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On the large postbuckling response of nonconservative continuous systems

Groß Nachbeulantworten nichtkonservativer kontinuierlicher Systeme

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The large postbuckling response of a uniform cantilever beam subjected to a partial follower compressive load of constant magnitude is presented. The range of values of the nonconservativeness loading parameter for which a divergence instability occurs is theoretically established. The boundary between divergence and flutter instability corresponds to a double critical point where the first and second buckling loads (eigenvalues) coincide. It was also theoretically established that the critical points corresponding to these loads are stable symmetric. Except of the double critical point, the buckling loads of the first and second eigenmodes are distinct for the entire region of the nonconservativeness loading parameter. However, this is not true for the corresponding postbuckling paths. Indeed using an elastica analysis suitable for rotations up to 360°, it was found that at a certain critical tip rotation depending on the value of the nonconservativeness parameter the first and second postbuckling modes meet each other asymptotically. Numerical results have been obtained using various approximate analytic techniques which are checked by the method of elliptic integrals as well as the numerical schemes of Adams and Runge-Kutta.

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Vorgestellt wird das große Nachbeulverhalten eines gleichförmigen Auslegers unter einer teilweise folgenden Drucklast konstanter Größe. Der Bereich des Lastparameters der Nichtkonservativität, für den Verzweigungsinstabilität auftritt, wird theoretisch ermittelt. Die Grenze zwischen Verzweigung und Flattern entspricht einem zweifachen kritischen Punkt, in dem die erste und zweite Beullast zusammenfallen. Ebenfalls theoretisch wird gezeigt, daß die kritischen Punkte zu diesen Lasten stabil symmetrisch sind. Mit Ausnahme des zweifachen kritischen Punktes sind die Beullasten der ersten und zweiten Eigenform im ganzen Bereich des Parameters der Nichtkonservativität verschieden. Dies gilt nicht für die zugehörigen Nachbeulpfade. Vielmehr zeigt eine für große Drehungen bis 360° gültige Analyse der Biegelinie, daß bei einer bestimmten kritischen Stabenddrehung, die vom Parameter der Nichtkonservativität abhängt, erste und zweite Eigenform sich asymptotisch angleichen. Numerische Ergebnisse werden nach verschiedenen analytischen Näherungsmethoden gewonnen und mit der Methode der elliptischen Integrale sowie den numerischen Methoden nach Runge-Kutta bzw. Adams verglichen.

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Kandakis, G., Kounadis, A.N. On the large postbuckling response of nonconservative continuous systems. Arch. Appl. Mech. 62, 256–265 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00804985

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