scholarly journals Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems - Biharmonic analysis as applied to the flexure and extension of flat elastic plates

By extension of technique described in earlier papers, biharmonic analysis and the solution of the equation V%> = W are brought within range of the relaxation method. Special attention is given to the problem of a fiat elastic plate which is either bent or stretched (the second case being that to which photo-elastic methods are commonly applied). In all, four cases are presented, since the edge conditions may specify either tractions or displacements both in the flexural and in the extensional problem: one example of each is treated. Mixed boundary conditions (tractions specified at some points, displacements at others) are not considered in this paper. It would seem that only slight modifications of method will be required to deal with acolo-tropic plates (which present much greater difficulties in an orthodox analysis).

Relaxation methods have already been applied to the solution of four problems of (i) extension and (ii) flexure of flat elastic plates, in which ( a ) displacement or ( b ) traction is specified at the boundary. Here the method is adapted to the case in which the two types of boundary condition are mixed, where photo-elastic methods are difficult to apply. Two examples are treated by relaxation methods, and the results obtained indicate that this method may be a valuable alternative in engineering problems.


Since every plane-harmonic function is associated with a conjugate, problems in which normal gradients are specified on the boundary can be transformed into problems in which boundary values are specified. There then remains, however, the problem of deducing a function ψ from its conjugate ϕ, and this, when the conjugate has been determined only approximately, entails uncertainties which were exemplified in Part V. To minimize the errors of approximate computation ψ and ϕ should be determined severally and independently, consequently a method of direct attack is still needed on problems in which normal gradients are specified. Recent applications have, moreover, presented cases in which the boundary conditions are ‘mixed’, i.e. values are specified at some parts of the boundary, gradients at others. Here, two methods are propounded for the satisfaction of mixed boundary conditions, the first applicable also to cases in which normal gradients alone are specified. Test examples indicate that the wanted extension of method is now available.


2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven B. Beale

This is a comparison of calculations performed with a scheme for handling streamwise-periodic boundary conditions with known solutions to the common problem of fully developed heat transfer in a plane duct. Constant value, constant flux, mixed boundary conditions, and linear wall flux (conjugate heat transfer) are all considered. Agreement is, in every case, near exact showing that the methodology may be applied with confidence to complex engineering problems with a variety of thermal wall boundary conditions.


1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Rushton

SummaryThe Dynamic Relaxation method is used to analyse the post-buckling of flat rectangular plates. Extensive results are obtained for two types of problem in which the transverse edges are unloaded; in one case the transverse edges remain straight, in the other they are free to wave. Comparisons are made with alternative experimental and theoretical results. The potentiality of this approach to post-buckling problems is demonstrated by considering a variable thickness plate with mixed boundary conditions.


1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
WH Wittrick ◽  
W Howard

Relaxation methods have been used to determine the stress distributions in both a rectangular and a highly tapered plate under tension when the load is applied through absolutely rigid clamps. Both problems require the treatment of boundary conditions involving the values of both stresses and displacements. The solutions were obtained in terms of displacements and the stresses were subsequently determined from them.


1971 ◽  
Vol 7 (18) ◽  
pp. 525
Author(s):  
H. Niki ◽  
H. Kimura ◽  
M. Usui ◽  
Y. Akutu

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