Vibration of Rectangular Mindlin Plates with Intermediate Stiffeners

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Liew ◽  
Y. Xiang ◽  
S. Kitipornchai ◽  
M. K. Lim
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Shear Deformation ◽  
Torsional Rigidity ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
Vibration Frequencies ◽  
Algebraic Polynomials ◽  
Plate Structures ◽  
Various Boundary Conditions ◽  
Vibrational Response

A first known investigation into the vibratory characteristics of rectangular Mindlin plates with intermediate stiffeners is presented. The Rayleigh-Ritz method is used, with displacement and rotational functions assumed in the form of mathematically complete algebraic polynomials. Sets of numerical frequency parameters for rectangular plates of various boundary conditions, thicknesses and plate dimensions are presented. In the study, the effects of shear deformation and rotary inertia on the vibrational response of the plate structures are investigated. The influence of torsional rigidity and geometric properties of stiffeners on the natural frequency parameters are included. To validate the proposed formulation, numerical results for some simplified problems have been determined where existing literature for these problems can be found. Finally sets of new vibration frequencies for plates with one or more stiffeners in various directions are presented.

Vibration of Stiffened Rectangular Plates

1963 ◽  
Vol 67 (629) ◽  
pp. 305-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mahalingam
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Arbitrary Parameter ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
Various Boundary Conditions ◽  
Beam Function ◽  
Rayleigh Method ◽  
The Given ◽  
Free Edges

The free flexural vibrations of rectangular plates with various boundary conditions have been considered by Warburton. The natural frequencies were calculated by the Rayleigh method, the mode assumed being the product of the characteristic beam functions for the given boundary conditions. Comparison with experimental results shows that the method gives reasonably good approximations. The present note describes a method of obtaining the approximately equivalent characteristic beam functions to enable Warburton's method to be extended to plates having one or more stiffeners parallel to an edge. As a numerical example expressions for the frequencies are derived for a plate, simply supported along two opposite edges, and having a central stiffener parallel to the other two free edges. The results are compared with those given in a recent note by Kirk, who solved the same problem by the Rayleigh-Ritz method, using a mode with one arbitrary parameter. In the case of the fundamental frequency of the unstiffened plate, the characteristic beam function in a direction perpendicular to the free edges is simply a constant, and the solution is less accurate than that given by the Rayleigh-Ritz method. However, numerical analysis of a square plate shows that above a certain stiffener depth the characteristic beam function method is more accurate than the Rayleigh-Ritz method. The two methods are also compared for the 2/2 mode.

Static Analysis of Moderately Thick Functionally Graded Plates With Various Boundary Conditions

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nastaran Shahmansouri ◽  
Mohammad Mohammadi Aghdam ◽  
Kasra Bigdeli
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Shear Deformation Theory ◽  
Functionally Graded ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
Functionally Graded Plates ◽  
Various Boundary Conditions ◽  
Fg Plates ◽  
Ode Systems

The present study investigates static analyses of moderately thick FG plates. Using the First Order Shear Deformation Theory (FSDT), functionally graded plates subjected to transversely distributed loading with various boundary conditions are studied. Effective mechanical properties which vary from one surface of the plate to the other assumed to be defined by a power law form of distribution. Different ceramic-metal sets of materials are studied. Solution of the governing equations, including five equilibrium and eight constitutive equations, is obtained by the Extended Kantorovich Method (EKM). The system of thirteen Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in terms of displacements, rotations, force and moment resultants are considered as multiplications of separable function of independent variables x and y. Then by successful utilization of the EKM these equations are converted to a double set of ODE systems in terms of x and y. The obtained ODE systems are then solved iteratively until final convergence is achieved. Closed form solution is presented for these ODE sets. It is shown that the method is very stable and provides fast convergence and highly accurate predictions for both thin and moderately thick plates. Comparison of the normal stresses at various points of rectangular plates and deflection of mid-point of the plate are presented and compared with available data in the literature. The effects of the volume fraction exponent n on the behavior of the normalized deflection, moment resultants and stresses of FG plates are also studied. To validate data for analysis fully clamped FG plates, another analysis was carried out using finite element code ANSYS. Close agreement is observed between predictions of the EKM and ANSYS.

