Free-Vibration of an L-Shaped Plate: The General Solution and an Example of a Simply-Supported Plate With a Clamped Cutout

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Solecki

This study develops a new accurate method for finding the natural vibration frequencies of plates with cutouts. The method is based on replacing the plate with a cutout by a rectangular plate. This is achieved by filling the cutout with a “dummy” plate made of the same material, and of the same thickness as the original from which it is separated by an infinitesimal gap. Thanks to this device it is possible to apply finite Fourier transformation of discontinuous functions in a rectangular domain. The expression for the deflection now depends on the unknown quantities along the boundary and across the gap. Subsequent application of the available boundary conditions leads to a system of boundary integral equations. An L-shaped plate simply supported along the perimeter, and fixed along the cutout, is analyzed as an example. The frequencies of natural vibration are calculated and compared with the results obtained using the finite element method. The method presented here is also applicable to two- and three-dimensional problems of solids with holes or cavities and to similar thermoelastic problems. Application to plates with curved boundaries is also possible.

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Solecki

Recently Solecki (1996) has shown that a differential equation for vibration of a rectangular plate with a cutout can be reduced to boundary integral equations. This was accomplished by filling the cutout with a “patch” made of the same material as the rest of the plate and separated from it by an infinitesimal gap. Thanks to this procedure it was possible to apply finite Fourier transformation of discontinuous functions in a rectangular domain. Subsequent application of the available boundary conditions led to a system of boundary integral equations. A plate simply supported along the perimeter, and fixed along the cutout (an L-shaped plate), was analyzed as an example. The general solution obtained by Solecki (1996) serves here to determine the frequencies of natural vibration of a L-shaped plate simply supported all around its perimeter. This problem is, however, more complicated than the previous example: to satisfy the boundary conditions an infinite series depending on discontinuous functions must be differentiated. The theoretical development is illustrated by numerical values of the frequencies of the natural vibrations of a square plate with a square cutout. The results are compared with the results obtained using finite elements method.


2005 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 959-969 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Balderrama ◽  
A. P. Cisilino ◽  
M. Martinez

A boundary element method (BEM) implementation of the energy domain integral (EDI) methodology for the numerical analysis of three-dimensional fracture problems considering thermal effects is presented in this paper. The EDI is evaluated from a domain representation naturally compatible with the BEM, since stresses, strains, temperatures, and derivatives of displacements and temperatures at internal points can be evaluated using the appropriate boundary integral equations. Special emphasis is put on the selection of the auxiliary function that represents the virtual crack advance in the domain integral. This is found to be a key feature to obtain reliable results at the intersection of the crack front with free surfaces. Several examples are analyzed to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the implementation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 01042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Vorobtsov ◽  
Aleksandr Belov ◽  
Andrey Petrov

The development of time-step boundary-element scheme for the three dimensional boundaryvalue problems of poroelastodynamics is presented. The poroelastic continuum is described using Biot’s mathematical model. Poroelastic material is assumed to consist of a solid phase constituting an elastic formdefining skeleton and carrying most of the loading, and two fluid phases filling the pores. Dynamic equations of the poroelastic medium are written for unknown functions of displacement of the elastic skeleton and pore pressures of the filling materials. Green’s matrices and, based on it, boundary integral equations are written in Laplace domain. Discrete analogue are obtained by applying the collocation method to a regularized boundary integral equation. Boundary element scheme is based on time-step method of numerical inversion of Laplace transform. A modification of the time-step scheme on the nodes of Runge-Kutta methods is considered. The Runge-Kutta scheme is exemplified with 2-and 3-stage Radau schemes. The results of comparing the two schemes in analyzing a numerical example are presented.


Author(s):  
Michael Zabarankin

A necessary optimality condition for the problem of the minimum-resistance shape for a rigid three-dimensional inclusion displaced in an unbounded isotropic elastic medium subject to a constraint on the volume of the inclusion is obtained through Betti's reciprocal work theorem. It generalizes Pironneau's optimality condition for the minimum-drag shape for a rigid body immersed into a uniform Stokes flow and is specialized for axisymmetric inclusions in axisymmetric and transversal translations. In both cases of translation, the three-dimensional displacement field is represented in terms of generalized analytic functions, and the three-dimensional elastostatics problem is reduced to boundary-integral equations (BIEs) via the generalized Cauchy integral formula. Minimum-resistance shapes are found in the semi-analytical form of functional series from an iterative procedure coupling the optimality condition and the BIEs. They are compared with the minimum-resistance spheroids and with the minimum-resistance spindle-shaped and lens-shaped bodies. Remarkably, in the axisymmetric translation, the minimum-resistance shapes transition from spindle-like shapes to almost prolate spheroidal shapes as the Poisson ratio changes from 1/2 to 0, whereas in the transversal translation, they are close to oblate spheroidal shapes for any Poisson ratio.


2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1255-1271 ◽  
Author(s):  
MingHao Zhao ◽  
Yuan Li ◽  
CuiYing Fan

An arbitrarily shaped planar crack under different thermal and electric boundary conditions on the crack surfaces is studied in three-dimensional transversely isotropic thermopiezoelectric media subjected to thermal–mechanical–electric coupling fields. Using Hankel transformations, Green functions are derived for unit point extended displacement discontinuities in three-dimensional transversely isotropic thermopiezoelectric media, where the extended displacement discontinuities include the conventional displacement discontinuities, electric potential discontinuity, as well as the temperature discontinuity. On the basis of these Green functions, the extended displacement discontinuity boundary integral equations for arbitrarily shaped planar cracks in the isotropic plane of three-dimensional transversely isotropic thermopiezoelectric media are established under different thermal and electric boundary conditions on the crack surfaces, namely, the thermally and electrically impermeable, permeable, and semi-permeable boundary conditions. The singularities of near-crack border fields are analyzed and the extended stress intensity factors are expressed in terms of the extended displacement discontinuities. The effect of different thermal and electric boundary conditions on the extended stress intensity factors is studied via the extended displacement discontinuity boundary element method. Subsequent numerical results of elliptical cracks subjected to combined thermal–mechanical–electric loadings are obtained.


2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
A.A. Belov ◽  
A.N. Petrov

The application of non-classical approach of the boundary integral equation method in combination with the integral Laplace transform in time to anisotropic elastic wave modeling is considered. In contrast to the classical approach of the boundary integral equation method which is successfully implemented for solving three-dimensional isotropic problems of the dynamic theory of elasticity, viscoelasticity and poroelasticity, the alternative nonclassical formulation of the boundary integral equations method is presented that employs regular Fredholm integral equations of the first kind (integral equations on a plane wave). The construction of such boundary integral equations is based on the structure of the dynamic fundamental solution. The approach employs the explicit boundary integral equations. The inverse Laplace transform is constructed numerically by the Durbin method. A numerical solution of the dynamic problem of anisotropic elasticity theory based on the boundary integral equations method in a nonclassical formulation is presented. The boundary element scheme of the boundary integral equations method is built on the basis of a regular integral equation of the first kind. The problem is solved in anisotropic formulation for the load acting along the normal in the form of the Heaviside function on the cube face weakened by a cubic cavity. The obtained boundary element solutions are compared with finite element solutions. Numerical results prove the efficiency of using boundary integral equations on a single plane wave in solving three-dimensional anisotropic dynamic problems of elasticity theory. The convergence of boundary element solutions is studied on three schemes of surface discretization. The achieved calculation accuracy is not inferior to the accuracy of boundary element schemes for classical boundary integral equations. Boundary element analysis of solutions for a cube with and without a cavity is carried out.


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