Closed-Form Solution of Natural Frequencies of a Cantilever Beam Under Longitudinal Rotation of the Support

Author(s):  
Mehdi Esmaeili ◽  
Mohammad Durali ◽  
Nader Jalili

This paper presents the modeling steps towards development of frequency equations for a cantilever beam with a tip mass under general base excitations. More specifically, the beam is considered to vibrate in all the three directions, while subjected to a base rotational motion around its longitudinal direction. This is a common configuration utilized in many vibrating beam gyroscopes and well drilling systems. The governing equations are derived using Extended Hamilton’s Principle with general 6-DOF base motion. The natural frequency equations are then extracted in closed-form for the case where the base undergoes longitudinal rotation. For validation purposes, the resulting natural frequencies are compared with two example case studies; one with a beam on a stationary base and the other one with a rotor having flexible shaft.

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (01) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Jong-Shyong Wu ◽  
Chin-Tzu Chen

Under the specified assumptions for the equation of motion, the closed-form solution for the natural frequencies and associated mode shapes of an immersed "Euler-Bernoulli" beam carrying an eccentric tip mass possessing rotary inertia has been reported in the existing literature. However, this is not true for the immersed "Timoshenko" beam, particularly for the case with effect of axial load considered. Furthermore, the information concerning the forced vibration analysis of the foregoing Timoshenko beam caused by wave excitations is also rare. Therefore, the first purpose of this paper is to present a technique to obtain the closed-form solution for the natural frequencies and associated mode shapes of an axial-loaded immersed "Timoshenko" beam carrying eccentric tip mass with rotary inertia by using the continuous-mass model. The second purpose is to determine the forced vibration responses of the latter resulting from excitations of regular waves by using the mode superposition method incorporated with the last closed-form solution for the natural frequencies and associated mode shapes of the beam. Because the determination of normal mode shapes of the axial-loaded immersed "Timoshenko" beam is one of the main tasks for achieving the second purpose and the existing literature concerned is scarce, the details about the derivation of orthogonality conditions are also presented. Good agreements between the results obtained from the presented technique and those obtained from the existing literature or conventional finite element method (FEM) confirm the reliability of the presented theories and the developed computer programs for this paper.


1965 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao-Lin Lee

A simple closed-form solution has been obtained for an axisymmetrical turbulent swirling jet issuing from a circular source into a semi-infinite motionless ambient fluid by introducing the assumptions of similar axial and swirling velocity profiles and lateral entrainment of ambient fluid into the integrated governing equations. Results for the decays of the axial and swirling velocities and the spray of the jet agree closely with the existing experimental findings on the velocity fields of a swirling round turbulent jet of air generated by flow issuing from a rotating pipe into a reservoir of motionless air.


Author(s):  
William S. Oates ◽  
Christopher S. Lynch

To date, much of the work done on ferroelectric fracture assumes the material is elastically isotropic, yet there can be considerable polarization induced anisotropy. More sophisticated solutions of the fracture problem incorporate anisotropy through the Stroh formalism generalized to the piezoelectric material. This gives equations for the stress singularity, but the characteristic equation involves solving a sixth order polynomial. In general this must be accomplished numerically for each composition. In this work it is shown that a closed form solution can be obtained using orthotropy rescaling. This technique involves rescaling the coordinate system based on certain ratios of the elastic, dielectric, and piezoelectric coefficients. The result is that the governing equations can be reduced to the biharmonic equation and solutions for the isotropic material utilized to obtain solutions for the anisotropic material. This leads to closed form solutions for the stress singularity in terms of ratios of the elastic, dielectric, and piezoelectric coefficients. The results of the two approaches are compared and the contribution of anisotropy to the stress intensity factor discussed.


2000 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Candan ◽  
I. Elishakoff

An infinite number of closed-form solutions is reported for a deterministically or stochastically nonhomogeneous beam, for both natural frequencies and reliabilities, for specialized cases. These solutions may prove useful as benchmark solutions. Numerical examples are evaluated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Mousa Abu-Alshaikh

The literature reveals that the non-conservative deflection of an elastic cantilever beam caused by applying follower tip loading was investigated and solved by various numerical methods like: Runge Kutta, iterative shooting, finite element, finite difference, direct iterative and non-iterative numerical methods. This is due to the fact that the Euler–Bernoulli nonlinear differential equation governing the problem contains the “slope at the free end”, this slope however needs special numerical treatment. On the other hand, some of these methods fail to find numerical solutions for extremely large loading conditions. Hence, this paper is aimed to obtain a closed-form solution for solving the large deflection of a cantilever beam opposed to a concentrated point follower load at its free end. This closed-form solution when compared with other conventional numerical approaches is characterized by simplicity, stability and straightforwardness in getting the beam deflection and slopes even for extremely large loading conditions. The closed-form solution is obtained by applying complex analysis along with elliptic-integral approach. Very good results were obtained when the elastica of the beam compared with that of various numerical methods which are used in analyzing similar problem.


2006 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 263-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOSSEIN ROUHANI ◽  
MANSOUR NIKKHAH BAHRAMI ◽  
BABAK NADJAR ARAABI ◽  
CARO LUCAS

A thorough analysis of cylindrical shells' dynamical behavior is essential in many different industrial design problems, and particularly in electric motor design. Shell vibration equations form a set of partial differential equations of order eight, where their closed form solution is only known for few special cases with a few known boundary conditions along with many not necessarily realistic assumptions. On the other hand, finite element based numerical solutions does not yield a lumped model that can be regarded as a general solution for natural frequencies of cylindrical shells. In this paper, a neurofuzzy model for natural frequencies of cylindrical shells is developed. At first, natural frequencies are calculated for a wide range of cylindrical shells' dimensions, using either closed form solution or finite element method. Gathered data is exploited for training of a Locally Linear Neurofuzzy Network, which yields a general model for calculation of natural frequencies of cylindrical shells. While the developed neurofuzzy model may be used in different design problems that deals with cylindrical shells, as a case study, the proposed model along with an evolutionary algorithm are utilized in the optimal design of a Switched Reluctance motor.


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