Elastic instabilities for strain-stiffening rubber-like spherical and cylindrical thin shells under inflation

This paper is concerned with investigation of the effects of strain-stiffening on the classical limit point instability that is well-known to occur in the inflation of internally pressurized rubber-like spherical thin shells (balloons) and circular cylindrical thin tubes composed of incompressible isotropic non-linearly elastic materials. For a variety of specific strain-energy densities that give rise to strain-stiffening in the stress-stretch response, the inflation pressure versus stretch relations are given explicitly and the non-monotonic character of the inflation curves is examined. While such results are known for constitutive models that exhibit a gradual stiffening (e.g. exponential and power-law models), our primary focus is on materials that undergo severe strain-stiffening in the stress-stretch response. In particular, we consider two phenomenological constitutive models that reflect limiting chain extensibility at the molecular level. It is shown that for materials with sufficiently low extensibility no limit point instability occurs and so stable inflation is then predicted for such materials. Potential applications of the results to the biomechanics of soft tissues are indicated.     

Acoustic Radiation from a Finite Length Cylindrical Shell Excited by an Internal Acoustic Source: Solution Based on a Boundary Element Method and a Matched Asymptotic Expansion

This paper deals with acoustic radiation by a thin elastic shell, closed by two perfectly rigid discs, immersed in water and filled with air. The system is driven by an internal acoustic source. The shell has a length L, is clamped along one of its boundaries and is freely supported along the other boundary. Using the infinite domain Green's function, the radiated acoustic pressure is modeled by a hybrid layer potential (linear combination with nonreal coefficient of a simple layer and a double layer). Using Green's tensor of the in vacuo shell operator, the shell displacement is expressed as the sum of the field generated by the acoustic pressures and that due to boundary sources. Finally, the Green's function of the interior Neumann problem is used to express the acoustic pressure inside the shell in terms of the acoustic source and shell normal displacement: this representation fails for any frequency equal to one of the resonance frequencies of the shell interior. To overcome this, a light fluid approximation, which is allowed because the inner fluid is a gas, is adopted. Around each resonance frequency, an inner approximation is defined which matches the classical outer approximation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Bifurcations and subharmonic resonances in multi-degree-of-freedom panel models

This paper describes the nonlinear, postcritical behavior of parametrically excited, shallow, cylindrical panels, which are modeled with two or four degrees of freedom. The analysis shows complicated dynamic behavior. Stable, periodic motions coexist with the trivial solution for very small values of the excitation amplitude. Moreover, a stable, chaotic attractor could be found coexisting with the trivial solution.

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Sommario Si studia il comportamento postcritico nonlineare di pannelli cilindrici ribassati, soggetti ad eccitazione parametrica e modellati con due o quattro gradi di libertà. L'analisi evidenzia un comportamento dinamico complesso. Moti periodici stabili coesistono con la soluzione banale per valori molto piccoli dell'ampiezza dell'eccitazione. Un attrattore caotico stabile coesiste altresì con tale soluzione per alcuni valori della frequenza dell'eccitazione.

     

轴向瞬间阶梯载荷下圆柱壳动力屈曲的双特征参数分析

对于轴向瞬间阶梯载荷下圆柱壳的弹性非轴对称动力屈曲问题，将临界应力和屈曲惯性项指数参数作为双特征参数求解。由能量转换和守恒准则，导出压缩波阵面上的屈曲变形附加约束条件。失稳控制方程、边界条件和波阵面上的连续条件，连同此附加约束条件构成求解两个特征参数和动力失稳模态的完备定解条件。由伽辽金法得出求解双特征参数问题的数值方法。     

The effect of the iterative triple and quadruple cluster amplitudes on the adiabatic potential curve in the coupled cluster calculations of the ground electronic state of the Yb dimer