Vibration Analysis of Laminated Composite Rectangular Plates With General Boundary Conditions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Fu ◽  
Jianjun Yao ◽  
Zhenshuai Wan ◽  
Gang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Vibration Analysis ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Laminated Composite ◽  
Free Vibration Analysis ◽  
Geometric Parameters ◽  
General Boundary ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
General Boundary Conditions ◽  
Benchmark Solutions

In this investigation, the free vibration analysis of laminated composite rectangular plates with general boundary conditions is performed with a modified Fourier series method. Vibration characteristics of the plates have been obtained via an energy function represented in the general coordinates, in which the displacement and rotation in each direction is described as an improved form of double Fourier cosine series and several closed-form auxiliary functions to eliminate any possible jumps and boundary discontinuities. All the expansion coefficients are then treated as the generalized coordinates and determined by Rayleigh-Ritz method. The convergence and reliability of the current method are verified by comparing with the results in the literature and those of Finite Element Analysis. The effects of boundary conditions and geometric parameters on the frequencies are discussed as well. Finally, numerous new results for laminated composite rectangular plates with different geometric parameters are presented for various boundary conditions, which may serve as benchmark solutions for future research.

Hydroelastic Vibration of Rectangular Plates

1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moon K. Kwak
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Approximate Formula ◽  
Natural Frequencies ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Rigid Wall ◽  
Mode Shapes ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
Virtual Mass

This paper is concerned with the virtual mass effect on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of rectangular plates due to the presence of the water on one side of the plate. The approximate formula, which mainly depends on the so-called nondimensionalized added virtual mass incremental factor, can be used to estimate natural frequencies in water from natural frequencies in vacuo. However, the approximate formula is valid only when the wet mode shapes are almost the same as the one in vacuo. Moreover, the nondimensionalized added virtual mass incremental factor is in general a function of geometry, material properties of the plate and mostly boundary conditions of the plate and water domain. In this paper, the added virtual mass incremental factors for rectangular plates are obtained using the Rayleigh-Ritz method combined with the Green function method. Two cases of interfacing boundary conditions, which are free-surface and rigid-wall conditions, and two cases of plate boundary conditions, simply supported and clamped cases, are considered in this paper. It is found that the theoretical results match the experimental results. To investigate the validity of the approximate formula, the exact natural frequencies and mode shapes in water are calculated by means of the virtual added mass matrix. It is found that the approximate formula predicts lower natural frequencies in water with a very good accuracy.

scholarly journals Vibration of Skew Sandwich Plates With Laminated Facings

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Wang ◽  
K. K. Ang ◽  
C. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Ritz Method ◽  
Composite Plates ◽  
Sandwich Plates ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
Vibration Frequencies ◽  
Edge Conditions ◽  
System Vibration ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Length Limitation ◽  
Good Agreement

A Rayleigh-Ritz analysis is presented for the free vibration of skew sandwich plates composed of an orthotropic core and laminated facings. By proposing a set of Ritz functions consisting of the product of mathematically complete polynomial functions and the the boundary equations raised to appropriate powers, the Rayleigh-Ritz method can be automated to handle such composite plates with any combination of edge conditions. For convenience and better accurarcy, the Ritz formulation was derived in the skew coordinate system. Vibration frequencies of rectangular plates (a special case of skew plates) obtained via this method have been found to be in good agreement with previous researchers results. Owing to length limitation, only sample vibration frequencies for skew sandwich plates are presented.

A Novel and Accurate Ritz Formulation for Free Vibration of Rectangular and Skew Plates

2012 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Eftekhari ◽  
A. A. Jafari
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Free Vibration ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
Natural Boundary ◽  
Boundary Points ◽  
Natural Boundary Conditions ◽  
Free Edges

One of the major limitations of the conventional Ritz method is its difficulty in implementation to the differential equations with natural boundary conditions at the boundary points/lines. Plates involving free edges/corners and irregularly shaped plates are two historical and classical examples which show that their solutions cannot be accurately approximated by the conventional Ritz method. To solve this difficulty, a simple, novel, and accurate Ritz formulation is introduced in this paper. It is revealed that the proposed methodology can produce much better accuracy than the conventional Ritz method for rectangular plates involving free edges/corners and skew plates.

