scholarly journals Stability analysis of cylindrical shells subjected to complex loads

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-256
Author(s):  
Ngo Huong Nhu

The paper deals with stability analysis of shell on the basis FEM via Castem 2000. The numerical results of stability problems of cylinders subjected to different loads as compress load, pressure, concentrated and combined loads are compared with analytical result and give a good agreement. The influence of changing radius of the cylindrical shell on the unstable forms and the influence of angles of fibers on unstable behaviour of laminated composite shell are considered. Numerical results and corresponding programs by languages Gibian given in the paper to realize software Castem 2000 can be applied in the design and in the stability analysis of the shell with more complex conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Xian Wen ◽  
Yan Qun Jiang

A proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method is applied to study the global stability analysis for flow past a stationary circular cylinder. The flow database at Re=100 is obtained by CFD software, i.e. FLUENT, with which POD bases are constructed by a snapshot method. Based on the POD bases, a low-dimensional model is established for solving the two-dimensional incompressible NS equations. The stability of the flow solution is evaluated by a POD-Chiba method in the way of the eigensystem analysis for the velocity disturbance. The linear stability analysis shows that the first Hopf bifurcation takes place at Re=46.9, which is in good agreement with available results by other high-order accurate stability analysis methods. However, the calculated amount of POD is little, which shows the availability and advantage of the POD method.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaichiro Mishima ◽  
Mamoru Ishii

A criterion for the onset of a slug flow in a horizontal duct is derived theoretically. A potential flow analysis is carried out by considering waves of finite amplitude. The stability criterion is obtained by introducing the wave deformation limit and the “most dangerous wave” concept in the stability analysis. The present theoretical criterion for slug formation shows very good agreement with a large number of experimental data and with some empirical correlations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taro Arikawa ◽  
Yu Chida ◽  
Katsumi Seki ◽  
Tomohiro Takagawa ◽  
Kenichiro Shimosako ◽  
...  

In this research, we develop a numerical fluid simulator coupled with a structural analysis. The purpose of this system is to efficiently calculate all stages of a tsunami from source to runup, including structural deformation. We also investigate the stability of breakwaters at Kamaishi port. The numerical results are compared with physical experiments, revealing good agreement. The system is applied to the local conditions at Kamaishi port to verify its applicability. Most of the breakwaters are washed away, which is similar to the actual reported damage, indicating that the proposed system can effectively reproduce tsunami structural damage.


1984 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Shilkrut

The stability analysis of axisymmetrical equilibrium states of geometrically nonlinear, orthotropic, circular plates that are deformed by multiparameter loading, including thermal influence, is presented. The dynamic method (method of small vibrations) is used to accomplish this purpose. The behavior of the plate in different cases is revealed. In particular, it is shown that two different types of snapping processes can occur. The values of frequencies of small eigenvibrations from various cases have been calculated. These investigations are realized by numerical and qualitative methods. Here only the numerical results are presented.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Amala Krishnan ◽  
Sreevalsa Kolathayar

This paper presents the stability analysis of a dike proposed to impound the river flood waters within an estuary near the west coast of south India. The proposed dike will be located within Ashtamudi Lake, the second largest lake in the state of Kerala, India, separating fresh water from brackish water. Constructing a dike at Munro Island portion of Ashtamudi, which is about 9.23 km from Arabian Sea coast, can meet the water demands of the region as well as prevent the sinking of Island during high tide. The river dike is designed to construct artificially as rock filled structures. The stratigraphy in the top 2 m consists of clayey mud underlined by fine to medium sand up to 6 m followed by alternate layers of clay and sand up the investigated depth of 15 m. In this paper, the stability of the dike located in an estuarine environment has been investigated and the factor of safety values have been determined with varying water level conditions and varying properties of the underlying soil. A detailed parametric study using RocScience software is presented, considering all the design conditions. The expected settlement of the dike is estimated considering the soil profile at the location both manually as well as using software Geo5. Both were in good agreement and the maximum possible settlement was found to be less than half a meter.


