Eigenvalue analysis of rectangular mindlin plates by chebyshev pseudospectral method

A study of free vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates is presented. The analysis is based on the Chebyshev pseudospectral method, which uses test functions that satisfy the boundary conditions as basis functions. The result shows that rapid convergence and accuracy as well as the conceptual simplicity are achieved when the pseudospectral method is applied to the solution of eigenvalue problems. Numerical examples of rectangular Mindlin plates with clamped and simply supported boundary conditions are provided for various aspect ratios and thickness-to-length ratios.     

Eigenvalue analysis of double-span timoshenko beams by pseudospectral method

The pseudospectral method is applied to the free vibration analysis of double-span Timoshenko beams. The analysis is based on the Chebyshev polynomials. Each section of the double-span beam has its own basis functions, and the continuity conditions at the intermediate support as well as the boundary conditions are treated separately as the constraints of the basis functions. Natural frequencies are provided for different thickness-to-length ratios and for different span ratios, which agree with those of Euler-Bernoulli beams when the thickness-to-length ratio is small but deviate considerably as the thickness-to-length ratio grows larger.     

In-plane free vibration analysis of curved Timoshenko beams by the pseudospectral method

The pseudospectral method is applied to the analysis of in-plane tree vibration of circularly curved Timoshenko beams. The analysis is based on the Chebyshev polynomials and the basis functions are chosen to satisfy the boundary conditions. Natural frequencies are calculated for curved beams of rectangular and circular cross sections under hinged-hinged, clampedclamped and hinged-clamped end conditions and the results are compared with those by transfer matrix method. The present method gives good accuracy with only a limited number of collocation points.     

Pseudospectral analysis of buckling and free vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates

A study of buckling and free vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates is presented. The analysis is based on the pseudospectral method, which uses basis functions that satisfy the boundary conditions. The equations of motion are collocated to yield a set of algebraic equations that are solved for the critical buckling load and for the natural frequencies in the presence of the in-plane loads. Numerical examples of rectangular plates with SS-C-SS-C boundary conditions are provided for various aspect ratios and thickness ratios, which show good agreement with those of the classical plate theory when the thickness ratio is very small. This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Eung-Soo Shin Jinhee Lee received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University and KAIST in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1992 and joined the Dept. of Mechanical and Design Engineering of Hongik University in Choongnam, Korea. His research interests include inverse problems, pseudospectral method, vibration and dynamic systems.     

Application of the chebyshev-fourier pseudospectral method to the eigenvalue analysis of circular mindlin plates with free boundary conditions

An eigenvalue analysis of the circular Mindlin plates with free boundary conditions is presented. The analysis is based on the Chebyshev-Fourier pseudospectral method. Even though the eigenvalues of lower vibration modes tend to convergence more slowly than those of higher vibration modes, the eigenvalues converge for sufficiently fine pseudospectral grid resolutions. The eigenvalues of the axisymmetric modes are computed separately. Numerical results are provided for different grid resolutions and for different thickness-to-radius ratios.     

The application of the pseudospectral method to the analysis of helical springs of arbitrary shape

The pseudospectral method is applied to the static analysis of helical springs of arbitrary shape. The displacements and the rotations are approximated by series expansions of Chebyshev polynomials. The entire domain is considered as a single element and the governing equations are collocated to yield the system of algebraic equations. The boundary conditions are considered as the constraints, and the set of equations is condensed so that the number of degrees of freedom of the problem matches the total number of the expansion coefficients. Displacements and rotations are computed for noncylindrical helical springs as well as cylindrical helical springs, and parameters that affect the convergence of the solution are discussed. This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Jeong Sam Han Jinhee Lee received B. S. and M. S. degrees from Seoul National Uni-versity and KAIST in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Michigan in 1992 and joined Dept. of Mechano-Informatics of Hongik University in Choongnam, Korea. His research interests include inverse problems, pseudospectral method, vibration and dynamic systems.     

