Experimental and finite element studies on buckling of skew plates under uniaxial compression

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinivasa Chikkol Venkateshappa ◽  
Suresh Yalaburgi Jayadevappa ◽  
Prema Kumar Wooday Puttiah

AbstractExperimental studies were made on isotropic skew plates made of aluminum 7075-T6 and laminated composite skew plates under uniaxial compression with unloaded edges completely free and one loaded edge restrained completely and the other loaded edge restrained except translationally in the direction of loading. Experimental values of the buckling load have been determined using five different methods. The buckling load has also been determined using CQUAD8 finite element of MSC/NASTRAN. Comparison is made between the various experimental values of buckling load and the finite element solution. The effects of the skew angle and the aspect ratio on the critical buckling load of isotropic skew plates made of aluminum 7075-T6 have been studied. The effects of the skew angle, aspect ratio, and the laminate stacking sequence on the critical buckling load of laminated composite skew plates have also been studied. The critical buckling load is found to increase with the increase in the skew angle and decrease with the increase in aspect ratio. Method IV yields the highest value for critical buckling load and Method III the lowest value for critical buckling load. Among the various experimental values, the one given by Method IV is closest to the finite element solution, and the discrepancy between them is less than about 5% in the case of isotropic skew plates and about 10–15% in the case of laminated composite skew plates.

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 1175-1199
Author(s):  
Srinivasa Venkateshappa Chikkol ◽  
Prema Kumar Puttiah Wooday ◽  
Suresh Jayadevappa Yelaburgi

Experimental studies were made on isotropic cylindrical skew panels made of Aluminum 7075-T6 and laminated composite cylindrical skew panels under uniaxial compression. The experimental values of the critical buckling load ( Pcr) were determined using five different methods. The values of Pcr were also determined using MSC/Nastran and CQUAD8 finite element. The experimental values of the Pcr obtained by different methods were compared with the finite element solution. The effects of the skew angle and aspect ratio on the critical buckling load of isotropic cylindrical skew panels made of Aluminum 7075-T6 were studied. The effects of the skew angle, aspect ratio, and the laminate stacking sequence on the critical buckling load of laminated composite cylindrical skew panels were also studied. It is found that the method IV (based on a plot of applied load ( P) vs. average axial strain) yields the highest value for Pcr and method III (based on a plot of P vs. square of out-of-plane-deflection) the lowest value for Pcr. The experimental values given by method IV are seen to be closest to the finite element solution, the discrepancy being in the range of 5–23% for laminated composite cylindrical skew panels. For isotropic panels, it is found that the value Pcr initially increases with an increase in the skew angle and later decreases as the skew angle increases beyond 15°. For laminated composite panels, the Pcr value decreases as the aspect ratio increases for all laminate stacking sequences.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.B. Ashok ◽  
C.V Srinivasa ◽  
Y.J. Suresh ◽  
W.P. Prema Kumar

AbstractExperimental studies were made on isotropic cylindrical panels made of Aluminum 7075-T6 under uniaxial compression. The experimental values of the critical buckling load were determined using four different methods. The critical buckling load was also determined using MSC/NASTRAN and CQUAD8 finite element. The experimental values of the critical buckling load obtained by different methods were compared with the finite element solution. The effects of the panel angle, panel length and panel thickness on the critical buckling load of isotropic cylindrical panels made of Aluminum 7075-T6 were studied. It is found that the Method III (based on a plot of applied load versus average axial strain) yields the highest value for critical buckling load and Method II (based on a plot of applied load versus square of out-of-planede deflection) the lowest value for critical buckling load. The experimental values given by Method III are seen to be closest to the finite element solution. Critical buckling load increases monotonically as panel angle increases.


2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.V. Srinivasa ◽  
Y.J. Suresh ◽  
W.P. Prema Kumar

Abstract The present paper deals with the experimental studies carried out on free vibration of isotropic and laminated composite skew plates. The natural frequencies were also determined using QUAD8 finite element of MSC/NASTRAN and a comparison was made between the experimental values and the finite element solution. The effects of the skew angle and aspect ratio on the natural frequencies of isotropic skew plates were studied. The effects of the skew angle, aspect ratio, fiber orientation angle and laminate sequence (keeping the number of layers constant) on the natural frequencies of antisymmetric composite laminates were also studied. The experimental values of natural frequencies are in good agreement with the FE solutions. The natural frequencies are found to increase with an increase in the skew angle. The variation of natural frequencies with the aspect ratio is small and negligible both for isotropic and laminated composite skew plates.


