Mixed finite element and differential quadrature method for free and forced vibration and buckling analysis of rectangular plates

This paper presents a combined application of the finite element method （FEM） and the differential quadrature method （DQM） to vibration and buckling problems of rectangular plates. The proposed scheme combines the geometry flexibility of the FEM and the high accuracy and efficiency of the DQM. The accuracy of the present method is demonstrated by comparing the obtained results with those available in the literature. It is shown that highly accurate results can be obtained by using a small number of finite elements and DQM sample points. The proposed method is suitable for the problems considered due to its simplicity and potential for further development.

B-Spline Wavelet on Interval Finite Element Method for Static and Vibration Analysis of Stiffened Flexible Thin Plate

A new wavelet finite element method(WFEM)is constructed in this paper and two elements for bending and free vibration problems of a stiffened plate are analyzed.By means of generalized potential energy function and virtual work principle,the formulations of the bending and free vibration problems of the stiffened plate are derived separately.Then,the scaling functions of the B-spline wavelet on the interval(BSWI)are introduced to discrete the solving field variables instead of conventional polynomial interpolation.Finally,the corresponding two problems can be resolved following the traditional finite element frame.There are some advantages of the constructed elements in structural analysis.Due to the excellent features of the wavelet,such as multi-scale and localization characteristics,and the excellent numerical approximation property of the BSWI,the precise and efficient analysis can be achieved.Besides,transformation matrix is used to translate the meaningless wavelet coefficients into physical space,thus the resolving process is simplified.In order to verify the superiority of the constructed method in stiffened plate analysis,several numerical examples are given in the end.

Static and free vibration analyses of functionally graded porous variable-thickness plates using an edge-based smoothed finite element method

The main purpose of this paper is to present numerical results of static bending and free vibration of functionally graded porous(FGP) variable-thickness plates by using an edge-based smoothed finite element method(ES-FEM) associate with the mixed interpolation of tensorial components technique for the three-node triangular element(MITC3), so-called ES-MITC3. This ES-MITC3 element is performed to eliminate the shear locking problem and to enhance the accuracy of the existing MITC3 element. In the ES-MITC3 element, the stiffness matrices are obtained by using the strain smoothing technique over the smoothing domains formed by two adjacent MITC3 triangular elements sharing an edge. Materials of the plate are FGP with a power-law index(k) and maximum porosity distributions(U) in the forms of cosine functions. The influences of some geometric parameters, material properties on static bending, and natural frequency of the FGP variable-thickness plates are examined in detail.

Element-free Galerkin method for free vibration of rectangular plates with interior elastic point supports and elastically restrained edges

The element-free Galerkin method is proposed to solve free vibration of rectangular plates with finite interior elastic point supports and elastically restrained edges.Based on the extended Hamilton＇s principle for the elastic dynamics system,the dimensionless equations of motion of rectangular plates with finite interior elastic point supports and the edge elastically restrained are established using the element-free Galerkin method.Through numerical calculation,curves of the natural frequency of thin plates with three edges simply supported and one edge elastically restrained,and three edges clamped and the other edge elastically restrained versus the spring constant,locations of elastic point support and the elastic stiffness of edge elastically restrained are obtained.Effects of elastic point supports and edge elastically restrained on the free vibration characteristics of the thin plates are analyzed.

THE DISPLACEMENT FUNCTION OF QUASI-CONFORMING ELEMENT AND ITS NODE ERROR

Based on the strain formulation of the quasi-conforming finite element, displacement functions are constructed which have definite physical meaning, and a conclusion can be obtained that the coefficients of the constant and the linear strain are uniquely determined, and the quasi-conforming finite element method is convergent to constant strain. There are different methods for constructing the rigid displacement items, and different methods correspond to different order node errors, and this is different from ordinary displacement method finite element.

