Download or read book Statics and Rotational Dynamics of Composite Beams written by Mehrdaad Ghorashi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive study of the nonlinear statics and dynamics of composite beams and consists of solutions with and without active elements embedded in the beams. The static solution provides the initial conditions for the dynamic analysis. The dynamic problems considered include the analyses of clamped (hingeless) and articulated (hinged) accelerating rotating beams. Two independent numerical solutions for the steady state and the transient responses are presented. The author illustrates that the transient solution of the nonlinear formulation of accelerating rotating beam converges to the steady state solution obtained by the shooting method. Other key areas considered include calculation of the effect of perturbing the steady state solution, coupled nonlinear flap-lag dynamics of a rotating articulated beam with hinge offset and aerodynamic damping, and static and dynamic responses of nonlinear composite beams with embedded anisotropic piezo-composite actuators. The book is intended as a thorough study of nonlinear elasticity of slender beams and is targeted to researchers, graduate students, and practicing engineers in the fields of structural dynamics, aerospace structures, and mechanical engineering.

Download or read book Dynamics of Elastic Nonlinear Rotating Composite Beams with Embedded Actuators written by Mehrdaad Ghorashi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thin Walled Composite Beams written by Liviu Librescu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This is the first monograph devoted to the foundation of the theory of composite anisotropic thin-walled beams and to its applications in various problems involving the aeronautical/aerospace, helicopter, naval and mechanical structures. Throughout the theoretical part, an effort was made to provide the treatment of the subject by using the equations of the 3-D elasticity theory. Non-classical effects such as transverse shear, warping constraint, anisotropy of constituent materials yielding the coupling of twist-bending (lateral), bending (transversal)-extension have been included and their implications have been thoroughly analyzed. Thermal effects have been included and in order to be able to circumvent their deleterious effects, functionally graded materials have been considered in their construction. Implications of the application of the tailoring technique and of the active feedback control on free vibration, dynamic response, instability and aeroelasticity of such structures have been amply investigated. Special care was exercised throughout this work to address and validate the adopted solution methodologies and the obtained results against those available in the literature and obtained via numerical or experimental means.

Download or read book Free Vibration and Dynamic Instability Analyses of Doubly tapered Rotating Laminated Composite Beams written by Saemul Seraj and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the outstanding engineering properties, such as high strength/stiffness to weight ratios, capability to be stiff at one location and flexible at another location and favorable fatigue characteristics, doubly-tapered composite beam is used in the rotating structures such as helicopter rotor blades and wind turbine blades. Due to its distinct characteristics from static beam and wide range of applications, rotating beam requires a comprehensive research to understand its dynamic response. Design of mechanical components using doubly-tapered composite beams requires a better understanding of their behavior in free vibration and their dynamic instability. In the present thesis, free vibration and dynamic instability analyses of doubly-tapered rotating cantilever composite beams are conducted considering three different types of vibrations (out-of-plane bending, in-plane bending and axial). Rayleigh-Ritz approximate method based on classical lamination theory has been employed to formulate the free vibration problem and solve it. Bolotin’s method is applied to determine the instability regions. Numerical and symbolic computations have been performed using the software MATLAB. The results for natural frequencies have been validated using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tool ANSYS. A comprehensive parametric study is conducted in order to understand the effects of various design parameters. Moreover, critical speed of doubly-tapered rotating composite beam is determined and change of critical speed due to double-tapering is investigated. Also, change in maximum deflection due to rotational velocity and double-tapering is observed in this thesis. The material chosen in this thesis for numerical calculations is NCT-301 graphite-epoxy prepreg.

