scholarly journals Vibrations of Composite Laminated Circular Panels and Shells of Revolution with General Elastic Boundary Conditions via Fourier-Ritz Method

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingshan Wang ◽  
Dongyan Shi ◽  
Fuzhen Pang ◽  
Qian Liang

AbstractA Fourier-Ritz method for predicting the free vibration of composite laminated circular panels and shells of revolution subjected to various combinations of classical and non-classical boundary conditions is presented in this paper. A modified Fourier series approach in conjunction with a Ritz technique is employed to derive the formulation based on the first-order shear deformation theory. The general boundary condition can be achieved by the boundary spring technique in which three types of liner and two types of rotation springs along the edges of the composite laminated circular panels and shells of revolution are set to imitate the boundary force. Besides, the complete shells of revolution can be achieved by using the coupling spring technique to imitate the kinematic compatibility and physical compatibility conditions of composite laminated circular panels at the common meridian with θ = 0 and 2π. The comparisons established in a sufficiently conclusive manner show that the present formulation is capable of yielding highly accurate solutions with little computational effort. The influence of boundary and coupling restraint parameters, circumference angles, stiffness ratios, numbers of layer and fiber orientations on the vibration behavior of the composite laminated circular panels and shells of revolution are also discussed.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijie Li ◽  
Haichao Li ◽  
Fuzhen Pang ◽  
Xueren Wang ◽  
Yuan Du ◽  
...  

The aim of this paper is to extend the modified Fourier-Ritz approach to evaluate the free vibration of four-parameter functionally graded moderately thick cylindrical, conical, spherical panels and shells of revolution with general boundary conditions. The first-order shear deformation theory is employed to formulate the theoretical model. In the modified Fourier-Ritz approach, the admissible functions of the structure elements are expanded into the improved Fourier series which consist of two-dimensional (2D) Fourier cosine series and auxiliary functions to eliminate all the relevant discontinuities of the displacements and their derivatives at the edges regardless of boundary conditions and then solve the natural frequencies by means of the Ritz method. As one merit of this paper, the functionally graded cylindrical, conical, spherical shells are, respectively, regarded as a special functionally graded cylindrical, conical, spherical panels, and the coupling spring technology is introduced to ensure the kinematic and physical compatibility at the common meridian. The excellent accuracy and reliability of the unified computational model are compared with the results found in the literatures.


2011 ◽  
Vol 471-472 ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Mousavi

The bending analysis of laminated shells of revolution, such as spherical, conical and cylindrical panels, is carried out utilizing the differential cubature method (DCM). To do so, a general software based on the DCM is developed which can tackle shells of revolution with symmetric and unsymmetric lamination sequence. Analysis of shells with general Loading and various combinations of clamped, simply supported, free and mixed boundary condition, may be carried out having acceptable accuracy. Using first order shear deformation theory, fifteen first order partial differential equations are obtained which contain fifteen unknowns in terms of displacements, rotations, moments and forces. Utilizing all of these equations results in the capability of the method to deal with any kinds of boundary conditions. Comparison of the results obtained by the DCM, shows very good agreement with the results of other numerical and analytical methods, while having less computational effort.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Guohua Gao ◽  
Ningze Sun ◽  
Dong Shao ◽  
Yongqiang Tao ◽  
Wei Wu

This article mainly analyzes the free vibration characteristic of the sandwich piezoelectric beam under elastic boundary conditions and thermal environment. According to the first-order shear deformation theory and Hamilton’s principle, the thermo-electro-elastic coupling equations of the sandwich piezoelectric beam are obtained. Meanwhile, elastic boundary conditions composed of an array of springs are introduced, and the displacement variables and external potential energy of the beam are expressed as wave functions. By using the method of reverberation-ray matrix to integrate and solve the governing equations, a search algorithm based on golden-section search is introduced to calculate the required frequency parameters. A series of numerical results are compared with those reported in literature studies and obtained by simulation software to verify the correctness and versatility of the search algorithm. In addition, three parametric research cases are proposed to investigate the frequency parameters of sandwich piezoelectric beams with elastic restraint conditions, material parameters, thickness ratio, different temperature rises, and external electric potential.


