scholarly journals Theoretical and experimental analysis of the exact receptance function of a clamped-clamped beam with concentrated masses

Author(s):  
Nguyen Viet Khoa ◽  
Dao Thi Bich Thao

This paper establishes the exact receptance function of a clamped-clamped beam carrying concentrated masses. In this paper, the derivation of exact receptance and numerical simulations are provided. The proposed receptance function is convenient to apply for predicting the dynamic response at arbitrary point of the beam acted by a harmonic force applied at arbitrary point. The influence of the concentrated masses on the receptance is investigated. The numerical simulations show that a peak in the receptance decreases when there is a mass located close to that peak position. The numerical results have been compared to the experimental results has to justify the theory.

Author(s):  
Dongwu Li ◽  
Chao Xu ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
Lihua Wen

For an assembled structure with many bolted joints, predicting its dynamic response with high fidelity is always a difficult problem, because of the nonlinearity introduced by friction contact between jointed interfaces. The friction contact results in nonlinear stiffness and damping to a structure. To realize predictive simulation in structural dynamic design, these nonlinear behaviors must be carefully considered. In this paper, the dynamics of a multi-bolt jointed beam is calculated. A modified IWAN constitutive model, which can consider both tangential micro/macro slip and nonzero residual stiffness at macroslip phase, is developed to model nonlinear contact behaviors due to joint interfaces. A whole interface element integrating the proposed constitutive model is developed. The element is used to model the nonlinear stiffness and damping caused by bolted joints. The interface element is placed between the two contact interfaces. The other part of the beam is modeled by linear beam elements. A Matlab code is developed to realize the proposed nonlinear finite element dynamic analysis method. A hammer impact experiment for the bolt-jointed beam is conducted under different excitation force levels. The calculated nonlinear numerical results are compared with experimental results. It is shown that the effect of joint nonlinearity on structural dynamics can be observed from the response predicted by the proposed method. The numerical results agree well with the experimental results. This work validates the necessary of using nonlinear joint model for dynamic simulation of jointed structures.


Author(s):  
Hongjian Zhang ◽  
Bernard Brogliato ◽  
Caishan Liu

The objective of this paper is to show, through the planar rocking block example, that kinetic angles play a fundamental role in multiple impact with friction. Even in the presence of Coulomb friction, a critical kinetic angle θcr is exhibited that allows one to split the blocks into two main classes: slender blocks with a kinetic angle larger than θcr, and flat blocks with a kinetic angle smaller than θcr. The value of θcr varies with the friction value, but it is independent of the restitution coefficient (normal dissipation). Numerical results are obtained using a multiple impact law recently introduced by the authors. Some comparisons between numerical and experimental results that validate the used model and numerical scheme are presented. However, this paper is mainly based on numerical simulations.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinivas Swaroop Kolla ◽  
Ram S. Mohan ◽  
Ovadia Shoham

Abstract This paper presents the comparative study of experimental, modeling, and simulation results that are performed using commercially available ANSYS Fluent software to analyze the separation kinetics of oil and water in a horizontal separator at various velocities and watercuts. The horizontal pipe separator used in this study has an internal diameter of 0.0762 m and a length of 10.3 m separating oil and water with specific gravities of 1.0 and 0.857 and watercuts ranging from 20 to 90%. The mixture velocities studied are 0.08, 0.13, and 0.20 m/s. Numerical simulations are done using the hybrid Eulerian-Eulerian multifluid VOF model to study the effect of watercut on the creaming of the oil layer and sedimentation of the water layer respectively. As the mixture velocities increased, the initial length of separation increased like experimental results. As the watercut increased, the separation of water enhanced, while the oil creaming improved with the lowering of the watercut as expected. Numerical results showed good agreement for water/dispersion interface predictions for all the conditions studied. The CFD results are compared against experimental results obtained by Othman in 2010 and agree with the trend of separation. The numerical simulations gave insights into the velocity profiles in each of the layers such as creamed oil, sedimented water, and the layer of emulsion that is not separated. Also, the numerical results are validated against the extended Gassies (2008) model incorporating correlation for turbulent time decay and oil volume fraction proposed by Dabirian et al in 2018.


