An Investigation on the natural dynamic behaviours of curved structures affected by changes in curvatures

Fluid Structure Interactions Research Group, School of Engineering Sciences

B. HU
School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK

Curved Structures
Background
The curvature adjusts the spatial status, stiffness, stability and capacity of loading of curved structures Complex curved structures are analyzed only by numerical approaches More characteristics of dynamic behaviours need to be revealed and explained

Natural Vibration
Numerical results agree with theoretical ones The curvature affects the natural frequency significantly The mode shape transition occurs when the curvature increases to a certain large degree The lower natural frequencies are affected by the curvature much more than the higher ones
Subtended angle (degree) 1.71 7.64
Non-dim ens ional frequency

0.025

0.02

Asymptotic curves

3rd symmetric mode FEM symmetric modes Asymptotic curves Analytical result

0.015

anti-symmetric modes 0.01

Proposition
The perturbation approach is further developed to analyze curved beams Novel applications for various curved beams and shells are suggested Curved beams with different curvatures are modelled by the numerical method

0.005

2nd symmetric mode

1st symmetric mode 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 Curvature parameter b( 1/2) 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5

Fig. 2: Effect of the curvature on the natural frequency of a circular curved beam

Numerical Models

29.1 Fig. 3: Mode shape transitions for the circular curved beam

Applications
Composite laminated curved beams S-glass/proxy [0/90]s, [0/90/90/0], [45/-45/-45/45]
6 x 10
-4

First symmetric mode

2.5

x 10

-3

First anti-symmetric mode

Non-dimensional frequency

Non-dimensional frequency

Fig, 1: FEM model of circular beam and s-shaped strip

1.5

Various curved strips can be modelled based on a flat one if the curvature is a linear function of k = f ( s )

2 [0/90/90/0] [0/90/0/90] [45/-45/-45/45]

0.5

Perturbation Approach
The governing equations of dynamic behaviour of a curved beam is derived as follows:
2 u k 2 w wk +k u +wk + 2 = u s s s s s
small parameter

0.01

0.02

0.03

0.04 0.05 0.06 Curvature parameter b( 1/2)

0.07

0.08

0.09

0.1

[0/90/90/0] [0/90] [45/-45/-45/45] 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 Curvature parameter b( 1/2) 0.7 0.8 0.9

Fig. 4: Effects of the curvature on the natural frequency of the composite laminated curved beams (a) circular beam (b) s-shaped strip

= k

2 2 u k w k wk 2 u +wk2 + 2 = w s s s s

The lateral vibration The numerical study shows the natural frequencies of the lateral vibration changes following the different curvatures It also shows the difference in mode shapes between the circular curved strip and the sshaped strip

The solutions of eigenvalue are formulated as follows:

u (s ,
w (s ,

)=
n=0

u n (s
w n (s

)
)
Fig. 5: Lateral vibration mode shapes of (a) curved circular beam, (b) s-shaped strip Fig. 6: Effects of the curvature on the natural frequency of a circular curved beam

)=
n=0

(s ,

)=
n=0

(s )

Curved beams with discontinued varying curvatures

Based on the perturbation solution, a curved beam with various curvatures can be solved analytically

Dynamic behaviour of two dimensional thin shell structures The simplified perturbation equation is finally derived as follows:
The energy method is adopted to obtain the analytical solution of the lateral vibration

4w 1 w = k kw ds 0 s 2
Considering the boundary conditions, the eigenvalue problem can be solved based on a flat beam solution, where the transverse displacement is expressed as follows:

Conclusions
Mode shapes performing transition characteristics with the curvature increasing Curvature produces different effects on symmetric and anti-symmetric modes The ratio between the axial and bending stiffness decides the dynamic behaviour of the curved structure

w = wh + w p
where wh is the homogeneous solution of a flat beam and wp is the particular solution containing the curvature term

Supervisor
Prof. J T Xing Prof. R A Shenoi