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikkol Venkateshappa Srinivasa ◽  
Yalaburgi Jayadevappa Suresh ◽  
Wooday Puttiah Prema Kumar

AbstractThe present paper presents the finite element studies made on critical buckling load of isotropic and laminated composite cylindrical skew panels. Analysis is performed using CQUAD4 and CQUAD8 elements of MSC/NASTRAN. It is found that the CQUAD8 element yields better results compared to the CQUAD4 element in terms of accuracy and convergence. Using the CQUAD8 element, the effects of the panel angle, skew angle, aspect ratio, and length-to-thickness ratio on the critical buckling load of isotropic cylindrical skew panels have been studied. The effects of additional parameters such as fiber orientation angle, numbers of layers (NL), and stacking sequence on the critical buckling load of laminated composite cylindrical skew panels have also been studied. The critical buckling loads are found to increase with the increase in panel angle and skew angle. When the NL in the laminate is large, the variation of the critical buckling load with the NL is not appreciable. The boundary conditions are found to have significant influence on the critical buckling load.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Dhotre Pavan Kumar ◽  
Chikkol V. Srinivasa

Abstract The current work focuses on the experimental and finite element free vibration studies of laminated composite sandwich skew plates. The comparison was made between the experimental values obtained by the Fast Fourier transform (FFT) analyzer and a finite element solution obtained from CQUAD8 finite element of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) / NASA STRucture Analysis (NASTRAN) software. The influence of parameters such as aspect ratio (AR) (a/b), skew angle (α), edge condition, laminate stacking sequence, and fiber orientation angle (θ°) on the natural frequencies of sandwich skew plates was studied. The values obtained by both the finite element and experiment approaches are in good agreement. The natural frequencies increase with an increase in the skew angle for all given ARs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 2206-2222 ◽  
Author(s):  
MC Kiran ◽  
Subhaschandra Kattimani

This article deals with the study of buckling behaviour of multilayered skew magneto-electro-elastic plate under uniaxial and biaxial in-plane loadings. The skew edges of the skew magneto-electro-elastic plate are obtained by transforming the local skew coordinate to the global using a transformation matrix. The displacement fields corresponding to the first-order shear deformation theory along with constitutive equations of magneto-electro-elastic materials are used to develop a finite element model. The finite element model encompasses the coupling between electric, magnetic and elastic fields. The in-plane stress distribution within the skew magneto-electro-elastic plate due to the enacted force is considered to be equivalent to the applied in-plane compressive loads in the pre-buckling range. This stress distribution is used to derive the potential energy functional of the skew magneto-electro-elastic plate. The non-dimensional critical buckling load is attained from the solution of the allied linear eigenvalue problem. Influence of skew angle, stacking sequence, span-to-thickness ratio, aspect ratio and boundary condition on the critical buckling load and their corresponding mode shapes is investigated.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 468-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashi Kumar ◽  
Rajesh Kumar ◽  
Sasankasekhar Mandal ◽  
Atul K. Rahul

Background:Stiffened panels are being used as a lightweight structure in aerospace, marine engineering and retrofitting of building and bridge structure. In this paper, two efficient analytical computational tools, namely, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) are used to analyze and compare the results of the laminated composite 750-hat-stiffened panels.Objective:Finite Element (FE) is an efficient and versatile method for the analysis of a complex problem. FE models have been used to generate data set of four different parameters. The four parameters are extensional stiffness ratio of skin in the longitudinal direction to the transverse direction, orthotropy ratio of the panel, the ratio of twisting stiffness to transverse flexural stiffness and smeared extensional stiffness ratio of stiffeners to that of the plate.Results and Conclusion:For training of ANN, multilayer feedforward back-propagation has been used as a network function with two-hidden layers in the neural network. The good network architecture is achieved after several iterations to predict the buckling load of the stiffened panel. ANN prediction for unknown new data set is in good agreement with FEA results of different cases, which show that ANN tool can be used for the design of complex structural problems in civil engineering and optimization of the laminated composite stiffened panel.


2013 ◽  
Vol 676 ◽  
pp. 170-174
Author(s):  
Ju Tao Kuang ◽  
Ai Rong Liu ◽  
Qi Ca Yu ◽  
Jiang Dong Deng

By the setting torsional and lateral displacement function of sidewise buckling of two-hinged circular arch under concentrated force, the single-arch structure's bending, torsional deformation and external force potential can be constructed. An analytical solution for the lateral critical buckling load of two-hinged arch is first deduced by using the energy method; the results are also compared and analyzed by the finite element method. The results show that the analytical solution of single arch’s lateral critical buckling load is in good agreement with the finite element numerical solution, and the validity of the formula is proven.


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