Three-Dimensional Vibrations of Truncated Hollow Cones

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur W. Leissa ◽  
Jinyoung So
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Mode Shapes ◽  
Vibration Frequencies ◽  
Arbitrary Boundary ◽  
Conical Shells ◽  
Hole Radius ◽  
Geometric Boundary

This work presents a three-dimensional (3-D) method of analysis for determining the free vibration frequencies and corresponding mode shapes of truncated hollow cones of arbitrary thickness and having arbitrary boundary conditions. It also supplies the first known numerical results from 3-D analysis for such problems. The analysis is based upon the Ritz method. The vibration modes are separated into their Fourier components in terms of the circumferential coordinate. For each Fourier component, displacements are expressed as algebraic polynomials in the thickness and slant length coordinates. These polynomials satisfy the geometric boundary conditions exactly. Because the displacement functions are mathematically complete, upper bound values of the vibration frequencies are obtained that are as close to the exact values as desired. This convergence is demonstrated for a representative truncated hollow cone configuration where six-digit exactitude in the frequencies is achieved. The method is then used to obtain accurate and extensive frequencies for two sets of completely free, truncated hollow cones, one set consisting of thick conical shells and the other being tori having square-generating cross sections. Frequencies are presented for combinations of two values of apex angles and two values of inner hole radius ratios for each set of problems.

FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF DISCRETELY STIFFENED SKEW PLATES

2001 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 125-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUAN ZENG ◽  
CHARLES W. BERT
Keyword(s):  
Free Vibration ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Natural Frequencies ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Free Vibration Analysis ◽  
Vibration Characteristics ◽  
Skew Angle ◽  
Various Boundary Conditions ◽  
Skew Plate ◽  
Convergence Study

Stiffened skew plates find application in various engineering fields. The free vibration characteristics of such plates have been studied by various methods. An orthogonally stiffened skew plate is a skew plate with stiffeners running orthogonal to two opposite edges. To the best knowledge of the present investigators, no previous work has been done for free vibration characteristics of skew plates of such stiffening geometry. The present work studies the free vibration of such plates. The pb-2 Rayleigh–Ritz method was employed due to its accuracy and computational efficiency. The conventional finite element method was also used as a comparative check. A convergence study was first performed for various boundary conditions. Then the vibration of orthogonally stiffened skew plates with different boundary conditions was studied. Close agreement was found between these two methods. The variations of natural frequencies with different parameters, including skew angle ϕ, edge ratio b/a, and height-thickness ratio f/h, were investigated for three types of boundary conditions.

Free Vibration Analysis of a Simply Supported Rectangular Tank Partially Filled With a Liquid

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyeong-Hoon Jeong ◽  
Jin-Seok Park ◽  
Won-Jae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Free Vibration Analysis ◽  
Ideal Liquid ◽  
Rectangular Plates ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Displacement Potential ◽  
Simply Supported ◽  
Rectangular Tank ◽  
Liquid Displacement

This paper presents a theoretical analysis for the hydroelastic vibration of a rectangular tank partially filled with an ideal liquid. The wet dynamic displacement of the tank is approximated by combining the orthogonal polynomials satisfying the simply supported boundary conditions, since the rectangular tank is composed of four rectangular plates. As the facing rectangular plates are geometrically identical, the vibration modes of the facing plates can be divided into two categories: symmetric modes and asymmetric modes with respect to the vertical centerlines of the plates. The liquid displacement potential satisfying the boundary conditions is derived and the wet dynamic modal functions of the four plates are expanded by the finite Fourier transformation for a compatibility requirement along the contacting surface between the tank and the liquid. The natural frequencies of the rectangular tank in the wet condition are calculated by using the Rayleigh-Ritz method. The proposed analytical method is verified by observing an excellent agreement with three-dimensional finite element analysis results.

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