Panel flutter phenomena can be strongly affected by thermal loads,and so a refined aeroelastic model is presented.Higher-order shell theories are used as structural models.The aerodynamic forces are described using th...Panel flutter phenomena can be strongly affected by thermal loads,and so a refined aeroelastic model is presented.Higher-order shell theories are used as structural models.The aerodynamic forces are described using the Piston theory.The temperature is considered uniform over the thickness of the panel.The aero-thermo-elastic model is derived in the framework of the Carrera unified formulation(CUF),therefore the matrices are expressed in a compact form using the″fundamental nuclei″.Composite and sandwich structures are considered and different boundary conditions are taken into account.The effects of the thermal load on the aeroelastic behavior are investigated.展开更多
The present article considers the free-vibration analysis of plate structures with piezoelectric patches by means of a plate finite element with variable through-the-thickness layer-wise kinematic.The refined models u...The present article considers the free-vibration analysis of plate structures with piezoelectric patches by means of a plate finite element with variable through-the-thickness layer-wise kinematic.The refined models used are derived from Carrera’s Unified Formulation(CUF)and they permit the vibration modes along the thickness to be accurately described.The finite-element method is employed and the plate element implemented has nine nodes,and the mixed interpolation of tensorial component(MITC)method is used to contrast the membrane and shear locking phenomenon.The related governing equations are derived from the principle of virtual displacement,extended to the analysis of electromechanical problems.An isotropic plate with piezoelectric patches is analyzed,with clamped-free boundary conditions and subjected to open-and short-circuit configurations.The results,obtained with different theories,are compared with the higher-order type solutions given in the literature.The conclusion is reached that the plate element based on the CUF is more suitable and efficient compared to the classical models in the study of multilayered structures embedding piezo-patches.展开更多
文摘Panel flutter phenomena can be strongly affected by thermal loads,and so a refined aeroelastic model is presented.Higher-order shell theories are used as structural models.The aerodynamic forces are described using the Piston theory.The temperature is considered uniform over the thickness of the panel.The aero-thermo-elastic model is derived in the framework of the Carrera unified formulation(CUF),therefore the matrices are expressed in a compact form using the″fundamental nuclei″.Composite and sandwich structures are considered and different boundary conditions are taken into account.The effects of the thermal load on the aeroelastic behavior are investigated.
文摘The present article considers the free-vibration analysis of plate structures with piezoelectric patches by means of a plate finite element with variable through-the-thickness layer-wise kinematic.The refined models used are derived from Carrera’s Unified Formulation(CUF)and they permit the vibration modes along the thickness to be accurately described.The finite-element method is employed and the plate element implemented has nine nodes,and the mixed interpolation of tensorial component(MITC)method is used to contrast the membrane and shear locking phenomenon.The related governing equations are derived from the principle of virtual displacement,extended to the analysis of electromechanical problems.An isotropic plate with piezoelectric patches is analyzed,with clamped-free boundary conditions and subjected to open-and short-circuit configurations.The results,obtained with different theories,are compared with the higher-order type solutions given in the literature.The conclusion is reached that the plate element based on the CUF is more suitable and efficient compared to the classical models in the study of multilayered structures embedding piezo-patches.
