• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.855-875
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• 2015

Many novel materials exhibit a property of different elastic moduli in tension and compression. One such material is graphene, a wonder material, which has the highest strength yet measured. Investigations on buckling problems for structures with different moduli are scarce. To address this new problem, firstly, the nondimensional expression of the relation between offset of neutral axis and deflection curve is derived based on the phased integration method, and then using the energy method, load-deflection relation of the rod is determined; Secondly, based on the improved constitutive model for different moduli, large deformation finite element formulations are developed and combined with the arc-length method, finite element iterative program for rods with different moduli is established to obtain buckling critical loads; Thirdly, material mechanical properties tests of graphite, which is the raw material of graphene, are performed to measure the tensile and compressive elastic moduli, moreover, buckling tests are also conducted to investigate the buckling behavior of this kind of graphite rod. By comparing the calculation results of the energy method and finite element method with those of laboratory tests, the analytical model and finite element numerical model are demonstrated to be accurate and reliable. The results show that it may lead to unsafe results if the classic theory was still adopted to determine the buckling loads of those rods composed of a material having different moduli. The proposed models could provide a novel approach for further investigation of non-linear mechanical behavior for other structures with different moduli.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.563-581
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• 2011

Many novel materials, developed in recent years, have obvious properties with different modulus of elasticity in tension and compression. The ratio of their tensile modulus to compressive modulus is as high as five times. Nowadays, it has become a new trend to study the mechanical properties of these bimodular materials. At the present stage, there are extensive studies related to the strength analysis of bimodular structures, but the investigation of the buckling stability problem of bimodular rods seems to cover new ground. In this article, a semi-analytical method is proposed to acquire the buckling critical load of bimodular slender rod. By introducing non-dimensional parameters, the position of neutral axis of the bimodular rod in the critical state can be determined. Then by combining the phased integration method, the deflection differential equation of bimodular pin-ended slender rod is deduced. In addition, the buckling critical load is obtained by solving this equation. An example, which is conducted by comparing the calculation results between the three of the methods including the laboratory tests, numerical simulation method and the method we developed here, shows that the method proposed in the present work is reliable to use. Furthermore, the influence of bimodular characteristics on the stability is discussed and analyzed.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.339-347
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• 2023

TBM 추진잭이 경사면에 접촉하거나 편심하중이 발생할 때 추진잭의 페데스탈 및 로드 부위에 횡하중에 의한 휨변형이 발생할 수 있다. 이는 추진잭 모듈의 고장을 유발할 우려가 있으므로, 추진잭 모듈 전체에 대한 좌굴 안정성을 검증할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 추진잭 좌굴 안정성 분석을 위한 좌굴 압축시험방법을 조사하고, 압축시험 시스템을 구성하였다. 추진잭의 전체 부품을 모델링하여 수치해석을 통해 응력집중 파트를 분석하였다. 경사도 0도 조건에서 최대하중을 가압하여 압축시험을 수행하였다. 로드의 변형과 씰의 누유는 관측되지 않아서 0도 조건에서 추진잭의 좌굴 안정성을 검증하였다.