Study of bifurcation in a pressurized hyperelastic membrane tube enclosed by a soft substrate

We model a perivascular supported arterial tube as a uniform cylindrical membrane tube enclosed by a soft substrate, and derive the solution bifurcation criterion. We assume the surrounding soft substrate as an elastic foundation with distributed stiffness. We consider the tube to be a neo-Hookean material with isotropic and anisotropic (orthotropic) properties, and study solution bifurcation at a constant axial stretch. In the isotropic case, the surrounding soft substrate can substantially delay the onset of bifurcation through a subcritical jump in circular distension at bifurcation with increasing substrate stiffness. Introduction of anisotropy can significantly change the jump behavior from subcritical to supercritical.     

The Effect of Elastic Surface Coating on the Finite Deformation and Bifurcation of a Pressurized Circular Annulus

A plane-strain theory of an elastic solid coated with a thin elastic film on part or all of its boundary was developed recently by Steigmann and Ogden (1997a). In this paper the theory is applied to the (plane-strain) problem of a thick-walled circular cylindrical tube which is subject to both internal and external pressure and which has an elastic coating on one or both of its circular cylindrical boundaries. The effect of the coating on the symmetrical response of the annular cross-section of the tube is determined first. It is noted, in particular, that while the pressure may exhibit a maximum followed by a minimum during inflation for an uncoated tube it may be a monotonic increasing function of the radius for a coated tube with coating elastic modulus sufficiently large. Next, the possibility of bifurcation from a symmetrical configuration is examined and again the influence of the coating is analysed. The effect of a coating on the outer boundary is compared with that on the inner boundary. Specifically, during compression, coating on the outer boundary delays bifurcation compared with the uncoated case. On the other hand, when the coating is on the inner boundary, bifurcation is either delayed or advanced relative to the uncoated situation depending on the values of the bending stiffness and tube thickness parameters. Generally, bifurcation is delayed by an increase in the magnitude of the bending stiffness of the coating at fixed values of the other parameters. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

NONLINEAR INTERNAL RESONANCE OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CYLINDRICAL SHELLS USING THE HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS

Internal resonance in nonlinear vibration of functionally graded （FG） circular cylin- drical shells in thermal environment is studied using the Hamiltonian dynamics formulation. The material properties are considered to be temperature-dependent. Based on the Karman-Donnell＇s nonlinear shell theory, the kinetic and potential energy of FG cylindrical thin shells are formu- lated. The primary target is to investigate the two-mode internal resonance, which is triggered by geometric and material parameters of shells. Following a secular perturbation procedure, the underlying dynamic characteristics of the two-mode interactions in both exact and near resonance cases are fully discussed. It is revealed that the system will undergo a bifurcation in near resonance case, which induces the dynamic response at high energy level being distinct from the motion at low energy level. The effects of temperature and volume fractions of composition on the exact resonance condition and bifurcation characteristics of FG cylindrical shells are also investigated.     

外压加筋圆柱壳总体屈曲Koiter——边界层奇异摄动法

将Ｋｏｉｔｅｒ理论和奇异摄动理论中的边界层法相结合处理加筋圆柱壳无因次化非线性边界层型Ｋａｒｍａｎ－Ｄｏｎｎｅｌ方程由分支点和边界层导致的双重奇异性，提出外压加筋圆柱壳总体屈曲Ｋｏｉｔｅｒ—边界层奇异摄动法。从摄动意义上分析边界条件，前屈曲非线性和初始几何缺陷对外压加筋圆柱壳屈曲载荷的影响。算例表明，本方法具有良好的计算效率和计算精度，与数值解相比更能揭示内在影响规律。     

热环境中功能梯度圆柱薄壳分岔屈曲的边界约束效应

基于前屈曲一致理论,研究了热环境中受轴压功能梯度圆柱薄壳分岔屈曲的边界约束效应问题.导出前屈曲变形的解析解,结合分离变量法与有限差分法求解分岔屈曲控制方程,由此导出确定临界轴压的非线性特征值问题.考虑材料热物性质与温度的相关性,分别就两端简支和两端固支边界条件,分析了温度梯度、初始几何缺陷、组分材料体积分数对分岔屈曲临界荷载的影响.结果表明:相比两端简支的情形,两端固支功能梯度圆柱薄壳分岔屈曲的温度敏感性与缺陷敏感性更加明显,但随着温度梯度的增加而有所降低,组分材料的体积分数指数对简支和固支时的缺陷敏感度影响很小,功能梯度圆柱薄壳的边界约束效应随着缺陷幅值增大而减弱.     