Download or read book Applied Mechanics Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Simple Finite Element for the Dynamic Analysis of Rotating Composite Beams written by Vikas B. Dhar and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of the Theory of Structures written by Karl-Eugen Kurrer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the publication of the first English edition of The History of the Theory of Structures, Dr. Kurrer now gives us a much enlarged second edition with a new subtitle: Searching for Equilibrium. The author invites the reader to take part in a journey through time to explore the equilibrium of structures. That journey starts with the emergence of the statics and strength of materials of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo, and reaches its first climax with Coulomb's structural theories for beams, earth pressure and arches in the late 18th century. Over the next 100 years, Navier, Culmann, Maxwell, Rankine, Mohr, Castigliano and Müller-Breslau moulded theory of structures into a fundamental engineering science discipline that - in the form of modern structural mechanics - played a key role in creating the design languages of the steel, reinforced concrete, aircraft, automotive and shipbuilding industries in the 20th century. In his portrayal, the author places the emphasis on the formation and development of modern numerical engineering methods such as FEM and describes their integration into the discipline of computational mechanics. Brief insights into customary methods of calculation backed up by historical facts help the reader to understand the history of structural mechanics and earth pressure theory from the point of view of modern engineering practice. This approach also makes a vital contribution to the teaching of engineers. Dr. Kurrer manages to give us a real feel for the different approaches of the players involved through their engineering science profiles and personalities, thus creating awareness for the social context. The 260 brief biographies convey the subjective aspect of theory of structures and structural mechanics from the early years of the modern era to the present day. Civil and structural engineers and architects are well represented, but there are also biographies of mathematicians, physicists, mechanical engineers and aircraft and ship designers. The main works of these protagonists of theory of structures are reviewed and listed at the end of each biography. Besides the acknowledged figures in theory of structures such as Coulomb, Culmann, Maxwell, Mohr, Müller-Breslau, Navier, Rankine, Saint-Venant, Timoshenko and Westergaard, the reader is also introduced to G. Green, A. N. Krylov, G. Li, A. J. S. Pippard, W. Prager, H. A. Schade, A. W. Skempton, C. A. Truesdell, J. A. L. Waddell and H. Wagner. The pioneers of the modern movement in theory of structures, J. H. Argyris, R. W. Clough, T. v. Kármán, M. J. Turner and O. C. Zienkiewicz, are also given extensive biographical treatment. A huge bibliography of about 4,500 works rounds off the book. New content in the second edition deals with earth pressure theory, ultimate load method, an analysis of historical textbooks, steel bridges, lightweight construction, theory of plates and shells, Green's function, computational statics, FEM, computer-assisted graphical analysis and historical engineering science. The number of pages now exceeds 1,200 - an increase of 50% over the first English edition. This book is the first all-embracing historical account of theory of structures from the 16th century to the present day.

Download or read book Nonlinear Large Displacement and Moderate Rotational Characteristics of Composite Beams Incorporating Transverse Shear Strain written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research was directed toward the investigation of nonlinear large displacements and moderate rotations of composite beam structures considering a finite element potential energy approach incorporating through the thickness shear strain as an analytical function. This approach was compared to large rotation theories. Test cases were run to evaluate numerical algorithms Riks method and displacement imposed techniques were employed. The limitations and advantages of both methods were considered. Loading arrangements included concentrated forces as well as moments.

Download or read book Structural Dynamic Modeling of Highly coupled Rotating Laminated Advanced Composite Beams by a Hybrid Transfer Matrix Method written by Joseph Charles Rocchi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engineering Mechanics written by I. C. Jong and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See preceding entry. This companion text for a fundamental course in statics, usually offered in the sophomore or junior year in engineering curricula, emphasizes the application of principles to the analysis and solution of problems. Assumes background in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and basic differential and integral calculus; college physics would be helpful. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Mechanical Vibration written by Haym Benaroya and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 1259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control, Fourth Edition addresses the principles and application of vibration theory. Equations for modeling vibrating systems are explained, and MATLAB® is referenced as an analysis tool. The Fourth Edition adds more coverage of damping, new case studies, and development of the control aspects in vibration analysis. A MATLAB appendix has also been added to help students with computational analysis. This work includes example problems and explanatory figures, biographies of renowned contributors, and access to a website providing supplementary resources.

Download or read book Nonlinear Composite Beam Theory written by Dewey H. Hodges and published by Progress in Astronautics and A. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an authoritative expert whose work on modern helicopter rotor blade analysis has spanned over three decades, comes the first consistent and rigorous presentation of beam theory. Beginning with an overview of the theory developed over the last 60 years, Dr. Hodges addresses the kinematics of beam deformation, provides a simple way to characterize strain in an initially curved and twisted beam, and offers cross-sectional analysis for beams with arbitrary cross sections and composed of arbitrary materials. He goes on to present a way to accurately recover all components of cross-sectional strain and stress before providing a natural one-dimensional (1-D) theory of beams. Sample results for both cross-sectional and 1-D analysis are presented as is a parallel treatment for thin-walled beams.

Download or read book Engineering Mechanics Statics and Dynamics written by Carleton G. Fanger and published by Merrill Publishing Company. This book was released on 1970 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engineering Mechanics Statics and Dynamics written by Bela Imre Sandor and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International Aerospace Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Microstructural Randomness and Scaling in Mechanics of Materials written by Martin Ostoja-Starzewski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An area at the intersection of solid mechanics, materials science, and stochastic mathematics, mechanics of materials often necessitates a stochastic approach to grasp the effects of spatial randomness. Using this approach, Microstructural Randomness and Scaling in Mechanics of Materials explores numerous stochastic models and methods used in the m