Long-term non-linear behaviour and buckling of shallow concrete-filled steel tubular arches

This paper presents a theoretical analysis for the long-term non-linear elastic in-plane behaviour and buckling of shallow concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) arches. It is known that an elastic shallow arch does not buckle under a load that is lower than the critical loads for its bifurcation or limit point buckling because its buckling equilibrium configuration cannot be achieved, and the arch is in a stable equilibrium state although its structural response may be quite non-linear under the load. However, for a CFST arch under a sustained load, the visco-elastic effects of creep and shrinkage of the concrete core produce significant long-term increases in the deformations and bending moments and subsequently lead to a time-dependent change of its equilibrium configuration. Accordingly, the bifurcation point and limit point of the time-dependent equilibrium path and the corresponding buckling loads of CFST arches also change with time. When the changing time-dependent bifurcation or limit point buckling load of a CFST arch becomes equal to the sustained load, the arch may buckle in a bifurcation mode or in a limit point mode in the time domain. A virtual work method is used in the paper to investigate bifurcation and limit point buckling of shallow circular CFST arches that are subjected to a sustained uniform radial load. The algebraically tractable age-adjusted effective modulus method is used to model the time-dependent behaviour of the concrete core, based on which solutions for the prebuckling structural life time corresponding to non-linear bifurcation and limit point buckling are derived.     

Semi-analytical buckling analysis of heterogeneous variable thickness viscoelastic circular plates on elastic foundations

Buckling analysis of the functionally graded viscoelastic circular plates has not been carried out so far. In the present paper, a series solution is developed for buckling analysis of radially graded FG viscoelastic circular plates with variable thickness resting on two-parameter elastic foundations, based on Mindlin's plate theory. The complex modulus approach in combination with the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle is employed to obtain the solution for various edge conditions. A comprehensive sensitivity analysis is carried out to evaluate effects of various parameters on the buckling load. Results reveal that the viscoelastic behavior of the materials may postpone the buckling occurrence and the stiffness reduction due to the section variations may be compensated by the graded material properties.     

BUCKLING LOADS AND EIGENFREQUENCIES OF A BRACED BEAM RESTING ON AN ELASTIC FOUNDATION

The eigenvalue problems of the buckling loads and natural frequencies of a braced beam on an elastic foundation are investigated. The exact solutions for the eigenvalues are presented. The eigenvalues vary with the different parameters and are especially sensitive to the brace location. As the beam of a continuous system has infinite eigenvalues and these eigenvalues are influenced differently by a brace, the eigenvalues show rich variation patterns. Because these eigenvalues physically correspond to the structure buckling loads and natural frequencies, the study on the eigenvalues variation patterns can offer a design guidance of using a lateral brace of translation spring to strengthen the structure.     

VIBRATIONS OF ONE-WAY RECTANGULAR STEPPEDTHIN PLATES ON WINKLER'S FOUNDATION

I.IntroductionUsedextensivelyillengineeringareone-wayrectallgularsteppedthinplates.suchaslongandnarrow"platesofl'Oundationbaseincivilengineering,high-c"a}'surface.retainingwall,undergroundstructurefi-ame,baseplatesofsluice.shipyardando\-ertlowdam.Theyshouldnotonlymeetrequirementsofstrength,stiffnessalldsteadinessofstructuresbutalsosavematerialstotileftlll.Thus,steppedstructuresarecolnmonl}'adoptedinengineerings.Sofar.vibratio,nsofsuChplateshavenotbeendiscussedinanyliterature.Inthispaper.disc…     

移动荷载作用下饱和土地基中的波动特性分析

基于Biot波动方程,经过Fourier变换和逆Fourier变换后可获得波数-频率域以及时间-空间域的解析解。通过数值分析的手段研究了移动荷载作用下饱和多孔弹性地基中波的传播特性。重点就弥散曲线、多谱勒效应、波的成分和动力响应频率等几个特性进行了分析,发现饱和土地基由于比弹性地基多了一项流体介质,波动特性明显差异于弹性介质。     

弹性地基加肋功能梯度板自由振动分析的无网格法

基于一阶剪切变形理论和移动最小二乘近似研究Winkler弹性地基上加肋功能梯度板的固有频率。假设功能梯度板的材料性质沿厚度方向按幂函数连续变化,基于物理中面和移动最小二乘近似分别推导功能梯度板和肋条的动能和势能,再通过引入位移协调条件,建立板和肋条节点参数转换关系,叠加两者的总能量,然后利用Hamilton原理推导加肋功能梯度板自由振动控制方程。采用完全转换法施加边界条件。通过将本文的计算结果与有限元以及文献的结果对比,验证方法的收敛性以及准确性。     

NONLINEAR RESPONSES OF A FLUID-CONVEYING PIPE EMBEDDED IN NONLINEAR ELASTIC FOUNDATIONS

The nonlinear responses of planar motions of a fluid-conveying pipe embedded in nonlinear elastic foundations are investigated via the differential quadrature method discretization （DQMD） of the governing partial differential equation. For the analytical model, the effect of the nonlinear elastic foundation is modeled by a nonlinear restraining force. By using an iterative algorithm, a set of ordinary differential dynamical equations derived from the equation of motion of the system are solved numerically and then the bifurcations are analyzed. The numerical results, in which the existence of chaos is demonstrated, are presented in the form of phase portraits of the oscillations. The intermittency transition to chaos has been found to arise.     

单桩竖向动力阻抗计算模型研究

运用土动力学和结构动力学原理,同时考虑桩周土的弱化效应和桩-土界面的相对滑移效应,利用数理方程方法分别求解单桩与桩周近场土域及远场土域的振动方程,建立了竖向荷载作用下单桩动力阻抗函数的简化计算方法,提出了一种改进的非线性动力Winkler模型,确定了模型中各物理元件的参数,进而通过对比分析验证了计算模型的合理性,从而为桩-土-上部结构耦合系统的非线性分析奠定了基础。     

浅海内波环境下声场时间相关特性

浅海内波是导致声场时间相关半径减小的一个重要原因.利用2015年南中国海声传播起伏实验,对比分析了线性内波以及孤立子内波环境下声场时间相关半径的统计特性.实验数据(175～225 Hz)表明,大振幅孤立子内波的存在极大地降低了声场的时间相关半径,声场时间相关半径从线性内波环境下的1～3 h,降低为孤立子内波环境下的小于...