The dissociation energy, equilibrium internuclear distance, and spectroscopic constants for the ¹Σ ground state of the Yb₂ molecule are calculated. The relativistic effects are introduced through generalized relativistic effective core potentials with very high precision. The scalar relativistic coupled cluster method particularly well suited for closed‐shell van der Waals systems is used for the correlation treatment. Extensive generalized correlation basis sets were constructed and used. The relatively small corrections for high‐order cluster amplitudes and spin—orbit interactions are taken into account using smaller basis sets and the spin—orbit density functional theory. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011     

Non-linear axisymmetric response of functionally graded shallow spherical shells under uniform external pressure including temperature effects

This paper presents an analytical approach to investigate the non-linear axisymmetric response of functionally graded shallow spherical shells subjected to uniform external pressure incorporating the effects of temperature. Material properties are assumed to be temperature-independent, and graded in the thickness direction according to a simple power law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of constituents. Equilibrium and compatibility equations for shallow spherical shells are derived by using the classical shell theory and specialized for axisymmetric deformation with both geometrical non-linearity and initial geometrical imperfection are taken into consideration. One-term deflection mode is assumed and explicit expressions of buckling loads and load-deflection curves are determined due to Galerkin method. Stability analysis for a clamped spherical shell shows the effects of material and geometric parameters, edge restraint and temperature conditions, and imperfection on the behavior of the shells.     

双层加筋圆柱壳在不同舷间连接形式下的声辐射性能分析

论文用解析法推导得出了双层加筋圆柱壳的两种舷间连接形式-实肋板和托板的反力表达式,其中实肋板的振动形式分别采用三种振动方程近似表示-考虑板的面内面外振动、仅考虑板的面内振动、仅考虑板的面内准纵波振动,托板的振动形式也分别采用三种振动方程近似表示-考虑板的面内振动、仅考虑板的面内准纵波振动、近似成杆的纵向振动,数值分析对...     

平面P波在充满流体的任意形状孔洞上的散射

采用复变函数的保角映射方法和波函数展开法,根据孔洞与内部流体在界面上的应力和位移连续的边界条件,得到了充满流体的任意形状的孔洞对入射平面P波的散射问题的理论解,以椭圆形孔洞为例,着重分析了椭圆的长短轴之比、流体的存在与否以及入射频率对散射幅值的影响,结果表明:(1)圆形孔洞的分波波谱的峰值分布均匀,而椭圆形孔洞则不均匀;(2)散射P波的波谱主要集中于前进方向和背向一侧,而散射S波的波谱主要集中于与传播方向垂直的一侧;(3)入射波与孔洞的作用面积越大,散射P波的波谱也越大,而散射S波的波谱也越小;(4)当孔洞为圆形时,流体对散射P波和S波的波谱影响最小,即此时流体与孔壁的动力相互作用最小.     

Accuracy assessment to applying 20-node solid elements to pressurized composite shells

A factorial analysis is conducted to explore the impact of five factors — aspect ratio, radius-to-thickness ratio, material anisotropy, fiber angle and integration order on the finite element accuracy, with regard to the application of 20-node isoparametric solid elements to clamped composite cylindrical shells subjected to internal pressure. The maximum radial displacement at the central cross-section is employed as the indicator of accuracy. Results from finite element methods were compared with closed-form solutions. Aspect ratio, radius-to- thickness ratio, and integration order are significant main effects as predicted for isotropic materials. Material anisotropy shows no significant main effect, while the fiber angle does have strong impact on the finite element accuracy. In addition to four influential main effects, some multiple-factor interactions are shown to have significant influences on the finite element accuracy. The analysis is limited to the linear elastic range.     

Assisted Cloning and Orthogonal Complementing of an Arbitrary Unknown Two-Qubit Entangled State

Based on A.K. Pati＇s original idea [Phys. Rev. A 61 （2000） 022308] on single-qubit-state-assisted clone, very recently Zhan has proposed two assisted quantum cloning protocols of a special class of unknown two-qubit entangled states [Phys. Lett. A 336 （2005） 317]. In this paper we further generalize Zhan＇s protocols such that an arbitrary unknown two-qubit entangled state can be treated.