2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Berkan Alanbay ◽  
Karanpreet Singh ◽  
Rakesh K. Kapania

Abstract This paper presents a general approach for the free vibration analysis of curvilinearly stiffened rectangular and quadrilateral plates using the Ritz method by employing classical orthogonal Jacobi polynomials. Both the plate and stiffeners are modeled using first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The displacement and rotations of the plate and stiffeners are approximated by separate sets of Jacobi polynomials. The ease of modification of the Jacobi polynomials enables the Jacobi weight function to satisfy geometric boundary conditions without loss of orthogonality. The distinctive advantage of Jacobi polynomials, over other polynomial-based trial functions, lies in that their use eliminates the well-known ill-conditioning issues when a high number of terms are used in the Ritz method, e.g., to obtain higher modes required for vibro-acoustic analysis. In this paper, numerous case studies are undertaken by considering various sets of boundary conditions. The results are verified both with the detailed finite element analysis (FEA) using commercial software msc.nastran and with those available in the open literature. New formulation and results include: (i) exact boundary condition enforcement through Jacobi weight function for FSDT, (ii) formulation of quadrilateral plates with curvilinear stiffeners, and (iii) use of higher order Gauss quadrature scheme for required integral evaluations to obtain higher modes. It is demonstrated that the presented method provides good numerical stability and highly accurate results. The given new numerical results and convergence studies may serve as benchmark solutions for validating the new computational techniques.


Author(s):  
Berkan Alanbay ◽  
Karanpreet Singh ◽  
Rakesh K. Kapania

This paper presents a general approach for the free vibration analysis of curvilinearly stiffened rectangular and quadrilateral plates using Ritz method employing classical orthogonal Jacobi polynomials. Both the plate and stiffeners are modeled using first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The displacement and rotations of the plate and a stiffener are approximated by separate sets of Jacobi polynomials. The ease of modification of the Jacobi polynomials enables the Jacobi weight function to satisfy geometric boundary conditions without loss of orthogonality. The distinctive advantage of Jacobi polynomials, over other polynomial-based trial functions, lies in that their use eliminates the well-known ill-conditioning issues when a high number of terms are used in the Ritz method; e.g., to obtain higher modes required for vibro-acoustic analysis. In this paper, numerous case studies are undertaken by considering various sets of boundary conditions. The results are verified both with the detailed Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using commercial software MSC.NASTRAN and for some cases, and with those available in the open literature for others. Convergence studies are presented for studying the effect of the number of terms used on the accuracy of the solution. The paper also discusses the effects of stiffener and plate geometric dimensions on the dynamic characteristics of the structure. The method also has an advantage of saving significant computational time during optimization of such structures as changing the placement and shape of stiffeners does not require repeated calculation of plate mass and stiffness matrices as the stiffener shapes are changed.


Author(s):  
Sangle Sourabh ◽  
Verma Shesha ◽  
Mali Kiran

This work presents a formulation for the free vibrations of isotropic homogeneous rectangular Mindlin plates with variable thickness. These plates are subjected to general boundary supports in present study. To obtain arbitrarily supported boundary conditions, new form of trigonometric series expansion functions is used as the admissible functions for transverse deflection and rotation due to bending. In order to account the constant shear stress assumption, a shear stress correction factor is taken into consideration. The Rayleigh-Ritz Method is employed in this formulation. The boundaries are assumed to have three set of springs to achieve required boundary condition. Thus the changes in boundary conditions can be easily obtained by varying the stiffness of these springs, without actually making any changes in the shape functions. In this study, FEA (Finite Element Analysis) has been carried out for the Mindlin plates, for simply supported and constrained on two opposite sides.


2020 ◽  
pp. 109963622097927
Author(s):  
Sajjad Riahi Farsani ◽  
Arash Ramian ◽  
Ramazan-Ali Jafari-Talookolaei ◽  
Paolo S Valvo ◽  
Maryam Abedi