Local adaptive differential quadrature for free vibration analysis of cylindrical shells with various boundary conditions

This paper presents the formulation and numerical analysis of circular cylindrical shells by the local adaptive differential quadrature method (LaDQM), which employs both localized interpolating basis functions and exterior grid points for boundary treatments. The governing equations of motion are formulated using the Goldenveizer–Novozhilov shell theory. Appropriate management of exterior grid points is presented to couple the discretized boundary conditions with the governing differential equations instead of using the interior points. The use of compactly supported interpolating basis functions leads to banded and well-conditioned matrices, and thus, enables large-scale computations. The treatment of boundary conditions with exterior grid points avoids spurious eigenvalues. Detailed formulations are presented for the treatment of various shell boundary conditions. Convergence and comparison studies against existing solutions in the literature are carried out to examine the efficiency and reliability of the present approach. It is found that accurate natural frequencies can be obtained by using a small number of grid points with exterior points to accommodate the boundary conditions.     

Solutions of nonlinear constrained optimal control problems using quasilinearization and variational pseudospectral methods

An alternative method for nonlinear constrained optimal control problems is developed in this paper. The proposed method converts the nonlinear optimal control problem into a sequence of constrained linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems using quasilinearization methods. And then we present a variational pseudospectral method based on dual variational principles and pseudospectral approximations in order to transform the constrained LQ problem into standard linear complementary problems (LCPs) which can be solved easily. The proposed method is highly efficient due to the benefits of qualsilineaization techniques and the sparse and symmetric properties of coefficient matrixes obtained by variational principles. And solutions of high precisions can be obtained with few time nodes and boundary conditions can be prescribed because of pseudospectral approximations. Besides, extra costate estimations are not required simply because this method is constructed by dual variational principles. Several numerical examples are simulated and comparisons between different methods are offered to demonstrate effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method.     

Free vibration analysis of spherical caps by the pseudospectral method

The pseudospectral method is applied to the axisymmetric and asymmetric free vibration analysis of spherical caps. The displacements and the rotations are expressed by Chebyshev polynomials and Fourier series, and the collocated equations of motion are obtained in terms of the circumferential wave number. Numerical examples are provided for clamped, hinged and free boundary conditions. The results show good agreement with those of existing literature. This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Eung-Soo Shin Jinhee Lee received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University and KAIST in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Michigan in 1992 and joined Dept. of Mechano-Informatics of Hongik University in Choongnam, Korea. His research interests include inverse problems, pseudospectral method, vibration and dynamic systems.     

Free vibration analysis of beams with non-ideal clamped boundary conditions

A non-ideal boundary condition is modeled as a linear combination of the ideal simply supported and the ideal clamped boundary conditions with the weighting factors k and 1-k, respectively. The proposed non-ideal boundary model is applied to the free vibration analyses of Euler-Bernoulli beam and Timoshenko beam. The free vibration analysis of the Euler-Bernoulli beam is carried out analytically, and the pseudospectral method is employed to accommodate the non-ideal boundary conditions in the analysis of the free vibration of Timoshenko beam. For the free vibration with the non-ideal boundary condition at one end and the free boundary condition at the other end, the natural frequencies of the beam decrease as k increases. The free vibration where both the ends of a beam are restrained by the non-ideal boundary conditions is also considered. It is found that when the non-ideal boundary conditions are close to the ideal clamped boundary conditions the natural frequencies are reduced noticeably as k increases. When the non-ideal boundary conditions are close to the ideal simply supported boundary conditions, however, the natural frequencies hardly change as k varies, which indicate that the proposed boundary condition model is more suitable to the non-ideal boundary condition close to the ideal clamped boundary condition.     

