Large Deflection Analysis of a Thin Plate: Computer Simulations and Experiments

Many previous studies have conducted computer-aided simulations ofelastic bodies undergoing large deflections and deformations, but therehave not been many attempts to validate their numerical results. Thesubject of this paper is a thin clamped plate undergone large vibrationdue to attached end-point weight. The main aim of this paper is to showthe validity of the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) bycomparing to the real experiments. Large oscillations of thin plates arestudied in the paper with taking into account effects of an attachedend-point weight and aerodynamic damping forces. The physicalexperiments are carried out using a high-speed camera and dataacquisition system. For numerical modeling of the plate, the absolutenodal coordinate formulation is used.