An Experimental Study of the Static and Dynamic Behaviour of a Tensioned Sheet with a Rectangular Opening

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
P K Datta

SummaryThe results of an experimental study of the buckling and vibration behaviour of tensioned sheets with a rectangular opening are presented. The buckling phenomenon involves the existence of a non-uniform pre-buckle stress state in the vicinity of the opening. The local buckling load has been estimated on the basis of the modified Southwell method. The effect of parameters like cut-out size, sheet width, sheet thickness and cut-out corner radius has been investigated. The data from the vibration experiments indicate that the load versus frequency behaviour is dependent on the size of the test specimen and the opening shape. It has been observed that, for certain combinations of plate and opening parameters, the load versus frequency plot has a minimum corresponding to the local buckling of the free edge of the hole. For other plate and opening parameters it shows only a kink corresponding to the local buckling of the free edge of the cut-out. The buckling load for the opening shapes obtained from both the static and dynamic experiments are compared, showing good agreement.

2015 ◽  
Vol 785 ◽  
pp. 248-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O’Kiely ◽  
C. J. W. Breward ◽  
I. M. Griffiths ◽  
P. D. Howell ◽  
U. Lange

Thin glass sheets may be manufactured using a two-part process in which a sheet is first cast and then subsequently reheated and drawn to a required thickness. The latter redrawing process typically results in a sheet with non-uniform thickness and with smaller width than the cast glass block. Experiments suggest that the loss of width can be minimized and the non-uniformities can be essentially confined to thickening at the sheet edges if the heater zone through which the glass is drawn is made very short. We present a three-dimensional mathematical model for the redraw process and consider the limits in which (i) the heater zone is short compared with the sheet width, and (ii) the sheet thickness is small compared with both of these length scales. We show that, in the majority of the sheet, the properties vary only in the direction of drawing and the sheet motion is one-dimensional, with two-dimensional behaviour and the corresponding thick edges confined to boundary layers at the sheet extremities. We present numerical solutions to this boundary-layer problem and demonstrate good agreement with experiment, as well as with numerical solutions to the full three-dimensional problem. We show that the final thickness at the sheet edge scales with the inverse square root of the draw ratio, and explore the effect of tapering of the ends to identify a shape for the initial preform that results in a uniform rectangular final product.


2015 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
pp. 80-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeong Huei Lee ◽  
Shahrin Mohammad ◽  
Yee Ling Lee

This paper performs analytical and experimental investigation on the section properties of locally produced cold-formed steel sections. Effective width method given by BS EN1993-1-3 is used to calculate the section properties for two slender cold-formed steel channel sections, namely KS200C20 and KS250C20. Local buckling and distortional buckling are taken into account in the calculation. Effective width method has significantly reduced the full sectional area and thus gives a relative lower value for the sectional resistance of cold-formed steel channel sections. The analytical results is compared to manufacturer’s data and differences of not more than 3.37% is recorded. Experimental study on the flexural behaviour on the two types of cold-formed steel channel sections is carried out. The results show that BS EN1993-1-3 has good agreement with experimental results for flexural resistance that included local and distortional buckling consideration. It is concluded that effective width method by BS EN1993-1-3 is suitable to calculate the section properties of of locally produced cold-formed steel channel sections.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 096369351001900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emin Ergun

The aim of this study is to investigate, experimentally and numerically, the change of critical buckling load in composite plates with different ply numbers, orientation angles, stacking sequences and boundary conditions as a function of temperature. Buckling specimens have been removed from the composite plate with glass-fibre reinforcement at [0°]i and [45°]i (i= number of ply). First, the mechanical properties of the composite material were determined at different temperatures, and after that, buckling experiments were done for those temperatures. Then, numerical solutions were obtained by modelling the specimens used in the experiment in the Ansys10 finite elements package software. The experimental and numerical results are in very good agreement with each other. It was found that the values of the buckling load at [0°] on the composite plates are higher than those of other angles. Besides, symmetrical and anti-symmetrical conditions were examined to see the effect of the stacking sequence on buckling and only numerical solutions were obtained. It is seen that the buckling load reaches the highest value when it is symmetrical in the cross-ply stacking sequence and it is anti-symmetrical in the angle-ply stacking sequence.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayavur I. Bakhtiyarov ◽  
Ruel A. Overfelt

Abstract The results of experimental study of pressure variations inside core box during resin bonded sand filling process are reported. The test core specimens were produced using Laempe® Test Specimen Curing Machine L 1. A special pressure measurement system was designed and built with safety and portability requirements of the foundry environment. Special experiments were conducted to establish the effect of sand deposition on vent permeability.


Author(s):  
Shan Jin ◽  
Shuai Yuan ◽  
Yong Bai

In practical application, pipelines will inevitably experience bending and compression during manufacture, transportation and offshore installation. The mechanical behavior of tubes under combined axial compression and bending loads is investigated using experiments and finite element method in this paper. Tubes with D/t ratios in the range of 40 and 97 are adopted in the experiments. Then, the ultimate loads and the local buckling modes of tubes are studied. The commercial software ABAQUS is used to build FE models to simulate the load-shortening responses of tubes under combined loads. The results acquired from the ABAQUS simulation are compared with the ones from verification bending experiment, which are in good agreement with each other. The models in this paper are feasible to analyze the mechanical properties of tubes under combined axial compression and bending loads. The related results may be of interest to the manufacture engineers.


2010 ◽  
Vol 163-167 ◽  
pp. 651-654
Author(s):  
Tian Hua Zhou ◽  
Shao Feng Nie ◽  
Xiang Bin Liu ◽  
Guang Yi Li

18 specimens of cold-formed steel three limbs built-up section members are tested under axial compression load in this paper. The section forms are divided into two categories: A and B. Load-displacement (P-Δ) curves and failure characteristics of specimens are obtained. The results show that: As to section A members, the failure characteristics of LC, MC and SC series of specimens are flexural-torsional buckling, torsional buckling and distortional buckling, local buckling and distortional buckling. As to section B members, the failure characteristics of LC, MC series of specimens are flexural buckling, while local buckling and distortional buckling for members of SC series.


2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 596-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Bin Jiang ◽  
Yong Ding ◽  
Ya Wen Liu ◽  
Feng Zheng

Some secondary effect introduced by corrugated configuration of corrugated web was studied and formulas were proposed. The deduction for these formulas was resolved into two steps. Step I: to solve the behavior of whole corrugated web by considering it as an orthotropic plate; Step II: to solve the secondary effect according to the shape parameters of corrugation based on the result of Step I. Subsequently, a numerical experiment was designed to validate the analytical work with the help of finite element package ANSYS taking material nonlinearity into consideration. The results obtained from numerical and analytical methods show good agreement. It indicates that the formulas proposed in this paper are convenient and efficient. This research deals with this secondary effect for the first time; more studies are needed for the effect on local buckling of corrugated webs.


2012 ◽  
Vol 166-169 ◽  
pp. 1598-1602
Author(s):  
Xi Guang Cui ◽  
Zhi Wei Wang ◽  
Nan Ma ◽  
Zhong Long Yu

In this paper, shear study was carried out on four reinforced concrete columns in which two columns were reinforced by CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastics). The three main factors: shear span ratio, ratio of longitudinal reinforcement, CFRP paste quantity (layer numbers) were analysied since they affect the reinforced effect of CFRP. Through the experiment and simulation, the results indicate that the shear strength of CFRP strengthened concrete columns is obvious, which shows good agreement with experimental and simulation data.


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