Free Flexural Vibrations of Orthotropic Composite Base Plates or Panels With a Bonded Noncentral (or Eccentric) Stiffening Plate Strip

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
V. O¨zerciyes

The problem of the free flexural (or bending) vibrations of a rectangular, composite base plate or panel stiffened by a bonded, noncentral stiffening plate strip is considered. The lower composite base plate and the upper stiffening plate strip are assumed as dissimilar Mindlin Plates connected by a very thin and deformable adhesive layer. In the formulation, the entire composite system is considered to have simply supported edges in one direction while the other two edges may have arbitrary boundary conditions. The set of governing partial differential equations is reduced to a “special form” of a system of the first order ordinary differential equations. Then, they are integrated by the “Modified Transfer Matrix Method (with Interpolation Polynomials).” The mode shapes and the natural frequencies of the composite system are investigated and presented in detail for several boundary conditions. It was also found that the “hardness” and the “softness” of the in-between adhesive layer have significant effects on the mode shapes and the natural frequencies.

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
V. Özerciyes

Abstract In this study the free bending vibrations of compsite base plates or panels reinforced by a non-central (or eccentric) stiffening plate strip are considered. The base plate and the stiffening plate strip are dissimilar orthotropic plates. They are connected by a very thin and flexible adhesive layer. The dynamic equations of the entire composite plate system are obtained from the “Mindlin Plate Theory” for orthotropic plates. The set of the governing partial differential equations of the composite plate or panel system are reduced to a set of first order ordinary differential equations by the elimination of the time variable and one of the space variables. This final system of the first order differential equations in one space variable is integrated by the “Modified Version of the Transfer Matrix Method”. It was shown that the natural frequencies, at any mode, of the plate or panel system gradually increase at first with the increasing “Bending Cross Stiffness Ratio”. After then, for certain values of this “Ratio”, the natural frequencies for each mode, suddenly drop to a lower value and subsequently start to go up, although slowly, regardless of the support conditions. This unusual “Sudden Drop Phenomena” is explained in detail and, also, the mode shapes corresponding to the sudden drop are presented. The effect of the “hard” and the “soft” adhesive layer on the “Phenomena” are also shown.


Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
O¨. Gu¨vendik ◽  
V. O¨zerciyes

The present study is concerned with the “Free Flexural (or bending) Vibrations of Orthotropic Composite Mindlin Plates with a Bonded Non-Central (or Eccentric) Lap Joint”. The Mindlin plate adherends or panels of dissimilar, orthotropic material are connected by an adhesively bonded non-central (or eccentric) single lap joint. The adhesive layer is considered to be relatively very thin and linearly elastic. The theoretical formulation is based on the combination of the full set of the dynamic plate equations and the adhesive layer stress-displacement equations. Eventually, the system of equations is reduced to a set of the first order governing ordinary differential equations in the “state vector” form. The governing system of the differential equations is numerically integrated by means of the “Modified Transfer Matrix Method (with Interpolation and/or Chebyshev Polynomials)”. The effect of the non-central (or eccentric) location of the bonded lap joint is investigated and presented in detail in terms of natural frequencies and the associated mode shapes. The significant effects of the “hard” or the “soft” adhesive layer constants on the mode shapes and the natural frequencies are also investigated. Some important parametric studies such as the influences of the “Joint Length Ratio”, the “Joint Position Ratio” and the “Bending Rigidity Ratio” on the natural frequencies are computed and presented for the “hard” and the “soft” adhesive cases.


Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
O. Gu¨vendik ◽  
V. O¨zerciyes

In this present study, the “Free Bending Vibrations of a Centrally Bonded Symmetric Double Lap Joint (or Symmetric Double Doubler Joint) with a Gap in Mindlin Plates or Panels” are theoretically analyzed and are numerically solved in some detail. The “plate adherends” and the upper and lower “doubler plates” of the “Bonded Joint” system are considered as dissimilar, orthotropic “Mindlin Plates” joined through the dissimilar upper and lower very thin adhesive layers. There is a symmetrically and centrally located “Gap” between the “plate adherends” of the joint system. In the “adherends” and the “doublers” of the “Bonded Joint” assembly, the transverse shear deformations and the transverse and rotary moments of inertia are included in the analysis. The relatively very thin adhesive layers are assumed to be linearly elastic continua with transverse normal and shear stresses. The “damping effects” in the entire “Bonded Joint” system are neglected. The sets of the dynamic “Mindlin Plate” equations of the “plate adherends”, the “double doubler plates” and the thin adhesive layers are combined together with the orthotropic stress resultant-displacement expressions in a “special form”. This system of equations, after some further manipulations, is eventually reduced to a set of the “Governing System of the First Order Ordinary Differential Equations” in terms of the “state vectors” of the problem. Hence, the final set of the aforementioned “Governing Systems of Equations” together with the “Continuity Conditions” and the “Boundary conditions” facilitate the present solution procedure. This is the “Modified Transfer Matrix Method (MTMM) (with Interpolation Polynomials). The present theoretical formulation and the method of solution are applied to a typical “Bonded Symmetric Double Lap Joint (or Symmetric Double Doubler Joint) with a Gap”. The effects of the relatively stiff (or “hard”) and the relatively flexible (or “soft”) adhesive properties, on the natural frequencies and mode shapes are considered in detail. The very interesting mode shapes with their dimensionless natural frequencies are presented for various sets of boundary conditions. Also, several parametric studies of the dimensionless natural frequencies of the entire system are graphically presented. From the numerical results obtained, some important conclusions are drawn for the “Bonded Joint System” studied here.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meixia Chen ◽  
Jianhui Wei ◽  
Kun Xie ◽  
Naiqi Deng ◽  
Guoxiang Hou

Wave based method which can be recognized as a semi-analytical and semi-numerical method is presented to analyze the free vibration characteristics of ring stiffened cylindrical shell with intermediate large frame ribs for arbitrary boundary conditions. According to the structure type and the positions of discontinuities, the model is divided into different substructures whose vibration field is expanded by wave functions which are exactly analytical solutions to the governing equations of the motions of corresponding structure type. Boundary conditions and continuity equations between different substructures are used to form the final matrix to be solved. Natural frequencies and vibration mode shapes are calculated by wave based method and the results show good agreement with finite element method for clamped-clamped, shear diaphragm – shear diaphragm and free-free boundary conditions. Free vibration characteristics of ring stiffened cylindrical shells with intermediate large frame ribs are compared with those with bulkheads and those with all ordinary ribs. Effects of the size, the number and the distribution of intermediate large frame rib are investigated. The frame rib which is large enough is playing a role as bulkhead, which can be considered imposing simply supported and clamped constraints at one end of the cabin and dividing the cylindrical shell into several cabins vibrating separately at their own natural frequencies.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Yuceoglu ◽  
F. Toghi ◽  
O. Tekinalp

This study is concerned with the free bending vibrations of two rectangular, orthotropic plates connected by an adhesively bonded lap joint. The influence of shear deformation and rotatory inertia in plates are taken into account in the equations according to the Mindlin plate theory. The effects of both thickness and shear deformations in the thin adhesive layer are included in the formulation. Plates are assumed to have simply supported boundary conditions at two opposite edges. However, any boundary conditions can be prescribed at the other two edges. First, equations of motion at the overlap region are derived. Then, a Levy-type solution for displacements and stress resultants are used to formulate the problem in terms of a system of first order ordinary differential equations. A revised version of the Transfer Matrix Method together with the boundary and continuity conditions are used to obtain the frequency equation of the system. The natural frequencies and corresponding mode shapes are obtained for identical and dissimilar adherends with different boundary conditions. The effects of some parameters on the natural frequencies are studied and plotted.