Nonlinear travelling waves in a hyperelastic rod composed of a compressible Mooney-Rivlin material

In this paper, we study strongly nonlinear axisymmetric waves in a circular cylindrical rod composed of a compressible Mooney-Rivlin material. To consider the travelling wave solutions for the governing partial differential system, we first reduce it to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. By using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems, we show that the reduced system has seven periodic annuluses with different boundaries which depend on four parameters. We further consider the bifurcation behavior of the phase portraits for the reduced one-parameter vector fields when other three parameters are fixed. Corresponding to seven different periodic annuluses, we obtain seven types of travelling wave solutions, including solitary waves of radial contraction, solitary waves of radial expansion, solitary shock waves of radial contraction, solitary shock waves of radial expansion, periodic waves and two types of periodic shock waves. These are physically acceptable solutions by the governing partial differential system. The rigorous parameter conditions for the existence of these waves are given.     

Predictions of bifurcation and instabilities during dynamic extension

Dynamic bifurcation and flow instabilities of cylindrical bars, made of an incompressible strain hardening plastic material, are investigated. A Lagrangian linear perturbation analysis is performed to obtain a fourth order partial differential equation which governs the evolution of the perturbation. The analysis shows that inertia slows down the growth of long wavelengths while bidimensional effects conjugated to strain hardening extinct short wavelengths. The present approach is applied successfully to the analysis of bifurcation and instabilities in (i) a rectangular block during plane strain extension, (ii) a circular bar during uniaxial extension. New results are obtained in the case of rate independent materials and a synthetical point of view is obtained for rate dependent behaviors.     

Bifurcation of rotating thick-walled elastic tubes

The deformation of a circular cylindrical elastic tube of finite wall thickness rotating about its axis is examined. A circular cylindrical deformed configuration is considered first, and the angular speed analysed as a function of an azimuthai deformation parameter at fixed axial extension for an arbitrary form of incompressible, isotropic elastic strain-energy function. This extends the analysis given previously (Haughton and Ogden, 1980) for membrane tubes.Bifurcation from a circular cylindrical configuration is then investigated. Prismatic, axisymmetric and asymmetric bifurcation modes are discussed separately. Their relative importance is assessed in relation to the wall thickness and length of the tube, the magnitude of the axial extension, and the angular speed turning-points. Numerical results are given for a specific form of strain-energy function.Amongst other results it is found that (i) for long tubes, asymmetric modes of bifurcation can occur at low values of the angular speed and before any possible axisymmetric or prismatic modes and (ii) for short tubes, there is a range of values of the axial extension (including zero) for which no bifurcation can occur during rotation.     

Nonlinear thermo-elastic buckling characteristics of cross-ply laminated joined conical–cylindrical shells

Here, the nonlinear thermo-elastic buckling/post-buckling characteristics of laminated circular conical–cylindrical/conical–cylindrical–conical joined shells subjected to uniform temperature rise are studied employing semi-analytical finite element approach. The nonlinear governing equations, considering geometric nonlinearity based on von Karman’s assumption for moderately large deformation, are solved using Newton–Raphson iteration procedure coupled with displacement control method to trace the pre-buckling/post-buckling equilibrium path. The presence of asymmetric perturbation in the form of small magnitude load spatially proportional to the linear buckling mode shape is assumed to initiate the bifurcation of the shell deformation. The study is carried out to highlight the influences of semi-cone angle, material properties and number of circumferential waves on the nonlinear thermo-elastic response of the different joined shell systems.     

