Diffraction of a Plane Discontinuos Wave in Layered Anisotropic Elastic Media

The problem of transformation of the front of a plane longitudinal shock wave by curvilinear interfaces of layered anisotropic elastic media with different mechanical properties is considered. To solve the nonlinear Snell equations, the approach based on a synthesis of the Newton method and the algorithm of parametric continuation of a solution is used. The cases of focusing and scattering of rays by convex and concave interfaces of layered composite media and by convex lenses are investigated. Numerical examples are given for various ratios between the parameters of the elastic media.     

Critical states of thin-walled hyperbolic gyros elastically connected to a rotating platform

We analyze effects related to the origination of critical states of thin-walled rigid and elastic axisymmetric hyperbolic gyros (shells) elastically connected by the smaller base to a rotating carrier body. We consider the cases of simple and compound rotations of the body and show that, in the case of simple rotation, the specific features of origination of critical states of solid and elastic shells are determined by the ratio of their axial moments of inertia. In the case of compound rotation, the first frequency of precession resonance vibrations of elastic shells generated by the gyroscopic forces of inertia is independent of the elastic compliance of the body-shell joint.     

The buckling of a drill string in a curvilinear borehole with axial line imperfections

The problem of the elastic buckling of drill strings in the channels of deep curved boreholes with geometric axial line imperfections is formulated. Imperfections in the form of localized helices are considered. The relation between the forces resisting the motion of the string and the amplitudes, pitches and sites of localization of the imperfections is analysed. The distributed forces of contact and friction interaction between the drill string and the borehole surface are found and the effects of seizure of the drill string are established. It is shown that the resistive forces and their moments increase as the amplitudes of the imperfections increase, and as their pitches and the displacement of the zones where they are relocated from the lower most distorted parts to the upper least distorted parts, decrease.     

The computer simulation of drill column dragging in inclined bore-holes with geometrical imperfections

The problem about identification of resistance forces acting on a drill column moving in an inclined bore-hole is stated. It is supposed that the well trajectories can have geometrical imperfections in the shape of cylindrical spiral or plane cosinusoidal curves. The system of ordinary differential equations is derived on the basis of the theory of curvilinear flexible elastic rods. It permits one to describe static effects of the drill column bending accompanying the processes of its raising, lowering and rotating inside the bore-hole. Through the use of this system the direct and inverse problems of the drill column deforming are formulated for calculation of internal and external resistance forces acting on the drill column tube. The methods for numerical solution of the constructed equations are elaborated. With their use the phenomena of the drill columns motion and their frictional seizure inside the bore-holes are simulated for different geometrical imperfections and relations between the velocities and directions of their rotation and axial motion.