Author(s):  
Gen Li ◽  
Yufeng Xing ◽  
Zekun Wang

For rectangular thick plates with non-Levy boundary conditions, it is important to explore analytical free vibration solutions because the classical inverse and semi-inverse exact solution methods are not applicable to this category of problems. This work is to develop an extended separation-of-variable (SOV) method to find closed-form analytical solutions for the free vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates with arbitrary homogeneous boundary conditions. In the extended SOV method, characteristic differential equations and boundary conditions in two directions are obtained by employing the Rayleigh principle and the assumption that the mode functions are in the SOV form, and two transcendental eigenvalue equations are achieved through boundary conditions. But these two eigenvalue equations cannot be solved simultaneously since there are two equations and only the natural frequency is the unknown variable. Considering this, the second assumption in this method is that the natural frequencies corresponding to two-direction mode functions are independent of each other in the mathematical sense, thus there are two unknowns in two transcendental eigenvalue equations, and the closed-form solutions for plates with arbitrary boundary conditions can be obtained non-iteratively. From the physical sense, the natural frequencies pertaining to different direction mode functions should be the same, and this conclusion is validated analytically and numerically. The present natural frequencies and mode shapes agree well with those obtained by other analytical and numerical methods. Especially, for the plates with at least two opposite sides simply supported, the present solutions are exact.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 168781401771181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyu Fan ◽  
Jin Huang ◽  
Junbo Ding ◽  
Jie Zhang

This article presents the free vibration of piezoelectric functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite conical panels with elastically restrained boundary conditions. The material properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced composites are assumed to be temperature-dependent and are obtained using the extended rule of mixture. First-order shear deformation theory is adopted to obtain the kinematics of the hybrid panels, and the boundary spring technique is used to implement arbitrary boundary conditions. Meanwhile, two types of electrical boundary conditions, closed circuit and open circuit, are considered for the free surfaces of the piezoelectric layers. The complete sets of electro-mechanically coupled governing equations are obtained using the Rayleigh–Ritz procedure with the Chebyshev polynomial basis functions. The resultant eigenvalue problem is solved to obtain natural frequencies and mode shapes of the hybrid panels. Convergence and comparison studies have been conducted to verify the stability and accuracy of the proposed method. Several numerical examples are examined to reveal the influences of the carbon nanotube volume fractions, carbon nanotube distribution types, boundary conditions, geometrical parameters, and temperatures on the natural frequencies of the hybrid panel. Moreover, the mode shapes of the hybrid panels under various boundary conditions are also presented.


1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moon K. Kwak

This paper is concerned with the virtual mass effect on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of rectangular plates due to the presence of the water on one side of the plate. The approximate formula, which mainly depends on the so-called nondimensionalized added virtual mass incremental factor, can be used to estimate natural frequencies in water from natural frequencies in vacuo. However, the approximate formula is valid only when the wet mode shapes are almost the same as the one in vacuo. Moreover, the nondimensionalized added virtual mass incremental factor is in general a function of geometry, material properties of the plate and mostly boundary conditions of the plate and water domain. In this paper, the added virtual mass incremental factors for rectangular plates are obtained using the Rayleigh-Ritz method combined with the Green function method. Two cases of interfacing boundary conditions, which are free-surface and rigid-wall conditions, and two cases of plate boundary conditions, simply supported and clamped cases, are considered in this paper. It is found that the theoretical results match the experimental results. To investigate the validity of the approximate formula, the exact natural frequencies and mode shapes in water are calculated by means of the virtual added mass matrix. It is found that the approximate formula predicts lower natural frequencies in water with a very good accuracy.


1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (2S) ◽  
pp. S197-S204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Wu-Zheng Zu ◽  
Ray P. S. Han

A free flexural vibrations of a spinning, finite Timoshenko beam for the six classical boundary conditions are analytically solved and presented for the first time. Expressions for computing natural frequencies and mode shapes are given. Numerical simulation studies show that the simply-supported beam possesses very peculiar free vibration characteristics: There exist two sets of natural frequencies corresponding to each mode shape, and the forward and backward precession mode shapes of each set coincide identically. These phenomena are not observed in beams with the other five types of boundary conditions. In these cases, the forward and backward precessions are different, implying that each natural frequency corresponds to a single mode shape.


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