An efficient method for vibration and stability analysis of rectangular plates axially moving in fluid

An efficient method is developed to investigate the vibration and stability of moving plates immersed in fluid by applying the Kirchhoff plate theory and finite element method.The fluid is considered as an ideal fluid and is described with Bernoulli’s equation and the linear potential flow theory.Hamilton’s principle is used to acquire the dynamic equations of the immersed moving plate.The mass matrix,stiffness matrix,and gyroscopic inertia matrix are determined by the exact analytical integration.The numerical results show that the fundamental natural frequency of the submersed moving plates gradually decreases to zero with an increase in the axial speed,and consequently,the coupling phenomenon occurs between the first-and second-order modes.It is also found that the natural frequency of the submersed moving plates reduces with an increase in the fluid density or the immersion level.Moreover,the natural frequency will drop obviously if the plate is located near the rigid wall.In addition,the developed method has been verified in comparison with available results for special cases.

An Effective Method for Free Vibration of Plate on Elastic Half Space

The vibration analysis of a plate on an elastic foundation is an important problem in engineering. It is the interaction of a plate with the three-dimensional half space and the plate is usually loaded from both the upper and lower surfaces. The contact pressure from the soil can not be predefined. According to Lamb's solution for a single oscillating force acting on a point on the surface of an elastic half space, and the relevant approximation formulae, a relation between the local pressure and the deflection of the plate has been proposed. Based on this analysis, the reaction of the soil can be represented as the deformation of the plate. Therefore, the plate can be separated from the soil and only needs to be divided by a number of elements in the analysis. The following procedure is the same as the standard finite element method. This is a semi-analytical and semi-numerical method. It has been applied to the dynamic analysis of circular or rectangular plates on the elastic half space, at low or high frequency vibration, and on rigid, soft or flexible foundations. The results show that this method is versatile and highly accurate.

Accurate Free Vibration of Functionally Graded Skew Plates

The present study aims to analyze free vibration of thin skew plates made of functionally graded material(FGM)by using the weak form quadrature element method.The material properties vary continuously through the thickness according to a power-law form.A novel FGM skew plate element is formulated according to the neutral surface based plate theory and with the help of the differential quadrature rule.For verifications,Numerical results are compared with available data in literature.Results reveal that the non-dimensional frequency parameters of the FGM skew plates are independent of the power-law exponent and always proportional to those of homogeneous isotropic ones when the coupling and rotary inertias are neglected.In addition,employing the physical neutral surface based plate theory is equivalent to using the middle plane based plate theory with the reduced flexural modulus matrix.

Numerical Investigation on Vibration Performance of Flexible Plates Actuated by Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

This paper theoretically introduced the feasibility of changing the vibration characteristics offlexible plates by using bio-inspired,extremely light,and powerful Pneumatic Artificial Muscle(PAM)actuators.Many structural plates or shells are typicallyflexible and show highvibration sensitivity.For this reason,this paper provides a way toachieve active vibrationcontrolfor suppressing the oscillations ofthese structuresto meet strict stability,safety,and comfort requirements.The dynamic behaviors of the designed plates are modeled by using thefinite element(FE)method.As is known,the output force vs.contraction curve of PAM is nonlinear generally.In this presentfinite element model,the maximum forces provided by PAM in different air pressure are adopted as controlling forces for applying for the plate.The non-linearity between the output force and displacement of PAM is avoided in this study.The dynamic behaviors of plates with several independent groups of controlling forces are observed and studied.The results show that the natural frequencies of the plate can be varying and the max amplitude decreases significantly if the controlling forces are applied.The present work also demonstrates the potential of the PAM actuators as valid means for damping out the vibration offlexible systems.

Analysis of the Behavior of a Square Plate in Free Vibration by FEM in Ansys

In the realization of mechanical structures, achieving stability and balance is a problem commonly encountered by engineers in the field of civil engineering, mechanics, aeronautics, biomechanics and many others. The study of plate behavior is a very sensitive subject because it is part of the structural elements. The study of the dynamic behavior of free vibration structures is done by modal analysis in order to calculate natural frequencies and modal deformations. In this paper, we present the modal analysis of a thin rectangular plate simply supported. The analytical solution of the differential equation is obtained by applying the method of separating the variables. We are talking about the exact solution of the problem to the limit values. However, numerical methods such as the finite element method allow us to approximate these functions with greater accuracy. It is one of the most powerful computational methods for predicting dynamic response in a complex structure subject to arbitrary boundary conditions. The results obtained by MEF through Ansys 15.0 are then compared with those obtained by the analytical method.

