• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.279-288
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• 2020

The computational post-buckling strength of the tilted sandwich composite shell structure is evaluated in this article. The computational responses are obtained using a mathematical model derived using the higher-order type of polynomial kinematic in association with the through-thickness stretching effect. Also, the sandwich deformation behaviour of the flexible soft-core sandwich structural model is expressed mathematically with the help of a generic nonlinear strain theory i.e. Green-Lagrange type strain-displacement relations. Subsequently, the model includes all of the nonlinear strain terms to account the actual deformation and discretized via displacement type of finite element. Further, the computer code is prepared (MATLAB environment) using the derived higher-order formulation in association with the direct iterative technique for the computation of temperature carrying capacity of the soft-core sandwich within the post-buckled regime. Further, the nonlinear finite element model has been tested to show its accuracy by solving a few numerical experimentations as same as the published example including the consistency behaviour. Lastly, the derived model is utilized to find the temperature load-carrying capacity under the influences of variable factors affecting the soft-core type sandwich structural design in the small (finite) strain and large deformation regime including the effect of tilt angle.

• Composites Research
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 단순지지 경계조건을 갖는 적층 복합재료 사다리꼴 주름판에 대한 탄성 좌굴특성을 이론적 방법을 이용하여 분석하였다. 좌굴 해석에서는 한 방향 하중, 두 방향 하중 및 전단하중 등 3가지 유형의 내평면 하중조건이 고려되었다. 3차원 주름 구조물을 해석적으로 기계적 거동을 표현하는 것이 매우 어렵기 때문에 본 해석에서는 주름판의 전반적인 좌굴 거동을 분석하기 위해 등가균질모델을 적용하였다. 이를 위해 단위 주름을 직교이방성재료로 등가시켰으며, 이전 연구에서 유도한 주름판에 대한 등가 굽힘강성계수식을 본 해석에 적용하였다. 제안된 이론해석 결과의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 셸요소를 바탕으로 한 3차원 유한요소해석을 수행하였으며, 두 방법을 이용해 얻은 임계 좌굴하중 및 좌굴형상을 비교하였다. 주름판의 기하형상에 따른 영향을 분석하기 위해 다양한 수치 예가 제시되었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.291-306
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• 2021

Based on Reissner's mixed variational theorem (RMVT), the authors develop a semi-analytical finite element (FE) method for a three-dimensional (3D) bending analysis of nonhomogeneous orthotropic, complete and incomplete toroidal shells subjected to uniformly-distributed loads. In this formulation, the toroidal shell is divided into several finite annular prisms (FAPs) with quadrilateral cross-sections, where trigonometric functions and serendipity polynomials are used to interpolate the circumferential direction and meridian-radial surface variations in the primary field variables of each individual prism, respectively. The material properties of the toroidal shell are considered to be nonhomogeneous orthotropic over the meridianradial surface, such that homogeneous isotropic toroidal shells, laminated cross-ply toroidal shells, and single- and bi-directional functionally graded toroidal shells can be included as special cases in this work. Implementation of the current FAP methods shows that their solutions converge rapidly, and the convergent FAP solutions closely agree with the 3D elasticity solutions available in the literature.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.595-605
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• 2017

The present article reported the thermal buckling strength of the sandwich shell panel structure and subsequent improvement of the same by embedding shape memory alloy (SMA) fibre via a general higher-order mathematical model in conjunction with finite element method. The geometrical distortion of the panel structure due to the temperature is included using Green-Lagrange strain-displacement relations. In addition, the material nonlinearity of SMA fibre due to the elevated thermal environment also incorporated in the current analysis through the marching technique. The final form of the equilibrium equation is obtained by minimising the total potential energy functional and solved computationally with the help of an original MATLAB code. The convergence and the accuracy of the developed model are demonstrated by solving similar kind of published numerical examples including the necessary input parameter. After the necessary establishment of the newly developed numerical solution, the model is extended further to examine the effect of the different structural parameters (side-to-thickness ratios, curvature ratios, core-to-face thickness ratios, volume fractions of SMA fibre and end conditions) on the buckling strength of the SMA embedded sandwich composite shell panel including the different geometrical configurations.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1341-1344
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• 2003

