A Model of a Trapped Particle Under a Plate Adhering to a Rigid Surface

2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel R. Parent ◽  
George G. Adams

Micro and nanomechanics are growing fields in the semiconductor and related industries. Consequently obstacles, such as particles trapped between layers, are becoming more important and warrant further attention. In this paper a numerical solution to the von Kármán equations for moderately large deflection is used to model a plate deformed due to a trapped particle lying between it and a rigid substrate. Due to the small scales involved, the effect of adhesion is included. The recently developed moment-discontinuity method is used to relate the work of adhesion to the contact radius without the explicit need to calculate the total potential energy. Three different boundary conditions are considered—the full clamp, the partial clamp, and the compliant clamp. Curve-fit equations are found for the numerical solution to the nondimensional coupled nonlinear differential equations for moderately large deflection of an axisymmetric plate. These results are found to match the small deflection theory when the deflection is less than the plate thickness. When the maximum deflection is much greater than the plate thickness, these results represent the membrane theory for which an approximate analytic solution exists.

Author(s):  
Carmel Majidi ◽  
George G. Adams

The solution of adhesion problems with elastic plates generally involves solving a boundary-value problem with an assumed contact area. The contact region is then found by minimizing the total potential energy with respect to the contact area (i.e. the contact radius for the axisymmetric case). Such a procedure can be extremely long and tedious. Here, we show that the inclusion of adhesion is equivalent to specifying a discontinuous internal bending moment at the contact region boundary. The magnitude of this moment discontinuity is related to the work of adhesion and flexural rigidity of the plate. Such a formulation can greatly reduce the algebraic complexity of solving these problems. It is noted that the related plate contact problems without adhesion can also be solved by minimizing the total potential energy. However, it has long been recognized that it is mathematically more efficient to find the contact area by specifying a continuous internal bending moment at the boundary of the contact region. Thus, our moment discontinuity method can be considered to be a generalization of that procedure which is applicable for problems with adhesion.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (08) ◽  
pp. 1750091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joon Kyu Lee ◽  
Byoung Koo Lee

This paper deals with the large deflections and buckling loads of tapered cantilever columns with a constant volume. The column member has a solid regular polygonal cross-section. The depth of this cross-section is functionally varied along the column axis. Geometrical nonlinear differential equations, which govern the buckled shape of the column, are derived using the large deflection theory, considering the effect of shear deformation. The buckling load of the column is approximately equivalent to the load under which a very small tip deflection occurs. In regard to the numerical results, both the elastica and buckling loads with varying column parameters are discussed. The configurations of the strongest column are also presented.


Author(s):  
S.E. Kasenov ◽  
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G.E. Kasenova ◽  
A.A. Sultangazin ◽  
B.D. Bakytbekova ◽  
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The article considers direct and inverse problems of a system of nonlinear differential equations. Such problems are often found in various fields of science, especially in medicine, chemistry and economics. One of the main methods for solving nonlinear differential equations is the numerical method. The initial direct problem is solved by the Rune-Kutta method with second accuracy and graphs of the numerical solution are shown. The inverse problem of finding the coefficients of a system of nonlinear differential equations with additional information on solving the direct problem is posed. The numerical solution of this inverse problem is reduced to minimizing the objective functional. One of the methods that is applicable to nonsmooth and noisy functionals, unconditional optimization of the functional of several variables, which does not use the gradient of the functional, is the Nelder-Mead method. The article presents the NellerMead algorithm. And also a numerical solution of the inverse problem is shown.


Author(s):  
Elena Adomaitienė ◽  
Skaidra Bumelienė ◽  
Gytis Mykolaitis ◽  
Arūnas Tamaševičius

A control method for desynchronizing an array of mean-field coupled FitzHugh–Nagumo-type oscillators is described. The technique is based on applying an adjustable DC voltage source to the coupling node. Both, numerical solution of corresponding nonlinear differential equations and hardware experiments with a nonlinear electrical circuit have been performed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2004-2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yifang Cao ◽  
Dehua Yang ◽  
Wole Soboyejoy

In this paper, we present a method for determining the initial contact point and nanoindentation load–indentation depth characteristics for soft materials. The method is applied to the prediction of the load–indentation depth characteristics of polydimethylsiloxane. It involves the combined use of Johnson–Kendall–Roberts and Maugis–Dugdale adhesion theories and nonlinear least squares fitting in the determination of the initial contact point, the transition parameter, and the contact radius at zero contact load. The elastic modulus and the work of adhesion are also extracted from the load–indentation depth curves.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 414-419
Author(s):  
James Gombas

A circular flat plate with a perforated central region is to be formed by dies into a dome and then welded onto a cylindrical shell. After welding, the dome must be spherical within a narrow tolerance band. This plate forming and welding is simulated using large deflection theory elastic-plastic finite element analysis. The manufacturing assessment is performed so that the dies may be designed to compensate for plate distortions that occur during various stages of manufacturing, including the effects of weld distortion. The manufacturing simulation benchmarks against measurements taken at several manufacturing stages from existing hardware. The manufacturing simulation process can then be used for future applications of similar geometries.


1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Scholes

A previous paper (1)∗described an analysis for plates that made use of non-linear large-deflection theory. The results of the analysis were compared with measurements of deflections and stresses in simply supported rectangular plates. In this paper the analysis has been used to calculate the stresses and deflections for clamped-edge plates and these have been compared with measurements made on plates of various aspect ratios. Good agreement has been obtained for the maximum values of these stresses and deflections. These maximum values have been plotted in such a form as to be easily usable by the designer of pressure-loaded clamped-edge rectangular plates.


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