基于Gauss伪谱法的紧急避让汽车操纵逆动力学

汽车高速紧急避让行驶安全性是汽车自主开发亟待解决的关键问题,也是汽车主动安全的前提和必要条件之一。提出一种汽车操纵逆动力学求解方法,该方法能够用于汽车高速紧急避让性能的客观评价。基于一种求解最优控制问题的新方法——Gauss伪谱法(Gauss pseudospectral method, GPM),以驾驶员对汽车施加的转角输入和驱动力/制动力为控制变量,以最短时间完成双移线过程为控制目标,通过Gauss伪谱法将最优控制问题转化为非线性规划问题之后,运用序列二次规划方法求解。仿真结果表明,相对于间接法和传统直接法,Gauss伪谱法具有求解效率高,对初值依赖性小的优势。采用该方法解决汽车的最速操纵问题,边值约束和路径约束均得到很好的满足,可以客观评价不同汽车以最短时间完成双移线过程的操纵性能。通过实车试验,仿真值和试验值的变化趋势基本一致,从而验证了模型的正确性。     

基于径向基函数的局部边界积分方程方法

将基于径向基函数构造的具有插值特性的逼近函数应用于弹性力学问题的局部边界积分方程,推导出相应离散方程的计算公式,建立基于径向基函数的局部边界积分方程方法。与原有的局部边界积分方程方法相比,该方法不需要虚拟节点变量,而是采用节点变量的真实解作为基本未知量,是局部边界积分方程无网格法的直接解法。由于形函数及其导数的构造相对简单,并且满足Delta函数性质,故该方法具有计算量小、精度高,可以像有限元法一样直接施加边界条件等优点。算例证明了该方法的有效性。     

Free vibration analysis of a hermetic capsule by pseudospectral method

A pseudospectral method is applied to the axisymmetric free vibration analysis of a hermetic capsule. The displacements and the rotation of a hermetic capsule are expressed by the Chebyshev expansions. The equations of motion are collocated to yield the system of equations in the hemispherical regions and the cylindrical region separately. The numbers of collocation points are chosen to be less than those of the expansion terms. The continuity conditions of deformations and stress resultants at the junctions serve as the constraints of the expansion coefficients. The set of algebraic equations is condensed so that the total number of the expansion terms matches the total number of degrees of freedom of the problem. Present method might be useful in the analyses of composite shell structures where different types of shells are joined together.     

A symplectic pseudospectral method for nonlinear optimal control problems with inequality constraints

A symplectic pseudospectral method based on the dual variational principle and the quasilinearization method is proposed and is successfully applied to solve nonlinear optimal control problems with inequality constraints in this paper. Nonlinear optimal control problem is firstly converted into a series of constraint linear-quadratic optimal control problems with the help of quasilinearization techniques. Then a symplectic pseudospectral method based on dual variational principle for solving the converted constrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems is developed. In the proposed method, inequality constraints which can be functions of pure state, pure control and mixed state-control are transformed into equality constraints with the help of parameteric variables. After that, state variables, costate variables and parametric variables are interpolated locally at Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto points. Finally, based on the parametric variational principle and complementary conditions, the converted problem is transformed into a standard linear complementary problem which can be solved easily. Numerical examples show that the proposed method is of high accuracy and efficiency.     

Frequency characteristics of a thin rotating cylindrical shell using the generalized differential quadrature method

In this paper, the generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method is used for the first time to study the effects of boundary conditions on the frequency characteristics of a thin rotating cylindrical shell. The present analysis is based on Love-type shell theory and the governing equations of motion include the effects of initial hoop tension and the centrifugal and coriolis accelerations due to rotation. The displacement field is expressed as a product of unknown smooth continuous functions in the meridional direction and trigonometric functions along the circumferential direction so that the three-dimensional dynamic problem may be transformed mathematically into a one-dimensional problem. Based on this approach, the results are obtained for the effects of the boundary conditions on the frequency characteristics at different circumferential wave numbers and rotating speeds and various geometric properties; the effect of rotating speed on the relationship between frequency parameter and circumferential wave number is also discussed. To validate the accuracy and efficiency of the GDQ method, the results obtained are compared with those in the literature and very good agreement is achieved.     

