连续介质理论与数值格式

对化学驱动的连续介质化学-力学耦合系统进行研究,从热力学定律和化学势角度出发,推导了等温过程的化学-力学耦合本构关系和控制方程,利用变分方法建立了化学-力学耦合系统的能量泛函,得到化学-力学耦合控制方程的等效积分形式和相应的有限元列式. 结合算例,对连续介质的化学-力学耦合行为进行了数值计算,数值结果反映了化学与力学系统的相互耦合作用,即浓度变化能引起介质的变形,同样力学作用也能引起浓度重分布. 从全新的角度建立了描述连续介质的化学-力学耦合行为的基本理论和数值方法,能够较好地反映一类连续介质的化学-力学耦合行为.      

A principle of virtual work for combined electrostatic and mechanical loading of materials

The equations governing mechanics and electrostatics are formulated for a system in which the material deformations and electrostatic polarizations are arbitrary. A mechanical/electrostatic energy balance is formulated for this situation in terms of the electric enthalpy, in which the electric potential and the electric field are the independent variables, and charge and electric displacement, respectively, are the conjugate thermodynamic forces. This energy statement is presented in the form of a principle of virtual work (PVW), in which external virtual work is equated to internal virtual work. The resulting expression involves an internal material virtual work in which (1) material polarization is work-conjugate to increments of electric field, and (2) a combination of Cauchy stress, Maxwell stress and a product of polarization and electric field is work-conjugate to increments of strain. This PVW is valid for all material types, including those that are conservative and those that are dissipative. Such a virtual work expression is the basis for a rigorous formulation of a finite element method for problems involving the deformation and electrostatic charging of materials, including electroactive polymers and switchable ferroelectrics. The internal virtual work expression is used to develop the structure of conservative constitutive laws governing, for example, electroactive elastomers and piezoelectric materials, thereby determining the form of the Maxwell or electrostatic stress. It is shown that the Maxwell or electrostatic stress has a form fully constrained by the constitutive law and cannot be chosen independently of it. The structure of constitutive laws for dissipative materials, such as viscoelastic electroactive polymers and switchable ferroelectrics, is similarly determined, and it is shown that the Maxwell or electrostatic stress for these materials is identical to that for a material having the same conservative response when the dissipative processes in the material are shut off. The form of the internal virtual work is used further to develop the structure of dissipative constitutive laws controlled by rearrangement of material internal variables.     

A unified residual-based thermodynamic framework for strain gradient theories of plasticity

A unified thermodynamic framework for gradient plasticity theories in small deformations is provided, which is able to accommodate (almost) all existing strain gradient plasticity theories. The concept of energy residual (the long range power density transferred to the generic particle from the surrounding material and locally spent to sustain some extra plastic power) plays a crucial role. An energy balance principle for the extra plastic power leads to a representation formula of the energy residual in terms of a long range stress, typically of the third order, a macroscopic counterpart of the micro-forces acting on the GNDs (Geometrically Necessary Dislocations). The insulation condition (implying that no long range energy interactions are allowed between the body and the exterior environment) is used to derive the higher order boundary conditions, as well as to ascertain a principle of the plastic power redistribution in which the energy residual plays the role of redistributor and guarantees that the actual plastic dissipation satisfies the second thermodynamics principle. The (nonlocal) Clausius-Duhem inequality, into which the long range stress enters aside the Cauchy stress, is used to derive the thermodynamic restrictions on the constitutive equations, which include the state equations and the dissipation inequality. Consistent with the latter inequality, the evolution laws are formulated for rate-independent models. These are shown to exhibit multiple size effects, namely (energetic) size effects on the hardening rate, as well as combined (dissipative) size effects on both the yield strength (intrinsic resistance to the onset of plastic strain) and the flow strength (resistance exhibited during plastic flow). A friction analogy is proposed as an aid for a better understanding of these two kinds of strengthening effects. The relevant boundary-value rate problem is addressed, for which a solution uniqueness theorem and a minimum variational principle are provided. Comparisons with other existing gradient theories are presented. The dissipation redistribution mechanism is illustrated by means of a simple shear model.     