A theoretical investigation of the instability of a vortex ring to short azimuthal bending waves is presented. The theory considers only the stability of a thin vortex ring with a core of constant vorticity (constant /r) in an ideal fluid. Both the mean flow and the disturbance flow are found as an asymptotic solution in e = a /R, the ratio of core radius to ring radius. Only terms linear in wave amplitude are retained in the stability analysis. The solution to 0 (e 2 ) is presented, although the details of the stability analysis are carried through completely only for a special class of bending waves that are known to be unstable on a line filament in the presence of strain (Tsai & Widnall 1976) and have been identified in the simple model of Widnall, Bliss & Tsai (1974) as a likely mode of instability for the vortex ring: these occur at certain critical wavenumbers for which waves on a line filament of the same vorticity distribution would not rotate (w 0 = 0). The ring is found to be always unstable for at least the lowest two critical wavenumbers ( ka = 2.5 and 4.35). The amplification rate and wavenumber predicted by the theory are found to be in good agreement with available experimental results.


2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Esfahanian ◽  
K. Hejranfar ◽  
F. Sabetghadam

A highly accurate finite-difference PSE code has been developed to investigate the stability analysis of incompressible boundary layers over a flat plate. The PSE equations are derived in terms of primitive variables and are solved numerically by using compact method. In these formulations, both nonparallel as well as nonlinear effects are accounted for. The validity of present numerical scheme is demonstrated using spatial simulations of two cases; two-dimensional (linear and nonlinear) Tollmien-Schlichting wave propagation and three-dimensional subharmonic instability breakdown. The PSE solutions have been compared with previous numerical investigations and experimental results and show good agreement.


Author(s):  
Wu Zhou ◽  
Huiju Yu ◽  
Lili Chen ◽  
Yu Chen ◽  
Bei Peng ◽  
...  

Parallel bistable mechanism rather than single bistable beam is preferred in micro devices like relays and resonators due to its higher stability in insensitive axis and higher robustness to fabrication errors. Its stability characteristics including nonlinearity and bistability or snap-through, however, rarely appear in current publications. The coupled mechanism constructed by two pre-shaped beams in parallel is investigated analytically and numerically in this paper. Based on the quasi-linearization of the problem and analytical equation of force and displacement, the dimension combinations of coupled beams are categorized into three types according to the apex amplitudes of cosine-shaped beams. It is concluded that the appearance of snap-through behaviors in parallel coupled mechanism is sustained by both arranging two bistable beams and making the apex difference meet condition of Fmin < 0. The smallest values of minimum force only appears when the apexes are equal to each other, and any efforts to increase or decrease the apex of single beam will lead the nonlinear phenomenon from snap-through to constrained-snap-through and further to no snap-through. The numerical method is also introduced to observe the stability of coupled mechanism and shows a good agreement with analytical methods proposed by this paper.


Author(s):  
Nur Auni Baharum ◽  
Zanariah Abdul Majid ◽  
Norazak Senu

The performance of the numerical computation based on the diagonally implicit multistep block method for solving Volterra integrodifferential equations (VIDE) of the second kind has been analyzed. The numerical solutions of VIDE will be computed at two points concurrently using the proposed numerical method and executed in the predictor-corrector (PECE) mode. The strategy to obtain the numerical solution of an integral part is discussed and the stability analysis of the diagonally implicit multistep block method was investigated. Numerical results showed the competence of diagonally implicit multistep block method when solving Volterra integrodifferential equations compared to the existing methods.


2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Ravi Samtaney

We perform global linear stability analysis on low-Re flow past an isolated cylinder with rounded corners. The objective of the present work is to investigate the effect of cylinder geometry (corner radius) on the stability characteristics of the flow. Our investigation sheds light on new physics that the flow can be stabilized by partially rounding the cylinder in the critical and weakly supercritical flow regimes. The flow is first stabilized and then gradually destabilized as the cylinder varies from square to circular geometry. The sensitivity analysis reveals that the variation of stability is attributed to the different spatial variation trends of the backflow velocity in the near- and far-wake regions for various cylinder geometries. The results from the stability analysis are also verified with those of the direct simulations, and very good agreement is achieved.


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