scholarly journals Imposition of boundary conditions by modifying the weighting coefficient matrices in the differential quadrature method

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. Fung
Author(s):  
Siu-Tong Choi ◽  
Yu-Tuan Chou

Abstract The differential quadrature method has lately been more and more often used for analysis of engineering problems as an alternative for the finite element method or finite difference method. In this paper, static, dynamic and buckling analyses of structural components are performed by the differential quadrature method. To improve the accuracy of this method, an approach is proposed for selecting the sampling points which include base points and conditional points. The base points are taken as the roots of the Legendre polynomials. Accuracy of the problems analyzed will be increased by using the base points. The conditional points are determined according to boundary conditions and specified conditions of external load. A modified algorithm is proposed for applying two or more boundary conditions in a sampling point at boundary of domain, such that the higher-order partial differential equation can be solved without adding new sampling points. By applying this approach to variety problems, such as deflections of beam under nonuniformly distributed loading, vibration and buckling analyses of beam and plate, it is found that numerical results of the present approach are more accurate than those obtained by the equally-spaced differential quadrature method and is computationally efficient.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Mostafa Talebitooti

A layerwise-differential quadrature method (LW-DQM) is developed for the vibration analysis of a stiffened laminated conical shell. The circumferential stiffeners (rings) and meridional stiffeners (stringers) are treated as discrete elements. The motion equations are derived by applying the Hamilton’s principle. In order to accurately account for the thickness effects and the displacement field of stiffeners, the layerwise theory is used to discretize the equations of motion and the related boundary conditions through the thickness. Then, the equations of motion as well as the boundary condition equations are transformed into a set of algebraic equations applying the DQM in the meridional direction. The advantage of the proposed model is its applicability to thin and thick unstiffened and stiffened shells with arbitrary boundary conditions. In addition, the axial load and external pressure is applied to the shell as a ratio of the global buckling load and pressure. This study demonstrates the accuracy, stability, and the fast rate of convergence of the present method, for the buckling and vibration analyses of stiffened conical shells. The presented results are compared with those of other shell theories and a special case where the angle of conical shell approaches zero, i.e. a cylindrical shell, and excellent agreements are achieved.


2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Milad Ranjbaran ◽  
Rahman Seifi

This article proposes a new method for the analysis of free vibration of a cracked isotropic plate with various boundary conditions based on Kirchhoff’s theory. The isotropic plate is assumed to have a part-through surface or internal crack. The crack is considered parallel to one of the plate edges. Existence of the crack modified the governing differential equations which were formulated based on the line-spring model. Generalized differential quadrature method discretizes the obtained governing differential equations and converts them into an algebraic system of equations. Then, an eigenvalue analysis was used to determine the natural frequencies of the cracked plates. Some numerical results are given to demonstrate the accuracy and convergence of the obtained results. To demonstrate the efficiency of the method, the results were compared with finite element solutions and available literature. Also, effects of the crack depth, its location along the thickness, the length of the crack and different boundary conditions on the natural frequencies were investigated.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (19) ◽  
pp. 3247-3265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Ghadiri ◽  
Navvab Shafiei

This study investigates the small-scale effect on the flapwise bending vibrations of a rotating nanoplate that can be the basis of nano-turbine design. The nanoplate is modeled as classical plate theory (CPT) with boundary conditions as the cantilever and propped cantilever. The axial forces are also included in the model as the true spatial variation due to the rotation. Hamilton’s principle is used to derive the governing equation and boundary conditions for the classic plate based on Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity theory and the differential quadrature method is employed to solve the governing equations. The effect of the small-scale parameter, nondimensional angular velocity, nondimensional hub radius, setting angle and different boundary conditions in the first four nondimensional frequencies is discussed. Due to considering rotating effects, results of this study are applicable in nanomachines such as nanomotors and nano-turbines and other nanostructures.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (17) ◽  
pp. 3908-3919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mouafo Teifouet Armand Robinson

The two-dimensional viscoelastic differential constitutive relation is employed in this paper, in order to establish the equation of motion of axially moving viscoelastic rectangular plate. Two boundary conditions are investigated, namely the clamped free and two opposite edges simply supported and two others free. The differential quadrature method is used to solve the resulting complex eigenvalues equation. The influence of boundary conditions on the instability of a moving viscoelastic plate is analyzed firstly, and secondly the effects of system parameters such as plate's viscosity and aspect ratio on the vibration frequencies are presented.


Author(s):  
Saimi Ahmed ◽  
Hadjoui Abdelhamid ◽  
Bensaid Ismail ◽  
Fellah Ahmed

In this paper the dynamic analysis of a shaft rotor whose support is mobile is studied. For the calculation of kinetic energy and stiffness energy, the beam theory of Euler Bernoulli was used, and the matrices of elements and systems are developed using two methods derived from the differential quadrature method (DQM). The first method is the Differential Quadrature Finite Element Method (DQFEM) systematically, as a combination of the Differential Quadrature Method (DQM) and the Standard Finite Element Method (FEM), which has a reduced computational cost for problems in dynamics. The second method is the Differential Quadrature Hierarchical Finite Element Method (DQHFEM) which is used by expressing the matrices of the hierarchical finite element method in a similar form to that of the Differential Quadrature Finite Element Method and introducing an interpolation basis on the element boundary of the hierarchical finite element method. The discretization element used for both methods is a three-dimensional beam element. In the differential quadrature finite element method (DQFEM), the mass, gyroscopic and stiffness matrices are simply calculated using the weighting coefficient matrices given by the differential quadrature (DQ) and Gauss-Lobatto quadrature rules. The sampling points are determined by the Gauss-Lobatto node method. In the Differential Quadrature Hierarchical Finite Element Method (DQHFEM) the same approaches were used, and the cubic Hermite shape functions and the special Legendre polynomial Rodrigues shape polynomial were added. The assembly of the matrices for both methods (DQFEM and DQHFEM) is similar to that of the classical finite element method. The results of the calculation are validated with the h- and hp finite element methods and also with the literature.


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