• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.759-770
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• 2018

In the present investigation, by using the two numerical methods, free vibration analysis of laminated annular and annular sector plates have been studied. In order to obtain the main equations two different shell theories such as Love's shell theory and first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) have been used for modeling. After obtaining the fundamental equations in briefly, the methods of harmonic differential quadrature (HDQ) and discrete singular convolution (DSC) are used to solve the equation of motion. Accuracy, convergence and reliability of the present HDQ and DSC methods were tested by comparing the existing results obtained by different methods in the literature. The effects of some geometric and material properties of the plates are investigated via these two methods. The advantages and accuracy of the HDQ and DSC methods have also been examined with different grid numbers and shell theory. Some results for laminated annular plates and laminated circular plates were also been supplied.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.867-890
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• 2014

This paper deals with the geometric nonlinear bending analysis of laminated composite stiffened plates subjected to uniform transverse loading. The eight-noded degenerated shell element and three-noded degenerated curved beam element with five degrees of freedom per node are adopted in the present analysis to model the plate and stiffeners respectively. The Green-Lagrange strain displacement relationship is adopted and the total Lagrangian approach is taken in the formulation. The convergence study of the present formulation is carried out first and the results are compared with the results published in the literature. The stiffener element is reformulated taking the torsional rigidity in an efficient manner. The effects of lamination angle, depth of stiffener and number of layers, on the bending response of the composite stiffened plates are considered and the results are discussed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.751-766
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• 2004

This paper extends the use of the hierarchic degenerated shell element to geometric non-linear analysis of composite laminated skew plates by the p-version of the finite element method. For the geometric non-linear analysis, the total Lagrangian formulation is adopted with moderately large displacement and small strain being accounted for in the sense of von Karman hypothesis. The present model is based on equivalent-single layer laminate theory with the first order shear deformation including a shear correction factor of 5/6. The integrals of Legendre polynomials are used for shape functions with p-level varying from 1 to 10. A wide variety of linear and non-linear results obtained by the p-version finite element model are presented for the laminated skew plates as well as laminated square plates. A numerical analysis is made to illustrate the influence of the geometric non-linear effect on the transverse deflections and the stresses with respect to width/depth ratio (a/h), skew angle (${\beta}$), and stacking sequence of layers. The present results are in good agreement with the results in literatures.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2000

The objective of this paper is to extend the use of the improved degenerated shell element to the linear and the large displacement analysis of plates and shells with laminated composites. In the formulation of the element stiffness, the combined use of three different techniques was made. This element is free of serious shear/membrane locking problems and undesirable compatible/commutable spurious kinematic deformation modes. The total Lagrangian approach has been utilized for the definition of the deformation and the solution to the nonlinear equilibrium equations is obtained by the Newton-Raphson method. The applicability and accuracy of this improved degenerated shell element in the analysis of laminated composite plates and shells are demonstrated by solving several numerical examples.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1997년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.119-125
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• 1997

The finite element analysis of plate and shell structures has been one of the major research interests for many years because of the technological importance of such structures. Quite often these structures are constructed by laminated composites. This is due to the high specific stiffness and strength of composite structures. The main objective of this paper is to extend the use of an improved degenerated shell element to the large displacement analysis of plates and shells with laminated composites. The total Lagrangian approach has been chosen for the definition of the deformation and the solution to the nonlinear equilibrium equations is obtained by the Newton-Raphson method.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.807-829
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• 2004

The Element-Based Lagrangian Formulation of a 9-node resultant-stress shell element is presented for the isotropic and anisotropic composite material. The effect of the coupling term between the bending strain and displacement has been investigated in the warping problem. The strains, stresses and constitutive equations based on the natural co-ordinate have been used throughout the Element-Based Lagrangian Formulation of the present shell element which offers an advantage of easy implementation compared with the traditional Lagrangian Formulation. The element is free of both membrane and shear locking behavior by using the assumed natural strain method such that the element performs very well in thin shell problems. In composite plates and shells, the transverse shear stiffness is defined by an equilibrium approach instead of using the shear correction factor. The arc-length control method is used to trace complex equilibrium paths in thin shell applications. Several numerical analyses are presented and discussed in order to investigate the capabilities of the present shell element. The results showed very good agreement compared with well-established formulations in the literature.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권1A호
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• pp.191-203
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• 2006