A new approach to the vakonomic mechanics

The aim of this paper was to show that the Lagrange–d’Alembert and its equivalent the Gauss and Appel principle are not the only way to deduce the equations of motion of the nonholonomic systems. Instead of them we consider the generalization of the Hamiltonian principle for nonholonomic systems with non-zero transpositional relations. We apply this variational principle, which takes into the account transpositional relations different from the classical ones, and we deduce the equations of motion for the nonholonomic systems with constraints that in general are nonlinear in the velocity. These equations of motion coincide, except perhaps in a zero Lebesgue measure set, with the classical differential equations deduced with the d’Alembert–Lagrange principle. We provide a new point of view on the transpositional relations for the constrained mechanical systems: the virtual variations can produce zero or non-zero transpositional relations. In particular, the independent virtual variations can produce non-zero transpositional relations. For the unconstrained mechanical systems, the virtual variations always produce zero transpositional relations. We conjecture that the existence of the nonlinear constraints in the velocity must be sought outside of the Newtonian mechanics. We illustrate our results with examples.     

Continuum theory of dislocations revisited

The paper continues the discussion of continuum theory of dislocations suggested by Berdichevsky and Sedov (PMM 31(6): 981–1000, 1967). The major new points are: the choice of energy, the variational form of the governing dynamical equations, the variational principle for the final plastic state.     

基于Hamilton体系的弹性力学问题的比例边界有限元方法

比例边界有限元方法是求解偏微分方程的一种半解析半数值解法。对于弹性力学问题,可采用基于力学相似性、基于比例坐标相似变换的加权余量法和虚功原理得到以位移为未知量的系统控制方程,属于Lagrange体系。但在求解时,又引入了表面力为未知量,控制方程属于Hamilton体系。因而,本文提出在比例边界有限元离散方法的基础上,利...     

Mechanically-based approach to non-local elasticity: Variational principles

The mechanically-based approach to non-local elastic continuum, will be captured through variational calculus, based on the assumptions that non-adjacent elements of the solid may exchange central body forces, monotonically decreasing with their interdistance, depending on the relative displacement, and on the volume products. Such a mechanical model is investigated introducing primarily the dual state variables by means of the virtual work principle. The constitutive relations between dual variables are introduced defining a proper, convex, potential energy. It is proved that the solution of the elastic problem corresponds to a global minimum of the potential energy functional. Moreover, the Euler–Lagrange equations together with the natural boundary conditions associated to the total potential energy functional are established with variational calculus and they coincide with analogous relations already obtained by means of mechanical considerations. Numerical analysis of a tensile specimen has been introduced to show the capabilities of the proposed approach.     

A finite-deformation,gradient theory of single-crystal plasticity with free energy dependent on the accumulation of geometrically necessary dislocations

This paper develops a gradient theory of single-crystal plasticity based on a system of microscopic force balances, one balance for each slip system, derived from the principle of virtual power, and a mechanical version of the second law that includes, via the microscopic forces, work performed during plastic flow. When combined with thermodynamically consistent constitutive relations the microscopic force balances become nonlocal flow rules for the individual slip systems in the form of partial differential equations requiring boundary conditions. Central ingredients in the theory are geometrically necessary edge and screw dislocations together with a free energy that accounts for work hardening through a dependence on the accumulation of geometrically necessary dislocations.     

A new CDM-based approach to structural deterioration

Structural deterioration often occurs without visible manifestation. Continuum damage mechanics (CDM) enables one to predict the state of damage in such situations and to estimate residual strength⧹service life of an existing structure. The accumulation of damage is modeled as a dissipative process that is governed by the laws of thermodynamics. The rate of dissipation in a deformable system, R, depends on the work done on the system and the evolution of the Helmholtz free energy, Ψ. Under certain thermodynamical conditions, the first variation of Ψ vanishes, and partial differential equations for damage growth in R prior to damage localization are obtained. This approach obviates the need of introducing arbitrary dissipation potential functions with undetermined constants in the damage growth equations. All solutions use only readily available material parameters. Assuming that damage occurs isotropically under uniaxial loading, closed-form solutions are obtained for ductile damage as a function of plastic strain, for creep damage as a function of time and for fatigue damage as function of number of cycles. The models are validated with published laboratory data.