任意连续梁内力包络图的自动绘制法

根据内力包络图设计梁的断面,可以保证满足安全和经济两方面的要求。但是按传统方法绘制梁的内力包络图手续十分繁琐,对于连续梁之类的多跨梁尤其如此。介绍一种利用奇异函数对连续梁进行力学分析的新方法及其智能分析软件。该方法利用奇异函数与拉普拉斯变换相结合的方法导出连续梁变形和内力的普遍表达式,利用变形和内力的边界条件确定约束反力,然后再在内力普遍表达式的基础上建立一种内力包络图的自动绘制方法。该方法和程序对承受任意恒载和活载、具有任意跨数的连续梁具有普遍的适用性。     

An efficient approach for free vibration analysis of conical shells

In this paper, the global method of generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) is applied for the first time to study the free vibration of isotropic conical shells. The shell equations used are Love-type. The displacement fields are expressed as product of unknown functions along the axial direction and Fourier functions along the circumferential direction. The derivatives in both the governing equations and the boundary conditions are discretized by the GDQ method. Using the GDQ method, the natural frequencies can be easily and accurately obtained by using a considerably small number of grid points. The accuracy and efficiency of the GDQ method is examined by comparing the results with those in the literature and very good agreement is observed. The fundamental frequency parameters for four sets of boundary conditions and various semivertex angles are also shown in the paper.     

Frequency solutions for circular plates with internal supports and discontinuous boundaries

The paper presents a study of the free-flexural vibration analysis of circular plates continuous over point supports, partial internal curved supports, and with mixed-edge boundary conditions. An approximate model which combines the advantages of the Rayleigh-Ritz and the Lagrangian multiplier methods is developed for analyzing this class of circular plate problems. The Rayleigh-Ritz method is used to formulate plates with classical boundary conditions, such as free, simply-supported or clamped, while the Lagrangian multiplier method is used to handle plates with point supports, partial internal curved supports and mixed-edge boundary conditions. The admissible pb-2 Ritz function consists of the product of a two-dimensional polynomial and a basic function. The basic function is defined by the product of the equations of the prescribed piecewise-continuous boundary shape each raised to the power of 0, 1 or 2, corresponding to free, simply-supported or clamped edge, respectively. The set of functions automatically satisfies all the kinematic boundary conditions of the plate at the outset. The geometric boundary conditions associated with the internal supports and discontinuous edges are simulated using a sufficient number of closely-spaced point constraints. Numerical results for several selected plate problems are presented to demonstrate the various features and accuracy of the present method.     

Vibration of circular plate with multiple eccentric circular perforations by the Rayleigh-Ritz method

The free vibration of a circular plate with multiple perforations is analyzed by using the Rayleigh-Ritz method. Admissible functions are assumed to be separable functions of radial and tangential coordinates. Trigonometric functions are assumed in the circumferential direction. The radial shape functions are the boundary characteristic orthogonal polynomials generated following the Gram-Schmidt recurrence scheme. The assumed functions are used to estimate the kinetic and the potential energies of the plate depending on the number and the position of the perforations. The eigenvalues, representing the dimensionless natural frequencies, are compared with the results obtained using Bessel functions, where the exact solution is available. Moreover, the eigenvectors, which are the unknown coefficients of the Rayleigh-Ritz method, are used to present the mode shapes of the plate. To validate the analytical results of the plates with multiple perforations, experimental investigations are also performed. Two unique case studies that are not addressed in the existing literature are considered. The results of the Rayleigh-Ritz method are found to be in good agreement with those from the experiments. Although the method presented can be employed in the vibration analysis of plates with different boundary conditions and shapes of the perforations, circular perforations that are free on the edges are studied in this paper. The results are presented in terms of dimensionless frequencies and mode shapes.     

Free vibration analysis of isotropic and orthotropic triangular plates

A highly accurate and computationally efficient numerical method is developed for the flexural vibration of isotropic and orthotropic triangular plates. A set of two-dimensional orthogonal plate functions is used as an admissible displacement function in the Rayleigh-Ritz method to obtain the natural frequencies and mode shapes for the plates. From a prescribed starting function satisfying the boundary conditions, the higher terms in the orthogonal plate functions are constructed using the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process. Natural frequencies and mode shapes are obtained for three triangular plates with different support conditions. The obtained numerical results are presented, and the isotropic case is verified with other numerical methods in the literature.