摘要
Based on the characteristics of membrane structures and the air influence factors,this paper presented a method to simulate the air aerodynamic force effects including the added air mass,the acoustic radiation damping and the pneumatic stiffness.The infinite air was modeled using the acoustic fluid element of commercial FE software and the finite element membrane roof models were coupled with fluid models.A comparison between the results obtained by FE computation and those obtained by the vibration experiment for a cable-membrane verified the validity of the method.Furthermore,applying the method to a flat membrane roof structure and using its wind tunnel test results,the analysis of nonlinear wind-induced dynamic responses for such geometrically nonlinear roofs,including the roof-air coupled model was performed.The result shows that the air has large influence on vibrating membrane roofs according to results of comparing the nodal time-history displacements,accelerations and stress of the two different cases.Meantime,numerical studies show that the method developed can successfully solve the nonlinear wind-induced dynamic response of the membrane roof with aerodynamic effects.
Based on the characteristics of membrane structures and the air influence factors, this paper presented a method to simulate the air aerodynamic force effects including the added air mass, the acoustic radiation damping and the pneumatic stiffness. The infinite air was modeled using the acoustic fluid element of commercial FE software and the finite element membrane roof models were coupled with fluid models. A comparison between the results obtained by FE computation and those obtained by the vibration experiment for a cable-membrane verified the validity of the method. Furthermore, applying the method to a flat membrane roof structure and using its wind tunnel test results, the analysis of nonlinear wind-induced dynamic responses for such geometrically nonlinear roofs, including the roof-air coupled model was performed. The result shows that the air has large influence on vibrating membrane roofs according to results of comparing the nodal time-history displacements, accelerations and stress of the two different cases. Meantime, numerical studies show that the method developed can successfully solve the nonlinear wind-induced dynamic response of the membrane roof with aerodynamic effects.