Hamiltonian parametric element and semi-analytical solution for smart laminated plates

Based on the Hellinger-Reissner （H-R） mixed variational principle for piezoelectric material, a unified 4-node Hamiltonian isoparametric element of anisotropy piezoelectric material is established. A new semi-analytical solution for the natural vibration of smart laminated plates and the transient response of the laminated cantilever with piezoelectric patch is presented. The major steps of mathematical model are as follows： the piezoelectric layer and host layer of laminated plate are considered as unattached three-dimensional bodies and discretized by the Hamiltonian isoparametric elements. The control equation of whole structure is derived by considering the compatibility of generalized displacements and generalized stresses on the interface between layers. There is no restriction for the side-face geometrical boundaries, the thickness and the number of layers of plate by the use of the present isoparametric element. Present method has wide application area.

Eigenvalue Analysis of Thin Plate with Complicated Shapes By a Novel Infinite Element Method

A novel infinite element method(IEM)is presented for solving plate vibration problems in this paper.In the proposed IEM,the substructure domain is partitioned into multiple layers of geometrically similar finite elements which use only the data of the boundary nodes.A convergence criterion based on the trace of the mass matrix is used to determine the number of layers in the IE model partitioning process.Furthermore,in implementing the Craig-Bampton(CB)reduction method,the inversion of the global stiffness matrix is calculated using only the stiffness matrix of the first element layer.The validity and performance of the proposed method are investigated by means of four illustrative problems.The first example considers the case of a simple clamped rectangular plate.It is observed that the IEM results are consistent with the theoretical results for first six natural frequencies.The second example considers the frequency response of a clamped rectangular plate with a crack.The main feature of IEM is that a very fine and good quality virtual mesh can be created around the crack tip.The third and fourth examples consider the natural frequency of a multiple point supported plate and a perforated plate,respectively.The results are obtained just need to adjust the reference point or boundary nodes.The parametric analyses for various geometric profiles are easy to be conducted using these numerical techniques.In general,the results presented in this study have shown that the proposed method provides a direct,convenient and accurate tool for eigenvalue analysis of thin plate structure with complicated shapes.

Determination of Natural Frequencies of Multilayered Plates by Mixed Finite Elements

Natural frequencies for multilayer plates are calculated by mixed finite element method. The main object of this paper is to use the mixed model for multilayer plates, analyzing each layer as an isolated plate, where the continuity of displacements is achieved by Lagrange multipliers （representing static variables）. This procedure allows us to work with any model for single plate （so as to ensure the proper behavior of each layer）, and the complexity of the multilayer system is avoided by ensuring the condition of displacements by the Lagrange multipliers （static variables）. The plate is discretized by finite element modeling based on a primary hybrid model, where the domain is divided by quadrilateral, both for the displacement field and static variables. This mixed element for plates was implemented and several examples of vibrations have been verified successfully by the results obtained by other methods in the literature.

Forced vibration of smart laminated viscoelastic plates by RPT finite element approach

In this study,a finite element formulation based on the four-variable refined plate theory(RPT)is presented for forced vibration analysis of laminated viscoelastic composite plates integrated with a piezoelectric layer.To the best of the authors’knowledge,this is the first time that the proposed approach is extended for study of the dynamic behavior of the smart viscoelastic plate.The utilized RPT which works for both thick and thin plates predicts a parabolic variation for transverse shear stresses across the plate thickness.Considering a linear viscoelastic model for the substrate material,the relaxation module is predicted by the Prony series.Using Hamilton’s principle,the weak form equation is constructed and a four-node rectangular plate element is utilized for discretizing the domain.The Newmark scheme is employed for advancing the solution in time.A MATLAB code is developed based on the formulations and several benchmark problems are solved.Comparing the findings with existing results in previous studies confirms the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.The dynamic response of the smart viscoelastic plates under various electromechanical loads is investigated and the results show that the.vibration can be passively controlled by adding and actuating the piezoelectric layer.The damping effects of viscoelastic parameters on the results are investigated,too.