2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 3405-3411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donato Cancellara ◽  
Fabio de Angelis ◽  
Vittorio Pasquino

In the present paper an experimental study has been performed on a masonry building prototype and some preliminary experimental results are illustrated for analyzing the structural behavior of a masonry building prototype subject to harmonic forces of different intensity. The physical model used for the laboratory test is a two-story masonry building characterized by a regular floor plan. The structure test is subjected to a harmonic force input supplied by a vibrodyne. The experimental results are aimed at characterizing the dynamic response of the masonry building subject to harmonic forces in order to describe the bahaviour of the masonry building under the predominant actions of a seismic input.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (33) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Angelelli ◽  
Barbara Zanuttigh

This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of a floating farm of wave energy converters for coastal protection purposes through physical and numerical modelling. The experiments were performed in 3D conditions on a basic module consisting of two staggered lines and three devices. The numerical simulations were carried out with the software MIKE 21 BW, developed by DHI Water & Environment & Health, and were calibrated based on the experimental results. Additional configurations were tested by varying the gap long-shore width and the device alignment. Despite the model limitations, i.e. the representation of the devices as fixed porous piles, the numerical results well approximate the average measured transmission coefficient and allow to derive a complete map of the hydrodynamics around the devices.


2014 ◽  
Vol 578-579 ◽  
pp. 505-508
Author(s):  
Shao Qin Zhang ◽  
Lei Wu

In the present paper, we investigate the effect of a padding-plate on the behavior of extended end-plate semi-rigid connections. The numerical simulations were carried out for a standard extended end-plate connection joint without padding-plate and two connection joints with 4mm and 6mm thick padding-plates. The existing experimental results verified the validity of the numerical model. The numerical results have shown that a thin padding-plate will more or less decline the carrying load capacity of the connection joint but greatly improve the connect ductility. Filling a thin padding-plate in the end-plate connection is feasible and brings the forewarning function.


Author(s):  
Samuel R. Ransau ◽  
Ernst W. M. Hansen

Simulations of two- and three-dimensional sloshing in rectangular tanks are performed using the commercial CFD code FLOW3D. Small amplitude freely oscillating sloshing and non-linear sloshing due to forced excitation were investigated. The results are compared to both experimental results and other numerical results; and tests are made with different grids. The purpose of this study was the validation of the new VOF algorithm under development at Flow Science and implemented in FLOW3D.


Author(s):  
Nicolas Rubido ◽  
Cecilia Cabeza ◽  
Arturo C. Martí ◽  
Gonzalo Marcelo Ramírez Ávila

Recently, a new kind of optically coupled oscillators that behave as relaxation oscillators has been studied experimentally in the case of local coupling. Even though numerical results exist, there are no references about experimental studies concerning the synchronization times with local coupling. In this paper, we study both experimentally and numerically a system of coupled oscillators in different configurations, including local coupling. Synchronization times are quantified as a function of the initial conditions and the coupling strength. For each configuration, the number of stable states is determined varying the different parameters that characterize each oscillator. Experimental results are compared with numerical simulations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Murariu ◽  
Razvan Adrian Mahu ◽  
Adrian Gabriel Murariu ◽  
Mihai Daniel Dragu ◽  
Lucian P. Georgescu ◽  
...  

This article presents the design of a specific unmanned aerial vehicle UAV prototype own building. Our UAV is a flying wing type and is able to take off with a little boost. This system happily combines some major advantages taken from planes namely the ability to fly horizontal, at a constant altitude and of course, the great advantage of a long flight-time. The aerodynamic models presented in this paper are optimized to improve the operational performance of this aerial vehicle, especially in terms of stability and the possibility of a long gliding flight-time. Both aspects are very important for the increasing of the goals� efficiency and for the getting work jobs. The presented simulations were obtained using ANSYS 13 installed on our university� cluster system. In a next step the numerical results will be compared with those during experimental flights. This paper presents the main results obtained from numerical simulations and the obtained magnitudes of the main flight coefficients.


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