Nonlinear vibration and buckling of circular sandwich plate under complex load

The nonlinear vibration fundamental equation of circular sandwich plate under uniformed load and circumjacent load and the loosely clamped boundary condi- tion were established by von Karman plate theory, and then accordingly exact solution of static load and its numerical results were given. Based on time mode hypothesis and the variational method, the control equation of the space mode was derived, and then the amplitude frequency-load character relation of circular sandwich plate was obtained by the modified iteration method. Consequently the rule of the effect of the two kinds of load on the vibration character of the circular sandwich plate was investigated. When circumjacent load makes the lowest natural frequency zero, critical load is obtained.

Experimental and modelling studies of the transient tribological behaviour of a two-phase lubricant under complex loading conditions

The transient tribological phenomenon and premature lubricant breakdown have been widely observed in metal forming,leading to excessive friction at the contact interfaces.In this research,the transient tribological behaviour of a two-phase lubricant were studied under complex loading conditions,featuring abrupt interfacial temperature,contact load,and sliding speed changes,thus representing the severe interfacial conditions observed in warm/hot metal forming applications.The strong experimental evidence indicates that the evolution of friction was attributed to the physical diminution and chemical decomposition effects.As such,a visco-mechanochemical interactive friction model was developed to accurately predict the transient tribological behaviour of the two-phase lubricant under complex loading conditions.The new friction model exhibited close agreements between the modelling and experimental results.

PLASTIC LIMIT LOAD ANALYSIS OF DEFECTIVE PIPELINES

The integrity assessment of defective pipelines represents a practically important task of structural analysis and design in various technological areas,such as oil and gas indus- try,power plant engineering and chemical factories.An iterative algorithm is presented for the kinematic limit analysis of 3-D rigid-perfectly plastic bodies.A numerical path scheme for radial loading is adopted to deal with complex multi-loading systems.The numerical procedure has been applied to carry out the plastic collapse analysis of pipelines with part-through slot under internal pressure,bending moment and axial force.The effects of various shapes and sizes of part-through slots on the collapse loads of pipelines are systematically investigated and evaluated.Some typical failure modes corresponding to different configurations of slots and loading forms are studied.

Global nonequilibrium energy criterion for predicting strength of 316L stainless steel under complex loadings:Theoretical modeling and experimental validation

Classical strength criteria are developed based on some empirical assumptions and have been widely used in engineering to predict material strength owing to their simplicity. In some cases, however, considerable discrepancies arise between classicalstrength-criteria-based theoretical predictions and experimental results. Recently, a global nonequilibrium thermodynamics model has made important progress over classical models without resorting to any empirical assumptions. A prominent advance of this rational energy model is that it straightforwardly determines the dissipation energy density function, which is pertinent to inherent material ductility, through simple uniaxial and equi-biaxial tensions. In this study, a brief introduction of the nonequilibrium energy model was followed by systematic experimental investigation to determine the dissipation energy function and predict the material strength of pristine 316 L stainless steel-commonly used in engineering-under complex loadings. The results indicated that the strength contours predicted by the nonequilibrium energy criterion for complex loadings are consistent with the experimental results obtained for biaxial tension, implying that the nonequilibrium thermodynamics model is both reasonable and reliable. The prediction error was presumed to be induced by the anisotropy of the 316 L stainless steel sheets.

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON HISTORY-DEPENDENCEOF PLASTIC BEHAVIOR OF TYPE 302 STAINLESS STEELUNDER COMBINED AXIAL-TORSIONAL LOADS

Experimental investigations were pedermed on the plastic deformation along bilinear strain paths with various values of corner-angle by subjecting thin-walled tubular specimens of type 302 stainless steel to combined axial and torsional loads. Variations of scalar and vectorial behavior of the stress response are discnssed in the vector space of plastic strain. It is found that the intrinsic geometry of loading path, the plastic strain history and the coapled effect among strain components effect effectively the stress response of the material. The experimental results also show that these effects will disappear gradually with increasing strain.