Axisymmetric Deformation of a Transversely Isotropic Cylindrical Body: A Hamiltonian State-Space Approach

A state-space approach for exact analysis of axisymmetric deformation and stress distribution in a circular cylindrical body of transversely isotropic material is developed. By means of Hamiltonian variational formulation via Legendre’s transformation, the basic equations in cylindrical coordinates are formulated into a state-space framework in which the unknown state vector comprises the displacements and associated stress components as the dual variables and the system matrix possesses the symplectic characteristics of a Hamiltonian system. Upon delineating the symplecticity of the formulation, a viable solution approach using eigenfunction expansion is developed. For illustration, an exact analysis of a finite thick-walled circular cylinder under internal and external pressures is presented, with emphasis on the end effects.     

A bifurcation problem for a compressible nonlinearly elastic medium: growth of a micro-void

In this paper, we carry out an explicit analysis of a bifurcation problem for a solid circular cylinder composed of a particularcompressible nonlinearly elastic material. This problem is concerned with the bifurcation of a solid body into a configuration involving an internal cavity. A discussion of its physical interpretation is then carried out. In particular, it is shown that this model may be used to describe the nucleation of a void from apre-existing micro-void.     

Electro-mechanical coupling bifurcation and bulging propagation in a cylindrical dielectric elastomer tube

This paper explores the critical and post-bulging bifurcation of a cylindrical dielectric elastomer (DE) tube undergoing finite deformation under electro-mechanical coupling loading. Explicit expressions for the critical conditions of electro-mechanical bifurcation are derived by using a simplified mathematical method. The post-bifurcation path is comprehensively investigated by specifying the material model as ideal dielectric elastomer. In the post-bifurcation analysis, we analytically establish conditions for the phase coexistence of steady propagation and analyze the physical implications. We demonstrate a global instability under force or voltage control and a localized instability under volume or charge control. Cylindrical tube experiments have been carried out under electro-mechanical coupling loading to verify the theoretical predictions. Good agreements on the critical conditions as well as the post-bifurcation path are obtained. This work characterizes the bifurcation mechanism of rubber-like materials under complex coupling loading.     

黏弹性圆柱形壳动力学高余维分岔、普适开折问题

讨论两端受到谐波激励的黏弹性圆柱形壳的非线性动力学行为,利用奇异性理论,研究了分岔方程的普适开折问题,严格证明了它是一个高余维分岔问题。余维数为5（含有一个模参数）,给出了它的所有可能的普适开折形式。在分岔参数满足某些条件时得到该分岔问题的转迁集及分岔图,展示了一些新的动力学行为,改进和完善了奇异性分析方法。     

Buckling of long thick-walled circular cylindrical shells of isotropic incompressible hyperelastic materials under uniform external pressure

For isotropic incompressible hyperelastic materials, the problem of determining the critical external pressure at which a long thick-walled circular cylindrical shell will buckle involves solving a fourth-order system of highly non-homogeneous, ordinary differential equations. Closed-form solutions of this system are derived here for plane-strain conditions and for the particular case of the Varga material. These solutions are used to derive the buckling criterion and numerical values are obtained for the resulting critical pressures. They are found to be in good agreement with existing theoretical and experimental results for the neo-Hookean material.     

磁场中旋转运动圆板的分叉与混沌研究

应用数值模拟方法研究磁场中旋转运动圆板的分叉与混沌问题。首先,基于薄板理论和麦克斯韦电磁场方程组,给出了动能、应变势能、外力虚功以及电磁力的表达式,再利用哈密顿原理,得到磁场中旋转运动圆板横向振动的非轴对称非线性磁弹性振动微分方程组。其次,采用贝塞尔函数作为圆板的振型函数进行伽辽金积分,得到了轴对称情况下横向振动的常微分方程组表达式。最后,针对主共振,取周边夹支边界条件的圆板作为算例,得到了当振型函数取一阶时,将磁感应强度、外激励振幅和激励频率作为控制参数的分叉图及庞加莱映射图等计算结果,并讨论了分叉参数对系统的分叉与混沌的影响。数值计算结果表明,这些控制参数的变化影响系统稳定性,在分叉参数逐渐变化的过程中,系统经历从混沌到多倍周期运动再到混沌的往复过程。     

