A Simplified Direct Method for Cyclic Strain Calculation: Repeated Rolling/Sliding Contact on a Case-Hardened Half Plane

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.-C. Yu ◽  
B. Moran ◽  
L. M. Keer

A direct analysis method for problems in repeated elastic-plastic rolling/sliding contact is presented. The method is shown to be an efficient technique for the determination of the steady-state solution under proportional or nonproportional cyclic loading and can provide such results as residual stress, residual strain, and cyclic strain range. Furthermore, the method is valid for both elastic and plastic shakedown. A two-dimensional rolling/sliding contact problem is considered with emphasis on the calculation of cyclic plastic strains. Several numerical techniques are employed to simplify and reduce the computational effort. These techniques consist of an operator split, the modified incremental projection method, middle-loading state, and decomposition into residual steady-state and cyclic parts. The resulting scheme is highly efficient and is ideally suited for parameter studies. To demonstrate the practical application of the approach, a two-dimensional contact problem, assuming a case-hardened material, is solved.

1989 ◽  
Vol 33 (01) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
P. M. Naghdi ◽  
M. B. Rubin

The problem of the transition to planing of a boat, in the presence of the effect of spray formation at the boat's leading edge, is investigated using a nonlinear steady-state solution of the equations of the theory of a directed fluid sheet for two-dimensional motion of an incompressible inviscid fluid. The motion of the fluid is coupled with the motion of the free-floating boat and detailed analysis is undertaken pertaining to such features as trim angle, sinkage, and propulsion force. The effects of the rate of energy dissipation arising from spray formation at the boat's leading edge, and changes in equilibrium depth, propulsion angle, and the boat's weight, are studied and shown to significantly influence the boat's planing characteristics.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Robillard ◽  
T. H. Nguyen ◽  
P. Vasseur

A study is made of the natural convection in an annular porous layer having an isothermal inner boundary and its outer boundary subjected to a thermal stratification arbitrarily oriented with respect to gravity. For such conditions, no symmetry can be expected for the flow and temperature fields with respect to the vertical diameter and the whole circular region must be considered. Two-dimensional steady-state solutions are sought by perturbation and numerical approaches. Results obtained indicate that the circulating flow around the annulus attains its maximum strength when the stratification is horizontal (heating from the side). This circulating flow is responsible for an important heat exchange between the porous layer and its external surroundings. The flow field is also characterized by the presence of two convective cells near the inner boundary, giving rise to flow reversal on this surface. When the maximum temperature on the outer boundary is at the bottom of the cavity, the convective motion becomes potentially unstable; for a Rayleigh number below 80, there exists a steady-state solution symmetrical with respect to both vertical and horizontal axes; for a Rayleigh number above 80, an unsteady periodic situation develops with the circulating flow alternating its direction around the annulus.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.-C. Yu ◽  
C.-T. Wu ◽  
T.-P. Chang

The thick plate element of Mindlin type combined with the plane stress element is adopted in the direct analysis method. The numerical process is pretty efficient with respect to the speed of the calculation of final steady state residual quantities resulted in by cyclic loads. Two pipes joined together with a concentric reducer are employed as an example. The steady state residual stresses and strains after pipes experience cyclic anti-symmetric deflections, simulating the seismic loads, are illustrated. The diameter, the length of the pipes, and properties of material are the parameters evaluated in the present study. Results indicate that shorter pipe has higher shear effect at the fixed end. The ratio of pipe diameter to pipe length does not significantly differ the residual profile while the existence of a concentric reducer disturbs the distribution of the residual stresses and residual plastic strains dramatically.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Raffoul ◽  
A. S. Nejad ◽  
R. D. Gould ◽  
S. A. Spring

An experimental and numerical investigation was conducted to study the turbulent velocities and stresses behind a two-dimensional bluff body. Simultaneous three-component laser-Doppler velocimeter (LDV) measurements were made in the isothermal incompressible turbulent flowfield downstream of a bluff body placed at midstream in a rectangular test section. Mean velocities and Reynolds stresses were measured at various axial positions. Spanwise velocity measurements indicated that the flow is three dimensional in the recirculation zone of the bluff body. Confidence in the accuracy of the data was gained by calculating the mass fluxes at each axial station. These were found to agree with each other to within ±3 percent. A parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study was initiated to gage the predictive accuracy of currently available CFD techniques. Three solutions were computed: a two-dimensional steady-state solution using the standard k-ε model, a two-dimensional time-accurate solution using the standard k-ε model, and a two-dimensional time-accurate solution using a Renormalized-Group (RNG) k-ε turbulence model. The steady-state solution matched poorly with the data, severely underpredicting the Reynolds stresses in the recirculation zone. The time-accurate solutions captured the unsteady vortex shedding from the base of the bluff body, providing a source for the higher Reynolds stresses. The RNG k-ε solution provided the best match to the data.


2000 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mittal

Computational results are presented for flows past a translating and rotating circular cylinder. A stabilized finite element method is utilized to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the primitive variables formulation. To validate the formulation and its implementation certain cases, for which the flow visualization and computational results have been reported by other researchers, are computed. Results are presented for Re=5, 200 and 3800 and rotation rate, (ratio of surface speed of cylinder to the freestream speed of flow), of 5. For all these cases the flow reaches a steady state. The values of lift coefficient observed for these flows exceed the limit on the maximum value of lift coefficient suggested by Goldstein based on intuitive arguments by Prandtl. These observations are in line with measurements reported, earlier, by other researchers via laboratory experiments. To investigate the stability of the computed steady-state solution, receptivity studies involving an eccentrically rotating cylinder are carried out. Computations are presented for flow past a rotating cylinder with wobble; the center of rotation of the cylinder does not match its geometric center. These computations are also important from the point of view that in a real situation it is almost certain that the rotating cylinder will be associated with a certain degree of wobble. In such cases the flow is unsteady and reaches a temporally periodic state. However, the mean values of the aerodynamic coefficients and the basic flow structure are still quite comparable to the case without any wobble. In this sense, it is found that the two-dimensional solution is stable to purely two-dimensional disturbances.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750020
Author(s):  
J. Saldía ◽  
S. Elaskar ◽  
J. Tamagno

A numerical scheme for the solution of both unsteady and steady-state, two-dimensional Euler equations considering gas in chemical equilibrium, is presented. Three alternatives of the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) Harten–Yee scheme are implemented. One of them is a technique based on the adaptive use of different limiter functions in each wave of the inter-cell Riemann problem. With this technique, the undesirable effects of the artificial viscosity on the capture of contact discontinuities are reduced, without loss of robustness in nonlinear waves resolution. In order to verify the accuracy of the proposed scheme, results of the unsteady flow in cylindrical explosions, and of the steady-state solution of hypersonic flow over a blunt body, are presented. Finally, comparisons considering accuracy of results and convergence properties between the three Harten–Yee schemes are carried out.


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