가정 변형률 9절점 쉘 요소를 이용하여 스티프너로 보강된 적층 복합 보강판의 진동 특성을 연구하였다. 기존의 연구결과들과 비교하기 위하여 대칭으로 적층된 carbon-epoxy 복합재료 적층 판을 사용하였다. 또한 본 연구에서 스티프너를 쉘로 모델링 한 결과들은 보 요소로 모델링 된 결과들과 비교하였다. 비틀림에 약한 스티프너의 경우에 국부 좌굴이 스티프너에서 발생할 수 있다. 이 경우에 스티프너는 쉘로 모델링 하여야 한다. 본 연구는 면내 압축 및 전단하중을 받는 적층 복합 보강 판과 보강되지 않은 적층 복합 판의 연구에 집중되어 있다. 면내 압축 및 전단하중은 적층복합 판의 고유진동수와 진동 모우드를 변화시키고 압축 하중의 증가는 압축 하중이 임계 좌굴하중에 도달하여 진동수가 0 이 될 때 까지 진동수를 감소시킨다. 면내 전단하중의 작용은 그렇지 않은 경우에 비하여 진동수를 증가시켰다. 또한 진동수와 면내 하중 관계 곡선의 교차는 적층 복합 보강판의 진동 모우드를 교체 시킨다. 본 연구에서 제시한 쉘 요소로 적층 복합 보강판을 해석한 결과 참고문헌과 비교하여 매우 정확한 결과를 나타내었다. 그러므로 보강된 적층 복합 판의 면내 전단 및 압축하중의 종류와 크기는 특정한 진동수와 모우드 형상의 조절을 위해 적절하게 선택되어야 한다. 고유치 문제를 풀기 위하여 Lanzcos 방법을 사용하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.245-262
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• 2002

The free vibration analysis of stiffened laminated composite plates has been performed using the layered (zigzag) finite element method based on the first order shear deformation theory. The layers of the laminated plate is modeled using nine-node isoparametric degenerated flat shell element. The stiffeners are modeled as three-node isoparametric beam elements based on Timoshenko beam theory. Bilinear in-plane displacement constraints are used to maintain the inter-layer continuity. A special lumping technique is used in deriving the lumped mass matrices. The natural frequencies are extracted using the subspace iteration method. Numerical results are presented for unstiffened laminated plates, stiffened isotropic plates, stiffened symmetric angle-ply laminates, stiffened skew-symmetric angle-ply laminates and stiffened skew-symmetric cross-ply laminates. The effects of fiber orientations (ply angles), number of layers, stiffener depths and degrees of orthotropy are examined.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.373-394
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• 2016

The postbuckling behavior of laminated composite plates and shells, subjected to various shear loadings, is presented, using a modified 8-ANS method. The finite element, based on a modified first-order shear deformation theory, is further improved by the combined use of assumed natural strain method. We analyze the influence of the shell element with the various location and number of enhanced membrane and shear interpolation. Using the assumed natural strain method with proper interpolation functions, the present shell element generates neither membrane nor shear locking behavior even when full integration is used in the formulation. The effects of various types of lay-ups, materials and number of layers on initial buckling and postbuckling response of the laminated composite plates and shells for various shear loading have been discussed. In addition, the effect of direction of shear load on the postbuckling behavior is studied. Numerical results and comparisons of the present results with those found in the literature for typical benchmark problems involving symmetric cross-ply laminated composites are found to be excellent and show the validity of the developed finite element model. The study is relevant to the simulation of barrels, pipes, wing surfaces, aircrafts, rockets and missile structures subjected to intense complex loading.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.5199-5206
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 개선된 자연변형률 쉘 요소를 이용한 적층복합판의 좌굴하중을 연구하였다. 면내 잠김과 전단 잠김 현상을 극복하기 위하여 가정자연변형률 방법을 이용하였고, 면내 압축 및 전단하중이 작용하는 경우에 폭-두께 비 및 파이버의 보강방향의 변화에 따른 적층복합판의 고유치 문제를 연구하였다. 쉘 요소의 성능 향상을 위해 새로운 보간점의 조합을 이용한 가정변형률 방법을 사용하였으며 전단보정계수 없이 전단변형을 고려할 수 있는 개선된 1차 전단변형이론을 적용하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 검증하기 위해 참고문헌의 결과들과 비교 분석하였으며 새로운 예제도 추가적으로 연구하였다. 해석결과는 참고문헌의 결과들과 잘 일치함을 알 수 있었다. 면내 전단하중에 의한 좌굴하중의 예측은 향후 관련 연구에 비교자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.