Extended higher-order sandwich plate theory is used to analyze the free vibrations of rectangular sandwich plates with compressible core. Accordingly, first-order shear deformation theory is used to model the laminated face sheets. Besides, the in-plane and transverse displacements of the core are assumed to be cubic and quadratic functions of the thickness coordinate, respectively. To deduce the governing equations, Hamilton’s principle is used. Then, based on the Rayleigh-Ritz method, single series expansions with two-variable orthogonal polynomials – namely, the orthogonal plate functions – are considered to approximate the displacement components. Lastly, a generalized eigenvalue problem is solved to obtain the free vibrational characteristics of sandwich plates with both symmetric and anti-symmetric lay-ups subjected to various boundary conditions. The method is validated against the results obtained by different methods in the literature. Finally, the effects of the plate side-to-thickness ratio, in-plane aspect ratio, and core-to-face sheets thickness ratio on the natural frequencies are discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lun Liu ◽  
Dengqing Cao ◽  
Shupeng Sun

The free vibration analysis of rotating ring-stiffened cylindrical shells with arbitrary boundary conditions is investigated by employing the Rayleigh–Ritz method. Six sets of characteristic orthogonal polynomials satisfying six classical boundary conditions are constructed directly by employing Gram–Schmidt procedure and then are employed to represent the general formulations for the displacements in any axial mode of free vibrations for shells. Employing those formulations during the Rayleigh–Ritz procedure and based on Sanders' shell theory, the eigenvalue equations related to rotating ring-stiffened cylindrical shells with various classical boundary conditions have been derived. To simulate more general boundaries, the concept of artificial springs is employed and the eigenvalue equations related to free vibration of shells under elastic boundary conditions are derived. By adjusting the stiffness of artificial springs, those equations can be used to investigate the vibrational characteristics of shells with arbitrary boundaries. By comparing with the available analytical results for the ring-stiffened cylindrical shells and the rotating shell without stiffeners, the method proposed in this paper is verified. Strong convergence is also observed from convergence study. Further, the effects of parameters, such as the stiffness of artificial springs, the rotating speed of the ring-stiffened shell, the number of ring stiffeners and the depth to width ratio of ring stiffeners, on the natural frequencies are studied.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuzhen Pang ◽  
Haichao Li ◽  
Xuhong Miao ◽  
Xueren Wang

Abstract In this paper, a modified Fourier solution based on the first-order shear deformation theory is developed for the free vibration problem of moderately thick composite laminated annular sector plates with general boundary conditions, internal radial line and circumferential arc supports. In this solution approach, regardless of boundary conditions, the displacement and rotation components of the sector plate are written in the form of the trigonometric series expansion in which several auxiliary terms are added to ensure and accelerate the convergence of the series. Each of the unknown coefficients is taken as the generalized coordinate and determined using the Raleigh- Ritz method. The accuracy and reliability of the present solution are validated by the comparison with the results found in the literature, and numerous new results for composite laminated annular sector plates considering various kinds of boundary conditions are presented. Comprehensive studies on the effects of elastic restraint parameters, layout schemes and locations of line/arc supports are also made.New results are obtained for laminated annular sector plates subjected to elastic boundary restraints and arbitrary internal radial line and circumferential arc supports in both directions, and they may serve as benchmark solutions for future researches.


Author(s):  
S. F. Nikrad ◽  
A. Kanellopoulos ◽  
M. Bodaghi ◽  
Z. T. Chen ◽  
A. Pourasghar

AbstractThe in-plane thermoelastic response of curved beams made of porous materials with different types of functionally graded (FG) porosity is studied in this research contribution. Nonlinear governing equations are derived based on the first-order shear deformation theory along with the nonlinear Green strains. The nonlinear governing equations are solved by the aid of the Rayleigh–Ritz method along with the Newton–Raphson method. The modified rule-of-mixture is employed to derive the material properties of imperfect FG porous curved beams. Comprehensive parametric studies are conducted to explore the effects of volume fraction and various dispersion patterns of porosities, temperature field, and arch geometry as well as boundary conditions on the nonlinear equilibrium path and stability behavior of the FG porous curved beams. Results reveal that dispersion and volume fraction of porosities have a significant effect on the thermal stability path, maximum stress, and bending moment at the crown of the curved beams. Moreover, the influence of porosity dispersion and structural geometry on the central radial and in-plane displacement of the curved beams is evaluated. Results show that various boundary conditions make a considerable difference in the central radial displacements of the curved beams with the same porosity dispersion. Due to the absence of similar results in the specialized literature, this paper is likely to provide pertinent results that are instrumental toward a reliable design of FG porous curved beams in thermal environment.


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