Studies on impact damage of composite laminate shells were fewer compared with those on impact behaviors to analyze time-load, displacement-load and impact energy - energy absorption. Up to date the studies were not enough to demonstrate suitability of their results because they were dependent on theories and numerical analyses. In particular, it is a well-known fact that there was a correlation between initial peak load and damage resistance of composite material flat plates imposed with low-speed impact, but studies on composite material shells with curvature were also very few. Actually structures such as wings or moving bodies of airplanes, motor cases and pressure containers of rockets are circular. And as low-speed impact load is imposed for optimal design of take-off and landing, and containers of airplanes, it is very important to analyze evaluation of behaviors and damaged areas. Therefore, in this paper to evaluate the impact characteristics of the CFRP laminate shell according to size of curvature quantitatively, it was to identify energy absorption and impact damage instruments according to change of impact speed.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2007년도 정기 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.487-492
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• 2007

The enhancement of the service life of damaged or cracked structures is a major issue for researchers and engineers. The hierarchical void element with the integrals of Legend polynomials is used to characterize the fracture behavior of unpatched crack as well as repaired crack with bonded composite patches by computing the stress intensity factors and stress contours at the crack tip. The numerical approach is based on the v-version degenerate shell element including the theory of anisotropic laminated composites. Since the equivalent single layer approach is adopted in this study, the proposed element is necessary to represent a discontinuous crack part as a continuum body with zero stiffness of materials. Thus the aspect ratio of this element to represent the crack should be extremely slender. The sensitivity of numerical solution with respect to energy release rate, displacement and stress has been tested to show the robustness of hierarchical void element as the aspect ratio is increased up to 2000. The stiffness derivative method and displacement extrapolation method have been applied to calculate the stress intensity factors of Mode I problem.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제11권4호통권41호
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• pp.373-384
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• 1999

복합재료를 사용한 비등방성 원통형 쉘 구조형식은 단일소재의 재료역학적인 단점을 극복할 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 1차전단변형효과가 고려된 비등방성 원통형 쉘을 해석하는 것이다. 전단변형효과가 고려된 원통형 쉘의 거동은 기존의 고전적인 해와 길이-두께비에 따라 상당한 거동의 차이를 보이므로 이러한 전단변형효과의 고찰은 매우 중요하다고 사료된다. 또한 본 연구는 유한요소법에 근간한 상용 공학프로그램인 ANSYS와 본 연구의 프로그램결과를 비교, 검증하였으며, 비등방성 원통형 쉘의 중심각의 변화, 화이버의 보강각도 변화, 탄성계수비의 변화 등에 따른 쉘의 처짐 및 단면력을 분석하였다. 본 논문에서 사용한 유한차분법에 의한 해는 기존의 해석적인 방법으로는 해석하기 어려운 보다 다양하고 복잡한 조건을 갖는 문제에 대하여 보다 정확한 해를 얻을 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제시한 유한차분법을 이용한 다양한 비등방성 원통형 쉘의 해석결과는 복합 신소재를 사용하는 쉘 구조체의 실용화에 앞서 다양한 기준을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.771-791
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• 2018

This paper deals with the low velocity impact response and dynamic stresses of composite sandwich truncated conical shells (STCS) with compressible or incompressible core. Impacts are assumed to occur normally over the top face-sheet and the interaction between the impactor and the structure is simulated using a new equivalent three-degree-of-freedom (TDOF) spring-mass-damper (SMD) model. The displacement fields of core and face sheets are considered by higher order and first order shear deformation theory (FSDT), respectively. Considering continuity boundary conditions between the layers, the motion equations are derived based on Hamilton's principal incorporating the curvature, in-plane stress of the core and the structural damping effects based on Kelvin-Voigt model. In order to obtain the contact force, the displacement histories and the dynamic stresses, the differential quadrature method (DQM) is used. The effects of different parameters such as number of the layers of the face sheets, boundary conditions, semi vertex angle of the cone, impact velocity of impactor, trapezoidal shape and in-plane stresses of the core are examined on the low velocity impact response of STCS. Comparison of the present results with those reported by other researchers, confirms the accuracy of the present method. Numerical results show that increasing the impact velocity of the impactor yields to increases in the maximum contact force and deflection, while the contact duration is decreased. In addition, the normal stresses induced in top layer are higher than bottom layer since the top layer is subjected to impact load. Furthermore, with considering structural damping, the contact force and dynamic deflection decrees.