Hydroelastic Analysis of a Rectangular Plate Subjected to Slamming Loads

A hydroelastic analysis of a rectangular plate subjected to slamming loads is presented. An analytical model based on Wagner theory is used for calculations of transient slamming load on the ship plate. A thin isotropic plate theory is considered for determining the vibration of a rectangular plate excited by an external slamming force. The forced vibration of the plate is calculated by the modal expansion method. Analytical results of the transient response of a rectangular plate induced by slamming loads are compared with numerical calculations from finite element method. The theoretical slamming pressure based on Wagner model is applied on the finite element model of a plate. Good agreement is obtained between the analytical and numerical results for the structural deflection of a rectangular plate due to slamming pressure. The effects of plate dimension and wave profile on the structural vibration are discussed as well. The results show that a low impact velocity and a small wetted radial length of wave yield negligible effects of hydroelasticity.

FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATION OF EIGENVALUE PROBLEM FOR A COUPLED VIBRATION BETWEEN ACOUSTIC FIELD AND PLATE

We formulate a coupled vibration between plate and acoustic field in mathematically rigorous fashion. It leads to a non-standard eigenvalue problem. A finite element approximation is considered in an abstract way, and the approximate eigenvalue problem is written in an operator form by means of some Ritz projections. The order of convergence is proved based on the result of Babugka and Osborn. Some numerical example is shown for the problem for which the exact analytical solutions are calculated. The results shows that the convergence order is consistent with the one by the numerical analysis.

振荡器驱动方板的有限元模型和克拉尼图形

振荡器驱动的方板在稳态振动时所形成的克拉尼图形(驻波节线图形)在噪声源识别和颗粒移动操控等领域得到广泛应用。现有的对方板克拉尼图形的研究多采用实验和近似的理论分析方法。基于参数分析建立振荡器驱动方板的简化有限元模型和适当的边界条件,进而通过固有频率和振型分析,根据振型有效质量的大小预测和再现多组实验中出现的共振频率和克拉尼图形。对薄板在任意驱动频率下的稳态振动,通过振型叠加法快速准确计算出其振幅节线图形,与实验中相同频率下的克拉尼图形几乎相同。振荡器驱动的方板在共振频率下的克拉尼图形可解释为固有频率对应的振型,在非共振频率下的克拉尼图形可以解释为多个振型的叠加。通过建立具有适当边界条件的有限元模型,对振荡器驱动方板的克拉尼图形给出具有明确物理意义解释。

基于板-梁理论的FGM矩形截面杆扭转振动的理论研究

基于板-梁理论和Saint-Venant扭转理论的研究成果,将纵向位移假设为含有待定系数的表达式,通过几何方程推导了功能梯度材料矩形截面杆的总应变能方程,并利用最小应变能原理确定待定系数,得到自由扭转刚度的理论公式。在此基础上对矩形截面杆的自由振动出现纯扭转模态时的动能进行研究,求出在夹支条件下的扭转振动时的动能表达式、总势能的表达式及频率表达式。利用有限元软件ANSYS建立具有功能梯度材料特性的矩形截面杆的扭转振动的有限元模型,通过后处理命令查看对应边界条件的振动频率。通过有限元软件验证表明:基于板-梁理论推导得出的理论解与有限元解吻合较好,最大误差在4%以内。

结合灵敏度分析的圆锥壳-折板结构动力学研究

圆锥壳-折板结构在航空舱体装备结构中十分常见,作为航空装备重大核心精密科学仪器设备的承载体,舱体结构强度设计问题尤为关键.本文以圆锥壳-折板结构为对象,对其动力学特性展开分析.通过仿真计算,得到圆锥壳-折板结构在随机振动下的响应结果,并且建立材料参数与动力学响应之间的响应面函数.进一步利用Spearman秩相关系数,进行灵敏度分析,筛选出圆锥壳与折板结构中影响舱体结构动强度的主要因素.最后得到各个主要因素对于响应面动力学响应的影响规律曲线.

Dynamic modeling and H_∞ independent modal space vibration control of laminate plates

In this paper, combining the transfer matrix method and the finite element method, the modified finite element transfer matrix method is presented for high efficient dynamic modeling of laminated plates. Then, by constructing the modal filter and the disturbance force observer, and using the feedback and feedforward approaches, the H ∞ independent modal space control strategy is designed for active vibration control of laminate plates subjected to arbitrary, immeasurable disturbance forces. Compared with ordinary dynamic modeling and control methods of laminated plate structures, the proposed method has the low memory requirement, high computational efficiency and robust control performance. Formulations as well as some numerical examples are given to validate the method and the control performance.