Influence of the boundary conditions on the stress state of a flexible cylindrical shell of variable stiffness in a magnetic field

The effect of the boundary conditions on the stress state of a circular cylindrical shell of variable thickness (stiffness) is analyzed using a geometrically nonlinear problem statement. The cylindrical shell is subject to a magnetic field, external electric current, and nonstationary mechanical load. Numerical results are presented and analyzed     

The effect of material and geometry on the non-linear vibrations of orthotropic circular cylindrical shells

The extensive use of circular cylindrical shells in modern industrial applications has made their analysis an important research area in applied mechanics. In spite of a large number of papers on cylindrical shells, just a small number of these works is related to the analysis of orthotropic shells. However several modern and natural materials display orthotropic properties and also densely stiffened cylindrical shells can be treated as equivalent uniform orthotropic shells. In this work, the influence of both material properties and geometry on the non-linear vibrations and dynamic instability of an empty simply supported orthotropic circular cylindrical shell subjected to lateral time-dependent load is studied. Donnell׳s non-linear shallow shell theory is used to model the shell and a modal solution with six degrees of freedom is used to describe the lateral displacements of the shell. The Galerkin method is applied to derive the set of coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations of motion which are, in turn, solved by the Runge–Kutta method. The obtained results show that the material properties and geometric relations have a significant influence on the instability loads and resonance curves of the orthotropic shell.     

Creep buckling and postbuckling of circular cylindrical shells under axial compression

An infinitely long, axially compressed, circular cylindrical shell with an imperfection in the shape of the axisymmetric classical buckling mode, undergoing steady or non-steady creep, is analyzed. The axisymmetric problem is solved incrementally using nonlinear shell equations The ratio of the applied stress to the classical buckling stress determines if the shell will collapse axisymmetrically or if it will bifurcate into a nonaxisymmetric mode, and whether or not bifurcation will result in instantaneous collapse. The bifurcation problem is formulated exactly and the initial postbuckling behavior is investigated via an asymptotic elastic analysis, based on Koiter's general theory Numerical results are compared with available experimental data.     

Nonlinear buckling and postbuckling of heated functionally graded cylindrical shells under combined axial compression and radial pressure

The nonlinear large deflection theory of cylindrical shells is extended to discuss nonlinear buckling and postbuckling behaviors of functionally graded (FG) cylindrical shells which are synchronously subjected to axial compression and lateral loads. In this analysis, the non-linear strain-displacement relations of large deformation and the Ritz energy method are used. The material properties of the shells vary smoothly through the shell thickness according to a power law distribution of the volume fraction of the constituent materials. Meanwhile, by taking the temperature-dependent material properties into account, various effects of external thermal environment are also investigated. The non-linear critical condition is found by defining the possible lowest point of external force. Numerical results show various effects of the inhomogeneous parameter, dimensional parameters and external thermal environments on non-linear buckling behaviors of combine-loaded FG cylindrical shells. In addition, the postbuckling equilibrium paths are also plotted for axially loaded pre-pressured FG cylindrical shells and there is an interesting mode jump exhibited.     

One-dimensional deformations of nonlinearly elastic micropolar bodies

We find families of finite deformations of a Cosserat elastic continuum on which the system of equilibrium equations is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations. These families can be used to describe the expansion, tension, and torsion of a hollow circular cylinder, cylindrical bending of a rectangular slab, straightening of a circular arch, reversing of a cylindrical tube, formation of screw and wedge dislocations in a hollow cylinder, and other types of deformations. In the case of a physically nonlinear material model, the above-listed families of deformations can be used to construct exact solutions of several problems of strong bending of micropolar bodies.